The idea of compassion being an external sense rather than internal; something you do despite yourself is 9th level of Hell ghoulish

This the equivalent of being obsessed with fluff spread

Regularly have to send email drafts to my coworker before sending to fix where I'm too blunt

It's not politically feasible to change but the two party system is completely untenable.

What do they accept. I mean legitimately. This would disqualify RL Stine

it’s very avant garde to have a zine that doesn’t accept writing, very thought provoking

This looks delicious. But, some 6 months later it still blows my mind that carbonara isn't actually 100s of years old. Came up by American GIs and forced to be a dish because people liked it in the 70s.

if you’ve never seen Samara Joy live, I BEG.

wait what

RIP legendary Italian movie poster artist Renato Casaro 1935 - 2025

Lose? Half a dozen other people just looked on as a man had to run for his life. Can't see them losing against that kind of breakwall solidarity

This is, of course, grotesque at every level. But also, why does this content even exist. Who enjoys this. It's like, emotionally brutalist.

Substance abuse issues. Doesn't leave the house except to the store. There's a deep worn patch on the couch because they watch tv 16 hours a day. They have a sibling that stopped talking to them years ago.

@theonion.com firing on all cylinders.

Got the chance to also see them in my podunk little town. Dark terry grosses in front of me were trained musicians, and in hushed tones, talked about the notes or something they were playing. It was sick

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

Hoping for one day gen z or whatever goes black hat, rips the internet archive, and makes all these beautiful book scans downloadable again. Take me back! I beg.

I can remember procrastinating uni assignments with gaming streams on justin.tv. it's nice to see even though they're massively popular now, they haven't been enshittified. Not that there was far to fall

My concern is that if this goes well, we're just going to be INUNDATED with big budget VistaVision adaptations of giant postmodern novels. In ten years, it's going to be like, "uggh yes of course I'm going to see Sarah Polley's The Recognitions in 70mm at my local AMC but like enough already."

Don't use X and don't know/care who Yarvin is. But thought these were some good sentences

So when we are ridiculing the fascists that is NOT the time to ponder our collective being and finding the good in everyone

Pushback to the AI logo is like when a black owned soul food place has the worst service, food, and cleanliness youve ever seen but you get yelled at for being critical.

Been saying the same thing. Random statistics or other such nonsense that gets pasted here or insta with just the complete lack of forethought

Not a new idea, but now more than ever. Guys with massive trucks who aren't hauling or carrying a damn thing are a plague.

Id love to do a brisket on the kettle before the cold sets in. But they're obnoxiously expensive now and Id have to eat most of it. Not big on beef

It's disappointing but also...could I do better? I could be lazy and stop being diligent and just say whatever

I just think that it’s bad if bipartisanship means adjusting your own noose so as not to appear uncooperative in the eyes of your executioner.

Had this discussion with a librarian friend. Books are still fun to read. Short fiction is especially well suited to today's habits. But very very few read short works. Part of this disconnect is literary genre making both long and short feel impenetrable

Too much. There's too much going on for me to process. This could be a new alt right clan as much as it could be a contemporary bluegrass band

lol what? Is this a tiktok stat

Can't put my finger on it...but I've read some of the most boring, trite fiction with "MFA from Ivy" in the bio.

Doing the hats stuff I don't want to do. Lifting, read, run, house work. Then at the end of the day I can watch a few episodes of Bleach or w/e without my dopamine receptors getting fried to shit

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

Tsutomu Nihei

I don't know who any of these people are and got excited that Nader was one of the tennis dudes.

It seems more like the politicians and podcasters in the movement don't actually believe when they turn off the camera there are children in a pizza hut basement or that aliens exist. But the people who listen very much believe.

Living in a city with an NFL team means always explaining how much I hate it. Really everything. The stadiums suck. It's the least interesting short. Skill ceiling and floor are right next to each other Racist dog whistles but also just straight up overt racism because why not.

Time to step your game up with some pedialyte

It was the mass of racist dog whistles for me

Japanese curry tonight with leftover chuck. Curry roux blocks are some of the best shit ever invented (not far behind penicillin and the like).

Best thing about the Pablo/Kawhi reporting is showing how utterly inept at journalism 90% of the sports media truly are.

Did right by the end of summer. We smoked some ribs. Pulled at like 212 so they were a bit too tender but that's what the people wanted. Also tried some chuck steak with marbling, brisket style that turned out crazy. Finished the weekend with slow grilled thighs in a lemon/garlic marinade.

The Giuliani thing reminds me how absurdly easy it'd be for the prez to do some Putinesque "he fell out of a window by accident" stuff. They already openly commit corruption and bribes

@deantekyle.bsky.social's thing about "they just got on clothes. just clothes" when he was talking to kevonstage goes through my head every single day.

Y'all, writing prose is hard as fuck. Even terrible prose that no one will ever read. No one said it'd be like this!

Agreed. Really really enjoyed this one

Oaf levels high today