so you know how martyrs are commemorated with statues featuring the tool of their murder, as here with Simon the Zealot and the saw they used to kill him? ok so imagine a modern saint canceled so hard he DIES and he's holding a keyboard. thanks

it brings me no pleasure to announce that it's looking like it's gonna be a big few years for AI-generated videos of Baal

I was very touched by this article in The Observer about my advice column and it definitely has me thinking about... life! observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

do people still talk about “bringing your whole self” to work lol

sometimes I read something so heavy that it's like... gimme the slop, bro. gimme an IV drip of the slop. I need absolute mindless sludge. NOW.

doing representation discourse on an AI-generated Iranian wartime propaganda video is making me think well maybe these are the end times

I really enjoyed reading this and I had no idea Cormac McCarthy wrote essays! really good essays! nautil.us/the-kekul-pr...

I went to this thing in NYC called The Affordable Art Fair and it was so bad I want to write a whole thing attacking it but like it was so niche and kind of on me for clearly misinterpreting what "affordable" means

so people commonly used to believe that gods were location-based, often like in one specific temple. that one wild vision of the Christian God sitting on a throne with fiery angel wheels is basically to express "look he can move now" lol

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getting centuries-old tea on the "virgin birth" drama... this Greek philosopher Celsus was going around saying Mary got pregnant by a Roman soldier named Pantera omg... chisme truly transcends time

so what happens to all the AI "artists" if their programs go away is it just like game over LOL this post was made by sketchbook gang

this makes me so happy

really enjoying The Red Book by Carl Jung. it's always some shit like I had a dream and saw a fish. yes girl me too

applying to be on the civilian edition of The Traitors because I think I would fail colossally and I need that kind of public destruction to build anew

someone said "Donald John Trump" the other day and I was like holy shit JOHN???

watching a video asking if witchcraft played a role in the death of, among other figures, the ayatollah, which includes a line similar to "certainly the airstrike played a role"

honored to have painted a caricature of Nick Fuentes with a really big head for this one

Nick Fuentes Destroyed My Life youtu.be/Ikw5beN23ok?...

Beautiful thumbnail by @jpbrammer.bsky.social !!!

JP doesn’t miss, mexican-irish fusion food was insanely good chorizo and black beans with the scotch eggs and barbacoa lamb in the shepard’s pie was a genius move. guinness in the mixed drink was really nice too??

LIB MOMENT: I don't think the President of the United States should be announcing his gladness about anyone's death! <3

wait asparagus is good??

instagram infographics about “what you need to know about the allegations against lewis carroll”

every "book drama" always has something unreadably bad at its center... which is a shame... imagine having social media when Nabokov dropped "Lolita"

a lot of "wow see how quickly we disposed of Cesar Chavez" posts rn that are either self-congratulatory or of the "it's because he's not white" variety and as a Chicano I do have to say I think it's more bc no one outside of California gave much of a fuck about him 😭 I'm sorry but like...

wasn't shit funny

demon in my skull is telling me to write about Woke 2

it was remarkably like tiramisu

had a dream that I invented, and attempted to market, "the thinking man's tiramisu," and as a consequence was assassinated

I think most Chicanos have only a nebulous concept of what Cesar Chavez actually did (in terms of his work) and operate more on the level of "every culture has their guy they make marble busts of, and this one is ours" and the latter houses weird anxieties re: his legacy and cultural myth-making

I'm reading something right now that claims Jesus was probably mid in terms of attractiveness and I love that idea...

I love buying books from ThriftBooks because sometimes I spend $5 to receive what appears like a precious heirloom and sometimes I receive a chihuahua's previous chew toy

it sounds ridiculous, and I'm writing about this, but a lot of my misery was rooted in having bad thoughts. I started thinking good thoughts and everything got better. this would be really upsetting... if I weren't thinking so many good thoughts rn

"I’d assumed poitín was a Mexican drink I’d never heard of, given the accent over the 'i.' A great American question: 'To which culture belongs this "I?"' Feargal and I agreed to honor our ancestors by getting drunk."

looking at the job market like what do I even do in this situation bro

This is so beautiful. I've always struggled with talk of "cultural appropriation" on here cuz it missed a vital part of what it means to be American that is fully alive and FUN here

😭 I thought she was alive because the warrior is always so chill about it

unemployed and gonna read the Talmud idgaf

“A great American question: “To which culture belongs this ‘I?’” this article personally means a ton to me. It is also hilarious. “O’Cquaintances”!

oh dear Lindy West.....

Here's JP doing excellent work already in that space. I mean there's a lot else going on in this fantastic piece, but he described the Scotch Egg like an old pro

"And what I’m trying to say, Feargal, is that building a brand on dissatisfaction with everything is itself American, a profit-motivated pageant divorced from the sweaty, sputtering guts of the thing. Our chicken tinga pot pie arrived." 🤌

"Americanness (an identity that, when embraced, is indistinct from mania)" Fuck that's a good line.

There isn't a week that goes by I'm not a little sad Sarah and I didn't go here when we were in Prague.

"chorizo scotch egg" rewired a part of my brain

No contemporary purveyor of wit makes me swoon like @jpbrammer.bsky.social does, and this one doesn’t disappoint.