a special may day reminder that it was a pair of FBI agents targeting civil rights activists who accidentally introduced zohran mamdani’s dad to the works of karl marx 🥰

i like those bites where i accidentally get just a little too much wasabi and all i can do is just take the ride man

(ANTON CHEKHOV AWAKENS WITH A START)

the funniest part of jeffries waving aside impeachment as their top priority if they win the house in favor of focusing on the cost of living is they don't really have any ideas about how to deal with the cost of living either. they're just kinda going "damnnnn! shit's expensive, huh?"

40 YEAR OLD MARRIED FATHER WHO POSTS ON BLUESKY FROM HIS OFFICE JOB: i would never be unfaithful to megan thee stallion... that's simply unfathomable, to me

i don’t necessarily think the situation last night was a fake but i do think it’s funny how every time trump is extra unpopular there’s suddenly a half assed attempt on his life. sorry mister PE teacher i can’t run the mile today i just got my period

do you think dave and buster ever explored each others’ bodies

Alex Jones posting as if old "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job" skits are 100% real because he's so fuming mad that Tim Heidecker has been put in charge of the new Infowars now that it was bought out by The Onion may be the funniest thing that's ever happened on the internet

is titanium court out yet

The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

my husband after two beers:

"hi can you recommend any super cheap, ethically made clothes that will last forever and make me feel like a swaddled little baby while also making me look like a super attractive, stylish man, yet take no time or effort to acquire? this is social media, so pls just drop a link."

Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes” Question: “And do you tell him that?” Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

the tension with clavicular doing mainstream interviews is he genuinely sees himself as some sort of self health influencer philosopher but the average person generally looks at him like he’s an animal in a zoo to be studied

for some reason the people who are Very Concerned that people might have "irreversible side effects" are never arguing against, like, mortgages "being able to make decisions you might regret" is an important fundamental freedom.

Be Yourself. 🪽

It brings the living together. Death. One of its most peculiar tricks. You have to laugh through shit like this. When you aren't crying. I don't know why that is. I didn't invent this fact I inherited it like we all did. You have to laugh because it's a cruel fucking joke.

Can't stop thinking about this Adam Zagajewski poem

you cannot tell me that “Eric Adams granted Albanian citizenship” is real. me and several hundred internet-poisoned people have been saying things like as a joke for 4+ years. you might as well tell me a man named dril bought $3,600 in candles.

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

at the end of the day, the donald trump administration just wants to be influencers and podcasters lol

Economy so bad they literally closed the dick-sucking factory

If you're up around Northmapton, MA you can now stop by Tunic Coffee and not only get your usual local cafe order, but also a copy of Indiepocalypse?!

we won’t fix everything if we remove trump from the presidency, but there isn’t much we *can* fix if we don’t. in a world where president vance just watched his much more popular boss get removed from office, you’ll see a very different vance

We didn't deserve this day.

you're never going to believe what else the Geneva Conventions say, you dumb fuck

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

Roger Ebert:

She left her agent because he was in the Epstein files, and just like that, there’s a bot-driven smear campaign. You fell for it with Amber Heard and Blake Lively, stop fucking falling for it.

Hoppy Easter, Moon fans! 🐰

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

Happy Easter!

alright christian god i know we’ve had our quarrels but i am prepared to ‘go catholic’ if you make it happen for comedy effect today specifically. i won’t half ass it like i do with judaism either. i’ll wear the thing on my head and eat the crackers and shit

This is so, so well-articulated.

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

accept no substitutes

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

This is crazy! I wrote about this exact thing this very day flaminghydra.com/issue-533/

You either have this sort of political juice or you don't. Cannot be taught.

right and the secondary part of this which maybe seems frivolous but is still worth mentioning: harry potter is not guernica. it’s a not-very-well-written commercial fantasy franchise for children. there are dozens of better alternatives

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

forgot about the twilight breaking dawn part 2 fight scene wilhelm scream 😭

remember regardless of whats happening in the world the most important thing to use youre time and energy on is getting into fights with people on the internet

Unhinged orchestration advice I found in an old email: - flute/clarinet doubling: bouba - flute/oboe doubling: kiki - oboe/clarinet doubling: the Shadow the Hedgehog of upper woodwind combinations

phew good thing yall haven’t spent the last fifty years turning us into a nation of shitty little porcine consumer piggies huh