The thing where the singer falls silent to lets the crowd sing the chorus for their biggest hits... so it winds up sucking the life out of the slappingest part of the slappingest songs. Goes like "It's not <several lines worth of incoherent mumbling from the crowd> didn't I my dear?"

I hate that I just said this in all sincerity to my middle schooler: “Don’t believe anything this President says because he always lies” And that’s where we are as a country

this woman is your FRIEND she FIGHTS for FREEDOM

dawg if you find 20 random Gen Z conservatives who are Willing To Talk To The Media At Length they're all going to be absolutely floridly insane beyond your wildest imaginings, I don't know how to say this should have been your prior for this

Always gives me pause when USA's Founding Fathers are referred to as "patriots". Like, armed rebellion revolt against their lawful nation government was their whole entire schtick?

the #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. welp

Every faddish health trend in the last couple decades is predicated on the idea, "Science has made humans live longer than ever before. What if it was wrong?"

The oldest surviving joke in any language is a "_____ walks into a bar" joke. (Sumerian, 1800BC: "A dog walks into a bar and says, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one.'") We don't have enough context to, like, get it? but it is clearly such a joke.

Trump is aware the Kennedy Center is a memorial right? Personally, I wouldn’t want my name on a memorial until I’m actually dead but maybe he thinks his time is near!

In the field of computers, it is well-known that a bit can have one of two states: positive or negative, 1 or 0, yes or no. But the wise (and the sophomoric) recognize that there is a third state, the mu state: good luck getting a 1 or a 0 out of a bit when the machine is switched off.

I am going to refer to my exciting range of fresh and fruity comorbidities as "The Unpleasantness" from here on out

more Democratic leaders should promise revenge

A nation of Christians who act like Romans managed to elect someone who claims to be Christ but is more half Nero / half Caligula I mean, it sucks, but it also sort of tracks

regardless of one's stance on AI I cannot imagine having the belief that hallucinations are unique to AI and not something humans regularly experience like, I am sincerely jealous of your mental health if you think you don't hallucinate important facts about your own memory

January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.

I am told that in ancient Egypt, it was considered blasphemy to muck around with a living body, but fixing the body after death is important because that's the body you've got in the afterlife. So: ancient Egyptians, that's who wants healthcare abolition.

I love the central conceit of Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems – he’s practically like, “Here are two opposing worldviews, equal in weight, which I present without bias or opinion, and also one of them is espoused by a character named Imbecile.”

It sure is weird that the Terminator series just ended here with a TV show. You'd think a property this big would keep getting shitty movie sequels no one likes but we're lucky. Please don't correct me.

investing billions of dollars on little guys who follow everyone around who watch videos on tiktok and then post on bsky about it, constantly whispering into their ear that tiktok and bsky are Hosted On Data Centers

Magic items with a history and a backstory are more fun than a boring +1 Ring of Protection.

I'm kender-critical. "I have no concept of property" is a bonkers excuse for kleptomania.

But he's Catholic. How does an octopus decide which arm is its right arm, for the purpose of making the sign of the cross?

it is always going to drive me insane that we discovered a mathematical model of the conception of all human language and ketamine-brained billionaires have decided that its best use is writing scam emails. go to hell

Trump didn’t exactly refute the “personality of an alcoholic” allegations tonight

I guess it’s possible to enjoy the disappointment and humiliation of Trump supporters even as we plunge over the edge of the chasm.

a cool thing is you can just make a big ol’ pot of soup whenever you feel like and no one can stop you and it’ll make you feel real cozy

put me down as thinking this will be used as a very vicious and likely effective harassment tactic but will succeed in denaturalizing almost no one

i sincerely think this is what happened, i am not shitposting

My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…   5. Monocles 4. Bicycles 3. Popsicles 2. Obstacles 1. Testicles

I missed the address. I assume that it was inspiring and levelheaded.

[finger to earpiece] I am now hearing that pop culture analysis assumes a level of cishetness not actually found in nature

Just want to remind the US Congress, because some of its members have clearly forgotten this, that the President of the United States cannot just go to war with another country because he feels like it. There is very definitely something in the Constitution about this (have a look: I checked).

gentrification is not a real problem

Seven is the primest prime number. It vibes the most prime.

I once did start running a "you're literally colonizing an already-inhabited island" city-building/hexcrawl campaign, which died before we got to the planned "wait, are we the bad guys?" stage.

I guess video phones have survived by mutating into Zoom and Skype and Microsoft Felch and Google Rimjob and whatever. But that's fine, at least they usually make an appointment. If telephones had to make an appointment I wouldn't have minded so much.

(it's a footnote, but at one point he describes a Tang dynasty crime boss who had tattoos on one arm that read "Living, I do not fear the city governor" and on the other "Dead, I do not fear the King of Hell" which goes *very* hard)

Become ungovernable

Something I’ve commented on before is that, in addition to Nuremberg finding that the Nazis violated international law, they also found that they violated German law and the Weimar constitution (which had never been repealed).

There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult

make america Good again

Media literacy boy I dunno

The thing (most famously pointed out by Reagan) where you can't become German if you weren't born in Germany, aren't French even if you become a citizen of France, aren't English unless your tenth ancestors were English... but anyone, of any origin, can become American? Gotta say: that's good stuff

Gamers (derogatory) play XBox or Playstation. Gamers (positive) play Switch.

Calling something cringe is weakness