back in the day films were well written, were art, they were *about things*

Nice suit

These visits by ghostes koude have been three emayles.

Lighte the laumpe Not the ratte!

The “60 Minutes” scandal neatly encapsulates the triumph of the past decade’s free-speech hypocrisy, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.

The “60 Minutes” scandal neatly encapsulates the triumph of the past decade’s free-speech hypocrisy, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"Why is any of this okay with so many of those who once claimed to be free-speech champions or absolutists? Because, quite obviously, they were not." I endorse. And admittedly feel some frustration it seems @adamserwer.bsky.social and others do too, having seen through this crowd clearly for years.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

-you there boy what day is it -today why it’s Christmas Day -wonderful you know that fine fat goose at the butcher -wot the one’s as big as me -that’s it now go fetch- -wot’s fulla them ‘ormones -what -wot’s never seen the light o’day -ok look -fac’try farmin that is -jesus never MIND

@schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social Say goodbye to ever getting my vote in a primary ever again. We can do better than you. And we need people who will stand up to the GOP and protect the vulnerable among us. Yet again you abdicate your responsibility. Shameful.

So when I spend about 25 minutes straight at work staring at my inbox with a sense of ennui, angst, and overwhelm… is that working time during which I am working or am I on break?

Now that I'm in my metal-head era, some important news:

I’ve embarked on a journey to familiarize myself better with the history of progressive and heavy metal. This is my listening list for today.

i can’t bestir myself to give a shit about most acts of vandalism but some dipshit just pulled the emergency brake on my F train for a lark and delayed it by like 20 minutes and don’t fuck with the trains man. like are you serious. don’t fuck with people’s trains

The combination of fascism covid more fascism genocide capitulation to fascism and the clear goal of AI tech bros to eradicate the workforce and make all jobs and future goals irrelevant as we all slide into poverty while eleven rich people become gods is really doing a number on us.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

tbh you probably COULD religiously persecute me. it’d take me long as hell to say anything. not bc i’m ok with being persecuted. but bc last time i thought i was being persecuted it turned out the bus driver just didnt see me running. i am often wrong. i guess not everyone thinks they’re often wrong

are people not deeply, existentially embarrassed to do shit like get their professor fired for giving their shitty essay a shitty grade. is there no part of them that kind of wants to die because rather than just let the trans girl win the swim meet they decided to cry no fair to the newspaper

Oh my GOD I just beat Outer Wilds and holy shit. What an ending. One of the best games I've ever played. One of those times a game rises above being just a game and becomes a story worth remembering.

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

If a baked potato launches a bid to primary Chuck Schumer, the potato gets my vote.

Given the pure evil at the core of the Trump administration and GOP majorities in Congress and Supreme Court… It is so frustrating to have to feel such rage at the Democratic Party. They truly have failed and betrayed the people they claim to fight for. Fuck everyone who enabled this.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

I’m so sorry

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

"The successor presidencies of Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden decried the power grabs Cheney pursued but mostly pocketed his gains for their own purposes...Trump now walks a red carpet of lawlessness, plutocracy and bloodshed woven by Cheney."

If Democrats have to answer for their most fringe members then Republicans should have to answer for theirs. The most out-there Democrat is 1/50th as psychotic and harmful as the most out-there Republican.

It’s amazing how our agonizingly long election cycles train at least some people to feel locked into limited options long before their options are actually that limited.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

you used to be able to go to a soda fountain after school and get an ice cream float laced with cocaine and zero artificial sweetener for a nickel, why did they take this from us

hey this is fun

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

oh buddy

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage. Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.