I do admit that searching "Gift article" or "Gift link" in here is quite convenient...

Speaking of which, spam scams continue to be a thing. If only someone were in control of these services and had the technology and manpower to do something about it!

At the end, it notes that the poll was internet based, not calling landlines. So the sample group will skew young, and of course young people distrust establishment politics and the rich. They understand what socialism is and why it benefits them. But do they vote? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

GALILEO FIGARO MAGNIFICO - OH - oh - oh....

Ok, I admit this is worth $15 million.... www.archpaper.com/2025/09/davi...

Today's example of Republican voters getting what they wanted - right where they don't want it 😅😂

“I think the only thing that moves the needle here… is some sort of national economic strike.” @profgalloway.com proposes using consumer power to push back against autocracy.

JFC when Michael freakin' Eisner comes out on the right end of the issue...

Holy crap do I need this thing. A montage of the world's most talented guitarist shredding and comping on something called a Synthaxe. Listen: youtu.be/GaUEamsEDkk?...

Where's my peaked in college people? :D

LOL If there's one thing college level psychology taught me, it's that the more a person is invested in an idea, the less likely they are to ever reconsider it no matter how much evidence is put in front of them that the idea is wrong.

Just a week ago:

Let's do this!

Yeah, everything is terrible so that means popcorn for dinner again: the new David Gilmour concert film is awesome. He's a guitarist who does so much with just a little, and his band is impressive (including the backup singers choir, which must be heard to be believed). A little long but worth it.

Your local library is full of media that the president hates but can't use his regulatory power to get rid of.

Well, judge for yourself:

On to more important topics: what is with the "Secret Screenings" trend in movie theaters? I'm not asking for spoilers, but I require some basic information about a movie before I spend a night eating popcorn....

You know what bugs me? We have such a big population of STEM+medicine geniuses absolutely capable of building a real utopia, or at least a far better world than the one we have now. And we have every resource available to make it happen. And instead, we throw it away on the dumbest stuff possible.

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Would be a good time to deploy this response:

Mood:

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Since we're celebrating (or catching up with) current TV, here's a thread about buried and forgotten stuff that you might have forgotten about.

Everyone in Hollywood is exactly the same age now, and that age is 37

Latest comic: Easy to do the wrong thing, hard to do the right thing

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

for anyone who’s not paying super close attention to all this (and good for you, seriously), this is a 12yo post from the mom of charlie kirk’s accused killer. it’s also a warning, albeit an unintentional one.

I feel seen!

Well obviously the story is false. Dylan would have sung "War Pigs" for Charlie!

2) I'm dating myself, but the phrase "Quincy Punk" used by, improbably, *both* TV writers of my generation and actual Southern CA punks originated from an odious episode of QUINCY M.E. where he endeavored to sacve soem LA kids from the evil punk scene. TV tropes has a banger of a write-up.

1) One of the interesting things is that the relationship between modern law enforcement + mainstream journalism and the Extremely Online Right has entered the "Quincy Punk" phase.

So how long before Bill Maher has Fuentes on his podcast? You know, to "hear both sides". Has Rogan already done that?

So you wanted out of hard labor in malls and on the streets, maybe a nice desk job? LOL www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/t... (bonus: it's not just the USA)

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001. www.espn.com/espn/page2/s...

Seems appropriate to amplify this now...

So how many people have ICE detained, and how many are on the list? Here comes the data:

What does Ken Jennings think of his original Jeopardy! interviews? You'll just have to watch to find out. Catch the extended version here: youtu.be/1ZE5ktHBzFQ

So for my classes, I'm conducting a survey on distracted driving and your mood when driving. If you drive, could you take a second to fill it out? Thanks! forms.gle/xxihrahDV4gQ... It is confidential. It is not affiliated with Uber, Lyft, or any TNC or transportation organization. It's short!

How worried are you right now about what comes next?

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

For when you're in love but you're lazy, so....

Driving in most of Manhattan is...nice?! On a Friday afternoon?! Yeah, I can't believe I typed that either. I'm sure city tagged UberLyft and cab drivers appreciate the changes.

For some reason I've been thinking about this classic Bloom County today. Can't imagine why. ;)

The Abundance Guys are selling fake solutions in order to protect the oligarchs funding their fancy conferences, their think tanks, their new Substack blogs, and their speaking tours. Pass it on.

I'm sort of fascinated by how North Korea has kept their people under lock and key for seven *decades*. Cuba and Afghanistan did this for almost as long a time. We've pushed back against that happening here all year. That's hopeful, though we can do more.

Halloween is approaching...slowly, very slowly.... youtu.be/0gQFaVm5V4Y?...

I always love those lists of "35 under 35," but as I get older, I find that I would love to know about innovations/art from people over 65. "65 over 65" please. Elders have incredible ideas that are the result of having seen the full lifecycle of previous ideas and learned from it.

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.