politics is being a guy with multiple houses and millions of dollars and saying ‘times are tough’ with a straight face

I wish the Skarsgards had a Keeping Up With the Kardashians style show where they all eat salads and lament things

Holy hell, what an obituary

Can only hope Chris Hipkins is taking note

A rare, but much needed TL cleanse of levity that speaks to and for many of us belonging to the WDNC club. Enjoy:

I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable! www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

"I'm not in denial about [AI]. I'm in open rebellion." Amen.

I'm so mad that I understand this

I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him. Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

someone needlepoint this on a pillow for me, please and thank you

unless she was piloting flights to epstein island no one cares

The NZ govt's position on Palestine is consistent with the fact that it is not really a conservative govt, but, in many ways, a govt of reckless right-wing ideologues intent on fighting endless culture wars.

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice

Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

The Allies becoming the Nazis is such a WWE-ass twist it feels pretty apt for 2025

I saw the mushroom court case yesterday described as the Beef Unwellington trial, and now I can never think of it as anything else again 😭

What an odd little idea that is absolutely going to blow up in their faces.

As people die from deliberately induced famine in Gaza, this food is likely to be destroyed

“She’s not yours to pity. She’s mine to marvel at.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

Trampled to death by a horse called Pivot to Video

Anyone else reading ‘Vladimir, STOP’ like ‘Piper, NO’?

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Begging the Cardinals to do the right thing en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierbat...

Cat looks like he just called Drake a pedophile

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

These aren't tariffs. They are a horse's head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader.

This Reddit thread of people explaining the most unhinged reason they ever abandoned a book is a delight

This is all a bit sad. So many memories of so much great music www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin...

Everybody in every band that ever existed:

Headline of the year. The story is helluva (gruesome) ride too. (Content warning) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A List of Things People Blamed on Rock Music 🧵

[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken] CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.

Someone clever did this to a lamppost on Coverdale road and now I am disappointed that every lamppost doesn’t have one

This guy’s got your fucking bank details America. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

Have zero fucks to give about Superbowl, but at least it gave us this. Now bring it on Kendrick! youtu.be/CVPhd5yFoR4?...

sure why the hell not

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