"I hate the mother who was nice to me and yearn for the approval of a father who was not." Many many MANY such cases.

Honestly good for them. If a country can muster up that kind of coordination and control more power to them. Can’t be a good mark for a country that has an army that can’t even pick a PT uniform in less time than it takes a comet to visit the solar system if their main “opponent” can do this.

List of great nuggets in this really dumb article that profiles a bunch of dumb people by uncritically and dumbly adopting a bunch of assumptions that don’t need to be adopted, but… You cannot resign by dramatically dropping your key fob (there’s no way to dramatically drop a key fob, for one) and-

Jared Polis is gonna grant Tina Peters clemency and it won’t make a damn bit of difference.

When I was in Iraq I read Stars and Stripes (in print) cover to cover every day. I did the crossword. And my office mates and I saved up months worth of papers, then proceeded to loosely ball up each page and fill up our deputy director’s office waist-deep with newsprint for an A/N Week prank.

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Do we really need another in a long line of contrived and awkward essays that try to shoehorn American military strategy into the pop culture du jour?

Any Dem that is not up for this fight…step aside.

Guy who eats worms or something has thoughts, or the worm in his head does

Pretty sure every E-9/E-10 or whatever could retire tomorrow and the overall readiness of the military would increase by a significant degree.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22

This Squid Game show is pretty dumb (the Netflix game show version, not the fictional version), but it’s probably supposed to be.

ok stay with me on this one... sometimes you have writer's block because you're not in Text World. you have to read until you're back in Text World. if you don't read, you're writing in the real world. sentences won't feel right or they'll look goofy. not in Text World though

Fuck these dumb fuckers touting AI

One of the few things we had to memorize at USNA (technically NAPS) that has import even today, lo these many years later, was the section of Paine opening with “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

You wanna watch one person’s brain collapse in on itself like a dying star while another person keeps their blood pressure at a reasonable level?

One thing you can do today is buy a friend's book. Who cares if you even read it. Just buy to support art. Fascists hate poetry and short stories and books about joy and memoirs about compassion etc. Let's go.

What's haunting me here is the realization that these dingbats all eventually start talking like their LLM which feels like when Agent Smith got downloaded into that guys brain in The Matrix.

Thugs, all of them. The casual indifference with which the one goon “deployed a chemical agent” (come on, media; “used a tear gas grenade” or something more imaginative) when people with mouths full of pizza yelled at them. The weakest and most cowardly among us given the most latitude to be thugs.

Does the Fish Mafia (it exists) say “You’re gonna sleep with the people”? (And yes I know there’s a Far Side cartoon similar to this.)

Gonna start pronouncing “quality” like “duality” and vice versa and see if my life improves.

Chris Cillizza, an expert in nothing except both-sidesing and being a dilettante, has some takes. He calls them “big thoughts” but that’s a weird thing to call them, since they’re neither big nor thought. (Also, who says “big” thoughts?)

Reading Dr Seuss books for the kiddo right before bed is great, because the subsequent doomscrolling on this here hell site after he’s gone down is all ringing in my head with that goofy meter and cadence.

There was a segment on the old Animaniacs cartoon called “Chicken Boo” where a giant chicken would dress up as (a ballerina, firefighter, scientist, etc.) and everyone would treat the chicken seriously except one guy who was always like “It’s just a giant chicken in a suit!” until finally-

“I wouldn’t call him a Chumbawumba, he’s more of an Acquaintancebawumba.”

Should not have started “More Everytbing Forever” by @adambecker.bsky.social so late last night. The first chapter already has me ready to eat a tech bro.

Temu ICE. Protestor detained breaks free.

If I named a character “Thomas Chatterton Williams” my editor would make me change it. No one is called that except as a joke.

This could be the biggest statement worldwide to date. if there were empty stadiums nationwide in America because Trump is the Antichrist & everyone believes it. Would he discount tickets with a going out of business "blowout" sale. ‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott USA Fifa

Take the average cop and deduct several points for anything good and you’ll get an ICE agent.

Anyone who takes Brooks seriously needs to get chucked in a bog, and that includes PBS News Hour for foisting this dipwad on us for years.

Also worth noting: when Hudson receives a mission (setting up sentry guns, sealing doors) or sees someone in trouble (Ripley and Newt in the med lab) his switch is flipped. When confronted with the aliens, he taunts and blasts them until his game is actually over.

I’m seeing people on Nextdoor call pro-ICE goons “cucks” and “bootlickers” and I’m not at all sad about it.

Anti-ICE protesters are having a rolling noise demo and protest in downtown Minneapolis targeting hotels where federal agents are reportedly staying -- starting at the Canopy by Hilton and going to the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel. Police have just arrived as we are posting this.

While we’re at it, abolish the Ivy League.

Went to Barnes & Noble last night to kill some time and found a few books and hid a few by terrible people (Eric Trump, RFK Jr, Charlie Kirk). Not a bad trip.

Two of the most truly inhospitable places on Earth (not just tough to live like a desert, but shouldn’t live, all things being equal) are Base Camp at Everest and McMurdo Station, Antarctica. The amount of effort required to keep otherwise elite humans alive in these places is staggering.

This is how you fight fascists. One way. Another is with fists. But this way works.

ICE killed a Black man, Keith Porter, 7 days before Renee Good, and I hadn't heard about it until today. His vigils went unnoticed. His life came and gone and America forgot to blink. Two Americas.

LinkedIn Be Normal For One Day Challenge: automatic failure

I wish I could have told some lieutenants colonel to shut the fuck up while I was in, but now I can. Shut the fuck up.

The minute was over a long time ago, and this reads like AI trying to sound like AI trying to sound like a lieutenant colonel (which we all know is the dumbest rank in the Army).

Headlines, poets, etc

Republicans have a cruel, small, and stupid vision for America. Democratic have a wimpy, feckless, and craven vision for America. No, the parties are not the same, but the Democratic Party as currently constituted is insufficient for the scale and complexity of the problem.

Follow up: there will still be retaliation against Colorado.

If the House overrides the veto, expect more retaliation against Colorado

That Financial Times piece about how Trump isn’t a fascist because “reasons” is among the dumber things out there right now. What was even the point of it? Who even is this guy to write about fascism? A guy who’s written some books about soccer?

“Guys, I’m starting to think the nature of America’s involvement in WWII was the anomaly and the Banana Wars the norm.” “Buddy lemme tell you…”

I’m fascinated that the author managed to read Eco’s essay on ur-fascism and still come away with a completely dumb conclusion. “Trump isn’t like Hitler, therefore he’s not a fascist.” Dude contradicts himself on his way to maliciously misunderstanding Eco.