These fascists are softer than baby poop. Absolute whiners. Complete knobs.

Is the movie Mortal Engines good? Who’s to say. It’s fun, and ambitious. Pretty goofy too. It makes no sense and that’s okay.

I’m a simple man. I love it when a movie studio logo gets altered to reflect the theme or content of the film it introduces.

Walter Cronkite, famously unopinionated journalist.

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵

The ladies on Nextdoor are swooning over local newscaster @kylec.bsky.social and his beard.

He was great as the scary old neighbor in Home Alone.

“World’s already cruel enough, Rudy, it don’t need our help being meaner.” John Mackenzie Have Snakes, Need Birds

finally reading moby dick. why didn't anyone tell me that it's good

Simply mirroring things like the modern US publishing industry.

Thst I can get on board with. For me, it’s the misanthropy I can’t abide. I am a hater. Which is a kind of integrity, as a very clever man wrote: anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Eliminating pork was a key moment in the devolution of Congress.

Trump learned from Roy Cohn, who was a lawyer who defended mafia dons.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

I don't see what's hard about telling Americans the truth: The aged lying self-obsessed president who tariffed your stuff while blocking the Epstein Files & taking multiple cognitive tests just started a war you didn't ask for, for no coherent reason other than he thinks it makes him look good on TV

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

ChatGPT-ass invasion

Also mad at Trump and his cronies for making Bush look competent in comparison. Those dorks had no plan for post-invasion Iraq and they had more of a plan than these dipshits.

Absolutely pathetic, because this is all just revenge for the audacity of Obama making fun of him at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

I was a plebe at the Naval Academy during the ramp up to the invasion of Iraq and I was opposed to that nonsense. I’m almost 45 now with a kid and am opposed to this nonsense.

The war always comes home.

Wish I didn't have to keep saying this: Lot of veterans stuck their necks out writing about political gambits that end up destroying young men and women emotionally and physically and clearly no one read or learned a damn thing. tortoisebooks.com/store/thesurge bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

January 3rd

I’m sorry, but if they did it in England when Trump visited, we can do this here @pleightx.bsky.social

The Cabinet of Dr Pagliacci Is that anything?

My wife has to undergo a pretty major surgery next week so of course Cigna would wait until Friday to let her know that only half of the stuff the doctors are doing is medically necessary and therefore half is not covered, and I’m unsure why there aren’t more Luigi Mangiones out there.

“What a year, huh, Jack?” “Lemon, it’s January 2nd.”

“Blue states can’t play football” I type as I try to break into the right wing griftosphere, generating a brainless piece of content for Ben Shapiro’s new venture into sports coverage with a conservative angle, an ESPN for patriots, not Patriots, if you will, when suddenly the aneurysm does its job.

Not sure why I have to explain this but here goes: Not all people who work in tech are tech bros. All tech bros are bad.

You don’t hate tech bros enough

Influencers are just a subset of tech bros, which means they are horrible.

Be more tree

"I’m also interested in knowing when short fiction about America’s twenty-first century wars began to appear. Below is my initial report on examples of the genre published before 2011." From September 14, 2017. acolytesofwar.com/2017/09/04/t...

Delroy Lindo simply does not miss. I’ve enjoyed his work since A Life Less Ordinary (1997).

Lots of folks like positing a Muppet-based remake while retaining one human character and the only real possibility is Viggo as Aragorn surrounded by Muppets, playing it totally straight.

I hate almost everything about going to the beach except for how happy it makes my wife and son.

Every now and then I doubt my ability to pursue a PhD and then I see someone with that degree say something like this (thread follows, for you masochists) and know I’m better off saving my time and money.

Traveling with toddlers and traveling with elders is very similar.

LinkedIn being normal again

Scott is well read and knows good books.

Even more important is the bag for all the torn wrapping paper and tape. Bows and good tissue paper get saved, for we are not made of money.

5:30pm in Waikiki, one of the greatest concentrations of restaurants in the world, and we can’t decide what to do for dinner. Well, I can decide. -We- can’t decide.

Nothing like forgetting the kid’s suitcase and discovering it only at baggage claim.

I was at AWP17 trying to jumpstart my indie press Barnacle Mountain (which is long since dormant). I also got to meet lots of good milvet writing folks, and reconnect with old classmates. AWPs are good when they are good.

Can we organize a campaign to convince Trump to take up celebrity boxing against real boxers?

Something about waiting to have a kid until you’re 40 to really sap the life force outta ya.

Honestly any Democrat who doesn’t run ads that consist solely of playing clips of Republicans talking is wasting money on anything else.

You absolute bell ends. You complete schmucks. You top to bottom fiends. All you dipshits who promoted RFK Jr because you liked what he had to say about toothpaste or whatever deserve a solid kick in the crunch basket.