"The Surge. It perfectly captures the combat experience—long periods of boredom punctuated by sudden bursts of violence—in prose that never lets up in intensity.” - David Abrams, author of Brave Deeds and Fobbit #SelfPromoSaturday tortoisebooks.com/store/thesurge bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

“Churches hate this one easy trick!”

Seen elsewhere: Trump has allied himself with Algaeria.

Send in the Green Corps

This is what happens when you can read and know how to read to kids.

Algae Hiss

Good suggestions, but he missed “Alpha,” by me. Here ya go, ya filthy animals: militaryexperience.org/as-you-were-...

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

Maybe the Rockies will finally win a pennant (socialist sports effect)

The Battle of Algaers

This Richard III with Ian McKellen A stage production of Macbeth set in 1980s Afghanistan A version of Much Ado where they made it RAIN inside the theater during Hero’s funeral Shakespeare is sometimes best when it’s furthest from Shakespeare’s time

Still love the explanation of the severity behind “Who’s this clown?” as an insult.

If you have disabled family and/or friends, might I suggest that you do not, ever, tell them that you/someone else would much rather be dead than be disabled? I’m actually not comfortable hearing that people I love feel this way; I’ve been chronically ill since 11. Just please think.

This is just light years ahead of “We had to burn the village in order to save it.”

Attention to detail, Chris. Your captions suck because YOU suck.

Random Mongol horseman, c. 1290CE

Happy Watergate Arrest Day

I love all these “Europeans visit America and ogle our gas stations” stories but there’s a real weird undercurrent through it all. I’m no conspiracy nut (except about Dubai chocolate) but it’s as though someone is on a speed run to rehab our image. Like the USA is some quaint undiscovered land.

An impossible task, but please try to say something normal one time in your life, tech bro.

I have no firsthand knowledge but I’m sure that AI has ruined trivia nights and karaoke. Because AI ruins everything.

Other ideas include “Five transits and the sixth one is free,” “Trump will sign your captain’s log,” and “Pweeze pweeze pwetty pweeze.”

Fuck this and for good measure fuck you too

This is some Mad Libs/Magnetic Poetry fuckery.

Fuck this absolute ghoul. Fuck you if you ever thought it was cool to support him.

Me, in this “town hall” with the political appointees:

Honestly my favorite type of Nextdoor post.

Drain the swamp and put it (looks around) right here

This is weird, I can see there are two replies, one of which is mine, but can’t read the other one.

You schmucks. You absolute knobs. What utter baloney.

I feel sorry for the cat.

Jared Polis?

The glib response is to say “Are you surprised?” or something and yeah, that’s part of it. But in a functioning democracy we should have more than one decent political party, and right now we don’t have that.

Texas has gone on long enough. It was funny when it started as absurdist performance art but not people are taking it too seriously.

Did anyone here realize that Dan Brown released another Robert Langdon book last year?

Ennui, the inevitable decay of time, the unstoppable force of entropy, taxes, what could it be?!?1?

“Did they send me Russians, When I asked for soldiers?”

Can’t tell if joke or not, either way this is great.

Shorter: snake oil salesmen used to have the good sense not to take their own elixirs.

It’s Bluesky so of course there are a few scolds saying that making fun of the way Joe Rogan looks is mean, but it’s okay to make fun of him for his looks for the same reason it’s okay to make fun of RFK Jr for the way he sounds: they are both the results of their shitty decisions, and represent-

Trying to imagine the levels of self delusion someone would have to possess to get huffy over being asked by a con artist to “spoil the sanctity” of your little men beating up men event. Piss off, Daniel Cormier. Take your unearned indignation with you.

Spoiler alert*: USA Today has been and continues to be shit. *Only a spoiler alert if you’ve been in a coma since 1982

Some local Nextdoor bigot complained about the mail-in ballots coming with stickers saying “I voted” in English and Spanish and now a bunch of other locals are dragging him for filth. Not a one has stepped in on his side.

I read Moby Dick onboard a former US Navy ship that was sold to the Royal Thai Navy. There wasn’t much to do so for a month I read it while lying on my back on a 30 year old Navy-issued mattress. The text is marked to hell with what I thought were important notes and passages. 10/10 would recommend

Fuck

Okay there’s some weird segment that thinks the UFC fight actually signals an end to the admiralty law under which the nation has operated and yup that’s enough internet for the night.

People saying this is evidence for God but maybe it’s just evidence for a god.

Victor Wembanyama announced his retirement today after being roasted.

The Knicks celebrations serve as a useful template for the inevitable celebratory catharsis. Hydrate, stretch, don’t feel bad about experiencing the moment.

Dave’s just isn’t very good bread

Wikipedia can eat shit today