"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

drank some water and am instantly regretting it. no wonder all the leading scientists agree that soda is much healthier and better for you

Few things have turned out as well as @mtsw.bsky.social 's "They want him to win and rule us like a King" take on the media

if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...

"Brazilian authorities refused to isolate January 8 as a spontaneous and feverish riot. Instead, they treated it as a conspiracy with identifiable authors. Days after the attack, police searched the home of Anderson Torres (...Brasília’s then–security chief)..." jacobin.com/2026/01/janu...

I think this is a really good point and goes along with what I say about the media reporting on right-wing controversies, which is that their official stance on literally anything the right does is "boys will be boys"

Just read that Speed Cinema is showing "The Gits" next Wednesday January 14th, but it's only screening once, at 6 PM. "...Traces the meteoric rise... and their magnetic frontwoman, Louisville’s Mia Zapata —... before her life was tragically cut short in 1993." www.speedmuseum.org/cinema/the-g...

A page from Dumbass! #1, my one-person anthology

This guy here is dead 👇

Republicans were very clear during the election that this is what they believed, & that this was what they would act upon when in office. Editors & tastemakers discounted it all, because it was ridiculous. Everything was fine. No one would blow everything up for the sake of delusion. Now here we are

This is in every way indistinguishable from the average Mumsnet or twitter exchange on trans people in the UK

29 years ago today, Homer Simpson had an epic chili pepper-induced hallucination. “El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer” first aired January 5, 1997. Most of the sequence was animated completely by David Silverman as he wanted it to look exactly as he had imagined it.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-...

One of the single most homophobic people in far right media and that is really saying something

Quote this with your favourite game from 1998 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one) Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend. Two-way ties count. For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...

The Trump admin's strategy for dealing with the (non-bought-and-paid-for) media:

This is great data viz except it looks like Connections

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

Ackmann is just a smartly chosen mark: he doesn't understand the data and hates Harvard admins & so could easily be convinced this is a 'witch hunt'. Lessig is a compulsive contrarian. He also wrote a multi-post defense of Ito, the MIT admin who took hidden Epstein donations after 1st conviction

Everything Is Russiagate truly lol

The best description I ever heard of News Corp was from a Murdoch biographer who called it a kind of free-floating state television which various regimes could contract with to provide propaganda. The new CBS is actually lower than that, even.

At her confirmation, Bondi reassured senators she would "work to restore confidence and integrity ... Under my watch, the partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice will end." Whatever reputation the DOJ had for competence and integrity is now in tatters. trib.al/3KtAAgA

Just had 5 Milwaukee Beast Lights and decided I'm gonna beat my roommate in Madden

Congressman Thomas Massie’s first reaction to the invasion/abduction of Venezuelan leader.

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

Loving the print ads in @theonion.com

Everyone is using clips of him saying "sheeeeeeeeit", but this scene had me howling: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZI...

the other thing, and this is stealing from a friend, is that they can’t bite the hand that feeds them

Isiah Whitlock Jr., actor who played Clay Davis on ‘The Wire,’ dies at 71

i recorded like 30 minutes of footage for this 15 minute video. youtu.be/j2_o-YK8tJo?...

expanded edition 📽️

This is essentially correct, yes. They have a couple of left-wing econ policies (nationalizing rail, GB Energy) but basically Lord Glasman, the guru of contemporary Blue Labour have told them the winning platform is socially illiberal national corporatism, and not like, liberal social democracy

it's amazing we can look at this, as a society, seeing that employers are drugging their employees to increase productivity and say "yes, these people are geniuses who should be in charge of things"

the neon catholicism of vietnam is genuinely peak in terms of design i wish more things were neon

This is exactly what I was trying to say (but more eloquently than I would have said it.)

Kentucky is facing a budget shortfall caused by expensive income tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy. How should the state address it? In a new poll, Kentuckians say lawmakers should generate more revenue by taxing the wealthy.

Holding firm in your belief in something that's moderately unpopular or controversial is a political loss leader to produce trust in you as a politician. More people should try it.

RIP Mike. God dammit

Just found out Mark Cuban isn't even Cuban wonder what else he's lying about

As an ex-Yakuza enforcer my life can get pretty complicated, but never so much as when I have to do karaoke and then have 12 straight conversations in a bar with one companion I've been ignoring.

“The vast majority of student debtors who seek discharges in bankruptcy are getting them, in large part because of a simpler legal process that was introduced three years ago.”

A perfect 90s album that, for a time, you could get FOR FREE when you mailed in 2 UPC codes from a box of frosted mini wheats.

Marv was 33 years old in the first Home Alone. What’s most upsetting about this is, now 36 myself, I can tell.

deadass?

a good chewy read on the great late DCB www.welcometohellworld.com/approaching-...

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Oh okay so this is all astroturfed on the culture warrior mom’s behalf