I had no idea there were so many Norwegian Progressive Intellectuals here.

Was hoping for International Men Of Mystery, but I guess this'll do.

...expired?

Macbeth: So long as nobody was from their mother's womb untimely ripped we're good. Narrator: 32% of all births in the United States are Caesarean.

What little national dignity we have left.

What's it gonna be next year when the bubble pops?

as you watch all of the rah-rah pageantry of the Super Bowl it’s astounding to remember that MAGA is so weird and offputting that they’ve apparently given football to the libs in the national divorce

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Missed opportunity not saying "LIVE LAUGH LOVE LEVI'S".

Cut To: Kid Rock hurriedly scribbling out lyrics about statutory rape and replacing them with lyrics about bull markets, green sheets, and fully vested IRAs.

He’s going to invade Puerto Rico now

Not being a fan of football, I don't watch the Super Bowl. But I am absolutely a fan of the shitposts about the game, commercials and halftime show that people write up so I can make up stories in my head about what they might be talking about.

Maybe they thought we'd already gotten enough reminders of what we are over the last year.

Since I just posted some model photos, here are some shots about place. They include Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston.

I used to make my living as a photographer and while I've been posting a lot of tree and sky shots recently, I love working with models. Here are some favorites. NOTE: the third image contains nudity.

what kind of abject fool decides to give generative AI the ability to use rm -rf??

Football just hasn’t been the same since we lost New York Jets quarterback Flash Gordon back in 1980 when our planet experienced all those weird quakes and hot hail.

The absolute last Eric Carter piece (a short novella taking place before the events of the series) is done and off to the publisher. And it's about fucking time. So so soooooo late.

That's all it is. A con game. One we've all seen dozens and dozens of times before. Someone creates a "book" designed to take advantage of however KU is calculating payments today, floods Amazon with them... profit! All the ai element does is let them put out the scam "books" faster.

Fine. The discourse. The NYT article isn't about writing. Or ai. Seriously. It's about yet another Kindle Unlimited scam. The same kind of "gaming the algorithm" scams that have been going on since KU started. Generate garbage, get a few dozen sales, collect money, move on to next pile of garbage.

Somebody needs to hijack the Kid Rock Turning Point halftime debacle with this on a continuous loop.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

I assume Ms. Hart means the race to the toilet to see who can empty their bowels faster.

Whenever I see movies and novels showing supervillains as hyper-competent masterminds I am reminded that shit like this happens constantly.

Bezos fired the foreign correspondents without even giving them a plane ticket home. They should be able to sue his ass for everything. In the meantime give to their fund here.

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

It may be true that Anglo folks in Minneapolis are using Mexican flags to lure/distract ICE. In fact, some folks in LA did do that. But let's not create or enhance an unvetted feel good white hero story & use a photo from actual journalism (well, NYT) about vulnerable people being brave to plug it.

This is not only not Minneapolis (it's Los Angeles), but it's from a June 2025 NYT article not about "ordinary people with no connection whatsoever to Mexico," but about people of actual Mexican heritage refusing to be afraid of celebrating where they & their family come from, despite the danger.

Gwar

There’s something so comforting about an elected Republican crying online about gerrymandering

Okay, but the bunker's still an option, right?

i'm calling it early - this is one of the greatest posts ever made on bsky dot app

J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

a fun thing that i occasionally find myself uselessly agonizing about is that the economic tail of trump wrecking our diplomatic relationships and global standing will be long and will likely begin to be felt in full under the next democratic presidency

since people ask me about this a lot, here are my recommended starting points (I also like The Wee Free Men for a YA-focused start and Going Postal is, while later in the series, one of the most purely fun books)

Lovely, and heartbreaking. Help out his family if you can: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

Yeah, that was too much whining even for me.

Unless, of course like me, you hate babies.

1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs" 2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works

Gundlach had a rant about ending the “you blow dry my hair, I blow dry yours” economy - wonder if it’s fine if everyone is stuck in the video game from hell driving each others waymos and manning each others house robots remotely

They're Abrego-Garcia-ing a child -- punishing him because his very existence is inconvenient to them. It's gutter bigotry and petulant sadism all the way down.

Aside from the message, which I support, his control of his instrument is impressive

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

LGBTQ+ journalist Erin Reed has published her annual list of transgender and nonbinary Girl Scouts selling cookies. The Buckeye Flame has combed through the list and highlighted Ohio scouts below for you to support – and get tasty treats in return! thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/01/14/t...

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

NO GODS NO MASTERS

Just missing the bit about how we get paid even less because the book gets stolen by tech bros who make 5000% more than I'll ever see in a lifetime.

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