The concept of a boycott is so weird when the target company's business model is so poorly conceived paying customers cost them more money than the people quitting. But anyways, boycott away.

I think that’s too smart for Donald but easily foreseeable unforeseen side effect is believable.

Oh yeah he's hoping for some 9/11 let's-forget-he's-a-twat but that's probably why he isn't getting one.

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

Course the people who need to read that won't but it's good to know

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

The great thing about Aurora is that she can sincerely deliver the corniest lyrics as long as she’s allowed to sound like a bird link.deezer.com/s/32zzyCeSmQ...

The State of the Union:

things can’t be this evil and this stupid at the same time

This makes me think of Chevy Chase's roast when the host (the piano dude from Lettermen) sang "We couldn't get anybody good."

I get what cultural appropriation is now

I mean, maybe just release 1 for now?

The Washups

Oh no the religious nuts are drawing stupid charts to justify their faith, I've been here before.

I mean, understands the power of cooperation and comfortable with equitable divisions of wealth, you could do a lot worse.

the hell....

My money is on some internet-soured producer who stage managed the whole thing so that I would care that the Bafta awards exist and I assume have something to do with movies with no idea that bad publicity does in fact exist.

I would love to read a book that unravels all the weird bullshit we have about farming and just describes the current reality of agriculture. It's all so mythologized and politicized that it seems like a grounded discussion is impossible.

That Always Sunny episode where P Diddy talks about the Cosby Show comes across a lot different now.

What was the plan here?

Did the horse pay $20000 in tuition to get trained on how to pull carriages?

I can't wait for somebody to kill a drone with a line drive. If Randy Johnson can get a pigeon somebody will get a drone eventually.

'Thing isn't going to Huge Problem completely, therefore why bother' is a logical fallacy I see all the time, usually with climate change. There has to be better points to make about Ring than that it won't help with white collar crime.

I love my dog but whenever I'm doing anything he goes in the crate because his hovering is unbearable.

I wouldn't go so far as to pay late fees again but I can say that still having my dvds and vinyl sure was awesome when COVID hit and my internet was useless for six months because everyone was home trying to stream in 4k.

The product failed so I guess I can't put too much weight on it but this feels like some evolutionary intermediary where processed food had begun to evolve but it hadn't figured out to walk on land yet or something

This is a job for a amoral way-post-peak star looking to cash out their reputation for one last paycheck, not somebody who thinks they'll still be working in ten years. The news anchor version of The Wrestler, basically.

Honestly I think DVDs look fine but anyway, yes, reviving physical media is silly but most awesome things are silly so that doesn't mean much.

Democratic norms? Those are gone. Fix stuff, then make better norms.

How long has it been since you found an XKCD funny? I'm feeling like for me it was around 2008.

These people claim they hate socialism

You can tell when people are really smart. And you can tell when they aren't.

I don't know whether to be annoyed at liberals or to find it kind of cute that Mamdani got like a one week honeymoon period before people started tearing into him for the dumbest stuff. He's the mayor, of course he's not encouraging this.

We are Green and Trembling is amazing, got me to buy the bulk of Camara's work. Only jst started the Wax Child but it's insane so far, and Marie Ndiaye is always worth a peak.

America's Mood:

Colson is a no questions buy for me.

I have to say put your name on that and if you don’t have the spine to do that, then maybe don’t publish it.

Anyone else's early music taste basically dictated by what was in the dollar store bargain bin? Some highlights:

My creative process is basically dicking around in a notebook and then eventually writing something. The act of writing it is what makes it stick.

Rereading a script to write the follow up and I realize I left 5 pages undone in the middle of the script. I do that sometimes but I'm supposed to fill it in before I move on.

Yeah not a great time for whimsical gifts, yeah? Maybe drop off the plushies at the start of the game instead of in a sour moment of crushing, highly televised disappointment. Or not at all, also an option I imagine.

Kid rock is doing the soundtrack!

Unfortunately, I guess it is.

I loathed Gummo so much that I still think about how much I hated it almost 30 years later even though I only watched 10 minutes or so.

Business students are the most "I'm just here to get a degree" people out there.

Well maybe it's that and maybe it's that treating our cultural mythology like a factory farm that has to produce X amount of revenue a year leads to decades of unsatisfying media that confuse filling in every detail with storytelling?

I forgot Kid Rock started as a knockoff Vanilla Ice. It makes tons of sense, but I had forgotten in.

No hun, it isn't even top 10

My beef with this is more the lack of imagination. Heated Rivalry came out like 2 months ago and all you can think is to make the warrior race wear a gauzy scarf. Have ye not read Dick Fight Island?