The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

*checks follower count Looks like someone shared the WNBA starter pack again. Preemptive apologies to the new followers, continued apologies to anyone who hasn’t muted me #WNBA #Unrivaled

Poor Lamar. They let him down every year.

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

It’s not a sweating problem, I’m just Eastern European

The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

Most people aren’t aware Melville/Hawthorne is the inspiration for Heated Rivalry

Shout out to the top 5 ables in the world, veget, syll, valu, Lunch, and Les Miser.

ICE is vile but thankfully it’s staffed by buffoons who send rear wheel drive SUVs to places like Minnesota

Bailed on my 2025 reading accountability thread in late summer but restarting for 2026 No. 1 - The Deserters by Mathis Énard tr. by @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social from @ndbooks.bsky.social 🤞 @onebrightbook.bsky.social discuss it on the pod From @thebaffler.com review: 💙📚 #BookSky #TranslatedLit

‘Is BritBox down?’ is my most frequent Google search

BritBox: Upgrade to premium for early access to new episodes Also BritBox: Service down, access in your region unavailable

@avecsesdoigts.bsky.social — in translating ‘The Deserters’, how did you come up with the word ‘futilifugal’? It’s been stuck in my head since reading it

Stable rent. Affordable necessities. Free childcare. Free busses. This is the bare minimum that people deserve and people really act like he has outlandish ideas.

This is longer than Doug Ford spent at Queens Park in 2025.

Trying to get one more read done before 2026 — The Deserters by Mathias Énard tr. by @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social pub. by @ndbooks.bsky.social The first page has me hooked 💙📚 #BookSky #TranslatedLit #LitFic

Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax https://theonion.com/tech-billionaires-threaten-to-flee-california-over-proposed-vest-tax/

“One has a moral responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them…. So, one must be very careful with one’s silences.” – Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

A tribe called pest

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This bit from ch. 6 of Calvino’s ‘If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler’ still caused me laughter but a sadness too; probably one I wouldn’t feel if I read this pre-gen AI era 💙📚 #BookSky #TranslatedLit #LitFic

King Charles took the Knight’s Tour while shouting out Georges Perec 💙📚 #BookSky

Stories rich people tell: "If WE tax the rich, the rich will move". "If WE lower the taxes of the rich (i.e. give them money), WE will be better off!" "WE must give billions in subsidies to their sports teams to create jobs!" "Their sports teams lose money so they can't pay their workers."

Finished up Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket (thought it was great) and found @biblioklept.bsky.social chapter/section write-ups added to the experience — links to historical events/people, tying themes together and so forth biblioklept.org/2025/10/09/g...

someone needs to adopt this cat

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

“Looks like they’re gonna cum but they pull out” - Troy Aikman … there’s kids watching dude #NFL #MNF

AI OVERVIEW: “Mr. Perfect is the enemy of Jane Goodall” is most likely a confused rendering of the aphorism “perfect is the enemy of good”, and there is no evidence that this storyline was ever discussed or even considered leading up to WrestleMania VII.

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

Awww, Andrew Tate just got his ass handed to him by Chase DeMoor. Poor baby. And by poor baby, I mean it couldn't have happened to a better person.

SNAP benefits should be universal, with zero means testing, and generous. Even from a purely capitalist perspective this would benefit the economy massively. The only reason to be against this is because you're pro-suffering.

Zooming in on Puka’s celebration after a big catch

Caren Beilin - Revenge of the Scaorgoat or Sea, Poison, Mathias Énard - The Deserters, anything by Jenny Erpenbeck, Agota Kristoff - Notebook Trilogy

Probably more important than his rambling speech. They’re going to strip people of their citizenship.

WHAT.THE.FUCK.

Doug Ford on bringing more casinos to Niagara Falls:

I’m looking for a Rural Meyer, the non-asshole version of Urban Meyer

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

CIBC unveils jersey featuring a Toronto Tempo logo 🙄 #WNBA

Bat Batford votes IN FAVOUR of homeless people dying in order to save the City a small amount of money, along with only two other councillors. Do not forget this when the mayoral election comes round.

This nepo baby ass loser is a ghoul. How does your brain even come up with this kind of cruelty?

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

New on the blog today, Part One of my BOOKS OF THE YEAR, 2025 - favourites from a year of reading. Featuring books by Edith Wharton, Barbara Pym, Caroline Blackwood, Vivian Gornick and more! #BookSky 💙📚 #BooksOfTheYear #Books #BOTY jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/m...

Just generated an idea to block @vox.com to avoid any of their dumbass articles

See what's coming from us in spring 2026. cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/07...

One of the victims of the antisemitic massacre in Australia was a Holocaust survivor. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

The kick 😭

Awful Headlining — well the whole article is awful and morbid too