Since when have people started to treat LOTR and Narnia as these deep classics in the vein of a Brontë or Joyce?

I think I hate AI-bros more than MAGAs at this point (Though there’s a good amount of overlap)

Real talk: I think the 2020s are objectively the worst time to be alive since at least the 80s. Everything about society, politics, culture, living standards, is genuinely worse.

OpenAI ad has an incorrectly set up chess board in it.

I’m gonna be a curmudgeon about the NBA again: There’s no excuse for Detroit’s arena to be 90% empty at the end of this game. Idc that it’s a blowout. Show a tiny bit of support for your team having its best season in 20 years.

This is the first story I tell all my English students

Checking in on the bad place

The existence of a Pop Culture Jeopardy is a sign of civilizational decline

If there was a single-issue “shrink cars by 10% and force half of white cars to be repainted a new color” party, I’d vote for them

The prettiest women come from France, Ireland, Iran, Russia, and Korea. CMV

Anti-Gen X Bluesky algorithm filter when

British people are constantly trying to weasel out of responsibility for their part in slavery and colonialism with this weak ass shit about how they stopped slavery a couple years before the US. This timeline is meaningless in the context of history. You don’t get a cookie for this.

I think the hot take I was the most right on was “We have 10 years after 2020 to ban gerrymandering or else it’ll ruin American democracy”

Studied a particular chess opening to beat a coworker and it paid off.

Why am I seeing the phrase “intellectual labor” in year of our lord 2026. Is… is Bluesky just Tumblr?

Hr hond alanie

A) Romeo’s age is unspecified B) It’s unambiguously a tragedy and not a romance C) The fact that six people died over nonsense is the whole point

Hard-carried my trivia team to victory can I get a pog in the chat

I finished Persuasion, and with it the last of my unread Jane Austen novels. It’s by far the most romantic and yearning of her books. I also finally found my Austen character counterpart in Cpt Wentworth. Emma is untouchably my favorite, but this is a clear second.

This was one of my favorite days on Twitter. It was a fascinating back and forth. The smug game theorist take does land on red being optimal, but I think blue remains morally correct in a large sample size.

For some reason Bluesky seems to think me blocking AI “art” accounts on sight means I’m interacting and want to see more of them.

I do think we’re at that point where Dems should sacrifice democratic institutions to defend liberalism, but we gotta be clear that that’s what this is: There is nothing pro-democracy in it.

Convinced no one actually listens to sombr. I think he’s popular only in the sense that Imagine Dragons is popular.

Aw man I’ve been using the toilet wrong this whole time

Mandatory vaccinations is like, literally the first thing the US Army did in its existence. Washington did it 251 years ago.

What if JD Vance thinks “Just War Doctrine” means like, “ONLY War Doctrine”

THE ROOK

Talpra magyar, hí a haza! Itt az idő, most vagy soha! Rabok legyünk vagy szabadok? Ez a kérdés, válasszatok! – A magyarok istenére Esküszünk, Esküszünk, hogy rabok tovább Nem leszünk!

Martin Luther must pay for this

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

TIL Lafayette, Louisiana has a banger flag

I know it’s not remotely feasible but I think in my ideal society, American/Canadian children grow up learning a local indigenous language to at least a conversational level

Working on a coffee-beer x morning-nightlife quadrant theory of LibSoc city enjoyment The more coffee a city consumes relative to beer, and the more active it is in mornings rather than night, the more likely I am to enjoy it

Was told earlier “oh it’s not going to be too bad, only -6°.” Took me a second to realize they meant Celsius. This is proof of Fahrenheit supremacy. Negative temps should not be “not too bad” level cold. They should be “stay the fuck inside” cold.

Have scientists figured out why restaurant water tastes so much better than tap or bottled water

My moderate and calm position is that any justice that votes against birthright citizenship should immediately face impeachment

The Victoire are IN 🗣️ The @victoire-lphf.bsky.social have secured their spot in the 2026 PWHL Walter Cup Playoffs presented by SharkNinja! La @victoire-lphf.bsky.social a confirmé sa place dans les Séries éliminatoires de la Coupe Walter 2026 de la LPHF!

Over levels approaching maximum. Copium supply critical.

Women’s hockey has a couple teams with S-tier jerseys

If I had a nickel for every time a girl I really liked ghosted me a week before I was supposed to fly north to see the A's play during my Spring Break, I'd have two nickels.

“March” Madness being mostly an April event is just another example in a long line of examples of the woke liberal media lying to you

Ok so just so we’re clear: “Cooked” as in “done,” “doomed,” “washed up” etc has been slang for a very long time. Gen Z merely has revived it “Cooked” as in “made something work” is new to Gen Z.

The USA can still win the WBC if Mike Pence has the courage

taco bell bean burrito with rice, grilled, is a top tier fast food item

Caesar dood wat nu?

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

The goat is back

Local man wistfully thinking about the Discourse that would be occurring on his small political subreddit today

I can’t fucking believe the history books will record the action that took down one of the most brutal despots of the 21st century as “Operation Epic Fury”

Lowkirkenuinely might be the world’s GOAT flaggle player