You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

The actual Riyadh Comedy Festival

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

There are people in this country who want to see state violence perpetrated against their perceived enemies and they will barely put forth an effort to come up with a "reasonable" justification. They are a minority who just happen to be overrepresented in the federal government

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

god i wish Joe Strummer was still alive and healthy

Me daydreaming about a Nuremberg

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen. Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.

You don’t have to want kids or even enjoy being around them. But it’s also worth unpacking why kids simply existing, learning, or having unmet needs reads as “annoying,” “unlikeable,” or “bad behavior.” This collective discomfort with noise, need, & vulnerability is why many ADULTS are struggling.

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

the cgi on the stranger things finale sure is something

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

In memory Shane MacGowan 💔 December 25, 1957 - November 30, 2023 The Pogues singing 'Dirty Old Town' drunk in a pub #punk #punks #punkrock #CelticPunk #folkpunk #ThePogues #ShaneMacGowan #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Who are the people the powerful and rich are telling you to be afraid of? Those are the people you should be fighting for, and with.

We’ll probably never again see such a casual, celebratory, & memorable gathering of Jim Henson’s family of characters as is found in 1987’s A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS…

You will be visited by 3 spirits

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit

Isn't that remarkable? Simple oil of cloves, and how amazing the results. Life can be that simple: Relief; discomfort. Now which of these I next apply? That decision is in your hands. So: take your time, and tell me — is it cake?

I'm at the combination

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The Grinch is breaking his silence in his first-ever interview, exclusively on The Guy Who Got Fired From Mumford & Sons Because Of Woke’s podcast

Tom Stoppard, the ingenious Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose gift for wordplay led him to a record five Tony Awards for best play, the first for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the last for Leopoldstadt, and an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, has died. He was 88.

Obligatory post.

This is the way.

One of the best to ever do it.

Oh wow! UK to ban resale of tickets above face value for live events

John Fogerty booking a flight: put me in coach

Everyone, young and old, deserves an Aussie treat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Exit Clown.]

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

a dad joke without a pun is a huge faux pa

Yeah my biggest question of this year is, if this is how the right reacts to a 45 minute work DEI training they didn't care for, how on earth do they expect the left to react to this?

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

so I gather this is a lot of people's first middle east cease fire.

How do I get the algorithm to not show me resistance lib boomer cringe?

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

This is the lesson of 2025

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

On this day in 1984, #ThisMortalCoil released their debut album "It'll End In Tears". Technically classed as a band, This Mortal Coil was a loose collection of artists on the legendary #4AD label, coordinated by founder #IvoWattsRussell.

High quality journalism is paywalled, right wing propaganda is funded by cunts and free

Yesterday The Intercept posted the piece I wrote for them to X. That account has 800K followers. As of now, the post has 5,500 impressions, 8 likes, and the only reply includes a Pepe the Frog image and the n-word. So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.