29 years ago today, Homer Simpson had an epic chili pepper-induced hallucination. “El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer” first aired January 5, 1997. Most of the sequence was animated completely by David Silverman as he wanted it to look exactly as he had imagined it.

Fuck yes. I win

It's been a rough week for people who believe that historical events have explicable causes.

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

We have first amendment rights which means three years from now a judge will say “Hey. You shouldn’t have done that”

I will be governing your country remotely via shitposting and late night threats on social media. If you don’t do what I say, I will blockade, bomb and eventually starve you. This is called freedom

grok, i need you to put this pillar of salt in a bikini

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job

Just opened twitter for 30 seconds and saw: - The White House tweeting a picture of Maduro blindfolded on the USS Iwo Jima - someone replying and telling grok to put Maduro in a bikini Grok replying with the same picture of Maduro, but in a bikini What the fuck

i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized

damn who could have imagined that a commander-in-chief unilaterally using military force against another sovereign state with no consequences could have gone this way

it's about oil (superstructure), not oil (base), to put it in marxo terms

Stop saying that all Schumer and Jeffries ever do is write strongly worded letters. Bullshit. They're not strongly worded at all.

Imagine someone illegally abducting your nation’s leader and taking them away. Must be nice.

The American people are desperate for one single institution that will take a fucking stand for something

Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning

Fan cam doctrine

It's incredible that these people STILL haven't learned. "Surely my tongue will give The Sunken Eyed Death King's boots the shine he craves"

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

Trump has been haunted by the need to make imperialism look as swagged out as Obama did

I wish for the proper procedures of federal law to be carried out regarding the president.

going to call my senators back and tell them to put the child porno machine on the back burner for now and focus on the undeclared war of aggression

Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.

Polymarket must be destroyed.

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

The members who did the "don't follow illegal orders" video absolutely need to immediately do a "hey these were the illegal orders we were talking about and participating in them can expect to face consequences to the fullest extent of the law" video

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

This is the sort of thing you do in a B grade buggy grand strategy game when you get bored

browsing the internet used to feel like you were uncovering hidden new zones and getting rid of fog of war now it’s like a bunch of cannibal maniacs are chasing after you with crossbows trying to roast you alive

if i stop using twitter where will i hear from 25 year old failed artists turned religious conservative influencers who consider themselves countercultural and live in manhattan on their parents' dime

if you wanna argue that the background radiation of culture normalises a fascist worldview in incurious citizens who benefit from neo-imperial structures then ok. but you look very silly if you only do this for other countries. are you still voting democrat even after they backed a genocide?

Typical Bluesky only focusing on Grokist extremists instead of the moderates that make up mainstream Grokism

everyone's parents: You will get more conservative as you age me at 46: legalize all drugs, abolish prison for all nonviolent offenses, and force the politicians with the lowest approval rating to participate in The Running Man once a month

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

year of the horse

It sounds like comically specific hyperbole but it is verifiably true that in the same year Elon Musk predicted fully autonomous taxis serving half the nation, what actually happened was his chatbot became a pedophile

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

Is this Abundance?

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This is such a cool Easter egg