If what you wrote is a fair representation of what you think, then here is an open invitation to reach out to me over email. We can even talk on the phone if you’d like. There is no reason to not be adults here. But do not fabricate positions, attribute them to me, and then hide when I notice.

Broke: Genesis Woke: abiogenesis

"It is not enough to wear the mantle of Galileo: that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment. You must also be right." - Robert Park

Somehow people who found the goals of the “Tea Party” crystal clear just can’t wrap their heads around what “No Kings” is getting at.

It is deranged that when I leave a restaurant, they thank me for my patronage instead of expecting me to thank them for the food.

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Convo I had with a coworker's little kid when I was pre-HRT. Her: "Are you a boy or a girl?" Me: "a girl" Her: "why do you look like a boy? Me: "just happens sometimes" Her: "oh 🤔 ok! Oooh a doggy" Chid runs off the play with the dog, who is way more interesting than me.

In a surprise to no one but the stupid, the American far-right doesn’t look anything like some gentile idea of traditional virtues or discipline, it looks like the crassest, most volatile people alive acting like the guys who get thrown out of the country for getting smashed and trashing the place.

he posted an AI video of himself flying a King Trump plane and dumping shit on the protests that’s the bare bones factual description of what happened, no editorializing involved publishing that is the absolute bare minimum if you want to call yourself the news

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

oh yeah!

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

shohei's 10 strikeouts and moonshot home run distances were really just for style points. short of pitching a complete game he completely maxed out all channels through which he could deliver objective value, so he poured his leftover brilliance into knocking out side quests. it seems impossible

Welcome to Dorktown Mayor, Shohei Ohtani

A really interesting, fundamental conceit of all these AI enthusiasts is that the ideas they have are great and all they need is this magic box to execute them. As pedestrian as these people‘s brains are for anything except self aggrandizement, I kind of doubt that’s what’s holding them back.

important to recognize we are currently watching the greatest baseball player who ever lived smack in the middle of his prime and we should enjoy every second of it there have been people who are better at hitting and people who are better at pitching but not together, not like this

Shohei Ohtani pitched 6 scoreless innings allowing only 2 hits and struck out 10 batters and hit 3 home runs as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 to complete the sweep and advance to the World Series. No one has ever seen anything like this before.

Free video game pitch for anyone who wants: S.T.A.L.K.E.R-like set in the ruins of NYC, abandoned for reasons unknown. You make your way through the anomalies to find the source, which you discover is an old fire station. In the garage, you find a dilapidated hearse with the license plate "ECTO-1".

I think Bill Murray even makes a joke about how theyre carrying around unlicensed particle accelerators as backpacks, like this shit is hideously dangerous

Sometimes I think back and realize Pencil Dick was right. It was incredibly irresponsible for them to build that shit in the middle of Manhattan. Pretty sure the fire house containment system was nuclear powered or some shit.

when i was a kid i wanted one of those ghost traps so badly. relatedly, one big problem with ghostbusters as a franchise is that it has gotten entirely too far away from “these guys are low-key shady exterminators”

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

All my Apes Gone like Tears in the Rain

Back when posting was good

oh we're gonna *lose* lose the next big war

Eric Trump admits that Indonesian President Subianto was caught on a hot mic talking with his dad about Trump family business deals in Indonesia (so much for the supposed firewall between Trump's business and the federal government ... )

It's telling how someone can comment, "I'm sorry, but I don't trust Jews! I'm not an antisemite and I love my Jewish friends, but Jews have proven over and over they can't be trusted" and still think they're not doing antisemitism. Y'all, that's antisemitism 101, "the perfidious Jew." /3

in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest

"we couldn't make it as smart as a phd, so we made it as slutty as a phd candidate"

Coworker: "America? Broken? Oh, I don't know if I'd go that far." Me, sitting back and opening a candy bar: "Okay. What's working?" Coworker: (stares in silence, filled with increasing dread)

I love normie bluesky because it consists entirely of this unsettling form of post-online normie that is in fact clearly mutated and unhealthy, like a heavily breathing garden toad that's sprouted a nature-is-telling-you-it's-toxic fluorescent neck frill

It’s perversely funny that he literally talks about “small, mom-and-pop lenders” as if that’s a thing, and that thing is not called loansharking.

the hell in which american jewry is now trapped — everything is antisemitism except actual antisemitism

Vaxxed?

Not kidding when I say it appears they were trying to brainstorm what the opposite of "no taxation without representation" would be and this clunky dogshit is the best they could come up with

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

Pet peeve: when stories say "present day" to establish what year they're set in. Tell me a specific year, or at least a decade. Otherwise you'll just look extremely stupid in ten years.

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

Godzilla Minus (M)On(ro)e

Everybody's all -pilled this and -maxxing that But try to combine the two and suddenly it's "Andrew, this is an intervention."

Every once in a while I remember how fucking old Jericho is and it makes me want to lie down.

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

One of the silent pain points of the moment is that so few people are who they think they are.

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

*cough*

כן מלאכים לא מלכים

Sam Altman, crawling right up to the edge of saying "AI will never do anything that can really be considered actual productive work" and staring at it with perpetually wet, unseeing eyes. And then mumbling "all the poors *might* have to die" before shedding his skin and swallowing it like a toad.