I love the *idea* of late night shows
I love the *idea* of late night shows
me: i think with most things, if you look at it on a case-by-case basis, you'll find that especially these days it ends up being this whole issue where you have to sort of look at it through a lens of, hey, you know when it comes to this thing by its very nature isaac chotiner: i completely agree
the yes-men he surrounds himself with won't tell him the truth about that mustache
I would like the Philadelphia Phillies to sweep their remaining 6 regular season games
I am recognized as an expert is several areas and as a crank in several more
the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.
Black Flag is looking good these days
I have seen What Is It? and It Is Fine presented by CHG himself, might see if I can make this one too www.crispinglover.com/newfilm.htmljh
Thank you for contacting the National Population Control Board! Your genuinely striking email doesn't just help us do our job — it also shows that you're a genuine and talented citizen. Unfortunately, we've still got you scheduled for culling on March 4, 2031. Let's delve into the reasons why:
the trouble I have with cancelling Disney+ is that I've somehow had it free for like 5 years
ikea bags are strong enough to move books
from an old newsletter
#SundaySwinginSeventiesLogos: Minnesota Goofy's, 1977 #APSPL (American Professional Slo-Pitch League) Softball.
Captain Obvious Cinematic Universe
*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.
What is Make it With You by Bread?
use the tools they left behind to dismantle them
NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...
Btw very important to say that the FCC has not at all said what Kimmel said that was so objectionable! This is classic chilling effect - there are no rules so everyone stops talking www.theverge.com/news/780471/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T6e...
Hot dog, jumping frog, Albuquerque
Jimmy Kimmel should recreate this iconic photo
Trump is becoming increasingly brazen in his abuse of government power to silence his critics—in part because too many of the powerful institutions that could stand up to this thuggery are capitulating instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
rather than being independent sources of power, large institutions are all entwined with the state
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Nexstar is currently awaiting approval from the FCC and FTC on a $6.2 Billion acquisition of TEGNA.
This is extortion and censorship. Brendan Carr is turning into a mob boss: “the easy way or the hard way,” really? What about the American way? The constitutional way? Shame on ABC for capitulating and on Nexstar for greedily aiding and abetting this farce.
ah, well
what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people
i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
my feelings on this album are: It rules
Restoring proper government after Trump would be a multi-step process. For example we need to ultimately have real limits on Presidential removal power. Independent agencies are good, diluting the power of the executive is good. But first, we gotta fire a bunch of people
These “save western civilization” people are all such uneducated morons, by their own professed standards! They haven’t read great books. Shit music taste. No artistic sense. Ugly prose, dull speeches
Happy to say that Tailscale is good
Sad to say that Jellyfin (open source Plex alternative) still stinks
They're trying to rig the election and get rid of Ossoff. Get rid of absentee and early voting and then whoops Fulton County doesn't have enough machines on election day and the lines are 7 hours long. Old playbook but it works
being a “legendary session musician” in some ways has a lot more credibility than being in a great band
JD Vance wants to go after the Ford Foundation, eh? Interestingly, the Ford Foundation has long been in the crosshairs of the American far right for their supposed funding of "hateful, radical left, anti-white propaganda." Here's an example of that talk from the 1955 edition of The White Sentinel.
Trump II was already, even before this, the biggest systematic assault by an administration on First Amendment rights since at least World War I, easily surpassing the 50s Red Scare, and the only plausible rival for going after mainstream political opposition would be the Alien & Sedition Acts.
sawdust works
cool. it is impossible to edit a legal brief on iPad and web Word by the way due to the lack of a Table of Authorities feature. In fact you can ruin a document with a TOA if you try to. But good job adding the useless shit www.theverge.com/news/778272/...
my favorite thing is that the physical "on" switch physically moves to the off position when the warming plate turns off. it's not some scrub switch where the only indication is an LED
"You took his racist statement out of context!" and the context is just, he is just offering various reasons as to why he has racist views (which your interlocutor likely agrees with)
there are also better concert earplugs now.
pitch clock
There's a whole ecosystem of scammers trying to scam people who have just been scammed
5 guys at the desk for halftime commentary. we just don’t need to hear that many points of view
20 minutes and this podcast is still doing introductory material, throat-cleaning, “housekeeping” and shit.
This has been the Supreme Court in a nutshell: where clear and immediate harm has been done by Trump to others, they delay and prevaricate, siding with Trump. Even if later deemed to be illegal, the damage is already done and Trump gets his way.
CARTOON/BILLCAT.GIF
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
You would assume "Jac" is short for Giacomo or something but nope, it's Jeffrey Alan Caglianone. Jeffrey Alan "Jeffrey Alan Caglianone" Caglianone
CARTOON/BARTSSCL.GIF
the David Bowie café only serves peppers, milk, and cocaine
Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.
recursive name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jac_Cag...
there should be a way of annotating a baseball game that is much more granular than a scorecard. some kind of dance notation
in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
incredible
Apple should make an all-metal phone. Metal front--no display
#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
everyone likes the 80s Eagles kelly green color better. Everyone!
The worst thing about post-modern irony and internet culture is how nobody takes shit like this seriously any more, because nobody wants to be the person successful provoked by the troll
(severely condescending tone) Umm let me explain something to you sweetie: [objectively the wrongest information you've ever heard]
More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...
This is almost comically on point for Umberto Eco’s 3rd characteristic of fascism: the cult of action for action’s sake.
Starlink should be required to fund a bunch of space telescopes to counter this. Perhaps a giant one on the far side of the moon, idk
Really great article by @nelsonaguilar.bsky.social on the conspiracy theory that refuses to die: your phone isn’t really listening to you all the time, that’s just predictive ad targeting. www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Him too though he went by “Jay” not “J.W.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Por...
Nice. One of those guys with initial names, that don’t stand for anything en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U._L._W...
The Supreme Court on day one of the imperial Democrat presidency
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Using a field of half-C sprats, and brass-fitted nickel slits, our bracketed caps, and splay-flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spurve plinths. How? Well, we bolster twelve husk nuts to each girldle-jerry
The Bangles called Sting “Stink” because they stayed at the same place as him for a while, and he smelled bad
Read our statement below from @mrose.ink: publicknowledge.org/public-knowl...
Today, @publicknowledge.bsky.social filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in Cox v. Sony, arguing that broadband providers should not be liable for continuing to provide service to users, & should not be forced to disconnect their customers based on sole accusations of copyright infringement.
I guess I’d rather get an actual $1.5B than an un-collectable 89 gojillion
can't even take ayahuasca www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
the whole thing was even more Philly than having Boyz II Men sing the anthem
BMX racing should be more popular than Formula One
when I was a kid we had online “handles”
E A L G E S
go birbs
eagles / women’s semi-finals
excellent variety.com/2025/music/n...
the Phillies need to get rid of either David Robertson or Daniel Robert. too confusing.
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
wow thank you hero of "little tech." why has no one ever though to use ubiquitous surveillance to "fight crime." what could go wrong? if you're innocent you have nothing to worry about (which he also says)
records and books, which are mostly what I ever buy from overseas, are supposed to be exempt from the new tariffs, but my Autechre pre-order is being delayed anyway. I'll live
a good starting point is Omnium Gatherum because that album spans lots of genres. otherwise they have the metal albums, the classic rock albums, etc
