TV writer, big fan of dogs and the Detroit Lions
277 followers 1,692 following 497 posts
view profile on Bluesky 
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
9:18 left in the 4th Q and Rece Davis is like “TCU better watch out for the rematch next year.”
💯💯💯💯
Ashamed to admit that I have been a pencil-behind-the-ear guy for decades. I might need to stop.
Never a good sign for us normals when an NBA All Star gives the “everybody clear out” motion.
bluesky is finally posting about cfb and I would just like to say thank christ
More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.
It was both funny and sad when she sketched out her Josh Shapiro fan fiction… which turned out to be nothing more than Shapiro sending Netanyahu a strongly worded letter two years from now. Dream big, Sarah.
The norms! Won’t someone please think of the previous norms!
Update: it got funny again
1,000,000% this.
Death of Stalin type shit.
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
The Framers made arguably one major mistake: They believed the legislative branch would jealously guard its power. They could not have fathomed that the legislative branch (Out of laziness, raw partisanship and a desire to keep their sinecures) would willingly surrender its power.
I spent a quarter century being lectured by libertarians and republicans about how minimal government oversight of large companies was radical socialism and if you mentioned nationalizing stuff like telecom for the public good they'd have a six week embolism
So it's kind of like what they think of as socialism, but like, maybe, a national kind?
Government by drunk Thanksgiving uncle
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
Bahhhhhhhh-haha! Bravo.
1. Entering the daycare without a warrant 2. Chasing the child through a playset 3. Burglary of daycare 4. Dragging away old lady
I’m not sure there’s a way back to civilization for adults who’s moral compass allows them watch a little girl, shackled at the wrists and ankles, limp up the stairs to Prison Airways and not quit on the spot. “Guys I’m not doing this.” And you walk away. That’s the only acceptable human reaction.
People who are like “I bought my Tesla before Elon turned evil” forget that in 2018 he called a guy who helped rescue those Thai kids stuck in a cave a “pedo” because the guy rightly said the mini-sub Musk sent was useless for the mission. Keep that in mind when reading this thread.
just thinking about it makes me so angry. the worst kind of open race baiting in american politics since george wallace.
You’re not missing much.
I believe you.
Bahhhh-hahaha… Never change, humorless, scoldy Bluesky. Never change.
With deepest respect, the fact that “a lot of people study satire in school” is one of the reasons “I studied satire in college” is not the flex he thinks it is.
I didn’t make the picture. I simply looked at it and thought, “Ha. That’s funny.” And, yes, you are correct: By chuckling internally at an AI image I am “acting exactly like” people who are enabling a facist takeover of our country. Those are definitely the same thing.
💯💯💯💯
I’m actually at work rn but if I did show this to my kids I’m certain they’d be like “Ha! Yeah, it’s like those stupid Trump trucks” and move on with their lives, as normals do.
Oh, you noticed! You must have studied big words in college.
I guess if we all want to triple-down on pedantry, I’d say: “The two heretofore mentioned scribes made the error of conflating ‘satire’ with ‘effective satire.’”
Pretty sure it was the two people who offered their experience either teaching or studying satire in college as an attempt to, as I said “prove, academically” that something is not funny.
Jeeeeeeesus Christ. I always rolled my eyes at the notion that Bluesky is filled with humorless scolds. But this thread is… somethin’ else, man.
Ha-ha! Now THAT’s funny. Good one!
I actually studied reading in college, so… pretty sure I know what I’m talking about.
Or they just don’t think it’s funny? Different people find different things funny. But the notion that one can “prove”, academically, that something is or is not funny is nonsense.
Got it. It’s only satire if it comes from the Satìrie region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling jokes.
I, like everyone else here, is simply telling you how impressed we are that you completed an Advanced Certificate Program in The Historical Roots Of Satire In The Modern Age.
HE STUDIED SATIRE IN COLLEGE, SIR!
I’m seeing some people say this is funny. I’m seeing other people say it’s not. I have only seen one person use their minor in Satirical Studies to try to “prove” that it is not funny.
“Ha! That’s funny.” “No it’s not and here’s my college degree that proves it.” Super normal.
Because those dastardly Mexicans could never possibly come up with a counter strategy as brilliant as… gloves.
With deepest respect, “I studied satire in college” may not be the flex you think it is.
Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.
As an anthropologist, I'm inclined to try to understand stuff that looks like magical thinking rather than mock it, but proposing to build a God and then expecting him to tell you how to get rich is really testing all of my professional training...
Yeah man what kind of dumb country takes on a nation ten times its size to assert its independence?
This is an all-time “Let me stop you right there.” One more data point for the “we are being ruled by the dumbest people alive” hypothesis.
Holy shit, this. I’m not going to pretend like I’m an expert on economics, but man that claim just does not pass the smell test for me. Later on, Calacanis even claims that more M&A’s will somehow “produce the next Apple.” WTAF?
Ladies and gentlemen, the capitalism Jason Calacanis YEARNS for: @timmiller.bsky.social www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...
JC: “Yeah, Tim, I don’t support this kind of thing at all.” Tim: “But you won’t say that to Trump’s face.” JC: (Laughs) Tim: “And you’re going to make business decisions to ensure your companies are on this list.” JC: “I’m just playing the game on the field!”
Spoiler alert: It never gets better.
(Long pause) “I can’t see into the man’s heart…” So good. Especially b/c earlier he “casually” mentioned that as an “angel investor” (wanking motion) he “invests in founders, in people” or whatever. Sounds like you’re in the business of “reading hearts” dickweed. Why can’t you do it w/ Trump?
I know what you mean, but to me the fascinating thing about this interview is that Calacanis makes no attempt to mask anything. He just cheerfully mentions that Trump is doing well because the stock market hasn’t crashed and Lina Khan can’t be mean to his friends anymore.
“Wellllll, Tim Cook is just ‘playing the game on the field’ when he publicly bribes Trump. And remember, Tim, Biden wouldn’t even LET any of us bribe him — not even in private!”
Re: #1 — 100% true and YET HE KEEPS CALLING HIMSELF A CAPITALIST. “Rigged markets are fine… provided of course that my friends and I can afford the bribe.” As my kids say, we’re cooked, chat.
Ahhhhh-hahaha… yeah, this one was not super zen.
listening to the dumbest dudes at the gym swear Obama was going to take over the country with the national park police for eight years and then seeing this is some amazing whiplash for me
Same! I listened while I was going for a run and I must have looked like an insane person. Randomly throwing up my hands in exasperation and yelling “Oh come ON!” every five minutes while normal people just out for a walk sliiiiiide away from me.
“Dahmer was desperate for human connection, Tim. All the cannibalism stuff was just performative.”
I actually don’t think Calacanis is a grifter. I believe Tim when he said at the beginning that he believes JC argues his positions in good faith. That’s why JC doesn’t bother hide anything. He *really believes* that America is fine as long as tech oligarchs are doing well and he just… says it.
He was so breezily stoked about the imminent arrival of human-free Amazon delivery. Once the government helps us use AI to eliminate both entry- and mid-level jobs, Tim, just think of how marginally cheaper goods will become!
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
OMG, I listened to Andreessen’s appearance on the Rogan podcast at the behest of a Trump-y relative. The full 2.5 hours or whatever. You’re correct. It’s the same nonsense right down to openly complaining that the Biden administration wouldn’t let tech oligarchs bribe them.
Yes! At first I was like “Yell more, Tim!” But I think the reaction to JC happily confirming every possible criticism of tech oligarchs is more revealing.
I don’t disagree with your take on Tim’s level of pushback. In the moment I was like “START YELLING AT HIM, DAMNIT.” But Tim sorta ended up giving JC enough rope to hang himself. Over and over and over again. To the point that JC cheerfully admits to being a lefty fever dream version of himself.
“Hey, could you guys just go back to being the Unabomber?”
The most “Burn It All Down” moment for me might be when he cheerfully excuses Trump making the tech industry bribe him because, essentially, tech oligarchs can afford to pay bribes. His whole position can be boiled down to “Unlike Biden, Trump lets us bribe him. Therefore, he is good.”
Did you watch the video? I just listened to the audio version and I had a similar reaction to yours at first. But if you watch some of the video clips I think it’s more clear that JC is reeeeeeeally uncomfortable and Tim is laughing at him the whole time.
There are too many Tim Robinson Focus Group sketch “He admits it!” moments to count. Crying that Lina Khan made it marginally more difficult for him and his tech oligarch buddies to run their galaxy-sized Ponzi schemes was one of them.
His tone is “I’m a reasonable guy!” but he doesn’t even try to hide that he only thinks Trump is doing a good job because Trump is good for him and his tech oligarch pals. “Tim, Trump is good *for me and my billionaire friends*. What about that don’t you understand?”
JC: “… I actually hate politics.” Tim, giggling, “You sure spend a lot of time talking about it.” JC, “Uhhhhhhh, uhhh, I have to. Because (something something both sides bad).”
He’s mad the Biden admin wouldn’t let him and his buddies bribe them! And he just says it! Out loud!
I’m telling you, there is something about this episode and the things Jason Calacanis says in it that are an accelerant for a Popular Reconstructionist movement. @jamellebouie.net , @aoc.bsky.social , take note. There’s something here.
The smug ignorance. The hubris. The shortsightedness. The sneering contempt for any previous attempt to level the playing field. The breezy excuses for Techno-State Capitalism. All while telling himself that he’s a “moderate.”
One of the few good things social media has done is expose the malignant vacuousness of Silicon Valley types. Listening to Jason Calacanis on @timmiller.bsky.social ‘s podcast will awaken your inner Lenin, whether you think you have one or not. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Many times the sandwich is a set of stairs. “Where else can you get an 8-inch pile of sliced meat between two thin, dry pieces of bread?!” “Uh, nowhere? ‘Cause that’s bad?”
Do we? In my experience the NY - LA “rivalry” resembles the Mad Men meme. We don’t think about you at all.
Making America Healthy Again!
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being
"IT'S ALL FOR YOU, ELON!"
Kids used to have to change entire school districts to escape rumors about them that were vastly less embarrassing than the shit these dweebs freely admit to all the time
As a lifelong fan of the Detroit Pistons, I’d like to congratulate UCONN legend Geno Auriemma for this, the dumbest take from the dumbest article yet written about Caitlin Clark.
Biden was asked to stand down from office for much less.
Shout out to rescue dogs with extremely human names. Like Charlene, pictured here.
Flexing about tariff on fentanyl is wild.
The credit card. Didn’t even see it at first.
This is fantastic.
Can confirm.
Everyone who thinks it’s possible to both sides the current political climate needs to read this thread.
seeing a lot of discourse on things like moralistic views of cheating and public shaming and I think we're losing sight of the main point here: a CEO is sad and that's fun.
✊
Excuse me, but she’s the “Chief People Officer.” She didn’t spend six years in “How To Fire People” school to be disrespected like that.
I’m neither a theologian nor a historian, but it seems to me that these developments are localized to Evangelical Christianity in the US.
Gah! “Practiced.” Not “preceded.”
I think it’s time people realize that Evangelical Christianity is in a state of de facto schism with Christianity as it has been traditionally understood and preceded.
Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...
