Today in No Thanks: I appreciate the offer but I will respectfully decline
Middle-aged union member and newspaper subscriber. I Don't Even Own a Television was a good podcast: I don't have the files, if you want them, try the Facebook group.
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Today in No Thanks: I appreciate the offer but I will respectfully decline
Oh I see some of us are discovering the 1. Post something provactive 2. Quote-skeet a nobody who got provoked 3. Lecture-whine about it 4. Act aggrieved cycle.
This is why Isaac Chotiner gets treated like Socrates for asking basic follow-up questions
Lex Luthor is a mean man.
this is the ur- falsehood of our political era and everything from "schools shouldn't have locked down during covid" to "trans women in sports is a national crisis" are downstream of it and the through line of all of them is national media's willfull ignorance and complicity
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
The words "attempts to destroy or maintain or rebuild " are far more abstract than "democracy is under threat".
That's funny, because I didn't know who he was and kept guessing he was William Hurt's son!
I keep thinking about the church sign I saw in Pennsylvania: Too hot to change sign Jesus good Sin bad Services Sunday
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
watching a random movie on netflix: unpleasant, disappointing watching a random movie on tubi: extraordinary, a blessing
This Lex Luthor had to work twice as hard to get where he was, and you could tell the Superman hate was coming from a place of *deep* resentment.
Didn't you think that on the trail? I feel like I can't put one foot in front of the other for more than like 16 consecutive minutes without being like, "I really should get back to that idea about President Sniper going after his enemies in the Senate".
Also, I won't turn it down!
what did Mankey do to deserve this @thejenna.bsky.social
Sometimes you fix the toilet, and sometimes the toilet fixes you.
Super good record -- immediate picks to click for me were Half Plastic and Black Sand, but I'll have half a dozen other favorites over the next couple months for sure. ganser.bandcamp.com/album/animal...
*politely* and also with you
I have a Ted Leo flex as well, which is that during a lull the last time he played SF, he was musing over what to play next, I helpfully yelled "Rainbow in the Dark", he played a couple bars, sang the first line, then cracked up and said, "I'm not playing that" hahahah
Now THIS is a concert flex!
*very quietly* does anybody have a concert flex that took place at an actually good show
Some friends asked me how I could immediately recognise an image as AI, and we're going to have to bring back the phrase "I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time"
Grimes fans in shambles
Just in time for Labour Day, our list of stories depicting labour unions in science fiction and fantasy has reached 250 entries. Thanks to @joachimboaz.bsky.social for all the help on this. List as HTML: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga... List as Google Doc: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 1/
It's second, after When the Music's Over, right?
*sits bolt upright* You guys I think a pop star might be suggesting they engage in sexual behavior
Watch Decline 2 and you'll see what I mean!
It's frankly the only sport where instant replay review makes sense.
I have been calling for a second referee for decades now. It would really clear up a lot of problems, in my opinion!
*hurries up to you* Tom Hollander was born to play Ozzy Osborne
I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.
Wow I can't believe Zaslav and Dolan fuck four times in the new Wizard of Oz movie. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Perfect movie.
Hi, would you mind subsidizing our data center so we can put you out of work forever?
Fedex is effectively a middleman that makes shipping something via the postal service 8 to 10 days slower.
I can’t even get those slackers to join the workforce.
No, friend, I'm afraid that wasn't the typo they made.
Yeah, I preordered mine already -- WORLD'S WORST LOVERB I got a great deal on it because of the typo.
I'mn't so sure about this...
Has anybody put "I died, bitch" on their tombstone?
This is absolutely what is happening -- as part of my work, we've been doing events across the country and people are scared and angry and worried and pissed the fuck off. Instead of reflecting that, the pundits and entrenched beltway figures have made up a guy to represent.
one thing i've taken away from surveys asking the public to evaluate trump's most authoritarian moves is that the ordinary americans have a much clearer sense of what's happening than most professional political observers
the jesus and maruchan
almost had it
This sport is called Sepak Takraw if you instantly became a huge fan, like me
ahahhahahahqhq fuck dude you may be the only person I know who has seen that I uh used to own the DVD
That's not the kind of Zippo they were using on the show!
I have such delights to show you... (This show is needle-drop heavy, like one notch more subtle than Yellowjackets, aimed directly at 46-year-old souls).
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
A normal Bic -- Zippos burn less hot, and you get a lot of the lighter fluid in there if you inhale with the flame still on that thang!
God damn it I typoed his name, I'm an asshole, he's a good director / writer / artist and I'm an asshole. Sorry, bud.
I thought it sounded ESPECIALLY good when you said my hair looked nice today.
For a start, yeah.
How quickly would current Dem leadership rush to bipartisanship/unity, accepting most of what's going on as the new status quo, if there was a change in the WH right now? Not that we want to watch that right hand necrotize for the next 16 months but we need a primary and election to get real change.
Well, the closer you are to that product, the harder that becomes.
Likes: All the actors, the pacing, the pretty colors, the general Marling / Batmanglji *thing*. Dislikes: Characters toking the ganj with a Zippo; that thing where a character drops a bike in the yard at night. Not quite sure yet: Retro tech.
No, friend. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
So I've started watching A Murder at the End of the World, and I would like to nominate Clive Owen for the Dakota Johnson Madame Web Award for Playing a Character Who Hates the Story They Are In.
Does anybody remember when IHOP rebranded?
I mean just at me next time lol
(going to hell and starting to freak out) okay, okay. five things i can see. the devil,
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
we know why
Uncanny X-Men #178: Cyclops mails Xavier a post-coital honeymoon photo like it's the most normal thing in the world.
I believe the technical term for this is "a boo boo"
Can't even build death star anymore, because of ewok
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
Isaac Asimov was an important writer; he was not a good writer; he is not an important writer anymore.
it’s late enough that i can post a take that will make people mad, which is that the foundation series of books is not very good
I'm sorry this happened to you, Josh!
Are there still film bros weepily insisting like Michael Bay and Zack Snyder are somehow good at making movies?
No! No!!
Happy retirement to Tyson Barrie. At his best he was extremely good.
Really had to hunt this one down /cc @dcpierson.bsky.social Reskeet with a tweet you still think about
Benjamin Franklin: huzzah the Time Machine worked, tell me good sir, what have you made of our glorious lamp of liberty Guy wearing confederate flag thong: i fukkin hate woke rootbeer and green m&m sexy Benjamin Franklin: ok well my life was a waste but tell me about this green m&m
Big Dave at the movies!? Big Dave at the movies. Big Dave at the movies!!
"Oh you mean tomato condiment?" a server asked once when I asked for ketchup for my fries. I don't think we went back.
making your own ketchup is such an abhorrent restaurant decision that they should have it as a sortable filter on google when you're looking for somewhere to eat
"I still listen to loud music including techno and I'm only a good person because nobody yelled at me" is certainly one way to end an essay, anyways, lol
Million-dollar idea: a metalcore band, but with songs.
Remember that random blog comment that said, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect"? I think about that every day now.
a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true.
#3: people do not need diplomas to understand that if someone is different than you they also deserve basic respect
Hypothetically. If spreading Dijon mustard all over your balls meant there would definitely be 2026 elections and the Dems would sweep congress in a landslide , would you spread Dijon mustard on your balls ? Or, is is that thought so abhorrent, you couldn’t bring yourself to do it. Even at the ex
Mingus Reedus
it’s good gavin newsom is modeling some combative stuff with trump and fighting for redistricting. it’s bad he’s trying to make nice with righties about homelessness and trans rights. the people imprinting on him right now basically cannot conceive of politics as anything but voting every 2 years.
this is in the "what if a make-a-wish kid's wish was to say the n-word" level of stupid hypothetical
Ah dang of course you got there first hahahaha
Mark Cuban is working up to "okay but if you let me say it I'll put some money behind the Dems" lmao "come on just let me say it guys...maybe just at karaoke?"
It's 1925. I'm leanin' against this lamppost on the lookout for dames who are lookin for trouble. I start flipping a quarter. I catch her eye. I fumble the quarter and it rolls into a sewer grate. I have lost the equivalent of thirty thousand dollars.
Enh, I feel like I never liked pop qua pop. Also this was mostly a joke -- I like Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, or CRJ fine, I just don't get people being Super Into them in a world where Black Sabbath records still exist...
look if you wanna accuse me of having a short trigger on this, fair! I do. because if I were running the DCCC I'd have already called every state legislator in every state with a dem trifecta and told them if they ever want to hold federal office, it's time to gerrymander their delegation to shit
Goodness @proptermalone.bsky.social nuked him from orbit.
No, but that's not what the recall was about! And do you think attacking the Democratic governor of a large blue state helps the left more or the right more, on balance? Who has the most to gain if these attacks are successful, in your analysis?
The state I live in and do politics work in? The state where successive progressive DAs in adjacent counties got recalled by the same rich scumbags, in part because credulous dupes in and out of media but and spread bullshit narratives that are bought and paid for by rich scumbags?