I don’t mind the radicalization, but I admit that I’m mostly here for the book discussions.
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I don’t mind the radicalization, but I admit that I’m mostly here for the book discussions.
Mine clocked me full force on the forehead earlier this afternoon with a plastic toy. That kid is a force.
Is anybody going to mention Gruden wearing the same shirt in both photos?
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
It really was great! Just fresh and different and not low-stakes but also not stressful.
I admit that I have rather unmixed feelings about the idea of billionaires testing the bounds of science and technology by diving down to the Titanic.
Stop making me tear up at work, guys. It’s just too much.
That’s not the same person?
The fuck is wrong with you? Are you some bot trying to stir up counterproductive infighting?
Once again, I get to have a day where I hope all these guys are right about there being a heaven and a hell. Especially the hell part.
The maddest someone has ever gotten at me was when I talked about the child sized manacles Jefferson had at Monticello for 9 year old children. They could not cope with the idea that a child the same age as their child had been enslaved. And it made them angry that I made them know facts
aw man...the feels
Slightly diminish a band: Pleasure Division
1000% I mean, my kids can't get their noses out of books. The younger one is reading a lot of Dog Man and related stuff. BUT IT'S FUCKING FUN AND SHE LOVES READING! :)
You're around my (42) age, I think. How have you not bumped into this before? You must have had a much cleaner media experience than me...
Listening to Bright Eyes' "When the President Talks to God" and while it's not wrong, I really wish we still had a president who thought he owed some accountability to anybody.
Nothing to do with performance or merit: purged from the military because of their identity and then robbed of the retirement they worked for.
You’ll get through all those contacts after a break! I have faith in you.
Fuck yeah, man. I feel exactly the same rage
This sent me hunting for new books from you that I might not have heard about, but I didn’t find anything :(. (So now I’m fishing in your replies, hoping I just stupidly missed a forthcoming release)
Plus, pocket sized!
Yeah! This is the thing. Like, playing gotcha parenting on your kids is no good. Sometimes they create their own dramas that are hard not to laugh at, but if you’re helping create it, you can’t be taking amusement from it.
As someone in my office just noted, “It’s barely August.”
Really liking how lush everything is right now.
@joeposnanski.com your blogsite is kind of broken. It's requiring people to leave comments to see to the end of your posts. Pretty strange and I thought you'd want to know.
I keep thinking about some random post I saw from somebody on the left basically laughing at the idea of this Blackstone exec who was randomly shot in her building's lobby on Monday. 43. Little kids who will not grow up with their mom. Man...fuck off if you want to enjoy that.
RFK Jr. is going to end the vaccine program in the United States in order to make money for himself by suing companies that make them. He wants to end the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which means that vaccine manufacturers will stop making vaccines in the U.S. 1/5
I like that. I don't think I'd have come up w/ it on my own, but food for thought (so, thank you). I was going to say Independence, but they're somewhat of a piece with each other, anyways.
Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*
Have you given the books a shot? They’re a bit different (of course), but truly stellar.
Wait, that’s Greenland Shark! 😱
Couldn’t handle being sponsored by Dude Wipes?
Why would it be tax free? I mean, it’s a tiny quibble, but if you’ve found a way to get tax free interest I’m very curious, too.
Found myself thinking about binders full of women with some nostalgia today. Fuck, man...that's not great.
I just learned that the Browns are sponsored by Dude Wipes. We all see this, right? Like...This is supposed to be the punchline of some other joke.
That’s a really interesting looking house…it feels kind of all alone in the picture.
Hear! Hear! (though i'll admit that for like 1 item or an embarrassing item, the self-checkout isn't awful)
You sure this isn't some kind of political? ;)
Random morning thought while I drink my first cup of tea: It's really, really common for people to confuse "knowledge" with "intelligence." You'd think people who work on AI would have thought about what "Intelligence" is but no, they think it means "knows all the stuff."
But also, he doesn’t know how many years until somebody else could be president. Like, exactly not a head-up-his-ass politico.
Apparently we eat popcorn all over the floor on the train, now?
JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
If it’s an unknown number, I pick up with “Who’s this?” for the same reasons. I’m certainly not going to call you deranged.
This guy is my new hero
I’m close. My dad found a way to anchor car seats in the bed of his Chevy Silverado (w camper shell) and we’d sit back there for rides halfway across the country.
You ever use the Oliver for writing? It makes a great record stand, too, of course.
I absolutely loved this one!
Also, fucking blue sky discourse, man…good luck out there.
Hehehehehe
You probably saw it for what it was when it came out, but Wedding Crashers post age 40 vs age 20 was fucking wild (and noooot in a good way)
Might want to check your math on this step, though it doesn’t really take away from your general point.
The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.
You’re reading Bellow for the National Book Award or just ‘cause he’s a genius you want to read?
I don’t even want to know if any of this is true. It had me cackling out loud in my office.
Stealing this from @joeposnanski.com's most recent post, but this is fucking cool as shit:
Signs of a healthy democracy:
The poverty line is like $16K a year. You think someone making 17K a year can afford health care? Also, half of all the Medicaid recipients in your state are kids. So..."fuck those kids," I guess?
Inquiring minds want to know…
you keep ripping on accounts that i've either blocked or who have blocked me and I can't decide if I'm sad to miss the context or kinda glad that some sort of noise suppression is working on here
Willow whips doing well after planting a few months ago. #MonochromeMonday #Photography #Northumberland
I thought the line was “growing old”, at least that’s how i always heard it
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
“As read by the author”
Don’t forget Charlie Kirk
Also, like, you should kind of do this everywhere? Like, wouldn’t you always want to take into account how your words and actions might affect others?
We have volcanoes for the Hawaiians
I man, I want to be with you on this, but…
“Fuck”
I think this is a real opportunity to see the horseshoe effect kick in, and I, for one, welcome it.
I’m at a protest with a whole bunch of octogenarians leading chants about how transphobia has go to go and I wish the paid consultant class who are always trying to triangulate the party into meaninglessness would talk to a few of them.
We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again
I waited to cross 82nd street on Columbus right next to Matt Dillon and some of his friends.
Only
I’m an old-ish millennial, and I know exactly what you mean. Also, wasn’t this some song lyric in the late 90s?
The finished piece. Oil and acrylic on canvas.
Thank you
Lawlessness on the streets of LA (cops shoot a lone resident trying to get back to her apartment)
Man, it’s been so long I don’t even really remember who Sandor was. We’re never getting another book, are we?
Witnesses “can be heard shouting at the agents to ‘let her go’ and ‘she's pregnant.’ López Alvarado said agents told her she was taken into custody for trying to obstruct their operation. 'I wasn’t resisting or anything,’ she said. 'I can’t fight back; I’m pregnant.’”
Not that I’ve ever noticed. That might have been pandering.
I got to use "errata" in a sentence today.
Dude, I want to be with you, but I'm not sure you understand the degree to which bagels are religion in the NYC area. 😂
@laurajedeed.bsky.social is pretty great, too.
Sounds pretty amazing. I'm very jealous. Not that you'd need me to tell you this, but in case it hadn't quite come to mind, working in a ferry here and there can be immensely satisfying, too.
Holy fucknuts, Premee
The ratio! ...and I kind of used to think she basically had her head screwed on straight, but it's become quite clear that it's been basically straight up her ass for years.
Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1
Thank you
Oh man. These are so moving. Tell me more about the artist, please.
I really want to know if the wrist injury was from firing a gun.
You sure you want to encourage that kind of shouting? ;) These are really lovely. I’d certainly love to see more, but I won’t shout for them…too rude.
Fuck yeah
Thank you for the stern scolding but it’s actually possible to both enjoy two malignant rich fucks viciously falling out and understand it doesn’t fix every problem immediately.
What a time to be in the air
Kind of amusing to watch Elon appear to discover in real time that Trump is a normal politician who campaigned on one thing and then actually does whatever self-serving thing strikes his fancy when in office.
It's not our job to win elections! It's Dems' job! And right now they suck at it because they're not listening to their goddamn base!
I don’t think they know who their base is.
Another amazing example of awful people being right about how awful other awful people are! (This is not intended to be some argument with or rejoinder to your comment, which I agree with)
