Saint-Saëns 5 in Essen – a wonderful, underrated concerto
‘you may as well strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them against the Roman state, whose course will on’ - some dude no one remembers who dies in Act III
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Saint-Saëns 5 in Essen – a wonderful, underrated concerto
That’s usually how I get the pangram, minus the waking up my mom part.
I did a Saturday crossword in record time last weekend and so i thought my brain was OK and apparently i was wrong.
I hate that a) it’s that stupid and b) i would have stared at that puzzle for a million years without getting it.
Fuck.
From the sibling group chat ~
Okay well then i have literally no clue what it could be.
i sleep in a big bed with my wife
D360,249 - issued in 1995 for a design for a "soundproof device for a person to scream into."
RFK Jr hearing too fucking bleak, im gonna spend time on the #birds feed for a couple of hours. Here's my contribution. If this duckling and their mama can be joyful simply by floating in a pond, we can find joy in this moment <3
I want to be mad at this but I’m honestly just impressed by the Illustrator skills
I will never apologize for a post
Remember when the administration at least bothered to come up with lies before engaging in war crimes?
I for one don’t think it sets a good precedent for our government to sink civilian boats without giving even the slightest evidence for its justification.
evolution of belief age 10: the devil exists age 20: the devil is allegorical age 30: lol there is no devil age 40: the devil is allegorical age 50: the devil exists and walks among us every day
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Gun to my head, I would not be able to say what she’s been in other than White Lotus.
I thought she was an SNL cast member for years.
So sick of these centrist impurity tests. Not everyone can meet your standards of being a huge piece of shit, sometimes you have to just grit your teeth and vote for someone good even if that goes against your principles
This is obviously selection bias but every veteran I’ve spoken with the past three months is pissed.
Wish that my knee extensibility were back in the same way that 2004’s casual homophobia is.
I’m sorry but lol. Most of us don’t have time for leather harnesses in between caring for our sourdough starters and catching up on news about Nicole Kidman’s dating life
Incredibly wild to me that modern conservatism has crystallized into ‘have more sex.’
I’m open to the possibility of senior citizens being allowed to vote.
If you’re over the age of, oh let’s say 65, you should not have any power in our government.
Normalize ageism.
Like, you could maybe have Thomas Jefferson say that and it would be semi-believable?
John Adams was a messy bitch who lived for drama.
‘Facts do not care about your feelings,’ a thing that, ironically, John Adams did not in fact say, and a sentiment he probably wouldn’t even have agreed with.
Fall migration season 2025 shorebird MAGIC omg 🪶
I long for the days when the President of the United States didn't post a video of the military extra-judicially executing what looked like civilians in a speedboat
Probably would be better if we did pay attention to the international rules of war.
I say this with full recognition that the US generally doesn’t care about the international laws of war. Just thought I’d mention it.
Not to be melodramatic or anything but this is technically a violation of international laws of war.
Not super happy that our president keeps bragging about all the war crimes he’s committing.
My parents would not have survived my brother’s and my adolescent years without Ro Sham Bo.
Looking great 👍
On the one hand, it’s painfully embarrassing to have the entirety of The Canterbury Tales memorized. On the other, I’d rather know how to pronounce ‘shoures soote’ than what on earth this thing is.
Ironically there’s a non-negligible amount of ChatGPT’s information about Texas prisons that’s pulled from your writing.
My brother and I absolutely love to get into protracted debates about, like, the name of the actor who played Neumann in Seinfeld and it’s always a little sad when we’re thirty minutes in and remember that we could just Google it.
Difficult not to think that this is some comment about me.
i’m a brave truth teller and i’m here to say that police funding should stay at the same rate they’ve been and trans people are icky and we should have strong border protection and everything about the status quo is okay. Btw the New York Times just gave me a $600,000 a year contract to write op eds
What is Tiffany Trump doing lately? I feel we don’t hear about her that much.
just happy that they’re providing for Barron :)
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
it’s such an interesting and new thing to criticize the defund the police movement, this man is so brave for saying something that no one has ever said before.
Lmao I was going to make a joke about an HR person screenshotting one of your tweets and turning it into a grind mindset posts
he’s not allowed to tweet as a condition of his bail, the greatest violation of human rights since the Defenestration of Prague.
Literally the only insightful thing I’ve ever said.
Once I was really drunk and debating something with a friend and came up with my guiding principle: The law simply can’t be this divorced from common sense.
HUGE: "Nevertheless, at Defendants’ orders and contrary to Congress’s explicit instruction, federal troops executed the laws. ... In short, Defendants violated the Posse Comitatus Act." Working link here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Trump: I’m stepping aside to spend more time with my family His family, in unison: No.
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this bread is terrible. but the circuses? also really terrible
Trying to think of what we should rename the Department of Homeland Security but I can’t come up with anything that doesn’t have Reich in the title.
OTOH I unironically support renaming the DoD as the Department of War. Might as well call things what they are.
She still has a job, btw. No other position in the American economy allows for such egregious and repeated fuck ups as New York Times columnist.
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I forgot until just now but he’s dead dead. Like gone.
lol James Dobson is dead.
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Respectfully disagree, no AI can match his style.
My BlueSky feed is Lefty post Anti-Gavin post (any political orientation) Furry post with a sexy llama for some reason A sex pun that involves anal sex A weird joke about cornfields. Not even going to try to analyze. Lefty post Is that BlueSkyism?
We have to avoid the word ‘privilege’ but liberal pundits get to say ‘Blueskyism’ as though that’s something we’ll all understand.
He’s just making shit up at this point. ‘Blueskyism’ is not a word.
Also about some drywall that needs patching, although I don’t want to spoil it for you.
He wrote a whole essay about it! fivethirtyeight.com/features/how...
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
The ‘war’s full horror’ has not been concealed in any way; it’s just what sources you choose to believe.
The thing is that yes, Israel has kept out international media, but there’s been a fairly robust Palestinian press documenting the horrors. We could just choose to believe them:
I’m not sure if I need to see more pictures of bombed hospitals and more videos of starving children. Could we just ask for less genocide?
idk I think it would actually be better if Israel simply stopped doing genocide.
You think you feel one way about it until 3/4 of the way through and then you’re sure you feel another way about it 7/8 of the way through and then they hit you with the last 90 seconds.
You have to watch this so we can have Discourse. Unknown Number on Netflix.
Because she probably wouldn’t. Unless?
Now I’m just laughing at the idea of Michelle Obama coming into my apartment and saying ‘Get your fat ass off that couch.’
Ironically, Michelle Obama’s Get Moving campaign was probably more classically conservative (in that it places the responsibility on individuals) than RFK’s ‘we’re going to carpet bomb every lab that makes vaccines’ program.
Michelle Obama: get your fat ass off the couch RFK: you should try a little cyanide, to build up immunity The Atlantic: these are the same
so I decided to watch this and A) that was like seventeen emotional rollercoasters and B) extremely distracting that Jill looks, talks, and acts exactly like a Kristen Wiig SNL character
Tossing out $11,000 worth of Labubu merchandise.
New best evidence It Has Happened: somebody’s throwing shit out from a second-story window of the White House New best evidence It has not happened: see above. Like literally this could go either way.
wow, they’re already moving his things out, it took me and my siblings almost a month after my mom died
BlueSky: mildly annoying Twitter: responsible for the destruction of the Department of Education Facebook: the reason your aunt lost her entire life savings YouTube: some good cooking shows, also the number one radicalization web site on the Internet TikTok: we’re spying on you
I refuse to believe that BlueSky has an echo chamber problem until it inspires a genocide in Southeast Asia.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Also: Follow at least one furry. It’s fun reading ‘North Korea Threatens Nuclear Winter’ in between line drawings of naked geese with enlarged genitals.
Here’s a counter-example to the maxim that bullying works, because I am one hundred percent certain this man has been ruthlessly bullied his entire life.
Good lord, and Brian Schatz of all people doing this. He’s one of the better ones.
oh my GOD how many times do we have to keep relitigating this, protests held outside by people who were mostly masked is not the same as sitting inside for three hours.
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Yeah but the character development and plot twists really sold it.
This was a fun little drama to follow
And and and — Masterpiece was written by Anthony Kennedy, supposedly the gay community’s great advocate on the Supreme Court.
This is arguably my villain origin story, the moment when I lost all faith in the federal judiciary as a normative institution in our society.
As I said at the time, you could make an argument for either of these decisions in isolation, but taken together, they’re totally incoherent. And they were released within days of each other.
Trump v Hawaii: We’re not going to take judicial notice of the extremely prominent statements made by the president that the reason he’s putting these bans in place is that he hates Muslims. Like, he literally said that. Masterpiece: A county commissioner said she likes gay people.
I realize I’m re-litigating an eight-year-old fight but I am still pissed off that the Trump v Hawaii decision was handed down the same week as Masterpiece Cake Shop, because they dealt with basically the same issue.
Look, California does not have a great history of sending people to the White House. Let’s not make the mistake a third time.