Better write the Eaglemoss people. Oh, wait, too late.
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Better write the Eaglemoss people. Oh, wait, too late.
Cerritos and the Three Titans is the name of my new band.
Oh, good lord.
I thought about it, but it was already at risky length.
Ok with me!
More like a pepper, I think.
I'm just the messenger. Blame my muse.
I'm writing a self-help book about how the proper use of semaglutide and tirzepatide can lead to overwhelming happinesses, not just due to physical wellbeing but also in one's emotional and artistic lives. I'm calling it THE AGONISTS AND THE ECSTASIES.
"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...
(So this happened.) Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... via @seattletimes
This page may be helpful. www.wired.com/author/mike-...
My first article for Wired was published here, as far as I can remember. www.wired.com/1994/04/idee...
You probably have access to the October 1994 Wired column, "Meme, Counter-meme." www.wired.com/1994/10/godw...
Judge Sol Wachtler neglected to mention that even though you can indict a ham sandwich, that doesn't mean you'll succeed in indicting the man who threw it. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Arrested and Will Be Re-Deported, Noem Says www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Our mistake all along was in thinking that Subway sandwiches are for eating rather than throwing.
You must know that this idea had occurred to me--that this would be the proper way to honor Capital Day.
Irony is dead, they tell me.
Horror vacui.
Wait until he renames Labor Day as Capital Day.
People see the post-credits sequences in THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, and they're 100-percent certain that Doctor Doom is pursuing some nefarious plot related to Franklin Richards, even though Doom *hasn't done anything bad in the MCU at all so far*. I'm calling this Doom Derangement Syndrome.
Better late than never: you have to give Subway(tm) credit for finally figuring out how to turn the page on Jared.
A key insight: concentration camps tend not to get shut down until a government actively closes them and, most important, does not repurpose them for an ostensibly better use. Concentration camps are fundamentally illegal, even when given the window dressing of statutory appropriations.
I think the Turning Point conventions deserve a rebrand. How about something like "Kirker Youth"?
Good times.
I 💨 Huckabees.
Show a little empathy, for God's sake! A sudden emergency that requires you take control of a city's law-enforcement agencies in order to divert attention from one's connections with a mysterious, dead millionaire sex trafficker is one of those things that could happen to anybody!
Yes.
What's past is prologue; what's pastry is epilogue.
A little research reveals that although the retail GRiDs were cooled by convection, the lack of convection cooling in (indoor) microgravity environments meant that the GRiD Compasses used by NASA needed to have fans added. Still, the argument for coloring them black is difficult to deduce.
I wrote a lot of diary entries during the year of the pandemic when the only outside person I saw was my dentist. I'm going to publish my diary under the title JOURNAL OF THE PLAQUE YEAR.
Done.
Doordash.
The "vibe."
I never excuse anyone for misreading sarcasm.
Honesty compels me to confess that I’m only pretending to be interesting.
Huh?
If only there were a hope of plenary just desserts.
Loved the GRiD, but if I had been building a laptop for space, I wouldn't have colored it black.
Not even my ballet tights are seamless.
It's no reflection on Jodie Foster's acting genius that the Lindsay Lohan remake is better than the original.
FREAKIER FRIDAY is THE GODFATHER, PART II of Freaky Friday movies.
The reason you don’t ever see him driving a car is that there’s no ditch you can imagine that he’d ever avoid.
wapo.st/3IH2By1 Check out this article: Poor laborers were lured to the automaker’s cattle ranch in the Amazon and promised a better life. Brazilian prosecutors say many were enslaved. wapo.st/3IH2By1 Still a GIFT LINK.
That one’s free too.
No, GIFT LINK. You don’t have to pay. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Like "man bites dog," a "rogue grand jury" is always news.
Let's see--what else links Volkswagen and forced-labor camps? wapo.st/40v10l0 (GIFT LINK)
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
There's no real argument that they're not.
The White House has announced that Trump has been diagnosed with chronic veinous insufficiency, which occurs when veins have trouble moving blood back to a heart that's three sizes too small.
I don't think @andreapitzer.bsky.social has any doubt about whether it qualifies. Her excellent, must-read book ONE LONG NIGHT does recount the first century or so of concentration camps. www.amazon.com/One-Long-Nig...
Next you'll be telling me that the rule of law is MIA.
There are duhs to be had here, all right.
I don't know. It looks more like a bad drawing of the Woolworth Building than like a bad drawing of the Empire State Building.
(Obviously this is just an unfortunate coincidence.) Lawmakers Question Whether CBS Canceled Colbert’s Show for Political Reasons www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...
How much do you write about TV shows you haven’t seen? As for your phrase “supporting a misogynist,” I have to infer that English is not your first language. Nothing I’ve written would be taken that way by a native speaker, imho.
So unexpected to come in here just to wash my hands, only to find that the person ahead of me neglected to flush you down.
Going to space is much too ’60s. The whole theme of the Trump administration is undoing things we did in the 1960s, like “end polio” and “enforce the Fourteenth Amendment.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Sooner or later I had to announce here that your MechaHitler column is on-point.
Apart from all the other ways it’s stupid, it’s stupid in supposing that there are no non-citizens in red states, boosting those states’ count of representatives.
I didn’t say it hadn’t been cancelled. You said the show had been “dumped.” Netflix is actively promoting the current season, the first half of which it just released. The second half of Season 2 is still on its way. There are previews for it. So, “okie doke.”
Seconding this:
We didn't need AI for Nazi content to propagate exponentially.
No one's suggesting that you watch something you don't want to watch.
You have to give STAR TREK: PICARD credit for being the first Trek franchise to recognize that ICE is an exemplar of 21st-century villainy. (Series 2, Eps 3 & 4.)
Sheeple unite!
I know it is. And I don't know that anyone changed anything about the second series from when it was filmed (which, if we take a gravestone date from episode 5 as a clue, was in 2023). But I also notice lots of closeups and over-the-shoulder shots, where different takes might be swapped in.
I don’t think your decision not to watch affects his residuals. This is not to say I think you should watch the second series. But it makes no sense to think that your decision has any additional moral weight because it denies him residuals.
I don’t think your reading is insupportable. I just think there’s more going on in the work than just projection of his bad-male behavior.
That decision predates the news about Gaiman, so … what are you saying exactly? That Netflix shouldn’t havereleased the second series? Or should have taken his name off it? I haven’t studied the contracts—maybe you have—but I’m not sure what you’re saying about the royalties.
I thought you were saying something about royalties. My work gives me some insight into royalty arrangements, so I had trouble following what you were saying, if it’s about royalties.
I didn’t read it (and reread it) quite so reductively, but I have known plenty of “good” people who turned out to be bad, and plenty of “bad” people who turned out to be surprisingly good. “Autobiography” seems like a stretch to me, although of course writers can and do reveal themselves.
Selling point? I’m not sure the money is flowing quite the way you suggest.
I would be astonished if DC is not being paid for the second season.
I’ve had that very thought.
For me too. That’s why some of the choices in this adaptation seem oddly appropriate.
There are some things that are spun a bit differently.
I’m trying not to give away too much, but it seems worth pointing out that the season seems focused on criticisms of the Creator of the Dreaming.
It’s probably just me, but it seems like the new season of SANDMAN has some real subtext going on, in which Dream is taken down a few notches.
Holy fuck, that is my fucking school!
Thank you for your faith in me.
I keep meaning to learn more about the internet, but doomscrolling takes all my time these days.
It would never occur to me to tell jokes in order to be liked. These days, I mostly tell them to keep from screaming in horror. Anyway, I'll free you up to float in someone else's toilet bowl.
Yes.
I think I've left enough footprints all over the place.
Never gets old.
Well, other people understand the comment, so it makes sense to them. I guess I should have anticipated that it would be read with incomprehension by a proud boy.
I do know that Florida is worse.
It's true that the mosquitos are not the point.
I don't normally think of a concentration camp as a settlement.
You're not supposed to find it funny, primarily.
The Texas power grid is, as Texas itself once was, an independent nation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Te...
Normalizing malignant sociopathy.
Once they can arrest you and deport you without due process, being an actual citizen is no protection.
Correct.
I think jumping to conclusions is part of the problem, but that's probably just me.
No, I don't think that. Guess again?
It absolutely is a concentration camp. It is so obviously a concentration camp that people who want to quarrel over whether it is one could be used as illustrations in the Webster's entry for "Denial."
