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The Pope was right to condemn this.

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

The argument that we’re not allowed to call these people Nazis wears a little thin once we’ve arrived at such direct Anne Frank parallels.

You can stiff a contractor after they’ve done the remodel, but you can’t stiff the military before you’ve fully instituted martial law. Classic mistake.

“If the crew already hates you, then they won’t work for free.”

“I wonder if he’s going to walk out to the Destiny’s Chi- Yay, he did!”

At least in the sense of “the real Lynyrd Skynyrd understood what it takes to conquer every major American city in a way that you amateurs never will,” is I guess what I was getting at here.

YouTube video by ChortleUK James Acaster issues a wrestling challenge

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Muting “I think you meant to say,” “It’s almost,” “And you’re surprised” and “You misspelled” might catch some false positives, but I’m growing increasingly willing to risk it.

For this:

Ed Gamble out here reminding me that I knew a kid in grade school who decided that his flag football name ought to be Chris “The Parker” Parker.

Sometimes I genuinely think that we’re basically dealing with a Hitler cover band, if that makes sense.

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

Well, it’s a good thing that Hegseth and Trump took the time to make those speeches last week that famously got the military on board with their agenda and didn’t at all embarrass the nation itself on the world stage.

I’m sorry, James Acaster’s full what name?

“Since the dawn of time, the greatest question that mankind has grappled with has been the meaning of life itself. Now, finally, we are on the verge of conquering the question by stripping life of all meaning.”

“We’re finally on the cusp of creating entire feature films by nobody, that mean nothing, for an audience of one.”

Why, though?

Whenever some tech bro celebrates a technology that “removes the barrier” of creative expression or skill, and “democratizes” the process of creating units of content, I think about self-driving cars that don’t even need people as passengers.

“What if we could do this in a way that meant nothing?”

TikTok came around at a time when I’d already correctly decided I was too old and too textual for Snapchat. I said “No, thanks, but have fun,” and I didn’t give it a second thought.

I certainly didn’t sit around waiting for a non-human alternative to genuine joy and creative expression.

Most people on TikTok aren’t talented singers, dancers, performers or editors. A lot of them just do their own thing, at an amateur level, for the sheer creative human joy of doing so, as we should all be free to do.

It’s not like they make you audition before they let you install the app.

I know this isn’t the point, but there is no such thing as a person who always wanted to post on TikTok but was never able to because the “singing and dancing” standard was simply too high and exclusive.

“And another thing: Eric didn’t fail. Please don’t put in the newspaper that Eric failed.”

Not to put on my strategic comms hat about it, but in general, if the vast majority of voters think that Eric failed, and you’re trying to make the case that Eric didn’t fail, don’t say “Stop saying Eric failed” on camera. Especially if you’re Eric.

“Eric got indicted on federal charges of bribery, fraud, and soliciting illegal foreign campaign donations” admittedly isn’t a very “creative” way of saying he failed, but I think it’s still pretty noteworthy.

That’s what I mean, though. I see “Are We the Baddies?” thrown around because ICE agents wear masks and won’t identify themselves, for example. And it’s funny, but it takes away from the point that they do those things specifically because they know that what they’re doing is wrong.

I don’t mean to be a joke explainer, but I think the thing that gets lost in the “Are We the Baddies?” meme, for one, is that the joke is the idea that a Nazi would be shocked to realize it.

Which I mention only because I think it’s important to understand that the GOP and ICE know what they are.

This is what worked?!

When reached for comment, Ansari yelled “What? No!”

“Human Rights Watch didn’t call for comedians to boycott the Riyadh Comedy Festival, but simply asked them to express their support for free speech by urging the release of Saudi activists unjustly imprisoned.”

Most of what I saw this morning was a chorus of “I’m glad she won and I think this really sticks it to Trump,” and I didn’t join in because I didn’t know for myself if that was accurate.