Daria Camacho

QOTD: "Let me get this straight, the goal of your overly complicated caper is to have enough money to put a down-payment on a house?"

"You clearly are unfamiliar with the Boston housing market"

Discussing The Remains of the Day at book club:
"[Scene towards the end] reminds me of the fight sequence in They Live."
Never thought I'd compare a novel by a Nobel laureate to a John Carpenter film.

In other news:
If you thought SNL was well past its sell by date, Michael Che told the best joke I've heard in months. Vizz
(context: white South Africans getting refugee status)
I thought things were pretty good for white South Africans, but maybe that's the Mandela effect.

Do we call in Rocky and Bullwinkle, or do I lean into my urges to make century old pop culture references?

The GOP members who rejected Il Duches budget voted against it because it didn't cut enough.
Supporting any of their candidates supports people to the right of "Fearless" Leader.

I knew Flea was in the new season of Love, Death and Robots. This was not what I expected.

QOTN: "If geopolitics is the international card game where everyone cheats, we're the dog playing a face up hand of poker."

Replying to a 3:15 AM text is the wrong time to try to explain the Soviet style quota system, right?

If Canada wasn't already boycotting American alcohol, it would be a kind of poetic time to reenact the Boston Tea Party in Hudson Bay.

Something something transgenic mice 😂

Sometimes I love watching billionaires fight.

YouTube video by עידן אייזן Silicon Valley - Smart Fridge

Me, dealing with a smart toaster oven
youtu.be/GT_h_RE-zYg?...

Maybe we won't have the absurd situation where a corporate empire preaching libertarian ideals has billion dollar government contracts.

There's no guarantee new ownership would be much better, but I'm confident they would move away from the new libertarian platform.

It's hard to go up against billionaires, but the wave of WashPo cancelations give me some hope. At some point, it'll become unprofitable enough that off brand Lex Luthor will decide to stop subsidizing it and sell it off.

Does anyone know if he owns any volcano adjacent real estate?

Hijinking media (Tomorrow Never Dies)

Musk is the Bond villain combo platter we never asked for
Silicon Valley titan obsessed with underground drilling (A View to a Kill)
Wants to "inventory" Fort Knox (Goldfinger)
Fires a bunch of rockets in the general direction of space (Moonraker)

I'm not sure what made me think of this just now, but for years I somewhat actively tried to figure out how to get my dad and Anthony Bourdain at the same restaurant at the same time. In my head canon, they would bond over their shared inexplicable love of Waffle House

I'm having flashbacks to negotiating the ACA.

Can @schumer.senate.gov step down and have Bernie be Senate Minority Leader? Or can @aoc.bsky.social be a senator yet?

I'm intrigued by this idea, and would like to subscribe to your publication.

I really want to visit the universe where China Mieville wrote the sequel to Disco Elysium.

It's like whoever puppets il Douché tries to use a Civ game to explain international trade. After trying to use a Paradox micromanaging game about a notoriously laissez faire time period, because they thought the word "empire" would hold his attention.

If you're reading this, you have completed January

That's not how rivers work.

I meant to type faxes.
Sadly, can't edit posts on this thing.

Physical letters and fades (if they still have a fax number) is a good way to force them to notice since they will physically pile up.

Why did no one tell me it's National Soup Month?

This post brought to you by the snow plow that's been going back and forth outside my window for the past seven hours.