Derek Maris

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

OK Tracer Bullet was good but I assume we're all in agreement that this is the all-time BEST Calvin & Hobbes strip, correct

Ah, shit... woke up in a mysterious and abandoned location, and I've lost my memory. I hope a series of gradually escalating challenges positioned between me and escape can instruct me how to open doors, use my powers, and double jump.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

arching my eyebrows provocatively while ordering the tomahawk for my date and me, hearing her satisfied murmur and knowing i've got the go-ahead to show her something special tonight (90 minutes of dominique wilkins monster jams)

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion PALO ALTO, CA—Hailing the new product as a “game changer” in the development of large language models, Silicon Valley insiders confirmed Tuesday that an AI chatbot that only responds “huh” had been va...

AI Chatbot That Only Responds ‘Huh’ Valued At $200 Billion

lose with dignity and stop tinkering at the margins of whatever you're going to disavow after it passes. stop saying that voters don't understand subtlety and then leaving your dumb fingerprints all over every bad thing.

politicians should spend less time managing expectations of by telling voters what a minority party can't pass and instead engage in this four-step process:

1) say what you think is right
2) obstruct whatever isn't that
3) lose if that's how it goes
4) remind voters who passed the evil law

I asked her something like is it devastating for you how many awful people there are in the world or instead is it heartening how many good people there are in spite of that and she said she needed to think about that one for a while. I wake up every day and think no one is going to stop this she said after some silence. No one? And then resign myself to that fact and start the whole process all over again. I am not naive she said. I did not just learn about how the world works today. Over the past year. It’s

just that my stubborn belief in the goodness of people has been so hard to finally and utterly kill off. And it repairs itself like a slowly mending heart. I don’t know how many people are evil I said. Not most. But enough of them that the balance doesn’t make a difference. They are worse than we are not.

I am not naive she said. I did not just learn about how the world works today. Over the past year. It’s just that my stubborn belief in the goodness of people has been so hard to finally and utterly kill off. And it repairs itself like a slowly mending heart.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

CHOTINER: You were an early riser today.

PHIL: The 2nd is a big day; it's important I get it right.

CHOTINER: Six more weeks of winter—is that exact, or...?

PHIL: I mean, it's science.

CHOTINER: The data I have shows you're correct only 35% of the time, less than random guesses.

PHIL: Look—

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Correct

what in the weird al as a prosperity gospel preacher is happening

randy moss looking like if cruella de vil was cool as hell

i feel like wearing this coat one time could change my life

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

That would be praxis though.

I'm sorry.

Begging you to stop saying praxis

Donald Trump "looking very strongly at" appointing Jose Canseco to head of the Federal Reserve. "He's been very fair to me in the past," Trump told the media on Air Force One. "And frankly much more fair than the Tampa Bay Rays were to him."

Mina Kimes talking about a pig looking into frame followed by Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.b... • 1h Jim Halpork over here. ... Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.s... • 1h Josh, can you talk about the decision to go for Halpork and not Hampert here? Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social Follow Would love to. I thought Hampert is a better visual joke (just changing one letter) but Halpork sounds closer to Halpert than Hampert does, to me! (I did almost go with Ham Halpert though!)

This is just what you like to see on here

We had a good run

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

Bars

I want to print YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT onto little cards and just hand them out in conversation sometimes

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

The Elite would never let you have a specific name for a Donyell Marshall or Vladimir Radmanovic type of dude now. Because of woke.