Charlie Zone

What if life was just some hard equation, on chalkboard in a science class for ghosts; and you can live again but you have to die twice in the end.

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

The ides of March are coming if you need ideas about what to get your local emperor.

Twin Peaks title card but the text reads "she twin on my peaks til I Lynch"

"Winds of Summer"
9" x 12"
acrylic on canvas panel

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

He’s in a bowling league and a bowling league is collective joy.

Fixed it.

“it should have the promise of meaning”

putting this on a building with Obama’s name on it is something

brb writing a plausibly real-sounding short story disguised as a newspaper article that describes a hilarious caper of disbarment

Now a reality!

Think about how no one under 30 knows what pensions are, it's a totally alien concept. The GOP goal is to make all government services as alien and unfamiliar.

Imagine in a decade, trying to explain to a 20 year old what social security, libraries, grad school, the EPA, OSHA, mass vaccination, ADA,

2Two women dance by the ocean on a summer's night in 1890. A wonderful scene by Winslow Homer, whose day was today.

an ornate thrift store armchair, the tall back has been decorated with a painting of a frowning longhaired cat in a purple jacket and bowtie wearing a bluish purple tophat with a bouquet of flowers in the band for bsky nerds: the joke is that this weird cat chair is a stand in for the Golden Throne of the Emperor of Mankind in the Warhammer 40,000 universe

"I have travelled the fringes of the Imperium for decades and encountered myriad sanctioned cults to the God-Emperor of Mankind. In their depictions of the His Golden Throne, I have seen much imagination and variation."

— Hyrom Klein, Missionary

seeing firefighters oppose safe, international best practice building codes purely out of misplaced inertia and resistance to change has made me appreciate that many urban issues have unexpected villains and you should be skeptical of anyone trying to blame it all on private equity or whatever

They’re letting me go home.

The thing about this new "anti-marijuana" wave of reporting that I guess everyone in the group chat has settled on is that it always comes back to the question of "SHOULD we ban pot?" And never "are we massively underfunding psychological health resources?"

Computers have automated away millions and millions of jobs already by the way. It neither caused mass unemployment because there is always more to do, nor improved our lives much because all the money went to the ownership class.

Hi! Are you a millennial who once used the internet to obtain real-life social opportunities? Did you use CouchSurfing, Craigslist for rideshares, time banks, etc etc etc? I want to talk to you!

ELON MUSK: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue.

[BAYLESS nods]

MUSK: You KNOW I agree with the teachings of Jesus.

BAYLESS: Absolutely

MUSK: BUT!

Trump Tower got a huge tax cut it didn’t deserve. Everyone in Cook County is paying for it.

Now, the tax attorneys who made it happen are bankrolling my opponent. He thinks big commercial properties are paying too much — I think they’re not paying enough.

Wiseman’s CENTRAL PARK is one of the greatest New York movies, an elegant tapestry of the people who make the city what it is, from every walk of life. And one of its greatest archives of queer culture in the ‘80s.

Sitting bolt upright at 2:00am with a spec script idea for a Star Trek:TNG episode entitled "LGBT . . . Q?"

Again, if we — and the politicians we elect — prioritized clean indoor air standards this would be less of a concern/health risk

"The head of the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in US history lied-- outright lied-- to Congress yesterday, and no one seemed to notice or care. No one that is, except a local television journalist in Colorado....."

It’s a Big Herrenvolk & you & I ain’t in it. You & I are not in the Big Herrenvolk.

It's not even that: It's that they don't CARE whether or not there is a future beyond their lives. They know there won't be, for the record, but they wouldn't care even if they didn't.

I brake for historical markers bumper sticker

One of us! One of Us!! One of Us!!

@historicalmarker.bsky.social

Americans think everyone is corrupt Voters have weird views about this, and progressive advocacy groups do a lot that's counterproductive. Matthew Yglesias Feb 12

So will the party pay a price for Trump's corruption? They're set to lose the House, which almost always happens to the president's party during a midterm, but remain the odds-on favorites (1) to hold the Senate, in which case Trump will be able to keep MAGAfying the judiciary and getting away with corrupt schemes.

1. Polymarket is sponsoring this post, but the odds are not meaningfully different in other markets.

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The one thing that Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani share is that they both understand that politics is a 24/7/365 persuasion game. This is simply not how the rest of the Democratic Party operates.