Gabriel R Johnson, novelist

Wonder how much taxpayer money is being spent flooding youtube with demented racist bots.

Innocent people are rotting in these camps for months in horrible conditions, for no reason at all except to satisfy the sadism of that bald asshole. This is who we're supposed to negotiate Reasonable Guardrails with

No one should ever talk to me about "somali fraud" ever again.

If they were smart the first thing they'd lose is the fascism.

calls to return to “traditional indigenous agriculture” are calls for billions to die, it literally did lead to famine in Sri Lanka when it was tried, I’m firm believer that we should be bigger assholes to people hawking woo shit.

The larger point -- it's important to have big dreams to aspire to -- is one I agree with! I just know that in Elon's case, I'm meant to aspire to _his_ big dreams, and sorry, bud. I just don't think we should let you live out any more of your fantasies.

Only correct answer.

There are songs with lyrics in english that i love and have listened to a hundred times that i could not tell you the lyrics for. Example: Good Luck, Babe! I know the chorus is something like "stop the world just to stop the feeling" but i couldnt tell you a single word in the verses.

The Chinese will take all the maple syrup off Canadian tables. They'll forcibly add a U to the word "aboot." They'll make it illegal to fuck a moose.

Ghost of Bunny Good, Ghost of Bunny Mid, Ghost of Bunny Bad.

That is not what we have been saying at all, no. We've been saying abolish.

I certainly believe you but also it's very funny to me that people were saying that about a mac-and-cheese-ass show like Friends. Twin Peaks I can kinda see, it doesn't have the cinematic finesse of later prestige TV but it has the ambition, certainly.

The question I'd ask is "which marvel movie?" and then the only real answers are Avengers 1 and Endgame and obviously those are huge movies but even those faded into Airplane Classics pretty fast.

Curious as to what 90s show had people saying this. Uh...X-files?

I think maybe even the 10s might be remembered more for TV than for film, on the weight of Game of Thrones and Stranger Things. The decade that invented blockbuster television.

We'll see. I do think 2025 specifically was an all-time great movie year, in large part because as the mass blockbuster era of the 10s fades your normie multiplex has had plenty of space for good mid-budget movies.

There's a brit out there somewhere that's like "blimey, what if I made a crumpet but flat, bloody 'ell" that's about to ruin the streak.

Don't think there's been a culture yet that's managed to fuck up the concept of flatbread. Naan, torillas, pizza, injera, malwaah all rule

To the extent “woke” was a thing people were mad at, it was mostly that people hate a culture of scolds telling them what words they can use, what things they can enjoy, and then launching “politically correct” alternatives to cultural touchstones.

And, welp… that shoe is on the other foot now.

Still, the biggest risk of weed always has been sucking up all your time into a state of relaxed inactivity when you could be having meaningful experiences or making something cool.

There are definitely people I know who I would advise to stop at least until they got some shit together but I also bet the weed is more a symptom than the cause there.

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

It's neat that he included Lady Gaga and Pedro Pascal and Jessica Alba, but why didn't he include me, a total sweetheart? Sure, the first of his music I heard was yesterday when I played half of Tití Me Preguntó and was like "okay, neat," but it still hurts to be erased like this.

I think One Battle After Another might need a little more time to cook but I kind of think it might be the revolution's Casablanca? If we're talking TV I think it's gotta be Andor.

Sure but NCIS has an episode where Gibbs meets Michelle Obama so she can thank the veterans.