"what if we invented the opposite of intergenerational wealth?"
04.08.2025 10:59 — 👍 95 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0@captainannoying.bsky.social
writer/editor, leftist grouch, UGA shitposter, last white man in America without a podcast; can recite “Midnight Marauders” in its entirety
"what if we invented the opposite of intergenerational wealth?"
04.08.2025 10:59 — 👍 95 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 0Democrat Forrest Dunbar was on Nat Guard training in Poland and got personal leave, and bought his own ticket, to get back to AK and vote for the override.
If you are wondering why the special session was scheduled when he was in Poland, well, I'm thinking no one imagined he would do what he did
You don't need a Joe Rogan for the left. What we all need to do is take Bill Burr's lead. Every time a Republican goes after him, he doesn't debate him. He just insults them and tells them to go fuck themselves. We don't need one person to do this. We should all just do this.
31.07.2025 23:10 — 👍 6487 🔁 1527 💬 0 📌 135My country, America, yearns for freedom
03.08.2025 03:07 — 👍 2774 🔁 460 💬 11 📌 1packed theatre for a showing of “Wakanda Forever.” when Riri called Okoye’s head “ashy,” the entire audience gasped in unison like she’d just called her the c-word
03.08.2025 11:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]
If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
02.08.2025 18:19 — 👍 14320 🔁 4466 💬 233 📌 304i have a vague memory of being present for this? in retrospect that was the point we all should’ve known he was headed for the dark side
02.08.2025 16:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The U.S. Constitution is entering hospice.
02.08.2025 12:10 — 👍 360 🔁 64 💬 14 📌 2What I’m realizing from the quoted text here is that people just don’t know about journaling? Like I’m very happy to just say whatever and not soften my opinions and just say everything I’m thinking without waiting for a response when I journal; what’s added by a computer being like “yes totally!”?
01.08.2025 12:04 — 👍 118 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 3NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
30.07.2025 01:10 — 👍 42904 🔁 9601 💬 824 📌 609i think if someone uses the word “summerween” non-ironically it should be legal to kick them in the throat. not everything deserves a portmanteau, you fucking knobs
29.07.2025 11:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0it’s cliche at this point but always bears repeating that modern Republican politics is: Dude Terrified of Walking Around in a City
29.07.2025 03:37 — 👍 162 🔁 39 💬 9 📌 2I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.
27.07.2025 21:00 — 👍 5779 🔁 1307 💬 111 📌 45this is straight DPRK shit
27.07.2025 20:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Catholics make you sit through an entire church service but at least the booze at the reception is pretty good, all in all it’s usually a fair tradeoff
27.07.2025 19:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“favorite rapper? gotta be that guy mumbling in the background of all those biggie tracks”
27.07.2025 00:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“If you can read this, the bitch didn’t fall off because I never asked her out in the first place”
26.07.2025 23:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Because of course.
26.07.2025 17:13 — 👍 7279 🔁 2456 💬 722 📌 261Watching this brilliant young person build his career one thoughtful brick at a time has been amazing. I’ve watched this six times.
26.07.2025 13:15 — 👍 330 🔁 76 💬 7 📌 0so we went to Legoland this week with the nieceling, which included a side trip to the Peppa Pig park. and it would shock you how many kids were totally nonplused—I mean *baffled*—by the task of pedaling a tricycle
25.07.2025 14:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0financial literacy is something every high school—hell, middle school—should be teaching. how different my life might be right now if somebody had told me in 1994 “when you charge something to a credit card, it’s not free money, it’s a high-interest micro-loan”
25.07.2025 12:48 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it’s not just that ICE is carrying out horrendously cruel orders. it’s that their agents are all people who were too stupid or sociopathic to get real LE jobs.
best case scenario is they bumble around and let someone escape (see below); worst case is they kill someone for no reason whatsoever
all y’all are cackling about hulk hogan’s death but this just means trump is probably gonna try and name the pentagon after him or some shit
24.07.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I just sent this letter to the alumni office at Columbia University. I hope they receive many letters like this over the coming days.
24.07.2025 06:27 — 👍 2385 🔁 514 💬 61 📌 36actually, knowing McAfee…maybe?
24.07.2025 14:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0busting out the “as a father of daughters” line is cringey in basically any circumstance, but Pat McAfee used it in reference to something he did *five months* ago. did he forget he had a daughter and just remembered this past week?
24.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0if someone says “fucking children is wrong” and your response is “ehh, define ‘children,’” you seriously need to get right with God
24.07.2025 12:35 — 👍 129 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0every week brad lander is doing warrior shit by democratic standards by being the only person who, when confronted by someone with a balled fist who says "you've got something on your shoe," refuses to look down and go "wha?"
24.07.2025 12:15 — 👍 370 🔁 48 💬 2 📌 0Look, here’s the thing: If you’ve been at the table for 30 minutes and you still haven’t figured out who the punter is, you’re the punter
23.07.2025 22:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0