Benny Profane

The central lie — the key dishonesty — of modern conservatism is that being judgmental about the ethnicity or language or culture of the person next door is fine and acceptable, but being judgmental of that attitude is elitist and arrogant and closed-minded. What vapid bullshit.

Gonna keep an eye out now, for sure. What have you found missing?

Would A Design for Living (1933) count? Sorry if I just spoiled it for anyone.

A storefront for a gym called One Kick Martial Arts

@dimension20.bsky.social had me nostalgic for my rowdy past, so I stopped into this place, and you wouldn't believe how reasonable the instructor was!

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Wait, the answer is Eurovision? Holy shit.

Has anyone tried hosting a discussion of ethical philosophy with the Questing Queens (Bob the Drag Queen, Monet X Change, Alaska Thunderfuck, and Jujubee) called Serving Kant?

Aw shit, now *I'm* alone with your thoughts!

This is the formula for every anime about adolescent characters.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think

Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

なんと素敵だなぁ！

Yeah, it hit me hard to find out Bella Ciao features prominently in Hearts of Iron IV, which I think is more pertinent than it also being on the Far Cry 6 soundtrack.

The Obi-Wan visible confusion meme from Attack of the Clones

RFKJr: Video games caused this mass shooting!
Evergreen shooter: Nah, I just hate Jews.

MSM: Political hatred caused the murder of Charlie Kirk!
Charlie Kirk's murderer: Nah, I just love Helldivers and Hearts of Iron IV.

Anyone who believes what those two sources tell them to:

My friend @combatwombat1.bsky.social is doing some great research on exactly this. Andy, look at this thread, it's well worth your time.

Very true. I'd certainly watch/be on (with you) a panel moderated by Dale Beran about it!

@jacquisneal.bsky.social is such a good host on @crowdcontroldo.bsky.social, I don't even think there can be a weak episode. @dropout.tv never misses.

Another Sunny Day wrote a theme song for the disillusioned - Chicago Reader The late-80s solo project of UK songwriter Harvey Williams still resonates with indie-pop misanthropes.

The twee kids have been telling on themselves for a long time. chicagoreader.com/music/anothe...

the nation's rich assholes were all so violently butthurt by Lina Khan doing the bare minimum on antitrust, and Covid shifting the balance of power toward labor by a fraction of one percent, that they just threw completely in with an idiot con man fascist

never let them retcon any of this

I thought only Paul Lynde was the secret satyr.

Finding out why Miku was trending felt like the 731st of the thousand cuts by which my emotional wellbeing dies.

I wish Christopher would run for office so we could see signs that say "Walken is Runnin."

Helluva campaign strat to choose one article of clothing from each gas station they'll give tax breaks to.

Vampire Weekend is delaying Severance? Is this because Apple canceled Rashida's Japan robot dramedy? Or did Apple lie about how much coal they had?

Imagine the conflicted emotions you'll feel if this leads to our salvation and you hear someone play California Uber Alles in celebration.

Any plans to bring the shark celebrities to Dropout? I bet they'd be great on Dirty Laundry, or maybe a themed Gastronauts.

I could make fun of the "dIvErSiTy oF vIeWs" canard, but I do think there's an interesting dynamic here, where some of us want to make friends and form community on social media, and others want to perform. The latter then expects everyone to be a celebrity to a world of paparazzi all the time.

'But you'll get siloed."
Yeah, I also don't choose to be around hateful people in meatspace, either. Guess I'm closed-minded that way.

They feel more like a collective delusion of the post-MC Hammer era than anything that actually existed, so I think it's hard to evaluate them in terms like "popular" or "remember."

Sadly, they missed the bus.

YouTube video by JensLekmanVEVO Jens Lekman - Wedding in Leipzig (Official Lyric Video)

If, like me, you've been losing your connection to humanity lately, then maybe, also like me, Jens Lekman is the guy to reel you back in. This dropped like an hour ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBU...