Tim Carvell

Rick Reilly is a real cherry on top here.

It wasn’t until this very moment I realized Animal Farm totally works as a prequel to the Busy Busy World of Richard Scarry.

(Weirdly, I feel like this severe “I am too principled to ever be appeased” shtick is super-common on the left and not at all common on the right, which may be why they all flock to him and assume he must be smart.)

I don’t even know if he’s advocating for anything there. A man who’s built his brand around “no one can comprehend the horrors I foretell, or the dark deeds needed to counter them” is not going to switch to a business model of “everything is on the right track now, keep up the good work!”

I am not well-versed enough in Yarvin to know *exactly* what he means with the line about how, at most, they could do .05% of what needs to be done—and I’m sure the answer is grim!—but it does suggest the problem in letting a professional doomsayer be a party’s guiding light.

Pete Hegseth’s official photo in which he’s squinting in a way that’s like “smizing” but if instead of smiling you’re trying to look tough, but in practice it mostly looks like he’s desperately holding in a fart

Sorry, I just saw his official photo for the first time and did not realize it featured him trying to do the Blue Steel.

I'm fucking losing it at the verse shapiro chose

I considered making this very joke but figured only half a dozen people would enjoy it, and you were, in fact, one of them.

I feel like the most devastating thing here is looking up the post and discovering it’s from over 3 months ago.

Bless the heart of the little classroom narc who added the K to try and make it wholesome.

I got curious about whether Jane Goodall worked at all with Dian Fossey and was not expecting to learn they were part of a primatologist supergroup.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tri...

The funny thing is, if there's one writer who should get to do a "Wood" piece for McSweeneys, it's the Pop Song Correspondences guy.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

"Showgirls" writer Joe Eszterhas, paying attention

Joe Eszterhas, hearing that people are suddenly interested in learning about the life of a showgirl.

I got curious today about what became of Bryan Singer after he disappeared midway through filming "Bohemian Rhapsody", and I don't know what I was expecting from the "2020s" section of his Wikipedia entry, but it... wasn't this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_S...

This is only about 20% more incorrect than the Roland Emmerich version of the story.

It's hard to RT a whole thread intact, but I like how the first post here made me laugh, because, y'know, but the followup posts are very kind and generous.

The nice thing about buying your kids clothing on the Gap mobile website is, it really replicates the in-store experience, if the in-store experience consisted of a sales associate popping up and screaming in your face every 20 seconds about a sale elsewhere in the store.

Reading a recipe that’s like, “marinate overnight, or at least three hours, although even just 20 minutes is fine” and it’s wild to see a chicken curry negotiate against itself in real time.

I remember going to press tour exactly once as a journalist, and even then, it felt like "ohhh, these celebrities don't know they're walking into someone else's clubhouse" and boy, the fact "I'm Taye Diggs" outlasted "Day Break" is a perfect encapsulation of that.

OH MY GOD.

(I'm now genuinely curious about the "I'm Taye Diggs" story.)

It’s not that it’s not also horrifying but the whole spectacle is very “SecDef Queeg summons the generals for a lecture on revised strawberry policies.”

Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/
www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

Looks like the site did a stealth edit, as the headline and deck when you click through are much milder than what still shows up in the Bluesky link.

Oh, not only do I remember this review, my husband and I still quote you quoting the person at TCA doing “REVENGE!” anytime we discuss “Revenge” or “What If”.

THE DETENTE.

Hoping against hope that the Renee Zellwegger billionaire sociopath character on “Only Murders” turns out to be her billionaire sociopath character from “What/If”, after faking her death in THE FIRE.

Tweet from Alex Bolton: Chuck Schumer tells reporters at White House that Trump seemed completely oblivious to impending increase in health insurance rates and closing of rural hospitals: "By his face and by the way he looked, I think he heard about them for the first time.”

I wonder if Chuck Schumer hesitated for even an instant as he ran from the White House to announce this, to wonder if “The president didn’t even know about any of the bad stuff in his bill!” is almost certainly a lie, and also, more importantly, a message that actually helps the president.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video