Tim Carmody

Possession is the whole of a tattoo

If there’s any one thing I believe in, it’s this

Album about the world’s seas and oceans when

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

The jig was up

Isn’t every tattoo a whale tattoo? And if one has no tattoos — is that not an allegorical homage to the irrepresentability of the leviathan?

Busy day!

Front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune January 24 2026 COURT ORDER DIDN’T SAVE TODDLER <image of two year old detained and transferred by ICE> Outcry intensifies over detention of five year old Grocery trip ends in girl, father being sent to Texas <image of streets full of protestors> Little proof to back up ICE claim of 10K arrests White House posted altered photo of activist Protest from MSP to DT KLOBUCHAR TAKES STEP TOWARD RUNNING FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNOR

Tomorrow’s Star Tribune (with alt text)

king shit

welcome back “indistinguishable from a real dril post”

I asked my wife today if we needed to stock up and we apparently still have COVID lockdown supplies in the basement freezer

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

I’m so proud of Minnesota. I understand why some people belittle protests as not enough, but I really think this shit matters.

I saw a clip on Fox News and they had to admit thousands of people showed up. It’s not going to stop Trump, but it’s a signal to your neighbors that they’re not alone.

Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.

Oh sure! It’s all coming together

He’s mostly fun unless you decide to talk shit

Yeah I mean step back from the edge, the Mel Brooks documentary is right there

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Things are fucking horrible but i feel better now than i did a year ago, just because 1. This administration is incompetent and 2. People are fired up.

Also how does Patrick Stewart’s physically wiped-out humanity in the face of torture somehow remain so sexy

Some costume designer was like “fuck yeah, Cardassian prisoners wear magenta, just like Barbie’s car”

My actual theory about this is that stocking a grocery store is an incredibly delicate operation and if you even get 1.5x as many people shopping as on a typical day, it will wipe out whole categories of items, and 2x or more can completely destroy the place. It’s like traffic after a ball game

“Time to finally get my canning operation going”

Look how angry Gul Madred is! He can’t even think of a comeback

Gul Madred: it is official.. There are only two sexes Captain Picard: Yea, the sex I have with your mom and the sex I have with your dad Gul Madred: <grimaces angrily>

I saw and reposted this meme one year ago today and it’s still one of my all time favorites

I was just asking @karenmcgrane.bsky.social the other day, where are the good kid friendly animal movies, animated or no

Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account

Books about the history of capitalism are the new books about war, for and by dads of all genders. Give me a one-word-title commodity history and unlimited time on the toilet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

This leads me to wonder why he's going back to a job so soon. Maybe he just missed it more than he even expected

But an audiobook of a printed edition is not the same as an oral recitation of a story that exists ONLY as an oral recitation

Yes, he was able to re-up by playing in a game