Thaddeus McCollum

I can remember a time when the World Series, a Springsteen album and a Springsteen biopic all happening on the same day would have been celebrated like the Fourth of July, Pt. II. #dadsky

If a government only serves the interests of 10% of the population, it's not so much a "government" as it is an "occupying force."

Culture is wasted on the rich.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

If you grab a 3-month Xbox Game Pass card now at the old price, then cancel the recurring billing, your subscription will end in January - right after the holidays - which is when you were gonna be making resolutions anyway. Set yourself up for success. #cancel #xbox #gamepass

I was literally just talking to my therapist a couple of hours ago about how important X-Men were to my moral development, and why I've made a point to introduce my kid to the same principles.

Comic panel depicting Wolverine, Gambit and Rogue reacting to a segmented dialogue balloon that points to the right edge of the panel, indicating that the speaker is off-screen. Dialogue as follows: 1. "We didn't forget you two! Gambit, Ms. Rogue--Through the roof with heterosexual women. Off the charts!" 2. "All groups, really!" 3. "And Ms. Rogue--I mean, I'm sure you know." 4. ROGUE: "Horny dudes?" 5. "Women too. Horny women!"

I like how @davidmarquez.bsky.social put the speaker out-of-panel here to let you know that's @gailsimone.bsky.social 's voice, not the mayor's.

Meh. Probably just slouch toward Bethlehem for a bit.

i was told that when it’s the end of the world as we know it that i would feel fine

liars

From "Newsrooms Need to Get Tougher on All That Lying" by Richard Tofel. dicktofel.substack.com/p/newsrooms-...

Nothing will remind you of the fragility of existence quite like having to wait two days for an A/C repair.

Replace "some users" with "Lex Luthor's monkeys" for a more honest headline.

Whoa, I was just thinking about Passing Strange yesterday. Good timing.

How about Tom Robbins? I know he's dead now, but he used to not be.

Dang, that's tough. I say Jitter. My 10-year-old daughter says Calico.

Ok, thanks! Ordered the first two from you just now and I'll check with my usual shop before ordering the others.

Hey, Matt. New fan here. Been loving We're Taking Everyone Down With Us. (Am also an old Against Me! fan.) Can you fill me in on what's up with the Farthest Place From Here 7"s? Do I need to hunt them down individually, or will there be a compilation released with the trade?

Taking solace in baseball, beer, hot dogs and Hamilton today. It's important to keep in mind that we're more than just our shitty government.

Anti-4th of July Playlist · Noah Kirby · 187 items · 9 saves

I didn't make it, but this playlist is giving me life on this Third of July, which I suspect will one day be referred to by historians as America's last day.

You know what cures perfectionism? Parenting! Breanna showed me the announcement last night. Congrats!

Counterpoint as someone who wrote a book about Twitter’s influence & studied the minutia of how that influence worked—it is no longer influential! The myth that it is could be easily released if folks still attached to an *idea of what it once was* make a serious calculation about what it is now.

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

What a privilege it is to live in a country where we have rarely known what it is like to fear being killed by any other government but our own.

I hope when we think of them years down the line, we won't have one good thing to say.

I caught up on Uncanny this weekend. It was pretty britchin'.

Make Dick Sprinkles Cheap Again

Boy, it's really starting to feel like it's time to go buy a gun.

I know I'm not the only person doing this, but I pulled up the Declaration of Independence and these are stirring words of grievance...