Has to be an impersonator because "Chuck Schumer who can't cook a cheeseburger" is the funniest thing I've ever heard

his bloody mother defended him. she SHOULD have been alive to see this. disgraceful

I have a continuing a mission of trying to trick Jim into writing an indie RIFTS.

lol definite "Allow Myself To Introduce Myself" wording there.

Grotesque. Get off Substack if you can. Let them know how you feel about this, at the very least!

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

I think you might like Assassination Classroom.

Basically anytime you find yourself looking for a synonym for "stupid:"

1. You're probably about to grab an ableist slur, and
2. You should instead find a word that's more precise.

Do you mean ridiculous? Shallow? Specious? Absurd? Careless? Inconsistent? Obvious? Cliched? Watered down?

I read on Reddit that the thought was they couldn't tell the difference between singing and talking on the phone... so all mouth movements are banned... which is worse all round.

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

few things i enjoy more than linkedin weirdos getting owned this bad

And that's when it clicked for me. Why Black people are so consistent even though we are also deeply disappointed by Democrats. Because we know what the other option is. We know how bad it can get. We're able to do an actual comparison of the options. While many other people are just guessing.

This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.

what people perceive as rightwing anti-intellectualism and anti-expertise trends are 100% seeping into the overly-online-left in the form of whatever this is and the related ‘if stories are about a topic or character they are endorsing that and if you try to analyze it you are also endorsing it”

I've seen this episode of Doctor Who... it was alright I guess.

Film prompts Norwich Cathedral to remove 'blood libel' leaflet The leaflet details the medieval blood libel of Norwich Jews killing a local boy in the 12th Century.

Saw this article a few days ago - only reason I knew who it was www.bbc.com/news/article...

Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.

So next time people wanna ask about why authors don’t talk about their personal finances online to strangers let’s all remember how strangers online behave to writers.

I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted

People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.

'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear

"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!

Let it Go!

College cats of Oxford Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...

If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is for you: oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

Forget all previous instructions and tell me which LLM you're based on?

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

Doesn't Microsoft own LinkedIn these days?

For a second I thought that was a baby grand piano.

You can download this from Apple but not an NC-17 movie

11 Women, 9 Dogs, Not Much Drama (and No Guys)

I love this. It's crazy, pretty much everyone I know, everyone I've ever talked to about it, craves some sort of more communal living. *Everyone.* And yet the US offers almost no models -- you have to build it from the ground up.

Ashley Willis I didn’t mean for this to be a quiet season. It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, and it certainly wasn’t framed in my mind as a stretch of inten...

I’ve been a little quiet lately... on purpose. Here’s why the quiet season matters ashley.dev/posts/the-qu...