Shawn, Companion to Companions

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

You: "I want you to tell me the most compellingly, tragically weird guy to ever be president of the US."

Me, a day later: "Okay. I've narrowed it down to five."

You: "All right. I'll make it easier. How about just between 1960 and 1980?"

Me, a week later: "Okay. I've narrowed it down to four."

I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.

Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure:

- no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis
- no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture
- no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber
- refused to reform the filibuster
- drone wars expanded

Mods are asleep post brassicas

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.

So many core beliefs - whether you’re talking about Jesus or Mr Rogers or Bill & Ted - really just boil down to “don’t be a dickhead.” Being kind to others shouldn’t be revolutionary; it should just be how we conduct ourselves.

(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice

putting aside the trans rights issues specifically (lol), I think part of what has me so frustrated with the Newsom thing is that Pritzker, Walz, and Zohran are putting on clinics for a popular, progressive politics and we’re wasting time talking about this used car salesman ass goblin.

schadenfreude from the AI bubble popping will verge on the erotic

It's kinda crazy how if you pursue the ideology "maybe we shouldn't let people die" the most conservative you can possibly end up is like a socdem. Literally anything to the right of that is like... Objectively evil.

AI psychosis "the chatbot is my best friend" type stuff is so alien to me because the few times I've been forced to interact with one of those things I immediately start telling it to kill itself out of pure irresistible disgust

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Family abolition is about ending the state’s exploitation of family as a stand-in for public infrastructure. No housing? Rely on family. No healthcare? Family. No safety net? Family. The neoliberal family formation is privately subsidized state abandonment dressed with a sentimental smokescreen.

Con Law professor walks into class. Stands in the center of the room. Lights a cigarette.

"Idk what to tell you," he says. He opens a Four Loko and chugs half.

"Vibes," he says. "It's just vibes now." Students ask him questions but he has nothing more to say. He just continues with his drink.

Clown costume for you, you sad wet noodle.

It’s so embarrassing to still believe this. It’s like thinking Santa is real.

I'm praying for ICE agents today.

May they not know a moment's peace until they quit, and seek amends.

May their children revile them.
May their parents regret them.
May they know they deserve the hatred and distrust of their countrymen.

And may all their tomatoes be underripe and flavorless.

Israel is a criminal, fascist settler colonial state engaging in a genocide & bombing civilians in at least 5 nations right now. Any escalation into full blown war is both its aim & its fault & our continual sale of arms,- & frankly anything else, to them endangers the lives of everyone on Earth.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

no_children.mp3

I gotta say: i started making these after seeing the recipe and they absolutely slap

There have been young douchebros around my entire life. It’s just that until recently there wasn’t an industry telling them that they were entitled to be douchebros without anyone calling them douchebros.

Welp, there goes my weekend lol

Holy shit, I started that months ago but wasn’t able to finish before it got pulled off YT - did it get reposted somewhere?

“Hm, maybe the 76th Kingshot ad will get him.”