Ol' Chef Dan

Arteta knows something about the Wigan left side?

Seems chaotic and potentially fun.

"I would like to eat the crispy space wings."

American Century of Humiliation is manifesting in ways I did not predict.

Voting pales in effectiveness to your strategy, firebombing a Walmart, which pales in effectiveness to my strategy, listening to Gang of Four's first EP, Yellow, loudly.

That's what the robots are for!

Good policies are why Republicans control all three branches of government?

But he won twice, which is important here.

it's fucking fantastic man. we won't have to do anything to make intense disdain for Israel a consensus in left of center Americans born after 1980, they will do all the work for us

it’s a shame that donald trump wasn’t this passionate about checking ids back when he was partying with jeffrey epstein

Has anyone tried asking AI a bunch of Nagel and Chalmers type questions about its own consciousness?

And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town, and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply

The post starts with "who's the threat now" and ends with "democrats". Incredible stuff.

The "I simply don't believe" part is infuriating when good old Texas is sitting there in reality, refuting anything you might want to believe.

This has me more unreasonably angry than anything I've read here in a very long time.

"Small town tolerance" is 90% propaganda. Rhetorically everyone values 'minding their own business' and in practice this is true about 1/10 the time.

Urban areas seem to be somewhat reversed - rhetorically communitarian (for better & worse), practically more individualistic

You are maintaining that they are currently better, nevermind a next hope.

American culture is dead, dead, dead

In one year’s time we could be watching E! red carpet correspondents forced to engage with John Cale, and I think that’s beautiful.

The Foundingest Father

Curling’s uncle: 54-year-old lawyer who called out ICE becomes oldest US Winter Olympian Rich Ruohonen, a personal injury attorney from Minnesota, said this week that ‘there’s no shades of gray’ around the federal occupation in his home state

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Then you believe incorrectly.

Who is "everyone else"? Pundits like you, saying "follow public opinion"? What is the mechanism you're proposing here?

Hell yeah, chef

The lid, maybe, not the seat.

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

A political obituary of the Starmer-McSweeney project. It's over. No-one knows what to do.

“It’s an unbelievable disaster and also none of us were ever wrong, about anything” really has been the smash hit of the 21st century. Join in at the chorus.

Of course this aligns with my politics, but it seems an imaginative and charismatic progressive could change the vibe with some sweeping and successful public works.

Do you feel the precarity is manufactured by conservatives and austerity liberals? A failure of imagination and the possibility of large scale public spending? Something of a victory for the super wealthy to avoid paying any kind of taxes to fund this?

Macronism