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makes me think of a Turner painting

When I tell people I don't eat octopus, they always assume it's because they're intelligent. No, it's because they're intelligent AND have the saddest life cycle I've ever heard of.

quotation marks signify that you really, extra mean it

The joke potential of being compared by one's siblings to Paul Williams is dazzling, like a mosquito who accidentally hit a carotid

"fuck" has clearly been substituted in here for a variety of proper nouns ("for Pete's sake," "for God's sake," "for Mary's sake") so singular possessive makes the most sense. If anything, make it a capital "F."

talking to the bank rn about a loan to start my online guillotine-blade sharpening business

The NYT is a ragebait troll farm. This is the business model they have chosen, at least for this stretch of history. There is only one rationale response. I’m sorry, but we gotta muzzle the gray lady.

good luck, mate.

my favourite random detail in the movie "Reptile" was Benicio del Toro's character's preoccupation with his kitchen remodel while he was working the murder case

I don't consider myself a clothes guy at all (and I'm sure nobody else does, either) and yet I am always fascinated by Derek's deep-dive threads; they make me want to care about dressing more. At least, temporarily.

painfully true

as a scientist it disappoints me how often we lose major figures but can't just feel a simple "aw" about it because after the discoveries they became known for, they turned out to be giant assholes

100% endorse

The humanities in all their variety are how most people learn about history, psychology, the entire accrued knowledge of humanity about itself. Humanities education should not be seen as lightweight or nonessential; it's how you raise the knowledge level and cognitive capacity of a whole society.

Lol, I had this too for a while, along with loads of sexy manga. I don’t have a problem with either, but it was so full on, and I was new to the site…

Omg, what a wonderful, bizarre bit of trivia I never could have imagined. I am so pleased to know this (although I'm not sure who I can tell who will appreciate it...)

but he's a socialist, so he's gonna throw the socialist switch and allofasudden make NYC into Commietown

because mayors can do that

these fuckin' guys

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - Wikipedia

The part in this book where the hero just had to sit around and be a rock until his parents wished him back into existence always freaked me out as a kid
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvest...

This is a great line, and happens to describe my feelings exactly. I guiltlessly enjoy looking at attractive young people but there is no part of me that wants to date one.

lol, I'll take it.

"shoved charts in our faces" here is a fascinating claim.
Did he shove them in your face, or did he post them in support of his argument? How do you tell the difference on bluesky?

One of the most ridiculous themes of the Mamdani freakout is this notion that he's going come into office and flip a "socialist" switch and New York will just be Commietown after that. Do they think that we think mayors are kings? How exactly is he going to destroy the American economic system?

This is the thing. Being able to think in terms of distributions makes all the difference in facing the complexity of the world generally. And most people can't.

I thought you articulated this well in the interview, and it was interesting to hear you describe it when I've seen the exact dynamic play out in your comments--all these people working hard to affirm a shared idea about something you said that... isn't what you said.

just like riding a wire fence

I really did enjoy that bit as well. 😂

I so enjoy the increasingly long stretches of time in which I am allowed to forget all about Joe Lieberman

While I think that British punditry is, in general, higher quality than American, it is amazing how shallow the analysis can be when they dive into the US scene, like a whole level of abstraction out from your most inane consensus talking-head yapping. Like Cokie Roberts with an English accent.

Last term it was babies in cages and children taken from parents and put into care without keeping records to assist reunification. Cruelty to children is par for the course with these people.