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American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.

Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

"Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night may become a curler when the Olympics loom and the winter moon is bright..."

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

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Head up, #Boskone! I'll be reading at 12:30 Saturday in the Independence room. Live reading, silly voices, brand-new work.

There's an entire strand of movies like There's Something About Mary, Dodgeball, Anchorman, Kingpin, etc. which are a) honestly full of issues, no denying but also b) make you laugh so hard your major organs might explode from your chest.

Sure, we set out fake Thanksgiving meals to psychologically torture warehouses of imprisoned families, but the Dow Jones is over 50,000.

Good God, I want to scream into a void every time one of these ignorant jackasses starts talking about fire behavior; any basic training text for Firefighter I can tell you in excruciating detail exactly why WTC-like events can happen. These people are little children playing pretend.

These people are, by choice, enemies of justice, humanity, morality, and accountability. That's what they want their job to be. This is what they want to do.

An older writer friend once told a story about the night his karate teacher got the class hyped up to see "the one move that ends any fight." He took them out into the parking lot, faced off against them, turned, and sprinted his ass off, vanishing into the darkness.

ELON: (angry-stabs a trench knife into his bedroom drywall because his dinosaur cloning project failed again)

THE WORLD'S MOST UNDERPAID CAMGIRL, FIVE HOURS LATER: Hey babe what's that knife stuck into your wall for? I can see it on the screen.

ELON: that is tactical positioning obviously

The Hill: Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/11/26 10:38 AM ET

Politico: Gallup retreats from political polling , again under new leadership Gallup will announce friday that it plans to measure President Donald Trump's job approval rating only on a monthly basis. 12/21/2018

If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.

The American right wing, everybody. Who cares about a long-term human trafficking scandal? Who cares about a few hundred or a few thousand young victims? The stock market is up!

Definitely not by me- but I'd swear I recall having read the story you're thinking of at some point.

Today in immediate presidency-ending scandals for anyone but the One Special Boy.

Oh, shit. Gamers of a certain age, start your engines...

V: TM - Gothic Rock 2 compilation, Cleopatra Records
W: TA - Fear Factory, Demanufacture
M: TA - Peter Gabriel, Passion (Music for The Last Temptation of Christ)

It's brain-cracking that we had to endure that lunatic shit about secret tunnels under pizza parlors when all the while the real creep conspiracy was university presidents openly e-mailing each other shit like "HAY BUD had fun at the sex torture island party lol let's talk eugenics next week"

Wow, that's amazing. You're saying people who rely on their bodies being in impeccable condition aren't willing to pretend that everything is a-okay and Covid never happened? How "extreme."

"Oh you think we need more oxygen storage? What are you, a PEDO???" (the funniest thing in human history subsequently happens)

That Jesse Pinkman HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT! meme. And yet my past self does.

Once again I play the ancient game, a game against my implacable nemesis-- my past self who put my glasses down right around here somewhere, I would swear.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.

She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.

It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy!

When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.

There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

I think of QT as a guy who used to be able to successfully share his passionate cinema freakery with a broad audience, and at some point he cast that set of skills aside and just sorta crawled inside himself.

The disparity between regular Americans taking to the streets for community and shared ideals... and elite institutions folding themselves up their own assholes for the sake of a vile, crooked, pathetic bigot like Donald Trump. It's really something.

SWEDISH CHEF HOLDING TWO DOZEN BAGUETTES: Der lasten ploosy yerm wanna bork borken moop is in derm courty court.

KERMIT: I'm not the enemy!

SWEDISH CHEF HOLDING TWO DOZEN BAGUETTES: Then hooben dooben?

Every one of these fucking apps that comes out (and I take it for granted that most of them are more or less desperate cash grabs) has a pitch that translates to "Now you don't need to do the fun and rewarding part!"

I feel like a little rope just rolled out one ear and all of my goddamn IQ points just bailed out

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