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The Aunts of Invention

They're Probably Not Giants

Iron Caterpillar

Navy Sabbath

The Eggshell Stripes

Secundus

Gooseberry Alarm Clock

Guns 'n' Chrysanthemums

The Liking Spoonful

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The Novemberists

I'm totally baffled abt the markets. Where is Capital? Trump is messing w/ govt data; imposing tariffs; flirting w/ default; meddling in corporate management.

Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?

Major publications ditching their critics think that influencers or algorithms are the future, but they’re wrong. If anything, as entertainment becomes more overwhelming, you need experts as a guide. You need people who aren’t part of relentless hype machines designed to sell you something.

America weaponizes children, and Weapons follows suit Mass loss has been normalized in the U.S., as has treating those lost as political fodder. Weapons taps into this weaponization.

New at @avclub.com, I went long, deep, and dark on WEAPONS, school shootings, and the uniquely American horrors at the core of the film.

As a father, and as the brother of an elementary school teacher, this was hard to write, but I think it was worth it.

In April, comedian Jena Friedman had a strange encounter in Vancouver airport. She had just performed a Ted talk about the future of comedy and was heading home to the US, when someone she thought worked for airport security quizzed her about her visit. Thinking he was probing for visa infringements, “I just said I was doing comedy. Then he asked: ‘What do you joke about?’ Stupidly, I lightly flirted with him, and was like: ‘Everything other than airport security!’ He didn’t react at all. Then I realised he was US border control. He asked again: ‘What do you joke about?’” Friedman is a veteran of The Daily Show and The Late Show, and her standup comedy often features excoriating routines at the expense of the political establishment. “I just froze because I am a political comedian and I didn’t know what to say. Then he said: ‘Do you joke about politicians?’”

Comedian and US citizen Jena Friedman was returning from a Vancouver engagement to the US.

Airport security is attempting to censor speech. This is a fascist country.

It's ridiculous how much movie theaters are charging for popcorn these days. I typically don't pay anything for food that exploded.

It's funny, we spent the early 2000s annoyed that we didn't have the flying cars and robot maids that 1960 tech promised us.

Whereas I imagine people living in the 2070s will curse AI for ruining the world just enough to make us wish it had killed us.

If Trump was actually as good at being an insult comic as his fanbase thinks, he'd have settled on "Steven Munchkin" and stuck with it.

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MANOUYCHIN

Who's giving these tweens money to actually shop at the mall? Preppy mall store clothes are pricey, their parents must be rich. Even in my peak '90s mallrat days, I wasn't there to spend money except at the arcade and food court, or maybe on a cartoon graphic tee or some pre-owned Super NES games.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

I'm convinced that scene is referencing a very similar one from Shinya Tsukamoto's TETSUO THE IRON MAN in that sequence. I've never seen confirmation but I wanna believe that Frakes is a secret Japanese body horror sicko.

Buttigieg just comes off as stiff: always has. Whole aura isn’t genuine or dynamic or trustworthy.

Running him in 2028 would be a bit like running Al Gore or John Kerry. Mitt Romney.

Idk why Dems think that is the only kind of guy who can win when he’s the kind of guy who *never* wins. Not POTUS.

Undeniably so, although all the major mall brands have been low-key white-conservative-preppy coded since I was a teen in the 90s. The ad didn't move the needle on my opinion of American Eagle. Abercrombie and Gap and Old Navy and the rest have always been this way.

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For the first time in English, these will read from right to left. Included are original Japanese sound effects and more.

By Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima

Vance and Buttigieg strike me as being variants of the same guy, which is to say that as a fellow Former Gifted Kid I was on to their shared brand of smarmy bullshit from the jump.

Of course Pete's going to call JD "smart," if he pulled back the curtain on Vance he'd also be telling on himself.

Has he ever proffered an explanation of the nickname? Like who just names themselves that?

I feel like it would have happened even without the ad controversy, my honest reaction on hearing about the whole thing was "Wait, American Eagle Outfitters still exists?" Who actually shops at malls any more?

Kim Davis, huh? This administration is all about bringing back the defeated shitheels from 10 years ago. Shouldn't she be back home, checking up on James Caan's progress on that new Misery Chastain novel?

this is tragically going to work. they’re going to roll back all rights to before the time of ronald reagan and it’s going to take so much to reverse course of this fascism