paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)

crazy how different of a world it is than the one I grew up in, like, the ‘03 Blue Dogs are so gone, now we’re primarily mad at someone like Newsom for nodding with the justification before condemning the action and the only elected guy fully behind it is the one with literal brain damage

I have a critique of this tweet that disagrees with other interpretations of it. he’s not saying she’d be more likely to do it, he’s saying she needed to more strongly clarify that she wouldn’t. the reason it’s wrong, IMO, is that I don’t think it would’ve mattered.

now’s your chance boys

the bit in Spinal Tap where Nigel makes his big comeback to the band and his guitar is still getting radio interference is severely underrated

like be skeptical, sure, but people and institutions are sometimes just inconsistent rather than being always fraudulent. sometimes people are even stupid on a bunch of things *because* they’re actually smart on one thing and are therefore overconfident.

if you encounter an informational program doing something on your area of expertise and completely whiffing it, it doesn’t actually seem less fallacious to assume they get everything else just as wrong as it is to have Gell-Mann Amnesia and continue trusting them

like "foid" technically breaks down to "female-oid" but it's not really used for transwomen, afaict, it's just a derogatory term for women

it's linguistically past meaning "shaped like", it's supposed to be slur-like in the way that "mongoloid" is a slur but for whatever thing you don't like. it's gross, I hate it.

cannot wait until Gen Alpha nukes Zoomer incelspeak from orbit for being cringe and I'm too old to even be in the conversation

forumspeak is an aesthetic travesty and I would accept it as irony if I had any faith that people were able to separate ironic usage from becoming sincere, which they very clearly increasingly aren't

this is an opportune time to air my grievance that I *hate*...*HATE* the increasing popularity of "-oid" as a suffix used to insult something. fucking hate it, makes my skin crawl each time.

who's more correct is almost immaterial, it's just really funny to see two opposing factions fighting over Mamdani like a girl at a dance

there's a very funny fight emerging online where more neoliberal types claim Mamdani's snow shoveling program is on their side because it cuts out bureaucracy and leftier types claim it because it's the government employing people directly rather than contracting out

you’re gonna wanna call your stylist (they’ll wanna know if everything is okay with you at home)

@WongUpdates X.com Jonathan Majors and Zachary Levi will star as twins in a new action film for The Daily Wire. Described as anti-woke 'Sinners' (via: Deadline)

this has the potential to be the unintentionally funniest movie ever made, like I’m dying just imagining a version of the juke joint scene where Elvis shows up to claim rock n’ roll and everyone agrees that it’s better

the “aw you’re sweet” Mamdani vs. the “hello Human Resources??” everyone else

the “aw you’re sweet” Mamdani vs. the “hello Human Resources??” everyone else

to be clear, I’m tapping this in a pro-Zohran type way

gonna probably tap this sign a lot over the next four years

Brussel sprouts is an interesting example because in the 90's they were literally bred to taste better - not sure if that happened with other vegetables

this is pretty verbatim how my wife's father, who is just a few years old than RFK Jr., describes the experience of vegetables (he is, of course, not an insane person and adjusted in his 20's)

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there is, famously, another whole ass book about how London's sausages will kill you

the similarity between the lefty hippie health stuff and the MAHA health stuff is believing that there was some ideal time when people "ate right" - the former usually goes back to, like, the Neolithic and the latter goes to about 1955

RFK Jr's belief in the "realness" of food is mostly temporal. the food he grew up with is real; the food he believes is a product of the present moment is not.

there's absolutely 0% chance he knows Stew Peters is. same with getting a Nazi insignia that's not, like, a swastika, you have to either be a relatively smart committed Nazi or a garden-variety dumbass, where, to me, one option is far likelier than the other.

the most narratively depressing thing for me is that the tattoo (which I still believe he was too dumb to get for committed ideological reasons) effectively not only vaporized the value of his Palestine support but means he’d be unwise to touch the issue altogether

Collins. I would vote Mills if I was a Maine resident but she’s dead in the water by this point.

subideal that an absolute stone cold dumbass is going up against Collins but he’s the preferred option on a mechanical level in pretty much every way

all due respect, when I say VBNMW in generals, I mean it

"the Hawk Tuah of bad housing takes" I say as they wheel me into the institution