Jon Roth

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

And you are better off this way...

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Gloria Swanson by Allan Warren in her NYC apartment in 1972. 👑

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

Keep calling them the Secret Police.

Hard agree

We shouldn't be referring to these people as "Federal agents" until we get proof that they actually are that

While we're at it, we should stop saying people are being "arrested" when they are being kidnapped

And stop saying "deported" if they're being extrajudicially rendered

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds.

He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings.

He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights.

This is political intimidation.

it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts

Here's a cheat sheet for whenever you read an old sci-fi author

Pretty wild to be living in a time when humans are being forced to work in order to even be considered deserving of life or even to be considered human at all, while simultaneously human labor is being systematically eliminated from the concept of work.

Noteworthy that Trump's latest firing was the Head of the US Copyright Office.

The reason was almost 100% due to her publishing a paper days earlier stating that most AI companies had run afoul of legal liability for misinterpreting 'fair use'.

Never miss a chance to say that New York's subway transports more people per day than all of our nation's airports combined

The Met Gala is great if you love watching a certain genre of gay guy fire off post after post in search of a hit like they’re a legacy media account with KPIs to meet

Anne of Green Goebbels

the tariffs have been great for me specifically in that I get to watch every stodgy business media publication start posting like 2017 resistlibs

Jan Schakowsky, the incumbent in my race, will reportedly not seek re-election. So it seems like a good time to reintroduce myself —

I’m Kat Abughazaleh and I’m running for Congress.

The guy on the left will pull out the Lenny Bruce records from under the counter if you say the secret word, the guy on the right has an in with Deutsche Grammophon and hasn’t paid for a classical record since the war bsky.app/profile/sk-7...

love a senator imploring regular citizens to fight back against tyranny. dawg you spent the last twenty years giving machine guns and tanks to traffic cops this is like pushing your toddler into the ring with ivan drago

Someone should ask Homan if it would be ok to send him to a gulag if a completely different white guy he has nothing to do with commits murder bsky.app/profile/atru...

Having sued Maine for the cardinal sin of treating trans people like human beings, mean girl Attorney General Pam Bondi is now threatening to sue California & Minnesota as well.

And like Maine — & Harvard — California won’t cave to the bullies.

Seth Rogen presenting the Breakthrough Prize for physics (Getty)

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science. It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr, very fast.”

— Seth Rogen’s censored remarks presenting the Breakthrough Prize

Cuomo, front-runner in the New York mayor’s race, denied millions in matching funds The former governor’s campaign failed to file the proper paperwork to receive the tranche of cash.

New York City’s campaign finance regulators rejected mayoral front-runner Andrew Cuomo’s request for around $2.5 million in public matching funds Tuesday, an embarrassing glitch for a bid predicated on experience and competence.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me