Breq judges you

Cartouche w/ bust of Nicolas Poussin, surrounded with flowers by Daniel Seghers, whose day is today. Because great artists should be honored & adorned!

Most things are more virgin than any of his listeners’ computers.

YOU didn't do that. People easily influenced by influencers, i.e., the people who are much more normal than you, very possibly did.

Coward!

The Minnesota State Fair, and the animal barns in particular, produce those sorts of note-perfect, e pluribus unum in a candid photo moments at a rate of about 1 every 90 seconds. It’s glorious.

“pattern recognition brain” and “empaths” is when you take the basic human condition and assume it’s only you. lmao get me off this planet

that kid u knew who was too online, smelled bad, made racist jokes all the time, and made everyone feel uncomfortable is the demiurge of american society, everything caters to that guy

Wait are we looking for a slogan for the politics of being fucking normal?

"Truth, Justice, and the American Way" isn't booked at the moment and covers the key points

What’s really funny is that by this logic, the party should cut Mamdani loose.

The idea that an ex Gawker person would say such a thing right now is ludicrous.

He’ll wait until July, when being first to crap on Mamdani will have cred on the left by next December.

one day we'll study the trans rights movement of 2015-now and a story of lost opportunity and own goals. if you asked me today, trans rights will be won by straight liberals commitment to bodily autonomy, legacy LGBT organizations and cis gays, parents of trans youth, and frustrated trans Gen Alpha

Such a stacked cast!

the problem with this and the dayton's markets is that people have turned "support my small business!" into "support my small business where i buy crap on amazon and temu and mark it up and resell it!" instead of actually creating something themselves yet demand the support as if they are

An underrated reason articles like these are infuriating is because it's like being at a book club discussing The Three-Body Problem when someone kicks the door in and screams 'THE HOGWARTS HOUSE SYSTEM DOESN'T MAKE SENSE'. Like come the fuck on buddy, we're trying to have grown-up conversations.

Donald Trump falling asleep at a table in his stupid red "America is Back, 45-47" hat and Joe Biden looking slim and fit in a leather jacket, black hat and gloves.

Both taken this weekend:

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

They believe that Trump will use the formal powers of the government and whatever informal powers he may have to extract costs from them if they do not play ball and they equally believe that the anti-Trump coalition will not extract these costs.

So we need to extract those costs.

A significant part of recovering from Trump 2.0 is going to be prosecuting its lawbreaking and the non-administration officials who aided it.

I'm not a lawyer but the 'Conspiracy against rights' statute (18USC241) seems like it could be a vehicle for pursuing non-state actors in this regard.

At a certain point, you need to owe other people something or you get this.

The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks

As a civil (and not religious) holiday, Thanksgiving opens the door to a lot of new Americans to be able to participate in a broader America in their own way. No other public holiday comes close to the assimilating force of Thanksgiving

Kant's categorical imperative is to "act only according to a maxim that you could will to become a universal law for everyone without contradiction"

I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.

you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive

stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.

Business card with the text: Know your rights! Interacting with Isaac Chotiner? - "Am I being profiled?" - "I exercise my right to be silent" - Refuse to sign any statements. - Do not offer express invitation to investigate further.

Every American should have this in their wallet:

If anyone let me make a Star Wars film, I would make a chamber piece about louche hangers on in the halls of power in the decadent late Republic Coruscant, which is in part why no one would let me do such a thing.

The Aubrey-Maturin Saga (18 movies)

The starfish hasn’t posted in days; similar circumstances.