Tom Hawking

you are the absolute fucking best. thank you for this. <3

i don't know why i'm at all surprised, but even so, it's wild that literally no one in the entire cesspool of US conservatism has ever managed to articulate an objection to Bad Bunny except "he speaks Spanish"

obv no one expects Twitter to be anything other than Nazi bullshit in 2026, but even so—but there's not even an attempt at a citation for this "millions" claim here. nothing. just magical thinking and a determined adherence to never having fun, ever

bad bunny is a generational talent, that was awesome, and the people whose minds are too narrow and clenched to appreciate that are sad cases.

that show was super fun, and it came w the added bonus of conservatives having somehow managed to make the NFL a bastion of "wokeness"

American football is a stupid fkn sport, tho

better question: can 30% compounding interest ever be anything but predatory and morally wrong?

it seemed v skeptical of "mule" for some reason

wow i struggled to break 100

guys everything is so bad

or i might not

taking Napoleon syndrome to its most logical conclusion

Fastest way to make someone anti-cop is to have them encounter the cops in practice

dear god this place is so fucked

BUT

for any Australians sitting at home feeling all smug about how this could/would never happen in Aus: it could and it may well do

They’re trying to cover up a murder that is playing on a loop on every phone.

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

this is also why Hegseth is going after Kelly so viciously. the last thing this administration wants is for anyone to be reminded of the fact that you don't have to—and, indeed, are morally obliged not to—follow illegal orders

this is maddening, but it also shows how rarely your average person has interacted w police etc. cops do this shit ALL THE TIME

This is also why authoritarians in both parties are so intent on censoring social media.

For decades cops murdered with impunity and the press repeated their lies as fact.

Now everyone can document abuse and instantly share it with millions of people.

That makes those in power scared.

Good.

petrichor is the best word

god do we ever need Uncle Clifford now more than ever

Would love to know how Ezra Klein-style high-ground liberalism, where you're meant to give your political opponents the benefit of the doubt, is meant to function when your opponents are murderers

there are many frustrating and bewildering things about this insane country, but the continued liberal "we'll just sit down with the other side and work things out" fantasy is right up there with the worst of them. you can't do bipartisanism if the other side is a literal fucking death cult

@swajones.bsky.social hey just to say that was a really lovely piece on Cecilia Giménez

It’s real now. www.youtube.com/live/zj4hZVx...

"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This

there's something here about how liberals are more interested in remote hypothetical scenarios that COULD be bad than they are in real-life happening-right-now things that ARE bad

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

one thing i will never like about American humor is the general assumption that "louder/more manic/etc" somehow equates to "funnier". stop fkn shouting at one another for the love of god

maybe the lost revenue from these two-day Tests will force Cricket Australia to do something about these fkn pitches

great unanswered questions of our time: how on earth are England sending a kid who's never scored a first class 100 out at #3 on Boxing Day? why is Root not stepping up to bat first drop??