Big Joel

what a nice shot

one thing about this I find interesting is that when I got around to reading David Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" I found myself confused at the idea of being sad you had a job where nobody cared you and your productive input was non-existent. that's my second fav kind of job behind youtuber actually

I did it while working a wonderfully boring job at a front desk 🤠

just started writing an "essay about The Room, like for English class, but recreationally" and then kept doing it 🤠. don't share this lore around this is a private secret

Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about progressivism bc I grew up with an alcoholic, psychologically abusive father in constant state of distress, anxiety and worry about the future. Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own 'progressive politics' for almost 20 years

I get scared to start new games, especially ones where I will have to watch a ten minute movie about what the game is about. I sometimes start them up then quit them quickly, saying to myself, "not now. I can't do it just now."

how would the trans thing cover up the decades old grooming thing?

YouTube video by Little Joel Please Do Not Assassinate Candace Owens, Emmanuel Macron.

sharing the word here to try to and put a stop to this. Macron. Do not assassinate Candace Owens

youtu.be/SGp7-MS12aQ?...

I feel like under so much political gesturing is the implicit belief that donald trump is, in his own way, kind of cool. not related to what he does or says (I'm not saying Hasan likes Trump of course), just, kind of a cool dude we all like for some reason

please help me

I've been sitting here wracking my brain for five minutes trying to figure out what talent donald trump has a unique eye for. JD Vance?

It was made and it’s out in theaters!

I would even argue that elpheba flying away and saying no to everything she thought she wanted in the first film is a better conclusion to the story than whatever happens in the second act

I’m honestly appreciative that they split wicked into two movies, because in 20 years, who’s watching that second movie. It’s like a genius way to make one iconic classic

Sapiens Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m

Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

It’s such a poor way of communicating the obvious statement “social changes can come with unexpected costs” purposely drawn up to exclude the corollary, “social changes can come with unexpected benifits”

I hate that I can so easily imagine a conservative learned British man saying it and looking pleased with himself. It’s such an arrogant thought experiment

This is my meditation

5) imagine suggesting getting rid of a fence and hearing someone say this. Imagine how pissed off you’d be

4) the hypothetical assumes there’s no clear benefit to getting rid of the fence, when that doesn’t make much sense, given the fact that someone wants it gone

3) fences have obvious purposes most of the time, just like many things in society, and if you can’t tell what one does, it probably serves a purpose you don’t need anymore

1) people generally have the CLEAREST picture of the things a society does and why, and inherently have a less good picture of the things a society doesn’t do.
2) partly because of 1, people are extremely biased toward the status quo.

I spend a surprising amount of time stewing about chesterton’s fence. Not even coming up with new reasons to hate it, just mentally relisting the three or four reasons I already hate it and getting mad

I also like that they were cooking with gas until they got to “words that rhyme with nation and could mean penis” and went with “location.” At this point I don’t even know why the kid stood up and said anything

Unfortunately it seems this just how the British boys are and there’s nothing we can do

Hey to all food creators online: I personally don’t like it when you say “bone apple teeth” or any other kind of quirky variation on bon appetit. Do whatever you want, but I vote “no” on saying bone apple teeth, if you were wondering

it's literally just "romeo and juliet have a famous age gap" that blows a bit, no, that's kinda boring. I guess I heard it, and forgot it, and just knew they were named after some story

omg are they really. I always thought.... because you stay young forever lmao

oh huh, so just imagining a world without peter pan laws and then pretending they're impossible, that's good

like how, even hypothetically, would the existence of this tragic jailed 18 year old make the distinction particularly relevant