Joel

Do not like this. Do not encourage this. For you, this is merely a momentary giggle in your telephone. But for me, this is real life.

I deleted my account on Twitter and with it my most viral Golden Girls tweet :(

Remember how there’s an episode where one of them goes to a 12 Step program and then there’s another episode where another one goes to a different 12 Step program and she’s, like, explaining to all of them how it’s just one day at a time

I would gladly pay USPS like $100 a year just to ensure I never get a Valpak again in my life

Glen Geller Glen Ross

No one has ever come harder for me than Swifties who didn’t like that I made a joke *at my own expense* about my ignorance of Taylor’s oeuvre

Instagram was mad when I posted a screenshot of this with “NCTE should fuck off” as the caption

Well I said what I said

These organizations have become worse than useless

That one LAX terminal where you walk ten miles through the underbelly of the entirety of the airport then catch a bus to your real gate, ending up somewhere that feels like a tiny town’s airport.

Apple Intelligence is so fucking stupid with its suggestions. “Hey here’s your grocery list” hey okay, maybe I actually want that when I’m shopping? I can open it then.

Lol so the UTGOP is so scared shitless of sharing the ballot with the Union Ban referendum they are just going to repeal it before?

I think it’s the poems of Catullus (he’s insane raging freak ex-boyfriend one day and he’s poor little Catullus the next)

But yeah, you can have fun with low art and still recognize it as such.

When you say “Let people enjoy things,” you should include among those things the practice of criticism, which includes not just finding fault but also the appreciation of sophistication, both expected and unexpected.

My partner and I were talking about how the “YA should replace all the classics” people and “formulaic genre movies are better than highbrow cinema” people have opposite gender stereotypes—and would probably dislike one another—but share the same anti-intellectualism.

Helen Lewis and Claire Lehmann discovering that there's no number of trans people they can throw under the bus that will convince their far-right friends that they're human beings.

An ad for a gambling company that got thrust into my Uber Eats app

I dunno, I think maybe inserting gambling into every facet of life is a bad thing…

A common thread uniting the Gamers and the shitty romantasy fandom is this drive to be told that the media they engage with as a consumer is art but without the hard work involved in engaging with critique and serious thought about it. They want the status but not the part where they have to think.

A still of Buster Bluth from Arrested Development talking to his mother. He’s wearing army fatigues and holding a bunch of stuffed animals. Buster says “These are my awards Mother, from FIFA.”

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Snoop around in their medicine cabinet for clues.

Governor Reddit... good lord

a lot of this comes down to media elite radicalization, imo

I think the transition from Woke 1 to Woke 2 is best exemplified by the “First Amendment town meeting” guy. Rather than “I will reply with visceral disgust and make it your job to figure out what you did wrong” it’s “I am naming how you’re claiming something in explicit contravention of good sense.”

The Freddie DeBoer “actually most NIMBYs are a rainbow coalition of progressives” take is one of his weirdest

I think that these meetings were rarely photographed in the past, and now you have bloggers and small papers going to them and photographing how old, rich, and white the NIMBYs are.

A still from Star Trek Deep Space Nine. Gul Dukat is sitting in Sisko's chair, drinking kanar and acting like he owns the place. (Dukat is a Cardassian, a kind of grey alien with bony ridges on their face and neck.) Caption: "... is s there a single statue of me on Bajor?"

The most realistic scene in DS9 is when Gul Dukat whined about how the Bajorans never erected a statue in his honor. A prophetic text.

It’s like one of those used consumer products composed of two recyclable things that are prohibitively difficult to separate from one another.

If it was just the sociopaths, they would burn out. But there obviously are—and will always be—valid critiques of a major center-left party to make from the left. Sorting that out is too exhausting for most people.

I think the online left is a pretty seamless blend of people with valid critiques of establishment politicians and absolute sociopaths spreading bullshit because they have Republican family and/or hate their mom

Sam should make check the election returns from last month to see what became of Trumps much vaunted "multiracial coalition"