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ever. ever. ever.

tweet from Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente: I've heard all the hype about Weapons. Planned my entire weekend around watching it. I didn't realize it wasn't available to stream yet. Sol went with Sinners instead. I may be like 6 months late with this critique but that was one of the most overhyped overrated movies of all time. If you say that movie was great you have no movie credibility with me. 11:38 AM • 8/11/25 • 2M Views

heads up if you liked “sinners” you have no movie credibility with the guy who planned his whole weekend around streaming a film that just opened in theaters

you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools

you all would really rather ignore the majority black and latino multi-state cultural melting pot

the one with the most lgbtq+ people per capita

to have an easier monday

alright then

i’ve seen less solidarity for people who live in dc from the broader american culture than i have seen for the trans community. that’s SAYING something

can’t wait for meatcat vs the noid

Because media views rural whites as *real americans* and minorities and urbanites as inauthentic and undeserving

The worst and most mediocre people in this country won't go away and somehow wield so much power.

Racism is the reason why your rent is high, racism is the reason why you will never have universal healthcare, racism is the reason why college costs a fortune, racism is the reason why democrats and republicans completely agree on killing Palestinian people

shout
shout
let it all out
press on the X if you want to doubt

Poking the Discourse Bear Re: “Classic” Science Fiction Over on Bluesky I got a lot of guff about the above post, but you know what? I 100% stand by it. I’m 56 now, and if you’re recommending the same science fiction books to a ten-year-old …

I have gone ahead and written up a more organized piece about why I think recommending decades-old genre "classics" to young people new to the space is not, shall we say, a great thing to do

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Extreme Home Makeover: White House Edition This old, fly-infested building needs some work.

J. D. Vance: I’m here to surprise a really deserving family with a total home makeover! The family is the Trumps! Donald, the patriarch, is the monarch of a small, backwater nation. He’s hoping to completely redo his house so that one day, he can pass it down to his kids!

Oh, you’re an old soul? Name 3 of your children who died of consumption

Fascism encourages you to think it’s a spectator sport and when it’s too late you realize you’re also on the playing field and always have been.

*going into any average American deli* ah delightful, a glass cabinet filled to the brim with the very wettest of hams! how delectable to me, a pervert

my contribution to the 'does the kim davis case mean we need to worry about obergefell' discourse is 'i've actually been worrying about obergefell for other reasons i'm so sorry'

Obergefell v. Hodges made me believe in the whole "arc of history bends towards justice." In the 90s, I didn't think gay marriage would be legalized in my lifetime because homophobia was so deeply ingrained. We would have never gotten here without the decision and now it may be overturned.

people are mad about this but it's just on-its-face true. trump won the popular vote and because of a few decades of the media priming people to believe that only conservatives can truly represent The People, that popular vote victory was treated as a defacto enabling act

“Do we *really* want to get caught up in defending the safety of…*looks around, whispers* Black people?"

every band that forms in a small town puts out a debut album where the theme is “please god get me out of here”

we should fund hallmark movies where a lady returns home for Christmas and her high school sweetheart looks like shit because he’s been worn down by the mundanity of small town life

Dems should lean into sneering cosmopolitan elitism imo

Weaponized unreality is a hell of a tool for those willing to wield it, and the Republicans are wielding it expertly unfortunately.

This helped me feel culturally sane again.

fuck. I was just getting ready to build a domestic factory too.

Post by @owlygem · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 2376  ❤️ 1990 · Hello old friend, I sent you out there years ago and you went and spread a lot of good karma, I just need your favour again, help me find some work 🧡

In the interest of proper credit, I think this is the original artists's current blog. They have other art, a patreon, and refer to 'sending the jelly into the wild' to acknowledge that it became its own thing.

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i need the jelly this week (first phone call for a flight dynamics role this afternoon)

a hilarious thing that John McCain of all people turned out to be prescient about was that UFC was a barbaric sideshow that would poison our culture

Not a huge Derek Thompson fan but he's straightforwardly correct here. Financial institutions own a tiny percentage of US homes and generally rent them out rather than keeping them vacant. Preventing BlackRock from buying housing wouldn't do much to help affordability.
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