Joel Matthys

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

painstakingly filling my hairbrush with stolen gorilla hair to frustrate any scientists who try to clone me/detectives who try to DNA test me/witches who try to curse me

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.

Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.

As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.

Sounds like a good way to get flagged as a victim of trafficking

The Gales of November <strong>On the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald&#8217;s sinking, the bestselling author of <em>The Great Halifax Explosion</em> tells the definitive story of the &#8220;Mighty Fitz.&#8221...

Putting all the dads on alert that we got an Edmund Fitzgerald book coming out this fall wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize cruelty instead of completely eliminate it

When I was kid, I really disliked tartar sauce. But now I kind of like it. Just goes to show you that at some point they improved tartar sauce.

i think the correct way to think about the lonely boy question is not "how do we reach out to incels?" but "how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice isn't flooded with right-wing propaganda?"

"I reached the conclusion something would go wrong in Germany very early. I reached in 1931 the conclusion that Hitler would get into power, not because the forces of the Nazi revolution were so strong but rather because I thought that there would be no resistance whatsoever."

Physicist Leo Szilard

How did we get an entire corporate and political world full of scumbags and bastards, all we did was incentivize that behavior at every turn

"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."

A five-year-old child.

The extremely simple fact is that Jeff Epstein was the most notorious child sex trafficker in history, and the President of the US was his close personal friend for decades

Acting like this is complicated is absurd. The man knew what Epstein did, didn't care, and participated

There's this weirdly persistent belief that voters are secretly clamoring for boring candidates because boringness signals stability, despite this theory having batted 0.000 my entire life

what this is, above all else, is the biggest green light we’ve ever seen for Dem primary challenges

the Dem base is deeply, deeply angry at the party for not doing more to oppose Trump and the door is wide open for anyone who is serious about doing more on that front

Ralph Yawn Williams

This is how it’s done, No Bull 💩, No drama and No Grandstanding!

That piece set me on a James Agee bender years ago. Just ecstatic prose.

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

I think people should be allowed to feel despair.

Excitement is probably not the right emotion for a sleep podcast, but I'm excited to listen to this.

"Well, I didn't think they'd arrest MY lawn guy," says the person who voted for the Arrest All The Lawn Guys party

There is a certain pattern here:

-Gamed on WhiteWater
-Gamed on Iraq WMD
-Gamed on "but her emails"
-Bullied into dumping Public Editor
-Gamed on DEI etc by Rufo etc
-Gamed on this horrible latest piece, + rationalization.

Something seems really wrong at our most influential news institution.

Has the NYT done a single piece profiling the voters who voted for Mamdani? Or just the people who are lining up against him?

Vienna

100% certainty it was drawn by AI

Your Gold Teeth II

My 9yo daughter told me today that they're watching Tarzan in her Spanish class for summer school. "In Spanish?" I asked her. "No, in English. Next week we're watching it again in Spanish!"

Well played, summer school Spanish teacher.

What's The Score? Jun 7, 2025 Listen to the five music clips and guess each movie and the composer!

It's time to play "What's the Score?"
Listen to the music clips and guess the 5 movies and composers for each one.
Clips progress from easy to difficult.
Submit ONE response only to my DM. All submissions are FINAL.
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#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

I said healthcare is a human right and now Elon Musk is posting about “suicidal empathy” at 3 am: