John Merchant

Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out.

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from Google: Kirk Herbstreit's suits are made by Peter Millar, a brand known for luxury apparel.

I made it to Good. I’m good with that.

Halloween from
Down Under

I love Kangaroos
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣

Scooby Doo taught us that the real monsters are humans.

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I mean, technically, thousands of people could be called “hundreds”

A friend in Corvallis, Oregon sent me this one 🤣 #NoKings

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YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested The Weaponization of #Empathy #adamsavage

Adam Savage is an American treasure.
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Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

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“Missing audio file folder”

Especially this close to Halloween 🎃

We don’t deserve dogs.

While it can be tough to scroll through the news and comments here, I’m so happy that @bsky.app exists.

Thank you to the development team for making this space possible.

It's bad when your German friends say this all seems so familiar

The devil knows nada.

‘I don’t want to stop believing in humanity’: Matthew McConaughey on faith, fame and the shocking incident that defined him He was once so stoned he missed his own birthday party, but the Oscar-winning actor has swapped pot for poetry. He reveals the trauma and triumph that taught him why it’s more important to be a good m...

“With an epidemic of half-cocked logic and illusions being sold as sound conclusions, it’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe. But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in humanity, you, our potential.”

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Word puzzle that includes the letters O I L C U N T

The 10-year-old inside me is struggling to take today’s Spelling Bee puzzle seriously.

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

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I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.

Oh man do I miss him.

I'm always surprised when a media outlet lists an album as the highlight of the week and then gives it three stars. That's like getting an assignment back with "Great job!" written at the top and a score of 60.

A cocktail napkin from Delta Airlines that has a note: "The world is better with you out in in." Because of the formatting, it's easy to misread this as "The world is better without you in it."

It's distressingly easy to mis-read this message.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Intelligence does not assure wisdom.
Ignorance assures "leaders are more likely to make uninformed or irrational choices that harm themselves and others."

We have an ignorant leader who possesses neither intelligence nor wisdom.

We need to reform our social contract, making billionaires illegal.

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