Andy Ramsey

An extremely creepy email from Bandcamp with the subject line "New message from Elliot Smith"

I read a lot of dystopian science fiction as a teenager and this is somehow worse than the technological hellscape I imagined.

Many variations on this my but my first thought was Death Squad for Cutie.

Many first and second wave bands had one word names so a little tougher but I'll also add Cap'n Fash.

No excuse for this but it's still the only Fassbinder I've seen after seeing it in film school like 25 years ago.

Quibi mentioned!

So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov

They were gonna get blamed for it tanking anyway so, as someone in the ad biz himself, I say they played their cards exactly right.

Of course, the only way I'd accept a gig marketing this is if Suge Knight was dangling me off a hotel balcony so maybe I'm misjudging their business acumen.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

I dub thee: Sammy Nosa

A horizontal stacked bar chart titled "Partisan Registration of Athletes by Sports League." The chart compares the political registration of professional athletes across five major U.S. leagues based on public voter files. The bars are divided into four categories: Democratic (Blue), Independent (Grey), Other (Purple), and Republican (Red). The data shows a spectrum from identifying predominantly as Democratic to predominantly Republican: * WNBA: Heavily Democratic (67.5%) with a significant Independent portion (30.2%) and a negligible Republican share. * NBA: Split largely between Independent (45.9%) and Democratic (42.9%), with a smaller Republican share (10.0%). * NFL: Plurality Independent (44.3%), followed by Democratic (34.3%) and Republican (20.2%). * NHL: Plurality Independent (48.6%) and closely followed by Republican (43.9%), with a very small Democratic share. * MLB: Majority Republican (53.7%), followed by Independent (36.4%) and a small Democratic share (7.8%). Source: Peter Lutz; data includes voter registration from 24 states and Washington, D.C.

Not sure if you saw this recently. Not looking good for baseball!

John Dies at the End is the exact vibe I was hoping for here. Hell yeah

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

Great piece. Helped put words to a feeling I first had reading a Mike Rowe post that an elder Gen-X'er reposted back during the first Trump presidency.

Extremely William H Macy "hoo boy!" vibes here.

More of this on a different post. Not sure any of the real people agreeing with this sort of sentiment are reachable in any meaningful way.

Facebook responses to a post about Liam, the 5 year old who was used in an ICE op, claiming that the father left him alone on purpose and maybe even was trafficking the kid himself.

In case you're wondering what the company line is on the case of Liam, the 5-year old kid that was used as bait for an ICE op. Maybe they're bots, maybe they're not. But the sowing of uncertainty is the point either way.

30 - 50 feral hogs energy here

It's also gotten progressively more ridiculous after the finale of the second season (easily one of the best season finales of all time). I have decided that this is charming though and continue to love every second of it.

Kendall Roy gets the call

A domestic abuser, a cheater and an asshole who got fired because no one wanted to play with him. These are the same people who thought Ron Santo could wait until he was dead?

It's Matt Shaws and Mariano Riveras all the way down, unfortunately.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Man, that is grim. Sorry to hear it.

TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old United Auto Workers Local 600 line worker at the factory, told The Post that he was the one shouting at Trump. He said he has been suspended from work pending an investigation. “As far as calling him out, definitely no regrets whatsoever,” Sabula said, though he added that he is concerned about the future of his job and believes he has been “targeted for political retribution” for “embarrassing Trump in front of his friends.”

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

C3PO action figure with famed lil' guy Babu Frik

I used to be way into Star Wars toys and got burned out ages before Force Awakens. This inspired me to look up whether they made a Babu Frik and goddamnit I'm back in.

College buddy who was from Coal City said that the dream of everyone he went to high school with was to get injured at work. I'm glad that this dream is expanding to more urban environs.

I am tired of Earth. These people.