Ed Burmila

Are you going to try to tell me this is the same person? Because that’s not nearly as believable as “the person on the right sliced the face off the person on the left with a jagged piece of glass and wore it“

He's an appealing fellow - they're a-peeling him off the gurney right now.

Congratulations to our newest cabinet secretary for somehow finding a way to escape the life trajectory to which all previous humans named "Markwayne" have been limited (dying while trying to set a speed record in a boat painted to look like a pack of Marlboros)

If your impulse is to ruin today for yourself by relentlessly focusing on an admittedly bleak future, you're going to ruin the day when It Finally Happens for yourself, too. You think you won't, and that will be different; but you will, and it won't.

Quick reminder that everyone already knows her replacement will be as vile and dead inside as she is. It's ok to just...savor these moments. Let yourself have it. Let everyone have it. This is joy, and it doesn't last long. Don't make it shorter.

working thru proofs for supremely polarizing -- its almost alive! -- and found myself nodding along to this passage given the state of things

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

me: lol!

also me: are you ok

I would be cooking up the most brutally mocking “I’m checking on the status of our air defenses in Guernsey” video featuring pigeons and a border collie right now.

An older generation of European tax exiles going wild on the group chats this morning, gloating from Monaco and Nevis.

Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words

Unemployable alcoholic, laborer in a furniture warehouse who came back from WWII smoking three-four packs a day and died before I was born.

I get it, Doomerism is bad. It’s also hard to imagine any kind of functional politics in a nation of 300 million newborn babies learning everything for the very first time every couple of weeks.

There are many contenders here, but maybe the most depressing thing about being alive right now is that no one remembers anything that happened more than about a day ago.

Blame what you want - social media, the internet writ large, AI - but a couple years ago might as well be the Middle Ages.

The best is in an International terminal when the entire crew dressed like a Commodores tribute band from one of those high-end Asian airlines forms a phalanx the width of the corridor, slowly advancing as if with bayonets fixed.

USVI Non-Voting Delegate shout out!

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.

Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.

A quick thread:

"doing actual politics is beneath us" is such a productive attitude, I wonder if people will ever be capable of considering where that attitude has gotten liberalism.

me, watching a child with a toy steering wheel and arguing that it proves he can drive the car just as good as mommy and daddy: these parents are really in denial

Verrrrry gooood, Mr Shapiro.

Flimsy Steve is 2D, can't be helped.

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He was on a real tear there for several years wasn't he www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXzK...

Cruise missiles are uniquely slow to resupply. Supposedly Raytheon is only capable of making about 200 annually, maximum. We lobbed 400 at Iran in 36 hours!

Anyway, I do not think it's possible to make more of a banger about the topic of push-button war

"ChatGPT, make me more missiles"

"Actually I can't do that, General Podcast. I can only give you ideas on how to make more missiles yourself."

"OK go"

"Return to 1970 and do not systematically dismantle your ability to manufacture anything except Shareholder Value."

"ChatGPT write me a will."

I wonder if any other nation Americans consider one of our geopolitical Rivals noticed that four days of lobbing missiles at Iran from afar reduced the president to screaming at defense contractor CEOs to conjur up more missiles instantly because we're running out.

"Technical Aesthetics" (USSR) magazine cover

Sure, why not

The New York Times clearly just saying Crockett is a progressive and Talarico is a moderate because Crockett is black and Talarico is white

Well, it's a bonus to have a parent who knows where that is, I guess?