Red Durkin

I'd try it. I think it looks fire as in "should be thrown into one," but I'd give it an open minded nibble

The New York Times is an institution of right wing propaganda, example # infinity of infinity

I originally read this as "Dad books" like these were hallmarks of a genre

I quit drinking in June and it literally just occurred to me this morning that an unexpected side effect is that I've been more dehydrated

average cuomo bot

I've posted this picture before but I do find it interesting that the police here arresting Carlo Gambino, at the time one of the most dangerous men in America with dozens of killers at his command, didn't feel the need to cover their faces because they are not ashamed of their work

Started calling the middle of a loaf of bread “the king’s bread” and saying things like “a cheddar this fine demands the king’s bread!”

This is just one of the many ways I have scraped joy out of a cold and unaccountable universe.

4 panel comic Panel 1: A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop. Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform. Panel 2: Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself Panel 3: Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but… Panel 4: Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

Why are we acting like it's 1858 and there's no way to confirm from the East coast whether or not the city of Portland is burning to the ground? Send a camera crew to Portland and broadcast it NOT on fire. Stop asking the love child of Pickle Rick and Grima Wormtongue to clarify his bullshit.

fuck, man, you are tedious.

I once lived in a house with 7 other people where flushing toilet paper down the toilet caused the basement where multiple people lived to flood with sewage. I won't be called "elitist" by someone whose name is in the Epstein files because I think healthcare is a greater public service than policing

stop drinking alcohol and switch to weed

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

Wrote about the entertainment industry trades trying to will this nonsense into existence

Never, ever, ever let these people talk about "meritocracy" again

Brother, you might want to return to your lane on this one.

How do you define "human?" What does it mean to be "alive?"

No one has ever thought to ask these questions, so there's simply no way to know

Life - Wikipedia

Damn, no one ever thought to ask before

Then go home.

Yeah, the take away isn't "there wasn't anything to be up in arms about in 2013, but there is now." The takeaway is "if you did not take action in 2013, it's not too late to correct that mistake and take action now."

If I were Tom Bombadil, I would simply keep the One Ring safe in my domain and not forget about it, but I guess I'm built differ-iffer-illio.

it's pretty wild to be doing "stop being racist to my computer friend" discourse when the forces of Actual Racism are totally ascendant in government and inventing new ways to arrest people for their skin color every day

You'd need to eat about 20 eggplants to get a single cigarette's worth of nicotine, so you can understand why people fill their mouths with the taste of burning leaves instead.

It appears that the federal agents occupying Portland have people embedded with them charged with the task of producing stories presenting the government’s version of events. Ironically, this was the sort of work JD Vance did in Iraq before he decided he was against that war.

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

No, you're just shifting the goalpost from "if you yell at your toaster, you'll probably yell at your children" because that's a silly thing to say and people, other thinking human beings who can see and react to the things you say, are giving you a hard time about it. This is called "interacting."

LLMs are lesser *and* entirely inanimate. Wait staff are in a socially subservient position, *but* are living beings with interiority and an inherent right to respect. Again, confusing this distinction in public where god and everyone can see you is an odd choice, but it is yours to make.

Tobacco, famously, contains the most nicotine of any plant. The second most nicotine? Eggplant.

Funny thing about wait staff and animals: unlike Chatbots, they are living things. Weird choice to publicly fail to draw that distinction, but you do you.

If, as you get older, you find yourself thinking that "kids today" are lazy or entitled or unwilling to work or just generally deficient in some special way they weren't when you "were that age," congratulations! You're not just an old human being, you're one of the oldest stereotypes in history.