Also sure hope America exists.

One thing I do now at least once a week is try to explain to my own and other people's children that digitally drawn art is not automatically AI. The kids are eager to denounce it all.

Any reason to go to the Village is an awesome reason.

Anyway, I might work for the school system for the rest of my life if they'll let me. Max deductible in the low three digits? 🥴 Every American should have this.

This is what social media is for. THE WISDOM OF CROWDS.

It's like when I clean out my Gmail inbox or organize my desk at home and feel so powerful but there's not any activity to channel the power into.

You guys, we have awesome health insurance now and I want to do something with it.

a head and shoulders illustration of dr. manhattan from the watchmen comic looking away from the viewer into the starry cosmos

that's what i love about earth, these people, man. i stay the same age, they keep catching me in the tangle of their lives

b&w photo of a vacant lot full of debris. Clothes hanging on a line overhead. All that is a little out of focus. Down at the very bottom of the image, a small things is in focus. The face of a dirty, cheerful child. Élan vital personified.

Child in East Harlem Lot - Erika Stone, 1965

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

honestly tho "no one who runs anything knows how the site works or wants to do anything to improve it and instead all the effort goes to faffing around with nonsense" was the thing that made pre-Elon twitter great in the first place.

"If I sound ridiculous / I'm not done yet" is another absolute gem of a Bonoism, though, I can say that much.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: Alf wasn’t very scientifically accurate.

Just trying to get all my posts out at once here

Not quite sure yet how I feel about the second U2 EP of the year.

Watched Louis Theroux's manosphere documentary on Netflix, and the guys he features are indisputable proof that a person can be pretty smart and prodigiously stupid at the same time.

Told my 14-year-old son that if he had any trouble at his mom's, "you always have a home with us. You're like family to me." Comedy gold.

Do you have that many enemies, though

one of the things that has to change dramatically going forward is that congress needs to viciously retake their rightful first amongst equals status

I don't think I'll ever feel bad for eating chicken. Most of them seem like dicks.

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face:

Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences.

For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

Thanks! I am too, and I am even more glad my children will never have to play the jumping bean song.

"There will be no joy in this experience—not for you, nor your parents or teacher. This is as it should be. Music is famously joyless."

"You must sit for 30 minutes each weeknight and practice tedious exercises. At the end of the unit, as a reward, you get to play a tuneless song about a Mexican jumping bean."

We were gifted a piano, mainly but not only for the kids, and I've been tooling around it, thinking I could have been a decent amateur player if only music lessons had been allowed to be fun in the 1980s.

it’s hard to imagine having but not using personal celebrity to free kids from prison. i don’t know what other famous people are doing.

I really admire Bluey's commitment to not sugar-coating uncomfortable parts of life (having Jean-Luc chain-smoke Gauloises in the camping episode)

love to be poorer forever because the dumbest 20% of the country has terminal oppositional-defiant disorder

Fun fact: A “Lord of the Flies” type thing actually DID happen…to a bunch of young boys of color (AHEM!) from Tonga…

…and they did NOT devolve into violence and mayhem.

They created their own rules and took care of each other until they were rescued by a fisherman over a year later!