if i lived in popeye town and one day i saw a ropy little sailor punch a huge guy so hard his skeleton flew out of his mouth thats the only thing i would talk about for the rest of my life

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence:

“A lot of cultural trends, social topics, and historical circumstances have colluded to make trans topics hot.”

*Transgender History* Susan Stryker

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.

In that bit she she mentions Bridge to Terebithia was one of the things that hurt her as a child, and the author should send her an apology. A few days ago, Taylor posted this in her socials.

The idea of thanking items was often derided as childish in a way that refusing to let go of items wasn’t and I think that’s interesting too

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Pretty sure Trump has used this line on women he’s sexually harassed.

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

Oops! I Crapped My Pants: Undergarments for the Elderly - Saturday Night Live YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

youtu.be/rQ9qsXu34SM?...

As a case analogous to that of a godless universe, I thought of what I called an 'automatic sweetheart,' meaning a soulless body which should be absolutely indistinguishable from a spiritually animated maiden, laughing, talking, blushing, nursing us, and performing all feminine offices as sweetly as if a soul were in her. Would any one regard her as a full equivalent? Certainly not, and why? Because, framed as we are, our egoism craves above all things inward sympathy and recognition, love and admiration. ... The godless universe would be exactly similar. Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief call for a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis[.] -- William James, "The Meaning of Truth," 1909

In 1909, William James argued that God had to be real because no-one would want an AI girlfriend, which is bad news for both William James and God

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

The evangelical magazine Christianity Today has a good article today really going after Trump--and it does it with a fairly resolute defense of the Pope, which is not historically the way these things have worked.
www.christianitytoday.com/2026/04/trum...

Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

Definitely blasphemy—depicting a greedy, violent, adulterer as Jesus easily fits the standard of treating holiness with contempt. There’s heresy as well, if you take the implicit message (Trump has divine status, powers) seriously.

Blasphemy for demeaning Christ; heresy for exalting Trump.

For years, we were told the biggest threat to free speech were college students being upset by professors or fellow students making insensitive or bigoted comments. Now that states are banning entire concepts from curriculum, it's crickets.

sanangelolive.com/news/educati...

HOUSTON MENTIONED meme

every 30 seconds on comms

what do you MEAN my flight will be late, i just watched something from THE MOON land on time

If a hostile foreign power's goal was to hollow out US state capacity as much as possible, they couldn't have chosen a better President than Donald Trump.

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

We didn't deserve this day.

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

starting to think perhaps fifa and its peace prize board were too hasty

English test

January 28, 1986. I was in eighth grade and we were watching the shuttle launch that was supposed to carry a schoolteacher into space.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I want to live in the alternative-history America where Nixon was tried for his crimes and did a long stint in prison, and the Reagan was impeached and removed for Iran-Contra. Enormous power with no chance of consequences isn’t working out very well.