I'm not kidding btw, Conservative liberal academics pushing "Actually FDRs New Deal made the great depression last longer than it would have" is essentially a recession indicator.

The problem with Star Wars is that you watch it when you're 11, and your imagination goes wild wondering what else could be out there in this cool sci-fi universe. But then the franchise keeps going and the best thing they could come up with is, you know, the same stuff you've already seen.

Hard times create rock men, rock men create large boulders, large boulders the size of small boulders completely block east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd

My wife told me my book is of such overall quality that it could find broad success and appeal... were it not for the flagrant and unashamed incest.

I refuse to remove a bit of it, both out of principle and naked fetish.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Pretty sure if I just ripped ass I would feel better. What kind of comedy ass God would give you hurty tummy, and the cure is farts? Ridiculous.

the only way to de-nazify a country is take away a lot of cars

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

a listing for a "compact trumpet". a purple metallic contraption with 3 keys and a single short straight pipe that is slightly flared at one end. like if you removed the bell and all the bendy bits from a regular trumpet. and made it purple for some reason.

bringing my sawed-off to the ska rumble

While I have long flown the flag of There Is Too Much Stupid Bullshit On The Shelves, the idea that even a major grocery store SKU list is undergoing some kind of "complexity collapse" is very Not Good.

A, grumbling: Is it wrong to say I'm a little disappointed? I put all that effort into getting over the mental block, even starting to REVEL in it, and then it turns out we're not even blood siblings!
B, trying to comfort: well, our godly parents ARE siblings, if it helps.

22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.

there are many candidates for the epitaph on the end of history's headstone, but right now "we raised our kids to be better people than us; unfortunately, they were" feels pretty apt

a convoluted sheet in a doctor’s office explaining how insurance prior authorization works

normal people: we should give care to the people who need it

the utterly deranged:

how do you take 22 minutes to say "cheesesteaks and pussy"

The sick fantasy of being welcomed into the Medieval Sapphic Nunnery that's secretly clothing-optional and being gendered correctly by all, and then finding my niche in the convent by using the gifts God blessed me with: being tall and slinging girldick.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

well, there's your problem. looks like god crawled under the porch and died

Thank you, @jonbois.bsky.social

This has been a beautiful morning and I will never forget it, because of you.

It's not enough to love people and the earth around you. That's only half of the equation, you have to let it love you back. I know my wife loves me back, but I need to go get reacquainted with the sun and the wind and the trees and the rocks and the pond and the ducks.

It's a beautiful day today, where I live. I am going to make my wife some lunch and go for a walk, break out the shorts and feel the breeze and the sun. Spring has been a bit slow to arrive, but if there's any day where it starts, it's going to be today.

I believe science fiction is at its best when it remembers to follow what it's like to be human in a world that either is or is becoming wildly different. We're all still people, and we always will be. And I love people so, so much. I am crying in the midst of typing this.

It was beautiful and emotional and so, so human. I've loved science fiction since I was a small boy, and one of its worst enduring problems as a genre is a lack of humanity in it. And 17776 is so painfully human, even Nine and Ten and Juice bear our fingerprints as some of our last children.

I'd never quite had the time to tackle Jon Bois' 17776, even after hearing about it years ago. But then I saw a post that said today was the day in the narrative that people stopped aging, April 7, 2026, and I knew it was the perfect day for it.

oh my fucking god She just lit a clove cigarette with a blowtorch i love Her so much

that record's only for the first half of the trip. buzz and neil spoke french to each other on the way back because they thought michael collins did not deserve to hear "the true secrets of the surface"

If you see it, do it
Nickname: Vicky
Pronouns: She/her
Height: 6’3”
Smoke: Avg 1 cig per month. Weed never, I work in healthcare.
Piercings: Nope
Color: Dodger blue
Tattoos: a few flashes
Fav 🍸: Haven't for over 10 years
Fav 🥤: Canned Diet Coke
Fav food: Philly sushi roll
Fav animal: my cat

I'm DTF
Dyke Transexual Faggot

The intro from @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 's memoir about the inherent utility and beauty of young Americans reading both YA and adult lit simultaneously and how that act helps kids learn context and even about themselves, it always stuck with me because I had the identical upbringing irt books:

When your mom says you already have Jay and Silent Bob at home.