Andrew Cunningham

you know that Shatner and Takei will never die because neither of them would want to give the other the satisfaction

boo hiss

Struggling to engage with the concept of “father and son Republican operatives Timmy and Tommy Teepell.” Come on man can even one thing be like 5% less stupid

even ignoring the people this leaves out (and also ignoring that originalism has always been a bad-faith grift), isn’t it convenient to be able to point to some imaginary composite 19th century bar patron rather than someone who actually left behind a record of what they thought

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

"This fucking douchebag wants to buy your government" is the sort of thing anyone who wanted to win would hammer over and over

genuinely think that chartbeat and real-time audience traffic insight dashboards are one of the worst things to happen to the media industry. it found out what people read and wanted and public trust has pretty much only sharply declined since then

Embarrassed for everyone who's doing this.

we have to make this thing a success so we can make it to The Threekeeper

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.

It's the first anniversary of my layoff from Cracked and most of the job listings I get are for "AI trainer" so if you wanted to join our paid subscribers, I would personally love it againwiththispodcast.com/club/

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

I saw a man on a train in a full business suit finishing a foamy Starbucks drink. He slurped the bottom with the straw, then he used the straw to scoop foam bits into his mouth, then he methodically ran his finger around the entire inside of the cup so he could lick the flavor off. It was 3pm.

Why were there only 3 measles deaths in the last 10 years Robert

I feel the same way about both Hasan Piker and peptides, which is: you can't make me learn what this is

So proud of my brother for having produced this documentary about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library that made clear the scope of one of Dolly’s many precious gifts to our world.

my jr high pre-algebra teacher called improper fractions "Dolly Parton fractions" because they "had big ones on top." We can debate the appropriateness of this but i *do* still remember what improper fractions are.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

The Imagination Library is a truly wonderful thing, a beautiful idea that meant so much to so many people at home and all over the world

bro just neglect my ass

This guy is so much less interesting than the media's bizarre obsession with writing the same story about him over and over

my buddy texted me this story with the comment “embarrassing day to be a weezer fan.” i was like “day?!”

Though you may not support the sites on account of how they’re all terrible now, important to know Screenrant, Collider, CBR, Polygon, and other companies all deteriorated because they were bought out by Valnet, a truly heinous company started by shitbags.

For example, during Woke 1.0 @davekarpf.bsky.social made a joking reference to Bret Stephens being a begbug, causing Stephens to try to get Dave fired. That was crazy.

I am really, really, really, REALLY excited to be able to share the cover of my book, as well a link so you can preorder it for when it comes out in April. Look at the ears!!!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

LOTR pop radio hit from 2011 called Beorn This Way

tapping the sign

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

A reminder of the news that came out of Philadelphia hospitals in 2020:

I know people are tired and overworked, but I feel like oftentimes they’re offloading a creative (and, on some level, rewarding) activity to free up time that they’ll ultimately spend scrolling on their phones—thereby further reducing their brains to mush. it’s a vicious cycle of meaninglessness

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank