it's coup for my family

hey book club, this round's pick is "The Nerd Reich" by Gil Durán discussion is Tuesday, November 17 at 8:30 PM ET #ghostwithaspine

thinking about stealing fire from the gods. a hot take

It's National Lie Down For A Bit Day

a real good nightmare for me would be "there's 2000 of your high school alums thinking about you and they all hate you"

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Discworld QOTD, from The Truth

That’s not very nice

perhaps baby Bolsonaro can take over his dad's business which is "going to the hospital"

"Local collaborator responsible for disappearing 1/10th of the town population" is the kinda bio usually discovered on Wikipedia pages of people either tried and sentenced by post-WWII govts in Europe or people whose bio skips from 1945 to when he died under an assumed name in Argentina in the 70s

"the thing about the Cheesecake Factory" I can't do this, I don't have the energy to even learn

here we go, time to take some medicine blister pack: fuck you I hope you stay sick

Philly Union, my goodness a *game*

we just got this for Gary Sánchez

hell yeah watching a Hallmark movie and there's an ad for an anti-depressant medication that didn't work for me and had terrible side effects

Liberté, Biberté, Fraternité

when it happens it's gonna be a great time and also Musk is gonna die at some point and that'll also be a great time

I don’t believe they’ll do anything but light money on fire here but fuck them for even thinking it.

found out recently that some of the kids these days write entire essays/papers on their phones and it is breaking me

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”

I can get through this year because 2027 has The Beekeeper 2 in it

Props to the ad agency: they nailed the "white person who plagiarises and steals credit using LLMs" look with 100% accuracy

if you're locked and loaded could you put the muzzle against my head

T and V both love Kelly Clarkson, but how long have they been friends? Since U Been Gone

no it's fine I'm rereading "Thud!" because I'm doing great a book for non-damaged people

none of these little worms seem to be understanding that Trump has some kind of personality and charisma that appeals to people not to say that he should, but he does but watching Vance try to do it is like watching a bully's shitty sidekick

i miss when Biden had that dog that would bite everyone

in case you're not aware of the Backyard Ultra format here's the team world championship standings

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

been dealing with a health issue recently and it's not nearly at the level of chronic illness for other people but I'm very tired of this

Not that it is relevant to the question of lethal force in this case, which is in no way excusable, but the store never produced evidence of shoplifting and the mother was never charged with a crime. My heart breaks for this poor baby.