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Dark lol at doing a curiosity gap headline for this. MLB spam "Texas Rangers reach minor league deal with former Blue Jays pitcher" ass. Respect yourself a little bit.

What happened to video game funding after the covid-born boom years of 2020 and 2021? Where did all the money go? @futterish.fsquared.biz explains

The amount of work and craft and care and skill that went into WILDWOOD is bonkers. Please go see this movie if you’re able. We can’t effectively push back on the slopification of everything if we don’t also show up for human-made art.

I was starting to feel bad about entering middle age but hey, no worries! I've apparently got *many* years of youth left in which to perform indiscretions.

what is extra depressing is that this is so common that it’s clear “oh thank god this guy isn’t going to send me unsolicited dick pics” is a point that a lot of women reach with guys that should be worth zero points! that should be baseline!

PAT MCAFEE NEEDS SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION NOW!!!!

the actual reason is that the media likes Trump and wants to help him. They didn't like Hillary and they didn't like Biden and wanted to hurt them. That explains why Hillary's emails was covered as a nuclear-level scandal and "Trump is a violent rapist who is best friends with Jeff Epstein" isn't

this man is a gotdamned patriot

one of the most surprising lessons of You Can See Anything, which you don't get until the film is like halfway over, is the importance of a long-term skin care regimen

Not every occurance in a sports event should be a "lets check the tape in ultra slow motion" opportunity for litigation. Sometimes just have an experienced, knowledgable guy who was watching it make a determination.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

like this? this is the whole logic of deplatforming, en toto. if you were wondering why center-right liberals and blackshirts were horrified by deplatforming as a strategy and quailed about 'cancel culture', this is why: because it works.

TEN FUCKING YEARS OF "Did you see what he said today?"

There's no reforming this; it needs to be torn up by the root. Police departments *must* be reformed (declawed) and ICE must be destroyed

"California hates cars" is such an obvious tell that somebody watches too much TV/is too online. It's so obviously untrue! Driving is what connects Californians. It's why they'll freely give directions; they are fellow motorists

Last time with this one.

Round two of WILDWOOD and... it's even better than the first. I wouldn't have thought it possible.

Maybe nobody is good this year

Holy shit go see Wildwood. It's a literally astonishing work of art and it's a good movie with fantastic performances

These wnba finals have been such bully ball. It's probably great to be there but it's admittedly not the best TV

Very pleased with how this pizza turned out

Fantastic article. It's nice to feel smugly superior to these dorks every now and again and the fact that they are trying to re-invent drugs (but worse!) is hilarious

I say this all the time: media access. If you ever think "man there's no good music/movies/tv anymore" I want you to know that it's a skill issue on your part

MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments ep. 2 is DEATHSPORT and it'll be available for purchase tomorrow, Friday Oct. 23! IF you're a Kickstarter backer, you (hopefully) just got it. Check your mail! Hope you enjoy.

Genuinely I've never understood why people like bigot chicken. They think "pickle" counts as a spice! It's just so many sacrifices to the food gods - it's fast food, it's barely seasoned, and the owners are shithead bigots

When I got my masters in 2015, people asked the same thing about a PhD. Meanwhile, an advisor of mine was the only new tenure prof I had met and his stories were not encouraging. He was out of the academy w/in 5 years. I love history, but there's just no money in it

we gotta figure out a better way to write headlines about this thing that cannot and will not happen

punkin dunkin

yes. and this is why people need to can it with the "we can't afford XYZ because of Trump" routine I hear on here sometimes. we could dial up the tax take by 10 points of GDP and not even be close to the Nordics

As much as I joke about it: I want to defend Michelle Obama’s when they go low, we go high: she was simply noting Black women in public life cannot be angry without consequence. But what is also clear—Lisa Cook is a mild-mannered economist—for a set of people—black woman cannot be in public life.

I gasped when she revealed how long it’s been since she saw her grandchild.

hey jp that's so rude. if bo nix fans could read they'd be very upset

Good read. When people ask if Japanese is a hard language to learn, I always say "it's more annoying than difficult" and this is why

And finally keeping at it, year-in, year-out demands not ironic detachment but sincere, even 'cringe,' commitment - of the kind that feels like vulnerability. It is not enough to be angry all the time, you must also be grieved and sorrowful and even sometimes joyous too.

Travis Knight is the best rich kid: the kind who finds a niche passion and spends all of daddy's money on it. These are the only ones that should get a break on an inheritance tax

I genuinely think part of Trump's magic is he is so shameless that he just *asks* for stuff. The rest of us, those capable of shame, wouldn't even consider it an option. This jerk thinks it's a secret trick to getting what he wants and, sadly, he's kinda right

Too many democrats are still fighting off the ghosts of Ronald Reagan. Education funding and the concept of government services being a net good are the biggest, but far from only, facets of this