Ol' Chef Dan

I was radicalized by the classic Subhuman's EP "Time Flies But Aeroplanes Crash".

Tomorrow's NY Times headline "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Storm Is Upon Us"

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

I know, metaphor and all that, but this is also the ship my mom emigrated to the US on, so I love it. apnews.com/article/ss-u...

I don't understand Airbnb. Like, everything about staying in a hotel is easier/better - booking, arrival, location, housekeeping, a bar.

Tired: Claude Chatbot Wired: Claude Chabrol

Their tears are the fine wine with the main course; their flop sweat is the apéritif.

I note that everywhere the right wins now, they push for some mix of wars of aggression, looting and destroying the public realm, impunity for corruption and war crimes, roasting the planet with hydrocarbons, deforestation, destroying public education, ethnic supremacy and McCarthyist crackdowns.

I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.

This seems a very obvious point, but the result in Brazil reveals just how clean the line is between Left and Right re Interests - sure, plenty of normal people vote both sides, but the engine of the right is capital and the engine of the left is people.

Me, to the family, in October 2022.

Montréal, 24/10/26 🤝🌐

Certaines personnes qui travaillent au sein des forces...

I just figured "bell end" was a compliment.

For those of us outside of America, this really is what it looks like! 😳

Sometimes a small detail in a painting has as much or even more impact than the complete work itself ~ here’s the totally bereft Mary Magdalene lamenting the death of Christ, in a corner of Giottino di Pietro (aka Giottino)’s Pietà of San Remigio (1365) Uffizi, Florence

(me trying to insult your house) It's like if ... David Cameron opened a Chuck E. Cheese!

kushner, the trump sons, send miller to minnesota to answer for the murders there -- make an example of even a small handful of high profile unlikeable ghouls, the message will be out

"There is no evidence the French protests have anything to do with immigration. There has been Islamist violence over the years...That’s not what’s happening and no desperate eagerness by Republicans to hijack protests for their flailing campaigns can change that." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-l...

My seven-year old has expressed "crushes" on Jareth (Labyrinth), Aragorn (LOTR), and now Cosmo (Singing in the Rain).

I'm writing "zero evil" on all my ballots.

My wife

I'm up to 5 2s on this: Dennis McDonough, Bill Clinton, Bourdain, my wife (waiting tables) and her brother (Iraq vet). I wonder if Stacey Peralta ever met him...

25. Many of the popular critiques of Tolkien are actually critiques of his imitators

RIP Tom Skerrit

i think the psychological thing the iraq war did that led to all this was fully sever the need on the right to come up with a justification for anything.

What a dick! Swordfish is always dry.

local hardware store invents creative new insult: welcome to fall, leaf bags

I'm always going to "like" a movie review you post.

As French authorities instigate curfews to stop further "ulra-left" protest, far-right yobs take over the streets of Lyon, with no police intervention, despite racist chants... "Two-tier justice" in France too, it seems

As hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France in support of student protesters, many displayed a rallying cry: “Bismillah, c’est les ténèbres.” nyti.ms/4z7fsyU