Brian Griffith

So I guess as of the last app update, Twitter/X will just randomly pop up a giant human hand and arm reaching up and pointing to the "Promote" button. Like while you're in the middle of writing a tweet, jumpscare style. So glad I got off there when I did.

The latest Mamdani "scandal" is he and his friends like to do sneaky night basketball pick-up games at a NYPD gym. Can at least one of these not make Mamdani look like the coolest guy you know?

The main way you can tell Lula winning is a good thing is the worst people in the world are mad at it.

at all these rallies Trump just sounds like a Walkman whose batteries are dying

You can see everything everywhere all at once

Quelle surprise.

Ilhan Omar is gonna own Jeanine Pirro's goddamn house when this is done.

Trump right now is wishing he hadn't told his supporters so many times that mail-in voting is a scam.

I hadn't realized how thoroughly Cody Rhodes became Temu Karl Urban.

So memorize this pattern: Trump doesn't dance like a complete schlub to YMCA because he thinks it looks good or cool. Trump does it because he's in a position of power where a significant number of people will tell him that something he knows is garbage is good and cool.

Listening to the new Eels album, I got a feeling out of nowhere that I'd really love to hear them cover "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?"

Golly I wonder if there's a historical precedent for how people react if you cause a gas crisis by fucking up royally in Iran and tell the American people they're going to have to make do with less.

Anybody else notice they took the Tesla Roadster, one of the most stylish pieces of 21st century design, and made it look like the Tesla Cybertruck, the nerdmobile they can't even give away?

So Musk blamed the Trump administration for throttling Starlink/Starshield in Ukraine, the Trump administration blamed Musk, and it turned out they were both complicit because Musk proposed it and Trump went along with it.

Of all the tech boy attempts to turn "slop" around, including calling non-AI things slop, I think I've found the saddest. It's the guys who say they like slop, actually. They only want to consume slop from now on. Slop is good.

Sure do look forward to a time when we can have a president we don't have to debate on whether he's lying or whether his subordinates are feeding him fake stories to keep him happy.

Another typical afternoon on Bluesky, which is to say the images have sought their own path in life.

Following discourse over the ability to swap the stars of The Lighthouse and Jennifer's Body, I have done something regrettable and I've decided to make it everyone's problem.

Maybe looking like Ivanka Trump shouldn't be the only criteria for hiring press secretaries.

Shane Gillis is testament to the unlimited chances a mediocre white guy gets. Every time he's on SNL he is the unfunniest one there, and that's a high bar. And yes, he's going to be asked back. Firing him didn't stop that, and an f-bomb on national television won't either.

Now I will preface this with the fact that I do not believe Barack Obama deserved a Nobel Peace Prize. HOWEVER. I get smooth, effortless, sustainable satisfaction from the fact that Obama has one and Trump does not, and that it's gonna bug Trump until the day he dies.

"Show Trump being a demented pissbaby at rallies in all fifty states" is a pretty bold strategy for the GOP. Interested in where it takes them.

James Gunn I am begging you, cast a big tall lady for Wonder Woman.

The Gin Blossoms are in their sixties, and I don't know how I feel about that.

So Schmitt's "gotcha" moment turns out to have an even worse root than just mistaking the Hawkeyes for the Hawks. He and his aides just relied on the date, and only looked for mens' games. They didn't consider women's games, even though it was at the height of all the buzz around Caitlin Clark.

Me: "Huh, I feel kinda okay. I bet nobody can tell I'm on three hours of sleep." Everybody Else: "How is that guy not dead?"

I realize just about everybody is making this joke but my dude you do NOT go to Trump if you want to be served a good steak.

under no circumstances do you have to hand it to Time Magazine in its current, regulatory-captured form, but this here is educational in that it's not edited to give him a train of thought so the degree of free-associating grandpa ramble is on full display

Oh, they just straight-up got rid of the Black Library website, huh?

Living with AI in the environment is having whole art styles ruined for you because they were the first to be ingested when the engine started training. It's like an alien parasite crawled in the ear of a dear friend and started puppeting their body.