Sherman Patrick

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

One thing I realized is that ALL strategies are Underpants Gnomes strategies. Human endeavors are always so complex as to demand a "collect underpants, ?, profit" leap of logic. I guess the trick is to make that "?" as small as possible. Just an observation.

No senate candidate in an actual race should be saying anything that I am excited about!

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

i have 2.5M followers across all social media. statistically, there's a good chance one of you works at in AI. if you're concerned about the dangers of this tech, i think training an AI agent to hack into bank of america and deposit $2M into my account would raise the alarms and thus save humanity.

Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

We've wreaked generational damage on the US, killed millions worldwide, & crucially killed countless Palestinian civilians by electing Trump & all because Joe Biden revealed certain folks fantasy-version of middle east relations weren't real.

Atlantis on the Pad - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/a3feXb

Perpetually amazed at how so many people can be deeply invested in defending someone they don't know from allegations from people who do know them and yet... Can't understand how someone like Trump can "fool" so many people who don't follow the news. It's all hard-wired people!

hugging face is the most terrifying indicator of where the ai race is, in the sense that the industry is facing completely solvable collective action problems while guided by entrenched, unoustable leaders with the foresight and moral fortitude of above-average pigeons

You are one post away from being declared a winner and send a trophy by Blue Sky

Is it from destroying the only known location human life can be sustained with their massive power use?

I really cant emphazise enought how much Star Wars Zero Company has grabbed me. Again, im totally biased but I think the game is really special. It has gotten me excited about star wars for the first time in 15 years. Go pick it up, dont wait for a sale.

Please, for the love of God, if Dems win the House elect a speaker who delivers legislation the majority regularly votes for and helps widen the majority in the next general election. That's it. That's the Speaker job.

This makes a lot of sense when you remember S1 and 2 included nonbinary characters, otherness defended in court, the ethics of keeping a loved one alive to try to heal them and so on. And S3 was released in 2025. Wonder what happened then and if the owners of Paramount cared?

So my only complaint about the Strange New Worlds puppet episode was you could feel corporate attorneys hovering over set hissing "don't say muppet, that's Disney IP" when the episode was obviously intended to be "muppet" (and, of course, were muppets)

You guys realize you've already killed Strange New Worlds right? You did it, they tore up and trashed the set. You don't have to complain about it anymore, it's dead. Star Trek can live as an ideal type in your brain and you don't have to worry about a new audience causing them to make bad

Taco Bell continuing to get bad press for being the only organization aware of and reporting this when it was happening. Real Spanish Flu vibes

He’s also claiming that it was ‘the first adjournment vote in decades’. Not only is that not true, but…

… Baked Mike Lee could have forced a vote by simply objecting on any UC to adjourn, and BML+19 could have forced a recorded vote. So his bragging "I secured an agreement to vote on adjournment" is like saying, "I secured an agreement with Costco to get a hot dog combo for $1.50." 9/

I think the thing we are all in denial about when it comes to the One Cool Trick to win elections forever is that low info swing voters are basically incomprehensible eldritch horrors to politically engaged people. There’s no understanding them and you’ll go mad trying.

I'll be disappointed if Stevens wins, but mostly what you should take away from tonight is that the coalition really is divided between factions with lots of genuine support, we can't wish the other side away, and we're all going to have to learn to live with each other if we want to win.

My observation, especially in the last year, is that the real insidious thing isn’t even the rise of outrageously obvious antisemitism. It’s the complete refusal by many on the left to call it out or do anything about it. After over a decade of calling out every kind of niche reactionaryism.

Once again I'll reiterate that the way AIPAC has been transformed into this creeping villain behind every unwanted election result is feeding a resurgence of antisemitism, and that goes triple if the winner is Jewish and was opposed by AIPAC. Please please think about your words here!

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

The Army Mountain Warfare School looks gorgeous inside

The amount of agitprop on @bsky.app is so alarmingly high, I wonder if they are doing anything at all to try to track and flag foreign influence campaigns.

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

Oppositional Defiant Disorder is basically the defining feature of huge swaths of our politics now

They’re going to threaten this stuff, they’ll hamfistedly screw up the implementation, commit seven atrocities, and still lose every election that matters in November. We’re now nearing the “fuck you, do it, see what happens” stage of this confrontation IMO