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2026 Reading Thread: Started very strong. As good as advertised and tragic and haunting and human in all the ways that I want a book to be.

this man is a gotdamned patriot

John Cage in 1952:

The Diplomat is 15% ridiculous but who cares plot twists and 85% smart and capable adults talking like smart and capable adults and I think that’s a type of show we should have more of.

Extremely rude (complimentary) of The Diplomat to end the season that way

Driving Miss Daisy Between My Legs

Literally doing this post unironically.

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

Whomst among us

Not the first time Minnesota broke the enemies advance.

Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...

They’re already beginning investigations and early voting isn’t even over

I don’t know how people could say that programming and art are completely different disciplines when both workflows involve going ‘This will never work, I’m a failure’, changing one thing, then thinking you might be the smartest person alive

anyone else VERY aroused

Very interesting thread

“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

Yissss

I have added the ghosties

Live look of the worst people you know:

I do wonder if someone like this is that bad at parenting, or that good at their day job. There is a difference.

turns out that voting is a very good way to kick right wing authoritarians out of power

No fatalism please. A victory agaibst the odds over an authoritarian.

If JKR hates trans people so much then why does the new Harry Potter look like a lesbian TA who helps edit her esteemed Midwestern liberal arts school's quarterly poetry review

Austin has an in-N-Out now if she wants her only shot at a double double ever

ok was thinking of how to make a Gavrilo Princip joke here and looked him up and he was only given 20 years for assassinating a head of state and starting WWI???

they’re squalling about this because it was a very accurate and pretty funny insult

Got a bluetooth keyboard so I can type poasts faster it’s over for y’all

Cheesecake Factory logistics up there with the Pentagon

It’s like none of these snobs have even had the Qusay-dilla at Saddam Hussein’s CCF.

It’s incredible the things you don’t realize are sacred until you can no longer rely on them

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

The way pundits talk about "most Americans" is how an average Joe talks about zoo animals, extremely patronizing and also almost entirely wrong

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

Is there anything else unifying the states that have done this, anything at all

Oh my god, please do read the whole thread about the lesser known outlaw, Climax Jim!