I'm sure other people do this and it's nothing special, but singing along with a favorite song and dropping an alternate reading of a line can feel so, so powerful

How dare this elderly, little-known public health bureaucrat be privately bemused by suddenly becoming one of the most famous people in the world, wailed the politician who'd throw his own mother in front of a bus for a 2-minute cable news hit.

hot take: if you're crashing out that an academic who studies a book comments on an adaptation of that book on a site called the London Review of Books, you do need to touch grass fun fact: when I lived in Greece grass was what I missed the most. I saw some at Epidamnus after months and was like OH

Douglas Adams was prescient about much of our dumb, miserable future, but the Somebody Else's Problem field was a rare miss. We love somebody else's problem! The only downside is having to be physically present, making it potentially our problem, but technology solved that soon after Adams' passing

why did no one tell me that Domino's has been sunsetting anchovies since 2023? My cat and I are heartbroken, it's just started hitting our local stores

the greatest pleasures of Massie's two books on naval history leading up to and during WW1 are Jacky Fisher's unhinged letters, but I'm increasingly forced to concede that my sweet, eccentric, God-loving, dance-obsessed naval genius would post 110% like Donald Trump

in my day they called it Dune Messiah, and there weren't three Dunes, there were six. We only really talked about the first four, though, because if you bring up the last two you can't really ignore the other nineteen

thank god Star Wars announced that we can see the new old better version of our beloved Star Wars many, many months from now believe it or not, this is the true state of being a Star Wars fan: waiting for the rapture but it's just also a movie you've already seen, possibly better this time around