here's what I wrote on Day 17 of my 17 day Winter Olympic newsletter marathon

tonx@tonx.coffee · 8h ago

I think the real turning point for America was that Alysa Liu figure skating routine tbh.

I hope someday California will be as blue as Mississippi

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — California voters reject measure to tax the wealth of billionaires.

Broke: this saint was originally a pagan god Woke: this god was originally a Christian saint Bespoke: this saint was originally the Buddha

Abby@arobertswrites.com · 2h ago

And in the Middle Ages, the Buddha became a Christian saint.

Do I know anyone who has connections to the folks in Congress who are going to be writing subpoenas? If I do, can y’all tell those folks to MAKE SURE THEY ASK FOR LLM LOGS? Because those are going to be a fucking gold mine

Pfff. Everyone knows writers spell.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 3h ago

There is writer's block and writer's retreat, but no writer's attack, indicating that they are primarily a tank class

I… I absolutely cannot tell what is real and what is satire any more.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4h ago

that woman who opened the trump presser by asking how long he'd take to knock out Biden in a cage match should be frogmarched from the building and told that in case she's thinking of coming back they have snipers there

Headline of the day www.rawstory.com/jake-lang-26...

Trump-pardoned activist crashes cat owners' convention in mistaken hunt for furries

Pardoned January 6 Capitol rioter Jake Lang found himself humiliated in the second stunt of the weekend, when he crashed a convention in Seattle he thought was a gathering of "furries" — but was actua...

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Getting thrown for a loop by coming across a pair of 12th-century Dominicans named Jordan and Diana. 90s ass names.

some day I'm going to start a private detective agency that specializes in the godly woman your recently widowed father-in-law met on eHarmony

John Rogers@johnrogers.bsky.social · 7h ago

Jensen Huang is 63, swanning around in a leather jacket, getting hustled by a honeypot in a club. I just think of my dad, after watching a Trump speech, shaking his head and saying "This is not how adult men talk."

Make a Criterion movie Star Wars: ALL THAT JIZZ

Joshua Wilson@magadizer.bsky.social · 6h ago

Make a Criterion movie Star Wars: The Life Aquatic with Admiral Ackbar

Just found out I should turn off video autoplay, no thanks to @nbcnews.com

Boy, these Mad Libs posts get more and more absurd.

Paste Magazine@pastemagazine.bsky.social · 8h ago

U2's The Edge wrote an Elf 2 screenplay tinyurl.com/ye7nc7b6

In all seriousness, if Hegseth cannot be impeached and removed (now or in January), impeachment is a dead power and we should amend the constitution to make it easier or replace it with some other system. If you can't impeach "I lost a war while doing crimes" you can't impeach anyone.

Now that’s bipartisanship I can get behind

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 9h ago

Rep. Massie introduces articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth:

*urge to cringepost increasing*

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 12h ago

Wider shot of new Senators

It really does shock me how many “why did the Democrats win” round-ups I’ve been seeing in major outlets that don’t even MENTION ICE. If you’re trying to explain Blue Texas and aren’t even bringing up ICE’s terror campaign against Latinos, you’re either stupid or have a very suspect agenda.

David Bentley Hart once wrote an entertaining essay about why Tolstoy is better than Dostoevsky davidbentleyhart.substack.com/p/tolstoy-an...

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ)

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Phil Klay@philklay.bsky.social · yesterday

A politician brave enough to take on the real issues.

Pretty much an exact image of C. S. Lewis’s description of Napoleon in Hell in THE GREAT DIVORCE, where damnation is something the damned choose for themselves because letting go of their vices would be more painful.

Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · yesterday

Somehow Douthat hits his stride on this thing in like the last tenth of the interview. Trump saying BEFORE THE JUDGMENT OF GOD I would rather go the hell than forgive Nancy Pelosi lmao

‘Okay Year 3, today I’m going to explain to you what a metaphor is…’

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

The SS United States — a huge ocean liner that once ferried celebrities — is slated to be sunk to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico next week, to become the world’s largest artificial reef.

Premier League officiating really is in a shambles isn't it?

Ruin a band by adding a famous person The Bart The

Knepherbird@knepherbird.com · yesterday

Ruin a band by adding a famous person Siouxsie Wiles and the Banshees

Ruin a band by adding a famous person Siouxsie Wiles and the Banshees

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · yesterday

Ruin a band by adding a famous person Belle and Sebastian Gorka

I have the type of bad brain that says I can't take this book I want because its got a movie cover

"... these are the voyages of the starship Excalibur ..."

Who knows, if Trevor Noah really wants to join the ranks of superhero theorists, maybe I can get a second volume of the BACC going and get Drew Friedman to put Noah on the cover.

If the plot is really all that matters, just publish the outline on a PowerPoint.

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · yesterday

What a beautiful example of how fucking stupid “it doesn’t advance the plot” is as a concept. The point of story is not to absorb all plot efficiently. The point of all of it -plot, character, visuals, backstory, dialogue - IS TO MAKE YOU FEEL THINGS.

there's zero politics in a story in which the nations of the world must come together to solve a global problem through extraordinary means and no politics at all in a story in which NASA is so well funded they can launch crewed Mars missions and hop to lickety-split when there's an emergency

Interlagos continues to be the greatest F1 track, TV direction continues to be crap