Oh no, of course not, I *defensively* shit my pants.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 12h agoWASHINGTON (AP) — US has conducted defensive strikes on some Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz, US official says.
Zach Malm
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Recovering certainty addict. Co-host, Veterans of Culture Wars podcast. Musician, former worship leader, helped destroy Mars Hill Church, not really sure what I believe anymore, and ok with that. He/Him https://linktr.ee/vcwpod
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 12h agoI saw episode 1 and 3 in theaters, never saw episode 2, but based on the two I saw, the Star Wars prequels are embarrassing garbage that can only be loved by super nerds and I am very happy I don't understand any of the Anakin slop discourse.
Dagger John@thesloopjohnm.bsky.social · yesterday
See, and this is why I can't get a teaching job. I'm great at helping kids learn, but I'm a terrible surgeon.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Think of it. Your beautiful son leaves the house. His name is Tim. 'Goodbye Tim, I'll see you later.' 'Thank you, mommy, thank you.' And you don't see Tim for 4 days. 4 days later, Tim comes back as Sally. Okay? It's true. We have states that do that. A place called MN. I won it 3 times."
We heard all the time in Trump 1.0 about staffers distracting him from his most disastrous plans. That hasn't really been the case in Trump 2.0, but I choose to believe this line is due to staffers so tired of the Greenland bullshit they just told him "We got it, it's done, great job sir!"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Our acquisition for 0 dollars of Greenland. You know we got Greenland?"
Lol, Republicans say running a black candidate in Florida is "the biggest experiment [the party has run] to see how racist some of our voters are". Not, you know, running and electing a President twice on the explicit promise of erasing all gains made by non-white Americans in the last century.
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d ago"Culturally Confederate." www.axios.com/2026/11/01/f...
Now and then I look up what other movies were made by the director of Creature From the Black Lagoon, and it's always a jump scare.
Happy Halloween, our president is an actual evil monster.
House Judiciary Dems@democrats-judiciary.house.gov · 3d agoTrump continues to lie about his involvement and close relationship with Epstein. Our committee investigators have compiled a 6-year timeline recounting the close friends’ shared history of sexual assault when they were both fixtures in New York’s seedy world of “hunting ground” beauty pageants.
Trump continues to lie about his involvement and close relationship with Epstein. Our committee investigators have compiled a 6-year timeline recounting the close friends’ shared history of sexual assault when they were both fixtures in New York’s seedy world of “hunting ground” beauty pageants.
Please go see this movie. Travis Knight may always have access to Daddy Nike's money, but if special handmade projects like this don't make money, the money's not going to be there for other special handmade projects.
Cartoon Brew@cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 3d ago‘Wildwood’ has passed $20 million domestically and added 150 screens. Its projected $7–8 million second weekend would be a respectable, though unspectacular, hold, keeping it roughly in line with ‘Kubo’ and ‘ParaNorman.’ www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...
“I Used ChatGPT to Homeschool My Kids. Now They Won't Talk to Me." — The New York Times, 2038
Zach Malm@muzach.bsky.social · 3d agoNice of the "I Used AI to Parent My Kid" crowd to provide us an early data point for tracking this arc.
Nice of the "I Used AI to Parent My Kid" crowd to provide us an early data point for tracking this arc.
Jjinandtonic@jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 2w agoTo the extent columns exist mainly to air editorial/columnist anxieties, you do get a pretty funny progression from “affirmative action is bad” (my kids are applying for college soon) to “the woke campus mob” (my kids disagreed with me/dyed their hair) to this (my kids wont talk to me)
To the extent columns exist mainly to air editorial/columnist anxieties, you do get a pretty funny progression from “affirmative action is bad” (my kids are applying for college soon) to “the woke campus mob” (my kids disagreed with me/dyed their hair) to this (my kids wont talk to me)
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is a quietly metastasizing moral panic
Share your faves: Vampire Movie: Near Dark Zombie Movie: Re-Animator Haunting Movie: The Innocents Creature Feature: Creature from the Black Lagoon Found Footage: Troll Hunter Slasher: Blood Rage Cosmic: Annihilation Psychological: Rosemary's Baby Horror Comedy: Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Steven D. Greydanus@decentfilms.bsky.social · 5d agoVampire: Let the Right One In Zombie: Train to Busan Haunting: The Uninvited Creature: Frankenstein/Night of Living Dead Found Footage*: Blair Witch/Cloverfield Slasher*: Nightmare on Elm Street Cosmic: Aliens Psychological: Babadook Horror Comedy: Get Out/What We Do in the Shadows *of too few seen!
No. Your attitude has to be that absolutely nothing will get done. If you’re trying to “pass common-sense legislation to help the American people”in this environment you’re a fucking traitor.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7d agoKamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…
Bluesky a band And You're Surprised By This Heat?
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 7d agoBluesky a band They Might Be Pedants
Yes exactly. Hard to be juicier than this! A violent sex scandal connected with America's most notorious criminal and they're like "nah we'll pass, time to run another beat sweetener on Rubio instead." They just like Trump and want to help him. bsky.app/profile/plan...
Joseph Fink 🦃🍁👽🦾@planetoffinks.bsky.social · 7d agoAlso "the reason they like Trump is because he gives them juicy stories that sell papers"
Ever see some news that leaves you re-evaluating everything you thought before? News that just shakes you to the ground and you have to pick up the rubble and build something new?
Jezebel@jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 7d agoSelling Sunset star Chrishell Stause and Australian musician G Flip announced their split after four years together, and just one year after their medieval-themed vow renewal. tinyurl.com/57t6sx95
Nathan: Do you understand why this scene is scary? Elizabeth: The girl is sick? Nathan: Sorta. The girl’s head is on backwards and she says the priest’s dead mother will perform fellatio forever in a burning afterlife. Billy: [listening to Mein Kampf at 3x speed]: The 19th Amendment was a mistake
Will delete later, so as to not be a Sore Loser. #sportsmanship BUT seriously (see what I did there), this would be very funny and we should consider it.
Zach Malm@muzach.bsky.social · last wk.Ok, I don't want to be one of those online meanies, but hear me out: what if, AS A JOKE, we refer to Harrison Butker as "Harrison Butthead". Thoughts?
Pretty hard for Walker to break the Seahawks defense's streak of no 100-yard rushers when the Chiefs basically have to abandon the run to have a chance of winning.
Ok, I don't want to be one of those online meanies, but hear me out: what if, AS A JOKE, we refer to Harrison Butker as "Harrison Butthead". Thoughts?
Really wanted to see this become a 3-score game, but I believe in the Seahawks defense to close it out.
Emmanuel Wilson has more rushing yards than Kenneth Walker, just as we all predicted.