Bzzzzzttt. Wrong! One fun thing about being an American is that I can say literally whatever I want whenever I want.
Jose@jum.bsky.social · 18h agoAmericans really don’t get to be talking like this anymore
Nick (derogatory) ✨
@slothropsmap.bsky.social
Yinzer ambassador to the west coast • Moo Deng’s spiritual successor • Tallest Italian to live-tweet brain surgery Don't fuck with me. I'll spend another three hours in Excel. I don't care.
Jose@jum.bsky.social · 18h agoIt isn’t possible to teach someone how to be this funny
Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 12h agoThere’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this
honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 18h agoToday is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
The New York Times affixed this widget to my lock screen without even asking, and thus against my will I have become one with the results in Michigan. Therefore, send not to know For whom the Needle wobbles, It wobbles for me.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you don’t refresh the page often enough the people counting the votes feel unappreciated and go slower
Organizing yet more photos of my dad for a celebration of life we’re soon hosting in Pittsburgh and struck by the immense narrative difference between old film roll or Polaroid candids and the infinite retakes we get with ultra high-def iPhones. Simply changes the nature of memory and history.
My favorite of the bunch. Dad just finished washing his ‘87 Shelby Z and it was time to help me wash mine.
I've gotten into instax photography in the past couple of years and the emotional valence of those photos vs digital ones is kind of wild
Organizing yet more photos of my dad for a celebration of life we’re soon hosting in Pittsburgh and struck by the immense narrative difference between old film roll or Polaroid candids and the infinite retakes we get with ultra high-def iPhones. Simply changes the nature of memory and history.
[extremely Dave Wasserman voice] I’ve seen enough. It’s time for many of you to go to bed.
the correct response to an unknown number call is an orbital ion canon strike
Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social · 13h agoConsider the people you know in 2026 who are wiling to answer an unknown number, listen to a pitch, and then willingly subject themselves to several minutes of questions about politics, a topic which almost no one alive enjoys - and ask yourself how well these folks represent the rest of us.
Consider the people you know in 2026 who are wiling to answer an unknown number, listen to a pitch, and then willingly subject themselves to several minutes of questions about politics, a topic which almost no one alive enjoys - and ask yourself how well these folks represent the rest of us.
@abovoadmala.bsky.social · 13h agoIsn't polling a fairly mature industry? How is it so ineffective?
Of a piece with my theory that every state with a panhandle is crazy.
I would recommend not blaming Jews for Michigan acting like Michigan has acted our entire lives.
i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.
Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 15h agoI support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.
Thomas Pynchon’s greatest crime is that he allegedly wrote an 800-page about alien abductions in the mid-90s that he has yet to publish. I mean. Are you kidding me?
Sophie@sophies.games · 16h agoI often wonder how such shitty people end up as part of the "canon". Were there not other postmodernists who weren't giant pieces of shit? I guess once everyone's read the same books and is using them as a reference point it's hard to join the conversation without having read those same books.
Punjab. Afghan. Kashmir. Sind. Balochis-tan. The I was added for pronounciation and because the whole thing also means 'land of the pure' in several languages. it's pretty clever!
Exactly, it’s incredibly dangerous to ally yourself with those who criticize a system because they want to make it *worse*
Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social · 21h agoTo the extent there are problems with The System, they’re largely (1) poor people suffer, (2) women suffer, and (3) people of color suffer. These are all things RFK likes about The System. To give him credit for “shaking things up” is to out yourself as either a eugenicist or a dumbfuck. Or both.
To the extent there are problems with The System, they’re largely (1) poor people suffer, (2) women suffer, and (3) people of color suffer. These are all things RFK likes about The System. To give him credit for “shaking things up” is to out yourself as either a eugenicist or a dumbfuck. Or both.
PMC Vanguardist@tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2d agoYou actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.
Honestly a very rich text in terms of illuminating the mental pathways that lead to woo. Charismatic radio preachers using rhythm and certainty and humor to force associations where they don't necessarily exist and transform cliches into some kind of received folk wisdom.
So I've been slowly introducing video games to my girlfriend, who has spent her life becoming a gifted director, actor, writer, and producer of films. Never engaged with games. Stunningly, the thing that got it click for her was JB Smoove's fake radio show in GTAV, Chakra Attack! Endless delight.
Grand Theft Auto V (GTA5): Chakra Attack Full Radio Epsiode
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This is exciting but, I say this with love and respect, please for the love of all that is good and moral and holy, let us send photos.
Bluesky@bsky.app · 22h agoUpdate: group chats can now host up to 100 members.
Collected letters from famous intellectuals are a marvelous example of cultural Schrodinger’s Cat. Were these people as brilliant and interesting extemporaneously as they were with care and craft? John Lennon? Absolutely not. James Joyce? You bet your filthy disgusting ass.
Mark Pertuit@markpert.bsky.social · 22h agoThey are, indeed, filthy. Hilariously so given when he wrote them.
Hold on now, hold on. That title belongs to "Jonathan Safran Foer's emails to Natalie Portman."
“I love tits, you know. Big, enormous tits that make me horny and nervous at the same time. They make me think about my father, who hated Black people. Boy, I’m fucked up. It’s shocking, right? You’re shocked right now.” - Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social · 22h agoSeeing a lot of people say “Portnoy’s Complaint,” a book I could have written when I was 13, the age where I forever surpassed Philip Roth in emotional and sexual maturity.
de beauvoir and sartre were both monsters ('very young' here means 16 or 17) www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social · 24h agoIn some ways, this is a game about how much French theory you’ve read.
In some ways, this is a game about how much French theory you’ve read.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Do you relish the idea of becoming a Habsburg? I think not!
It is also worth pointing out that if you enjoy this website and want to continue using it to find left-liberal folks who share your values and become your friends, then, categorically, left-liberals can't be the only people here.
Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2d agoGood lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.