Gotta hand it to Phoebe, I never expected to hear Justin from Godflesh and Mike from American Football play guitar together on a song about being in love with Bo Burnham

got my annual review and my boss just said “post better”???

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

I like Phoebe Bridgers

Gm

Warner Brothers is unfairly maligning me through their unjust lawsuit against my original character “Elmer Fuck”,

Of fucking course it’s dreary and depressing on New Phoebe Bridgers Day

Party? Yeah, I partied. Me and my millennial friends all have Inflammatory Nostril Disease from partying. It’s extinct now so Gen Z won’t ever get it

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 2w ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

I’ve never heard an obviously heavily workshopped use of the word bro before

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 3w ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

I’m the only bluesky user who listens to 2Slimey

This is a Comedy Bang Bang character

Howard Mortman@howardmortman.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Cool kids on the Internet. They're doing the cool kid chatter. Some of 'em might be the coastal elites, making fun of how I talk. But let's be real. They're making fun of Michigan. They're thinking they're better than us. Their jokes, their criticism, only make me fight harder." -- Haley Stevens

I don’t want to pay for Letterboxd but I do love the aesthetic of picking your own movie posters so to bridge the difference I’ve been updating my top four every time I watch a movie to match the poster on the bottom

Reading the TikTok comments is great because sometimes you see some dude mansplaining the dying process to a hospice nurse by saying he’s “been in the industry for 20 years” and then you click on his profile and he’s a fucking MAGICIAN

Listening to the dumbest fucking pig squeal slam metal at the gym and boy this shit works lmao

I really need an inside story of this trip because this strikes me as going beyond Trump II maximum misogyny into genuinely stupid self-destructive territory

Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · last mo.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

I know there are lots of polisci folks on here. The author of this says “A healthy democracy should have two parties that disagree philosophically, but whose visions for change build out from the centre.” I’m curious if there are any actual examples of this in the real world or if this is just bs

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.

The deceptive promises of America’s democratic socialists ft.trib.al/H4aRx2U | opinion

Wemby’s limbs are too long. He should be banned from basketball

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

At this point, it's basically a monthly thing where the NY Times has some boomer Dem write a piece saying the party should abandon trans people.

Raffi you’re so right

I tried telling people exactly this. It does not work. We are in lizard brain zone with this stuff and I am afraid it’s too late. People have told me they’d rather have the cia track their kids than give up the “control” of tracking their loved ones. Can’t argue with that.

Dan Rosen@danrosen.xyz · last mo.

I think people understandably but magically believe that surveilling your loved ones will protect them from harm because it promises knowledge and control. But when you get more knowledge but little actual control, your anxiety goes through the roof

After spending too much time on TikTok I have to ask: is what’s happening there really ever a “conversation”? It seems to me that it’s more like an ongoing dialogue of screeds written on a bathroom wall than anything resembling human conversation. Or maybe I’m just falling for marketing terms

Can’t wait for the cast of Love Island USA to return to the United States and discover the explosive diarrhea thing

Smdh prediction markets are getting to everything

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Still pissed that there aren’t any bald guys on Love Island

I want to institute full authoritarian communism for the sole purpose of getting rid of all the condescending pull-up-your-bootstraps quotations that are on display at every Jimmy Johns

Is Joey Chestnut America’s greatest athlete? I think there’s an argument there