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Venezuela. Greenland... Donald Trump is a warmongering, neocolonial maniac. And the rest of the United States government has not the capacity nor the courage to address that reality.

Been mostly off social media reading CALVIN AND HOBBES all day. I treated myself to the Complete set and dove in. It’s as funny, gorgeous, and full of heart as it’s always been. You can’t adapt this. When something is perfect, anything less than what it is seems a waste. You can’t improve on it.

Whatever one thinks of the attack on Venezuela, you have to admire the skill and strategic precision of the military forces that stormed Madura's fortress and so effectively removed the Epstein Files from the headlines.

I will admit Elon turning twitter into a nazi website had some influence on me interpreting his nazi salute as a nazi salute

Shout out to all y'all who already gave up on your resolutions. You'll rock that shit next time and whatnot.

“Retains optionality” may be the LinkedIn phrase that leads me into the swamp to live with the toads.

I have been eliminated from playoff contention. I apologize to my fans and I will come back better than ever. I appreciate privacy during this difficult time and so forth, what have you.

Fifteen minutes into Cars: "Is it done?" Twenty minutes into Cars: "Can we watch something else?" Did I have a child immune to the Cars mind virus???

I don't think there is any historical degradation or inhumanity to which the white supremacist shitheels at the helm of our nation will not now lay claim. Slavery will soon be a beneficient grant by Europe to the world. The Inquisition and the Holocaust will soon be necessary purifications.

Ok 9th grade history teacher you win on me having to know what the Monroe Doctrine is

Shout out to all the dogs out there trying missionary position. You are seen and appreciated.

Incredible piece about protesters from different US cities who all have one thing in common: they lost an eye during a George Floyd protests in when police shot them with "less lethal" crowd-control weapons www.narratively.com/p/the-shot-i...

I feel like I am inching towards a position of temperance on gambling like we need to shut it all down everywhere for a year and give people a time out.

I'm going to do it. I'm going to show the child Cars. May God have mercy on my soul.

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“Nobody can stop us,” a thing famously said by people about to do good things

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What if this is some kind of horrible bucket list scenario where Trump has been living with knowledge of a terminal diagnosis for a while now and has decided to spend whatever time he has left nihilistically wrecking shit and stealing more and more wealth for his extended family.

It was an honor to play the role of "deceived woman"

Just wondering if we should be paying attention to unusual polymarket bets on when certain countries will be invaded by the U.S. because that might be our first notice of the crimes we’re about to commit.

I know there are a lot of speculative fiction readers among you. If you haven’t tackled @older.bsky.social Infomocracy series, it is horribly relevant. We played with some of the same ideas in the Leverage S3 finale, political perception as reality.

Hey, you better get on board with this technology, you don't wanna get left behind, etc.

made the mistake of trying to buy a small tin of tea from a french company online (for my wife for Christmas) and was contacted by fedex to register an account with the FDA and create a government account and associated paperwork to get a fucking tin of tea and now i understand the revolutionary war

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Shortcut: whenever the rich people as a class are complaining about being the victims of some oppression, they are making it up

Every day, I'm a bit more bummed that this amazing woman has not already won election and been sworn in

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Google AI still hitting the mushrooms

Oh, quick note for Americans who resolved to learn to cook in the new year. Metric. Get a scale, they're like $12. Use grams. You never have to scramble for a measuring cup again. You never have to worry about baked goods going wonky because the flour wasn't leveled or something.

the eight words every girl longs to hear

I must confess I love all the Nolan Batman movies, even Rises, but Batman Begins is my absolute favorite

I told my Bears fan wife that they were down 13-0, and she said, "That's okay. They don't really get going until there are two minutes left in the fourth quarter."

Blocking any Twitter people posting "FINE I'll go on Bluesky" and any Bluesky people doing the "Don't be MEAN to the Twitter people, they might LEAVE!"

Evil clickbait strikes again

Not a very kawaii thrift store in Japan

I just got back in town from a funeral and I'm getting several hundred new follows despite not really posting this weekend. Is there another mass exodus from Twitter going on because of Grok and the CSAM?

Some of us have always seen the vision.

Workouts are showing results, I successfully lifted Eva the chunky monkey off the ground, which I haven't managed in many years. She was not amused. (Old photo of her watching Eurovision on a tablet.)

A lot of people say things won’t get better if he dies but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say yes actually they will just not right away.

The "list of Super Bowl lead-out programs" Wikipedia page is a real jaunt through American television history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

thoughts/prayers to everyone who made their “most anticipated TV shows of 2026” list before finding out that Kumail and Armando Iannucci were on the new season of Taskmaster

It does not seem incidental that LLMs are being so heavily touted as all-purpose solutions by incredibly wealthy men accustomed to being surrounded by people who yes-and even their worst ideas, many of whom have descended into their own personal psychosis

We sort of did a 9/11 in Venezuela. It's gonna be a long time before all remains are recovered. And I bet we're gonna see a lot of countries represented among the dead. Don't be surprised if they band together to beat our asses, in ways that the smug incompetents in D.C. could never imagine.

It’s become so hard to tell if I’m getting a migraine or just processing the horrors of existence.

Wishing you all a calm and productive Sunday morning. Here's Joan Crawford reading her mail, photographed by the great Eve Arnold in October 1959.

Crazy day yesterday but managed to fit in carrots and pot plants (and that Britishism will never cease to be funny, I thought you guys just had a liberal narcotics policy!)

The two recent Godzilla and Kong movies played back to back tonight on a cable channel. They did that thing where they don't have a commercial break between movies, they just jump into the next one. Made the two films feel like a two-parter. All it needs is an intermission.

The U.S. intent for Venezuela emerges, and it resembles an old colonial model.

I'm binging all nine episodes of Chevy Chase Anthology.

Ok seriously dc folk let’s do a karaoke night that’s ONLY THESE SONGS. Cmon. Cmon let’s do it.

When a used book you bought online turns out to have been owned by a smoker

crawling out of the holidays hibernation, blinking into the sunlight, and muttering “josh charles grumpy small town doctor new network procedural” before shuffling off into the woods

8yo said that pizza is american and then 11yo said no, it’s Italian and then did this: 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌 still not sure I am prepared to be raising children from new jersey

Cleaning up after the washing machine flood. That is a special kind of dirty floor, all the accumulated washing machine crud, plus whatever was under the machine.

"OK everybody, now stare at the salad bar and don't smile."

the plot twist of I'M CHEVY CHASE, AND YOU'RE NOT is so wild. turns out i actually AM chevy chase

This week's review covers THE TOMBOY (1924), a country crime-comedy-mystery-romance from Poverty Row's Chadwick studio. Dorothy Devore stars as a feisty country girl who helps federal agents bust a bootlegger ring. moviessilently.com/2026/01/04/t...

Would you be able to help me out with music recommendations for my Labrador? We usually watch the Eurovision entries together but haven't in a couple years and she needs new music. I will show you what she likes:

Timeline synchronicity

I bet that a lot of people in the Trump administration are betting on what "might" happen

Okay, this is also petty and also television but... The Portlandia Caligari sketch. Fred Armisen makes sure to say that the film stars Werner Krauss and no nerd pushing Caligari would do that. Krauss played Caligari but we all know that Conrad Veidt is the one we talk about.

So I was looking at Ghost but the whole "you need to give us your credit card information before you can even look at it" thing was a no from me. That's the only way to confirm identity? You sure? You sure you're sure? I don't believe you.

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A belated final stack of new disc arrivals for 2025, on to 2026!

So I was given one of those sleep headphone headbands, which I had asked for, and it works great, it's exactly what I wanted BUT It looks so dorky. Amazing invention, does exactly what I want (I frequently drift off while wearing headphones and they fall out and get lost/damaged) but yikes.

Wow so many negative Nancys, nobody even noticed he finally pulled off a successful coup. Practice makes perfect, lil buddy!

In the past 20 minutes, I've said "Wow!" more often that I normally do as relates to a football game that I don't REALLY care about it.

Dorothy Devore crowdsources the question of bobbing her hair in 1925

How many government handouts has Jeff Bezos received? 🤔

[pumps fists wildly] FUCK YESSSS

oops forgot to share on Friday

OMG, it exists! LOL! But not with either Welles or Garland

I’ve thought about this monologue, and this one particular line, every single day since I saw it for the first time a year ago

Apparently I was due for another post complaining about the cliché of investigators using a body in the morgue to bypass cell phone facial recognition. This is rapidly — well, not "rapidly," since we've been stuck on this one for years — becoming one of the clichés that annoys me most.

Time for THE LAST '80s NEWSLETTER... www.drewmcweeny.com/july-1985-co...

Post a famous bathroom scene

“Experts warn some indicators might soon be showing the earliest hinted signals of whispers of a future technical pre-recession” - official economic news refrain, as the doomed empire deepens its 20yr cliffdive plummet into a gutted stakeless wasteland so brutal the gov stops issuing reports on it

Very good post here.

Teaching babies to talk is a bad idea. I don’t need a baby hysterically screaming “Here she comes!” before ripping my food out of my hand.

My hold for Victorian Psycho finally came in 🙏🏼

Incredible piece about protesters from different US with one thing in common: they lost an eye during a George Floyd protest in 2020 when police shot them with crowd, control weapons www.narratively.com/p/the-shot-i...

A real "'Topes lose" moment for the Bears' comeback to fall short like that.

Sure I didn’t recognize the SNL cast member but she didn’t recognize me, the public radio professional, so who should really be embarrassed?

Congratulations to the president for making my seasonal affective disorder feel earned, two winters running

cam little, my goodness

Sure I didn’t recognize the SNL cast member but she didn’t recognize me, the public radio professional so who should really be embarrassed?