I don't think you deserve to feel any guilt for absenting yourself -- I suspect strongly you took enough of a hit just overheating that shit, much less trying to engage with it.
Wake me up when she's in pog form.
Oh! Fun question with a fun answer: He fucking sucks.
The voice that won over Ira Glass hasn't changed much since 1992. It's more subdued than it was in riotously funny essays like "Me Talk Pretty One Day," but the wry wisecracking, the deliberate bitchiness — those qualities are still in evidence. Still, in "Cash and Carry," when Sedaris critiques the phrasing on a homeless man's cardboard sign ("It should be 'Help one of the homeless,' I wanted to tell him. Otherwise it sounds like you’re going to take whatever you collect and distribute it to other people in need."), I sympathize with the guy's response that he hopes Sedaris burns in hell. His essays often derive their humor from catty, judgmental moments like that one, and so it's notable that this is the first time I can remember reading one and being firmly on the other person's side. The tone may not have changed, but Sedaris's positioning inarguably has. The very bitchiness which once made his voice feel so fresh has become a commonplace in humor writing; writers from Tina Fey to Samantha Irby have surpassed him in their own fluent versions of it. Watching him uphold it now with such determination feels like watching your dad try to squeeze into the leisure suit he last wore in 1971. Sedaris spent so many years assuring us he was an incurious curmudgeon that he seems to have talked himself into becoming one, at least on the page.
i wrote about why david sedaris’s writing leaves me cold now
www.patreon.com/posts/152798...
putting the JOI in joie de vivre
the funniest part of the kobe-bam discourse is the implicit assumption that kobe came by his 81 naturally in the flow of the game rather than the truth, which is that kobe would have killed a teammate in full view of the crowd if any one of them took a shot
Me, in 30 years having not gotten the news that the boycott ended
i couldn't resist defector.com/i-will-never...
yessssss
There's gonna be some changes around here you little shits
Actually I'm only 51.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."
It wasn’t just a road diverging in that yellow wood—it was a choice.
It was a new start.
And that matters.
somebody photoshop Kant and GE Moore in here
Kobe was not a good person and we should say that more often and more loudly.
I really do not understand how anybody could write, edit, and publish this "won't anybody think of the Kobe stans" dreck.
He honored Kobe's legacy by not stopping when a—[Vaudeville hook yanks me off stage]
it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too
Kobayashi Maru that shit. The whole premise is bullshit. Shut the trolley down. No one needs to die.
Like the constant Trolley Problem chatter feels linked to the over-eagerness of the Yglesiases and Newsoms of the world to find vulnerable people to sacrifice for the greater good. Like it's a way to make HURTING people somehow seem VIRTUOUS.
No thanks!
Increasingly of the opinion that the correct answer to the Trolley Problem is "fuck you, why are you so fixated on finding reasons to justify killing people?"
Philippa Foot: I invented the Trolley Problem to expose the flaws of consequentialism.
Our entire society: Finally we have created the Trolley Problem from classic philosophical work Do Not Create The Trolley Prob—
*out-of-control trolley ploughs through the group, mercifully ending the debate*
Fuck Kobe Bryant and his fake ass record
Easy-to-Remember Conversion Chart Gallons to Litres 1 Gallon = 1 Litre Pounds to Kilos 1 Pound = 1 Kilo Fahrenheit to Celcius 1°F = 1°C Inches to Centimetres 1 Inch = 1 Centimetre Feet to Metres 1 Foot = 1 Metre Miles to Kilometres 1 Mile = 1 Kilometre
Here's a universal conversion chart that's very easy to remember. Hopefully it proves useful
I say all the time that elections are a starting gun, not the finish line. But our whole setup is so badly skewed towards eternal campaigning that that immediately after elections, our whole political class is like, well, shit, this is literally the only chance I am gonna get for a vacation.
most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november
i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly
starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off.
hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes
POV you are meeting Bluesky mutuals in real life
Reskeeting is a privilege, not a right.
