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jasonkpargin.bsky.social
Author of John Dies at the End, formerly David Wong of Cracked.com fame
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she’s like 15 feet away. absolutely that man’s whole thought process was: “I’m gonna shoot that woman”

“Firing back”

You don't have to like her but when she cooks she's Anthony Bourdain

Thought this was an op-ed

Sinners joins RRR in the category of "incredible, masculine movies American men watched and loved only because nobody told them in advance they were musicals."

Could you

Is that how it’s supposed to work

For the price of part of one cheeseburger you can join the discourse around the controversial new book. It's $2.99 in ebook this month for 'I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.' The link, or just search your ebook reader for those words: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/s...

what the fuck

"I love how Five Guys pours a ton of extra fries into the bag!" You paid eight dollars for a regular order of fries, I think they're still ahead on the transaction.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, is reportedly on his way back to the U.S. to face criminal charges

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

For the price of part of one cheeseburger you can join the discourse around the controversial new book. It's $2.99 in ebook this month for 'I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.' The link, or just search your ebook reader for those words: static.macmillan.com/static/smp/s...

feel like @mattgertz.bsky.social has been all over this, but if you don't watch Fox, it's really been in Other World mode. No bigger story yesterday than KJP's book, for example.

There is currently a post on the front page of Reddit complaining that The Simpsons went downhill after Season 21

ALIEN: EARTH Full Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbsi... Very interesting... certainly looks like it fits in right between PROMETHEUS and ALIEN.

wait what

I wish them both the worst.

I want to learn to play the plates

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

this happened on wheel of fortune tonight

Which sounds more natural to you: "Nude, muscular man" or "Muscular, nude man" It's for an upcoming article, I keep switching it back and forth and neither sound right

Is there a nontoxic version of masculinity that will lure young men away from the grifters who dominate the scene? New column from me, as always free and ad-free, no registration required: jasonpargin.substack.com/p/to-save-th...

That sucks. They should make a law that they have to make all the text of the bill publicly available for legislators to read before they sign it

Is there a nontoxic version of masculinity that will lure young men away from the grifters who dominate the scene? New column from me, as always free and ad-free, no registration required: jasonpargin.substack.com/p/to-save-th...

New column from me on why men's self-help influencers tend to be right-wing, and what a 'liberal Joe Rogan' would even look like: jasonpargin.substack.com/p/to-save-th...

Has anybody tried to cure their migraines with the “can of sardines a day” method?

New column from me on why men's self-help influencers tend to be right-wing, and what a 'liberal Joe Rogan' would even look like: jasonpargin.substack.com/p/to-save-th...

Irrational pop culture opinion:

Books are too expensive, so my new one is now $2.99 in any ebook format for the month of June. After that, the price will inflate 500% back to its original outrageous level, due to my personal greed. Search your device for 'I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.'

Just when you think you’ve heard the worst UNBOUND / BOUNDLESS story…

Is this you

My ability to watch Dexter was forever ruined by a (now deleted) TLP blog post pointing out that if you turn off the voiceover, you'd never know the protagonist is supposed to be a psychopath. He'd just be a normal Hollywood vigilante, and a well-adjusted one at that.

Books are too expensive, so my new one is now $2.99 in any ebook format for the month of June. After that, the price will inflate 500% back to its original outrageous level, due to my personal greed. Search your device for 'I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom.'

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

I feel like "does not have a blameless past" is a weird way to describe this www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

I think if you grabbed any famous thinker from centuries ago and showed them Wikipedia and told them it was free for anyone to access, they would say it is humanity's crowning achievement and would be indifferent to the moon landings, modern medicine, flight, or anything else you showed them

So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...

I used to read about people wearing balaclavas in books but not know what they were and then one day at a store someone ordered a baklava and I looked because I was like, finally I'll know what it is, and then I was like hmm this doesn't clear up anything

Is this simple and am I dumb or is this one of those things where not even an expert knows until doing the experiment

people get mad at me when I say this but it's a Serious Problem for bluesky's long-term viability that the userbase actively tries to bully people they don't like off here

the people who told me that this dynamic doesn’t exist and that I’m imagining a bullying problem need to check the quotes/replies to this b

The “lets tell anyone we dont like to kill themselves” crowd are not welcome here sorry

I know everyone only reads these stories to find out if the people "deserved it" or not but these details about the conditions were kind of eye opening