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He/him. Educator. Writer of lovingly critical essays on Star Trek at trekvstrek.com. Fix your heart or [redacted]. Do not give in to astonishment.
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and columbia university can go eat a dick

Sometimes, every now and then, the news is actually good

[extremely it can never happen to me voice] Sure are a lot of families being vaporized by bombs these days

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city

Rare win for Catholic Guilt

Future generations are going to be so confused about why we let the world be ruined by such embarrassing losers. Imagine finding the statue of Ozymandias among the ruins of his kingdom, commanding you to look upon his works and tremble, but he's wearing these stupid fucking glasses.

Massive ICE presence and huge crowd in Bell, near the Northgate Mkt and Mainline Skate Shop on Atlantic right now (3:30pm)

Gonna be mourning this cancellation 💔 Please play Hypnospace Outlaw if you haven't!!!! Agh!! Tragic

Imagining Miyamoto chain smoking lucky strikes like Don Draper when creative inspiration strikes in the most unlikely moments

That’s awesome you’re running for nyc mayor to become president lol I’m in comedy for the money and fame

MEI LING: Snake, careful, it’s called a “situationship.” Basically, anyone can be with you while not being with you, and no one can be mad about it. It’s a new kind of relationship. SNAKE: …relationship?!?!

The ultimate irony of Trump's manufactured image as a "dealmaker" is that it's literally impossible to make an actual deal with him, because he's so obviously unserious and inconsistent, and so obviously unrestrained by anyone more reasonable, that you could never trust any deal he agrees to anyway.

theonion.com/marilyn-mans...

This is everything people want to see from Dem elected officials right now.

I’m Jewish. I’m a New Yorker. I’m excited to vote for Mamdani. I’m tired of progressive candidates in my area getting sabotaged by bullshit claims of anti-semitism. I’m begging people to please look into what a candidate actually said when you see ads calling them anti-Semitic.

the thing thats exceptional about jd vance is how representative he is of a kind of putrid suburban gremlin

establishment dems lining up behind cuomo instead of lander really showing you what being more 'reasonable', 'restrained', 'moderate', 'put the work in' actually gets you from the party: jack shit

just saw someone say "it's inedible" when they meant inevitable and it's a perfectly innocent mistake, possibly even an autocorrect, but extremely funny

decided to check out who advertises on Turkish television during NBA Finals broadcasts and..

This is felony assault and would merit a prison sentence if these people weren't above the law.

Maybe, just maybe, Benny isn't the dream, we are. Maybe we're nothing more than figments of his imagination. For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us.

Say what?

I have more followers on here than the Vice President of the United States.

If you can't handle me at my bratwurst, you don't deserve me at my bratbest

I think an important misconception to challenge about the rise of the historical Nazi regime is the idea that there were the ideological Nazis on one side, plainly evil, and everyone else on the other, when there were - and still are - plenty of "normal" people/institutions willing to "ride it out".

oh weird it’s almost verbatim what that Daily Caller chud said to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

I appreciate this framing of Boelter as an " entrepreneurial missionary," which is much like many of the "private security" professionals I wrote about. By @melissagiragrant.com newrepublic.com/article/1969...

Saw a license plate holder that said "Life Is A Cabernet" and the omens are getting kind of stupid now

Sick of being shamed for your choices at those other casinos? At River Side we’re proud to be smoke-friendly *and* sponsored by Phillip Morris.

This is such a funny extension of the right wing's long-running weird fantasy of California, one of the world's absolute strongholds of capitalism, as some sort of lawless Mad Max wasteland where the safety of good, god-fearing Americans can't be guaranteed.

Love how this administration talks about LA like it's fucking Dresden in 1945. Let me go instead, you babies. I've been craving a jalapeno egg burrito from the Tacos Por Favor on Olympic for like six months now.

Free Mario Guevara!

Zohran should propose the city seize assets of people earning over $1m with New York residences that go unlived in for more than 120 days

It's all academic at this point but my original pet peeve about media coverage of Trump's entry into politics was that they prefaced his name with "businessman" instead of "reality TV star," which is arguably a better description of his whole career but definitely what he was best known for by then

I don't think anyone has ever appropriately dealt with the psychological damage caused to the Millennial generation when there was an unprecedented national crisis and the President of the United States declared that the best thing anyone could all do to help out was "go shopping."

my unifying theory of everything for the 21st century american zeitgeist is that you can trace everything back to 9/11, the writer's strike, or gamergate. ICE? 9/11. Trump? You might think gamergate, but it's the writer's strike. The assault on trans rights is gamergate tho.

kids these days are getting their brain poisoning... online? 🙄 back when i was a kid we used to drink our lead straight from the hose!