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To quote the classic Adam Serwer essay about MAGA: the cruelty is the point. Welcoming the Tates will cause pain to Trump's enemies? Well, that's all that matters anyway.

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I don’t know what more surprising - that Trump’s favourability isn’t yet in the single digits among Canadians or that there are any people who are unsure how they feel about him.

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Were you mauled by a raccoon or are you also the parent to an affectionate 9 month old?

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Trump has successfully lobbied Romania to allow the world’s most famous sex traffickers to return to the USA. (I half-expect him to appoint Andrew Tate to a position in the Department of Justice. And that’s not a joke.)

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There’s a surprisingly high number of men who DM me once every few months, just to remind me that they’re starved for my attention. (This is as close as they’ll ever come to getting it.)

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My 5 accomplishments last week: 1. Slipped out the back, Jack 2. Made a new plan, Stan 3. Didn’t need to be coy, Roy 4. Hopped on the bus, Gus 5. Dropped off the key, Lee

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Babies learning how to clap are the best. Hungry? They clap. Full? They also clap. Laughing? So much clapping. Despondent? Just as much clapping.

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It really looked like Wayne Gretzky’s reputation was going to survive his association with conservative politics and Trump. But - and I say this with a straight face - I don’t know how it survives emerging from the American team’s bench while wearing NO Canadiana at the Four Nations final.

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I know what they mean but every time I see a headline my first thought is they are letting them have fake girlfriends

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So, this was brand new for me and very fun - I was asked to come in and speak about my work as a content creator to Content Creation students! Did I divulge secrets of the influencing world that I would never dare share on the internet? Yes.

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I am just not having a good week. I’ve pulled down two videos where I couldn’t see the gap between what I meant to say and what I said. But I’ve also finished my first draft of a book proposal (first of many, I’m sure), so maybe it’s just a matter of how I’m directing my energy.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

The same is true for short-form video! Surely, someone has written an internet law of inverse ratio of effort-to-odds-of-virality by now?

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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No-bid AND an obvious conflict of interest? It’s like Elon Musk is constantly discovering new levels of shamelessness.

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The leader of the Ontario Liberal Party just announced a cap on international students that would cut billions in revenue from our college system - and some vague promises but no plan to replace it.

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I just explained to my wife (who’s out of the county) that I’m up so late because I had to clean before the cleaners come in the morning and… I think this is a new stage of being old, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

No one should be surprised that Trump is turning his office into a protection racket.

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You don't want to tell your children that all you did during this time was post. You should be podcasting too

submitted 25 days ago • 228 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 26 days ago • 810 comments

The new Fantastic Four movie posters are as bad as the first poster was good. It’s AI-generated slop, complete with tells like missing fingers and repeated faces. This movie probably has a marketing budget in the 9 figures but they couldn’t be bothered to hire artists. 🙄

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

Jesus fucking christ. It’s just one nightmare scenario after another.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

I know I’m not the first person to discover this, but I only JUST learned that Jake Johnson and David Krumholtz are NOT the same person.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Fun fact: the Canadian government announced this in December. The only difference seems to be the creation of a ‘fentanyl czar’. Ridiculous job titles impress Trump, though? So I guess that was enough.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

How is it possible that we, as a species, haven’t arrived at one, mutually agreeable design for shower controls? Why is it that no two showers share the same temperature controls or on/off switch? It’s like every shower is its own little escape room.

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

“‘I apologized, learned a lesson, and it won’t happen again,’ Boebert said.” Of course it will happen again. It always happens again. It’s designed to happen again! Because policing trans women always ALSO turns into policing cis women. Every. Single. Time.

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This is a monstrous response.

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From the NYT: “Last year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the northern border” The supposedly “massive” amounts of fentanyl caught crossing the border in 2024, and used to justify imposing tariffs, could be carried by a single person.

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That WOULD be a radical and new idea. And definitely an improvement on the old model of ‘who do you know?’ and ‘how are you related?’ Here’s your reminder that more than 40% of Harvard’s students are legacy, athletes, or related to donors or staff. I’m sure they all earned it through merit, though!

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I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it. Irony is dead. I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated. #LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust

submitted 34 days ago • 157 comments

For nearly 5 years after I got my current phone number in 2014, I received texts and calls for Joey. The texts only stopped because I had to tell people that their happy birthday messages weren’t reaching the right person. Anyway, after 5 years, I’m now getting telemarketing calls for Joey. Again.

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

This is surely an early candidate for photo of the year, right?

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It’s amazing how Musk’s ‘my heart goes out to you’ salute has inspired a wave of very public Nazi salutes. Hmm, wonder why that might be…

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Fun fact: conception isn’t taught in ‘basic high school biology’. It isn’t a scientific concept and is applied variously to the sex act itself, fertilization, and implantation. But it’s funny how the ‘it’s basic biology’ crowd consistently manage to reveal they know nothing about biology, right?

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Adjusting to the new baseline temperature, and being hyper-aware that your baseline is all out of whack, is always the funniest thing about day one of a vacation. I’m sweating in San Diego and 20 feet from me is a woman wearing a jacket that’s very similar to what I’d wear to shovel snow.

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments