Kern Mailer
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I post my real thoughts on the other site. No, not that one, the other other one. No, the next one. That one.
🇺🇸 fans belatedly discovering that Poch is terrrrrible with subs
July 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
🇺🇸 fans belatedly discovering that Poch is terrrrrible with subs
Kinda routing for Saudi Arabia to win the Concacaf Gold Cup because
A. LOLZ
And
B. They’re actually pretty good
But also
C. Herve Renard! The sexy pirate of global soccer!
A. LOLZ
And
B. They’re actually pretty good
But also
C. Herve Renard! The sexy pirate of global soccer!
June 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Kinda routing for Saudi Arabia to win the Concacaf Gold Cup because
A. LOLZ
And
B. They’re actually pretty good
But also
C. Herve Renard! The sexy pirate of global soccer!
A. LOLZ
And
B. They’re actually pretty good
But also
C. Herve Renard! The sexy pirate of global soccer!
“ASMR voice” rapidly hitting fingernails on chalkboard status
April 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
“ASMR voice” rapidly hitting fingernails on chalkboard status
What if Ezra Klein had gotten to Leno first, instead of Curtis Yarvin?
April 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What if Ezra Klein had gotten to Leno first, instead of Curtis Yarvin?
One of the funniest aspects of the media coverage of this incipient trade war is that nobody mentions the very obvious fact that no one in the admin is involved or invested in manufacturing or trade
April 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
One of the funniest aspects of the media coverage of this incipient trade war is that nobody mentions the very obvious fact that no one in the admin is involved or invested in manufacturing or trade
Sadly the Criterion Collection of Chinese Noir is kinda mid, probably for rights reasons
April 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Sadly the Criterion Collection of Chinese Noir is kinda mid, probably for rights reasons
Hard to think of an administration that has pivoted to antagonizing its own supporters as quickly as this one.
April 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hard to think of an administration that has pivoted to antagonizing its own supporters as quickly as this one.
Ever feel like you’ve been conned?
April 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ever feel like you’ve been conned?
Ah, got it. Thank you so much for this.
March 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Ah, got it. Thank you so much for this.
Tired: Hegseth must resign
Wired: Hegseth was sent by our divine Lord in Heaven to destroy the military industrial complex
Wired: Hegseth was sent by our divine Lord in Heaven to destroy the military industrial complex
March 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Tired: Hegseth must resign
Wired: Hegseth was sent by our divine Lord in Heaven to destroy the military industrial complex
Wired: Hegseth was sent by our divine Lord in Heaven to destroy the military industrial complex
As a 🇨🇱an, very proud that every 🇺🇸 academic has such an absurdly myopic and limited frame of reference that Pinochet - who was in power for 17 years 35 years ago - is the only reference for a dictatorship.
My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
As a 🇨🇱an, very proud that every 🇺🇸 academic has such an absurdly myopic and limited frame of reference that Pinochet - who was in power for 17 years 35 years ago - is the only reference for a dictatorship.
Pretty tired of the ideological divide between white supremacists on the right and white centrality-ists on the left
March 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Pretty tired of the ideological divide between white supremacists on the right and white centrality-ists on the left
3 liter bottles of Coke. A real civilizational inflection point.
March 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
3 liter bottles of Coke. A real civilizational inflection point.
Did not expect the new Paul Thomas Anderson to feature so much of the cast of Support the Girls
March 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Did not expect the new Paul Thomas Anderson to feature so much of the cast of Support the Girls
If you had said in 2024 that there would be multiple random blond ladies languishing in ICE jail… for weeks… no one would believe you
March 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you had said in 2024 that there would be multiple random blond ladies languishing in ICE jail… for weeks… no one would believe you
Awards season may be over, and influncer-fashion-film meets 1920 ethnic panto that is Anora has won the big prize, but who needs to spend $18million on PR when we can continue gay bashing for freeee!
My first day as Karla’s new PR is going well
Karla Sofía Gascón says she is ‘less racist than Gandhi’ on return to public eye
March 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Awards season may be over, and influncer-fashion-film meets 1920 ethnic panto that is Anora has won the big prize, but who needs to spend $18million on PR when we can continue gay bashing for freeee!
It’s a kayfabe v cosplay world and we’re all just out here LARPing
March 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It’s a kayfabe v cosplay world and we’re all just out here LARPing
We live in an era of unprecedented mass wealth. (And yes, inequality, which is relevant.)
March 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
We live in an era of unprecedented mass wealth. (And yes, inequality, which is relevant.)
“Was JFK’s corpse on the Epstein flight logs” is what people need to be asking
March 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“Was JFK’s corpse on the Epstein flight logs” is what people need to be asking
It’s all fun and games until the nerd reich deports Pedro Pascal and Diego Luna
March 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It’s all fun and games until the nerd reich deports Pedro Pascal and Diego Luna
The thing where every Democratic fundraising text sounds like a missive from 2012 is profoundly disconcerting
March 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The thing where every Democratic fundraising text sounds like a missive from 2012 is profoundly disconcerting
So glad the American left has finally found an opponent worthy of collective vitriol: elderly coastal liberal Jews
March 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So glad the American left has finally found an opponent worthy of collective vitriol: elderly coastal liberal Jews
The frog-in-boiling water phase of US media expressing outrage at individual events while ignoring the overall progression is going to be very tiresome.
March 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The frog-in-boiling water phase of US media expressing outrage at individual events while ignoring the overall progression is going to be very tiresome.
Big “Manu Chao meets Lucille Bluth” energy to Uruguay
March 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Big “Manu Chao meets Lucille Bluth” energy to Uruguay
Institutional elite leftist politics determined to apply 20th century frameworks to 21st century reality
V
Insurgent elite rightist politics determined to apply pre-19th century frameworks to 21st century reality
Who? Will? Win?
[no one]
V
Insurgent elite rightist politics determined to apply pre-19th century frameworks to 21st century reality
Who? Will? Win?
[no one]
March 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Institutional elite leftist politics determined to apply 20th century frameworks to 21st century reality
V
Insurgent elite rightist politics determined to apply pre-19th century frameworks to 21st century reality
Who? Will? Win?
[no one]
V
Insurgent elite rightist politics determined to apply pre-19th century frameworks to 21st century reality
Who? Will? Win?
[no one]