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CHOAM for the holidays
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· Mar 12
oh your neighborhood has five guys burgers? haha yeah I guess that does sound like a lot of guys
people in hell want ice water
Professor Layton Boss Wants People To Stop Demonizing Generative AI
Level-5 CEO Wants People To Stop Demonizing Generative AI
Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has shared further thoughts on AI after a past interview of his went viral online
kotaku.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
people in hell want ice water
Best new fiction I read this year: The Rose Field//Philip Pullman
Best nonfiction: Crumb by Dan Nadel
Best movie: One Battle After Another
Best game: Blue Prince
Best album: I just listened to Sondheim and Steely Dan again I’m sorry. I like Sabrina Carpenter
Best nonfiction: Crumb by Dan Nadel
Best movie: One Battle After Another
Best game: Blue Prince
Best album: I just listened to Sondheim and Steely Dan again I’m sorry. I like Sabrina Carpenter
December 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Best new fiction I read this year: The Rose Field//Philip Pullman
Best nonfiction: Crumb by Dan Nadel
Best movie: One Battle After Another
Best game: Blue Prince
Best album: I just listened to Sondheim and Steely Dan again I’m sorry. I like Sabrina Carpenter
Best nonfiction: Crumb by Dan Nadel
Best movie: One Battle After Another
Best game: Blue Prince
Best album: I just listened to Sondheim and Steely Dan again I’m sorry. I like Sabrina Carpenter
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“it is illegal for you not to like me”
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
“it is illegal for you not to like me”
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This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron
December 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron
My grandad had a copy of Lincoln’s Devotions that LBJ got Nixon to inscribe to him as a gag gift
I own Olympia Dukakis' Greek fishermen's hat
"I own William Faulker's cake knife," a sentence that is both straightforward and true, and yet sounds completely deranged
December 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My grandad had a copy of Lincoln’s Devotions that LBJ got Nixon to inscribe to him as a gag gift
the Avatar movies are better than anything Christopher Nolan has ever done
December 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
the Avatar movies are better than anything Christopher Nolan has ever done
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Ah yeah Matt, congrats on the “Samizdat Prize.” Incredible stuff.
December 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Ah yeah Matt, congrats on the “Samizdat Prize.” Incredible stuff.
when you have been missed
December 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
when you have been missed
“A few weeks ago, I heard of” [deafening WRONG buzzer]
This shit is made up, actually
December 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“A few weeks ago, I heard of” [deafening WRONG buzzer]
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just take me away, lieutenant. you spilled a bottle of chateau mouton rothschild on my picasso and got french onion soup on the cat. you interrupted my golf game to tell me a meandering story about your brother-in-law’s septic tank business. I demand an unfair trial followed by solitary confinement
the best thing about Columbo is how he figures out that some rich jerk is a murderer and then spends ninety minutes tormenting them
June 22, 2023 at 1:57 AM
just take me away, lieutenant. you spilled a bottle of chateau mouton rothschild on my picasso and got french onion soup on the cat. you interrupted my golf game to tell me a meandering story about your brother-in-law’s septic tank business. I demand an unfair trial followed by solitary confinement
“This is my hole!” Bert yelled.
December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“This is my hole!” Bert yelled.
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Matt Taibbi is suing @eoinhiggins.bsky.social in a very dumb defamation suit.
If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in Taibbi v. Higgins (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-cv-09511) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against BOLD TYPE BOOKS, Eoin Higgins. (Filing Fee $ 405.00, Receipt Number ANYSDC-31994120)Document filed by Matt Taibbi..(Garson, Robert) (Entered: 11/13/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Matt Taibbi is suing @eoinhiggins.bsky.social in a very dumb defamation suit.
If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
If claims this nonspecific and broad were actionable under defamation law, Taibbi would be financially bankrupt in addition to intellectually bankrupt.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As someone who grew up in a town of 600 people in the Appalachians and just returned from a delightful trip there to visit people I love dearly, I think serious discussion about limiting criminal penalties for drunk driving is without exception the province of stupid assholes
I have a bunch of intersecting thoughts here but basically 1) excessive alcohol consumption is an urban activity, 2) we shouldn’t legalize drunk driving and 3) we should more heavily penalize parents whose kids abuse alcohol in such a drastic fashion.
December 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
As someone who grew up in a town of 600 people in the Appalachians and just returned from a delightful trip there to visit people I love dearly, I think serious discussion about limiting criminal penalties for drunk driving is without exception the province of stupid assholes
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The best of Hell World 2025
I heard you like to read buddy so have I got a treat for you: writing. The perfect exchange in such a scenario.
Once again this year I was blessed to be able to publish a great array of talented writ...
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
[through gritted teeth] I agree with the hereditary monarch about the importance of pluralism
Britain's King Charles lauds unity in diversity in his Christmas message reut.rs/3L2dhsw
Britain's King Charles lauds unity in diversity in his Christmas message
Britain's King Charles highlighted the importance of unity in diversity in his annual Christmas Day message on Thursday, as wars and tensions put communities around the world under strain.
reut.rs
December 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
[through gritted teeth] I agree with the hereditary monarch about the importance of pluralism
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There's actually a more recent historical framework for this exact argument than Roman law. But Vermeule chose not to cite the "Subjects and Citizens" chapter of Hitler's Mein Kampf for some reason!
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
There's actually a more recent historical framework for this exact argument than Roman law. But Vermeule chose not to cite the "Subjects and Citizens" chapter of Hitler's Mein Kampf for some reason!
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[Ben Folds voice]
🎶 SHE’S a Grinch and I’m fahoo foray 🎶
🎶 SHE’S a Grinch and I’m fahoo foray 🎶
December 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
[Ben Folds voice]
🎶 SHE’S a Grinch and I’m fahoo foray 🎶
🎶 SHE’S a Grinch and I’m fahoo foray 🎶
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Belle: hey
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Belle: hey
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
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speedrunning Buddhism by escaping samsara in a single lifetime
December 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
speedrunning Buddhism by escaping samsara in a single lifetime
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Hohoho! I drew this year's holiday card for my art rep, Felix Comic Art. I wanted the recipients to get something that looked like a piece of vintage original art, but also couldn't help poking some fun at Felix's love for Dark Knight Returns.
December 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hohoho! I drew this year's holiday card for my art rep, Felix Comic Art. I wanted the recipients to get something that looked like a piece of vintage original art, but also couldn't help poking some fun at Felix's love for Dark Knight Returns.
Finally broke down and bought the Batman: Black and White compendium. Only book I can think of with contributions by both Alex Niño and Katsuhiro Otomo.
December 27, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Finally broke down and bought the Batman: Black and White compendium. Only book I can think of with contributions by both Alex Niño and Katsuhiro Otomo.
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I do not fear the Menswear Guy. what's he going to tell me about myself that I am not already acutely aware of. "you dress like you don't respect yourself" good eye ace
The fact the Menswear Guy is actively dunking on the Bsky user base now instead of just cross-posting the threads where he does that to Twitter users should terrify all of us.
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I do not fear the Menswear Guy. what's he going to tell me about myself that I am not already acutely aware of. "you dress like you don't respect yourself" good eye ace
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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I imagine Applebaum means this rhetorically, but in case others really are wondering: turf, oil, China, and, probably the biggest distinct factor, the wildly outsize influence of the Nigerian Christian Right in the US Christian Right. One element of the attack was fan service for fundamentalists.
Not sure I understand why the Trump administration cares about Christians in Nigeria and not Christians in Ukraine
December 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I imagine Applebaum means this rhetorically, but in case others really are wondering: turf, oil, China, and, probably the biggest distinct factor, the wildly outsize influence of the Nigerian Christian Right in the US Christian Right. One element of the attack was fan service for fundamentalists.