Somehow, for a gay sex program, Heated Rivalry is also infused with Canadian media's penchant for cozy pastoralism

This website is amazing

ME: So its like "traps" were basically drag queens for Bush-era forum bisexuals but it became a booru tag porno slur kind of vibe so now you get like, Hardblush Third Way socmed-borne femboys downstream of it.
GROK: I've generated this photo of P Diddy killing you with a rock based on your input.

[reading one book by Nabokov] truly this man was troubled but inarguably brilliant, a pedlar of the voluptuous to his fellow embarrassed and abused sybarites

[reading six books by Nabokov] truly this man loved bugs

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

One of the best to ever do it

Cockburn on the LRB podcast here, observing that the upshot of the War on Terror is that almost every independent state between Libya and Afghanistan has either been brought to heel, or smashed into an ungovernable mess that can’t defend itself. And that this was the entire point.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I like that when I joined bluesky it was a place for sickos to not be bothered by Nazis but now it has a reputation for being super libbed up so when I say something like "do you think Wolverine got regular boners or did it pop in and out like his claws" someone will stop by to say "VOTE!"

no idea

see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

so another thing that Serpico captures really well is that people with the kind of integrity and stubbornness needed to be dissidents or idealists in corrupt institutions are often kind of hard to get along with.

Perfect natural experiment. If Biden and Congress had treated the Jan 6th insurrection like the treason it was and jailed the people behind it, Trump’s power would have shriveled on the vine.

I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen