tim catts
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It was the Holy Shit of times, it was the Big Yikes of times, it was the age of WTF, it was the age of LMFAO, it was the epoch of Fuck Around, it was the epoch of Find Out
Yikes
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It was the Holy Shit of times, it was the Big Yikes of times, it was the age of WTF, it was the age of LMFAO, it was the epoch of Fuck Around, it was the epoch of Find Out
It’s a lot more fun to talk about the Cure than Morton Downey Jr., is partially what’s going on imho
As a child of the 80s, this applies both culturally and aesthetically. Remembrances make the 80s look like a Duran Duran video. In reality everything was dark and largely brown. Also: it was really the 1970s until about 1984 or so, but that's another conversation.
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As someone who grew up in the ‘80s, I’m annoyed by nostalgia for that era because, sure, there were some cool highlights. But the overall popular culture was not those things and it was mostly unpleasant garbage that we’ve just forgotten about or buried.
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It’s a lot more fun to talk about the Cure than Morton Downey Jr., is partially what’s going on imho
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I write with the urgency of an amphibious variety show host prepping the next sketch.
kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter in a dark room .
Alt: Kermit the Frog is typing quickly on a typewriter
media.tenor.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I write with the urgency of an amphibious variety show host prepping the next sketch.
I’ll die mad at Chris Christie for canceling the ARC tunnel project for the sole purpose of giving Obama the finger. This “tunnels are woke” bullshit and so much other nonsense is the direct result, and meanwhile Jersey commuters will be screwed for a generation.
OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...
October 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I’ll die mad at Chris Christie for canceling the ARC tunnel project for the sole purpose of giving Obama the finger. This “tunnels are woke” bullshit and so much other nonsense is the direct result, and meanwhile Jersey commuters will be screwed for a generation.
Slightly diminish a band: Toad the Moist Sprocket
Slightly diminish a band: Pewter Zepplin
Slightly diminish a band: The Seasoning Girls
August 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Slightly diminish a band: Toad the Moist Sprocket
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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
It was extremely stupid (see freedom fries) but the current discourse tends to way overplay the idea that very few people knew the truth or saw what was happening at the time. Was there elite consensus? Yes. Did opponents get called names? Yes. Despite that, were there massive protests? Also yes.
I was too young to be ware of the Iraq invasion debate but was it this degree of stupid? It can't have been this stupid.
June 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
It was extremely stupid (see freedom fries) but the current discourse tends to way overplay the idea that very few people knew the truth or saw what was happening at the time. Was there elite consensus? Yes. Did opponents get called names? Yes. Despite that, were there massive protests? Also yes.
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if the press were a cat, trump’s mental fitness would be the toy and biden’s mental fitness would be the box the toy came in
For the most part, leading Democrats are ducking what is fast becoming the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign: former President Biden's mental acuity.
Dems confront the first real litmus test of 2028: Biden's mental acuity
Some Democrats argue their leaders aren’t owning up to the truth about Biden — and risk keeping the issue alive indefinitely.
www.politico.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
if the press were a cat, trump’s mental fitness would be the toy and biden’s mental fitness would be the box the toy came in
many people are saying
too much computer
May 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
many people are saying
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We love to talk about dystopias like 1984 and Brave New World but we do not talk enough about about Ender's Game, a book in which the locus of power exists on message boards and two children take over the entire world by Posting
May 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
We love to talk about dystopias like 1984 and Brave New World but we do not talk enough about about Ender's Game, a book in which the locus of power exists on message boards and two children take over the entire world by Posting
The people lighting our country and the world on fire claim to love sci fi but can’t understand anything they read or watch
nerds who are too into scifi can get a bit weird, but the thing about these guys is that it's more that they read one scifi short story when they were 13 and nothing else
April 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The people lighting our country and the world on fire claim to love sci fi but can’t understand anything they read or watch
He’s the co-host of a self-described “patriotic podcast” that has done one episode on British colonialism in India and one on British colonialism in the Caribbean, out of hundreds. As an American I’m not familiar with him as a media personality but I’m also not surprised he’s this way.
when I worked for the bad commercial podcast, they interviewed Tom Holland and I was there to record. Tom dressed like the world's most divorced Radiohead fan and made me turn off the recorder so he could say "the west needs to force an Enlightenment on Islam at gunpoint." I am…just saying,
Hadley is the only pundit in the country that I’ve heard audibly trembling with hate so intense, that I thought she was going to lose it completely live on Times Radio, which is what this guy is talking about. A true believing psycho.
April 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
He’s the co-host of a self-described “patriotic podcast” that has done one episode on British colonialism in India and one on British colonialism in the Caribbean, out of hundreds. As an American I’m not familiar with him as a media personality but I’m also not surprised he’s this way.
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NEW: New Jersey lost more than $200 million in the budget deal Congress just cut.
This was money for flooding clean-up, first responders, transportation, food, veterans and more.
We have the list here --->
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/03/nj-l...
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This was money for flooding clean-up, first responders, transportation, food, veterans and more.
We have the list here --->
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/03/nj-l...
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What New Jersey lost when GOP Congress killed earmarks | NJ Spotlight News
Unlike other federal funding, earmarks pinpoint funding for a specific location rather than just a broader agency or program.
www.njspotlightnews.org
March 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW: New Jersey lost more than $200 million in the budget deal Congress just cut.
This was money for flooding clean-up, first responders, transportation, food, veterans and more.
We have the list here --->
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/03/nj-l...
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This was money for flooding clean-up, first responders, transportation, food, veterans and more.
We have the list here --->
www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/03/nj-l...
@njspotlightnews.bsky.social
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.
Hard mode: No villains.
Hard mode: No villains.
March 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer.
Hard mode: No villains.
Hard mode: No villains.
America’s “We will not be discussing taking over Canada” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by its shirt
March 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
America’s “We will not be discussing taking over Canada” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by its shirt
I would read the heck out of a book analyzing how selling out went from the worst thing you could possibly do to seemingly everyone’s highest aspiration.
I know I lost this battle long ago, but ... the sight of Harrison Ford exploiting martial imagery in order to sell Jeeps for some global megacorp just makes me want to vomit.
Remember in the 90s, how there was cultural pressure not to sell out? I think I'm the only one who took that seriously!
Remember in the 90s, how there was cultural pressure not to sell out? I think I'm the only one who took that seriously!
February 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I would read the heck out of a book analyzing how selling out went from the worst thing you could possibly do to seemingly everyone’s highest aspiration.
tfw the old world is dying and now is the time of monsters
Earth pregnant
Something is happening inside the Earth, scientists say
February 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
tfw the old world is dying and now is the time of monsters
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This was revealed to me in a vision
January 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This was revealed to me in a vision
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if we’re going to abandon reason, embrace superstition, and regress as a society, we should at least bring back tunics, houppelandes, and elaborate hats. we do not need to look this boring while we’re at it
December 19, 2024 at 12:45 AM
if we’re going to abandon reason, embrace superstition, and regress as a society, we should at least bring back tunics, houppelandes, and elaborate hats. we do not need to look this boring while we’re at it
“Trump’s surging popularity in NY” narrative is like Journalism Innumeracy 101.
Pop quiz, which changed more, the numerator or the denominator?
Pop quiz, which changed more, the numerator or the denominator?
November 22, 2024 at 9:18 PM
“Trump’s surging popularity in NY” narrative is like Journalism Innumeracy 101.
Pop quiz, which changed more, the numerator or the denominator?
Pop quiz, which changed more, the numerator or the denominator?
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It is my pet theory that waking up and reading "The Bad Report," listening to "HorribleCast: A Podcast About Bad Things" and checking the social media accounts for everyone at "Awful News Inc" may perhaps have some negative psychological impacts over the long term.
November 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
It is my pet theory that waking up and reading "The Bad Report," listening to "HorribleCast: A Podcast About Bad Things" and checking the social media accounts for everyone at "Awful News Inc" may perhaps have some negative psychological impacts over the long term.
“Rentiers Object to Law Against Rent-Seeking” would be a more accurate headline for this story.
‘An Absolute Mess’: Brokers Assess the Shift in Fees
The New York City Council has passed a bill that would require landlords to pay for the rental brokers they hire. Some brokers believe it will hurt tenants in the long run.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:15 PM
“Rentiers Object to Law Against Rent-Seeking” would be a more accurate headline for this story.
I refuse to join Bluesky — I don’t want to be part of an Eko chamber
November 17, 2024 at 5:49 AM
I refuse to join Bluesky — I don’t want to be part of an Eko chamber
I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, but this is actually the highest federal office ever held by a brainworm-American
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next Department of Health and Human Services secretary. Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, has accepted.
More details: cnn.it/3CqnpGN
More details: cnn.it/3CqnpGN
November 14, 2024 at 11:54 PM
I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, but this is actually the highest federal office ever held by a brainworm-American