Angus Dwyer

We have much more leisure time than our ancestors. This entire website is existence of excess leisure time.

They’re calling at the most open strait in history folks, just unfettered commerce

an older man wearing headphones is sitting in front of a microphone . ALT: an older man wearing headphones is sitting in front of a microphone .

Daniel Plainview?
Daniel Plainview, the bowling enthusiast?

the last few times iran has accepted a ceasefire, the US and israel have taken the opportunity to restock their weapons and then surprise attack iran again. "there's zero point in engaging in diplomacy with us any more" is what that strategy teaches

the new york times post captioned “here are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand

gotta be another way to do this

Billy Campbell and Jennifer Connelly in a promo photo for THE ROCKETEER, Campbell in costume and Jennifer Connelly in a dress that inspired a million obsessions.

also I enjoy the Stephen Sommers MUMMY but come on, why doesn't THE ROCKETEER get mentioned in the same breath when talking "fun 90s pulp adventure throwback starring ridiculously photogenic people."

One surprising thing that the last 10 days have demonstrated is that Iran doesn't really need nukes, and probably never did. Its ability to effectively close the Straits is almost certainly going to be a sufficient deterrent to ensure regime survival going forward.

@JDfromscrubslol Had a dream there was an emoji like 💯 except it was only 60. Some post said "popeyes fries be tasting so good (60)" and I laughed so hard I woke myself up

Thinking about the 60 emoji again

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

youtu.be/c06hIXPxvwk

Reminder to you all.

BOFA deez assumptions have proven faulty.

they should bring back the panera death lemonade

"Turdus Migratorius."
It's a funny name!

Markets showing a little stóckolletage

Oil Prices Are Barreling Toward All-Time Highs U.S. oil futures have followed their biggest weekly rise ever by surging as much as 20% in Sunday evening trading, vaulting above $100 a barrel for the first time since war in Europe rattled energy ma...

As we speak, a delegation of priests of Ba’al Hammon are sitting in the makeshift SCIF in Mar-a-Lago, patiently explaining that, unfortunately, Eric isn’t going to cut it.

I was getting scared then I saw this, Cramer may have saved us all again…..

Hey who’s that tolling for? That bell? Wh—why’s everyone looking at me like that?

Same! Except now I can’t just turn it on and instead have to navigate to the local broadcast channel on the barely usable YouTubeTV app.

Although Twitter’s also no good for that anymore either. We’re on our own people.

It’s great that Bluesky’s the app for sports but what I really need is for it to become the app for real-time updates for Kansas City-area extreme weather updates.

I finally figured it out: this Iran war feels like the kinds of wars I used to have in Civilization II after I saved the game and felt like seeing how big a mess I could make.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

What's weird to me here is: why is the first step having CBP figure this out at all? The importers surely all kept track of how much they paid and when; just have them submit claims that you pay out of the big settlement slush fund. If someone submits a fake claim, prosecute later under 18 USC 287.

Alt-text: A dark-mode smartphone notification screen labeled “TODAY.” A Techmeme alert at 9:20 AM reads: “OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence (Alex Heath/Sources).” The source line below repeats: “Alex Heath / Sources.” The Techmeme logo—a stylized white “T” inside a circle—appears to the left of the headline.

A neotenous primate says what?

The reason I do not fall for scams as an adult is because I was innoculated with a weak strain of scam as a child.

The load-bearing assumption is that America is a rational nation, making decisions in pursuit of articulable goals. States like Iran are, by contrast, unpredictable, dangerous, potentially even rogue.

But a cursory examination of the facts on the ground reveals the opposite: WE are the rogue state.