These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
I haven’t been interested in SNL in years but I would die for Ania Magliano so okay
nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....
So my understanding is that they both acquire pieces (edited; good) and run pieces given to them by presses (I would have thought edited at least somewhat but maybe depends on the contract)
only lesbians deserve space sex
There was also a wrong “its” in paragraph 2 (as far as I got). So, not even copy edited
As far as concessions go, “the people for whom I am advocating are objectively unable to do the jobs I want them to have, and also have a nasty history of disqualifying themselves with their own rank bigotry” is an incredible thing to have to write
To be fair we don’t ALL have to be dead! They’re quite explicit that the rest of us will convert
WE'VE BEEN TELLING YOU ABOUT CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
he’s right about the metro exits coming out in different zip codes though
feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined
Think carefully before answering this! cc @jesszimmerman.com @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social
GPA is not a strong factor
today at the newsletter, free: an adapted excerpt from my book Wild Faith, about evangelical Christian prophecies about war in the Middle East and the end of the world & how they influence US foreign policy:
buttondown.com/theswordandt...
I think I’m unusual in that when I make a therapist laugh or praise me I immediately respect them less. For me winning therapy means making them admit that I’m right that everything is doomed
beautiful transsexual women’s moms
Gotta add that I was proud of the phrase “Miami Vice homunculus” that I used in another thread
Then you kneecap the accessibility part! Low-vision people deserve to know that Ian Miles Cheong looks like a Miami Vice homunculus
true, Jeb has nailed it here though
Alt text is important for accessibility but what we don’t talk about as much is that it’s also a great opportunity for joke density
"It can be reductive to judge someone as stupid, thick or moronic. But it can also be true. It is clear that the overriding feature of Trump is his stupidity. Yes, he’s a sociopath, a child rapist, corrupt, vain, cruel and superficial. But most importantly, he’s an idiot."
YOU CAN FIGHT ICE BY ANNOYING THEM - MESS UP THEIR FOOD/DRINK ORDERS - LOSE THEIR TICKETS/RESERVATIONS - OVERTIGHTEN LUG NUTS, STRIP SPARK PLUGS - GIVE THEM INCORRECT BUT REAL-SOUNDING INFORMATION - RECORD THEM WITH YOUR PHONES - DISRUPT THEM WITH LOUD NOISES (CAR ALARMS, MUSIC, BANGING METAL) AND BRIGHT LIGHTS (FLASHLIGHTS, HEADLIGHTS) - SHAME THEM Fuck yeah THE FASCISTS WANT COMPLACENCY. DO NOT GIVE IT TO THEM. Fuck them White supremacist IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE «MISTAKES"
Monkey wrenching is such an under appreciated form of protest
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Maybe your weirdo church chose other main things to be weird about, they do seem to have a panoply
Exvangelical husband says it’s definitely a Protestant thing and specifically Evangelical/Reformed but that he would guess the current Christian Zionist outlook (ie we need certain things to happen in Israel to usher in the apocalypse) dates from the ‘70s
I don’t think it’s a big thing with the Catholics but it’s definitely been a thing with the evangelical weirdos for a while, as I remember being warned about it in Hebrew school when *I* was young (much longer ago than when you were young!)
This isn’t contradictory if you believe that both women and children are property
haha jinx
How much of his skin is he planning to prevent
