Sean Bell

One of my favorite stories about Robert E. Howard is that...one time, when he was loudly speaking aloud what he wrote (this was common for him) his neighbor went to complain about the noise level. Howard's mother simply replied: "Mah son is workin'!" XD

Sorry Reuters you’ve already been scooped by No Shit Magazine

shout out to my apple music for putting this song on its ‘get up in the morning’ playlist for me like jesus christ what kind of day are you trying to make me have lol

Finally!

I, too, think tens of thousands of people should go to prison because sometimes I smell something I don't like

If you know, you NOOOOOOOO

My latest for @theintercept.com, on the Ellisons, the future of CNN, and Bari fucking Weiss

Horse eating spaghetti through the window sure why not.

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

restaurant manager: hey so, sorry to bother you, but is that a service animal? it's just, we have a policy-

jabba the hutt: je wonna wonga, bazda wahota shonga

salacious b crumb: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

restaurant manager: ah. ok. cool

Thousands in Minab, Iran attended the funeral for the 175 children and staff killed in Saturday’s U.S.-Israeli strike on a girls’ primary school.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

Comically evil headline from the Daily Telegraph opinion section: 'The gentle teasing of fat kids is an integral part of British culture'

Reason 2194 why Britain should not exist and we'd all have been better off if Napoleon had won:

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

How I arrived on Bluesky
youtu.be/YUeq9lD8drQ?...

criterion channel rn has a collection called YEARNING and a collection called STUNTS! and between them exits the entire spectrum of human art and emotion

as always

oh come on how could this spiral out of control

If you breach copyright to make publicly funded research publicly available they'll come at you with everything. If you turn theft into a business model investors can profit from, they'll change the law for you.

Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.

"You can just do things, sure, right until the game is up, and then you can’t."
@patblanchfield.bsky.social in @nplusonemag.com on the war in the Middle East, also applicable to what the US is doing on other crises and emergencies of our time: climate, debt, inequality, AI

Trying to imagine Starmer - if he had even the faintest suggestion of a spine - threatening Trump with the loss of *checks notes* 28% of America's antiques.

My latest for @theintercept.com, on the Ellisons, the future of CNN, and Bari fucking Weiss

The kitchen fires burned late, heating the ovens as extra cakes, pasties, and pies were baked golden. Bands of moles plundered the orchard, wheeled great cheeses from the storerooms, and lugged forward big barrels of mulled nettle ale and redcurrant an' roseleaf cordial from the cellars.

The Topeka Daily Herald
June 29,1907

1900: [title too racist to print] by ives 'cracker' whitey 1910: gods blade cuts down the sinners by the smiles family singers 1920: married to frankenstein blues by blind soupy fogg 1930: the st lois choo choo train by willard gibson and his orchestra 1940: i will kiss him in heaven (unless you buy war bonds) by elspeth whitey 1950: makin babies by big 'richard' willie 1960: why oh why (did god take my baby away) by the marvelous wonderettes 1970: why'd you leave me bitch by the baby brats 1980: why did you leave, robot girl? by country club 1990: shit by phlegm

the history of music in the 20th century:

This discovery would have been made decades ago, but some of the key Velvet Underground researchers defected to the Soviet Union