Derek Johnson

This used to be on endless repeat on cable. I loved this movie so much.

I was looking through my assortment of fan club holiday 45s and had to put this OG from @remhq.bsky.social on the turntable. See No Evil rips!

It was a good day in the mail

Behind the Wall of Meat is my Smithereens cover-band name.

I got one yesterday and I had to look for the cheese on it, too. And this is no eat-while-driving burger, either.

I liberally used the student rush privilege

Of course they’ll never go back to 1953 where the US initiated a coup in Iran over the nationalization of oil fields

Hey kids, you see how this works? Venezuela might be your kids’s version of Iran

The sacred AWOOOO at
1pm on the first Wednesday of the month is one of my favorite bits of Minnesota social media culture.

Awooooooo! The regime change you want starts at home.

Billionaires are hoarders. Or more accurately said, all billionaires are hoarders but not all hoarders are billionaires.

Luteus Manicula Pannis Maximus, the First of His Name for the Second Time

The suffix -ula means tiny, and I’m not sure tiny applies there

Today I learned that the extremely cruel and perverse Roman Emperor we know as Caligula is just a nickname, meaning tiny boot. I also learned Caligula hated that nickname.

I wonder how President tiny hands would feel about going down in history as Manicula?

Fair

And Aaron Dessner from The National on guitar in the background!

I don’t think the camera angle is a mistake, either 😂

“Let me ask you one question /
Is your money that good? /
Will it buy you forgiveness /
Do you think that it could? /
I think you will find /
When your death takes its toll /
All the money you made/
Will never buy back your soul”

It’s a copy from a postcard the Boomers sent us from Southeast Asia

Gen X tipping their cap to all the young’uns who’ve been added to the ancient email thread.

"WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE" ✨

Minnesota United supporters unveiled an "Andor"-themed tifo ahead of a 1-0 win over FC Cincinnati in the Twin Cities club's home opener. Rebellions are built on hope 🩵

📷: Reddit/u/Legitimate_Treat9249

We have friends everywhere Tifo rebel loon

We have friends everywhere Tifo rebel loon

Wonderwall Tifo @mnwonderwall.bsky.social #mnufc

Forty-odd years later, the corporate elite’s capture of government still feels like this

You know what you could do today instead of doomscrolling all day is go pick up a copy of Persepolis. It is stunningly good.

Decapitating a government with no plan for who then takes over the country isn’t a strategy that deters the development of nuclear weapons. It’s one that incentivizes their development.

“What can I do?” says the guy who actually sits in the branch of government that can declare wars and fund them.

It’s almost like if Congress doesn’t do its job of checking and balancing the executive, then the executive feels emboldened to do anything it wants without checking with Congress.

I appreciate when NYT Connections has a fifth grouping of four that can be created by one word from each solved color.

Spoiler:

today’s fake fifth is the last word of famous plays

I reiterate my claim that all of these military operation names double as dildo names.

Well, yes, he doesn’t care. But ICE ruined his sales pitch.

If @mnufc.com really wanted to do something special for the Itasca Society members, they’d do a special edition UNRL hoodie.

When you are wrong, you should admit it.

I was wrong about the FIFA Peace Prize. I forgot that these people can’t even follow their own made up rules.

Seriously though, the 2026 World Cup is our generation’s 1936 Olympics.