"That is either A) not enough popcorn Or B) Way too big" "You know when someone never bought a popcorn bucket…. They give you the popcorn in a standard tub as not to damage the collectible."
oh of course
To clarify my point is I wouldn't want my name associated with Steven Pinker's in print in 2026.
Are you really Canadian if you refer to Matt Johnson of Nirvanna The Band as "this guy"?
It sucks so much, both the tariff situation itself and the sense that you have to jump right away if you want something.
In December 2024, Pinker resigned from the board of honorary members of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, following the organization's decision to retract and apologize for publishing an anti-transgender article by Jerry Coyne defending the "biological reality of binary sex". Pinker accused the organization of promoting a "quasi-religious" gender ideology. His resignation was followed by those of Coyne and Richard Dawkins, and the foundation subsequently dissolved its honorary board
I was going to say I just checked Toyboxcoffin a few days ago and didn't see it listed but apparently that was a week ago already. Stunning how time goes.
In 2006 Pinker provided to Alan Dershowitz, a personal friend of Pinker's who was Jeffrey Epstein's defense attorney, Pinker's own interpretation of the wording of a federal law pertaining to the enticement of minors into illegal sex acts via the internet. Dershowitz included Pinker's opinion in a letter to the court during proceedings that resulted in a plea deal in which all federal sex trafficking charges against Epstein were dropped. In 2019, Pinker stated that he was unaware of the nature of the charges against Epstein, and that he engaged in an unpaid favor for his Harvard colleague Dershowitz, as he had regularly done. He stated in an interview with BuzzFeed News that he regrets writing the letter. Pinker says he never received money from Epstein and met with him three times over more than a dozen years, and said he could never stand Epstein and tried to keep his distance
I always think I'll enjoy Anders Nilsen's work more than I end up doing and I can't explain my ambivalence yet but learning today he considers Steven Pinker a huge influence on his thought does clarify things some.
suddenly my left foot hurts with every step
"You know who they found who was on the Epstein list? Not a joke--Nardwuar."
it's always stupider than I can ever imagine
trying to sift through everything and figure out why the DHS secretary was fired today and everyone's referencing her killing a dog if she wrote about it all the way back in 2024
Quickly skimming the news about the Steam store page and concluding that Strong Bad has entered the public domain.
They had to reupload this in order to censor the nipples on the cast of Aisling Bea's pregnancy boobs. That's comedy.
My little John Porcellino story. He's not dead, we're just having a certified comix moment.
"Alley Ruts" by John Porcellino, 1/15/08, framed on my wall. I've blacked out my first name in the signature and dedication.
This is what you finally sent me and I've kept it all these years. Every time I look at it I get a deep satisfaction, like every line is exactly where it needs to be. It's great.
Then in 2008 I commissioned some original art from you. Initially I wanted you to copy out Red Pine's translation of the Heart Sutra but you were uncomfortable taking money for that so instead I let you pick a subject, not realizing then what anxiety that probably caused you.
When I was 20 or 21 I wrote you a very earnest naive embarrassing letter and you in turn very kindly responded with patience and understanding. I'm glad I can't remember exactly what specifically was all in that letter but I imagine I wrote it in one of the manic periods I was having then.
Both in being a violent drunk and having a career trajectory.
Myself I'm trying to break the patrilineal tradition.
There's a bleak humor in the notion that the agriculture industry spent years establishing pistachios in drought-ridden CA and seeding pistachio enthusiasm on social media to potentially undermine Iran only for the White House to push some buttons one day and eradicate countless Iranian citizens.
Don't tell me about walnuts.
@nathangraham6244 1 year ago The fact morrisey went into shock when David Bowie came out behind him on a gig shows how important David was
It's because Morrissey thought Bowie was a Muslim.
Maybe acorns aren't commercially available because you have to either dry them for three days, shell them, then boil them, or you have to soak them in cold water for a week before they become edible for humans.
Someone posted the whole thing here five months ago. Man I don't know. Get off instagram.
"sooo interesting" "but!" and commas goddamn everywhere this person must be not annoying at all to talk to
A screenshot of a post on Instagram the pistachio food trend is soooo interesting because it's like. i've been following the californian pistachio water politics for years, as a californian with personal connections to agricultrual works but! basically there's been a big push in california agriculture over the last decade to pressure farmers to produce pistachios, because iran has dominated the global market in pistachios for decades, and the US government has been trying to weaken iran economically, so they want to make california pistachios a competitor, which is ridiculous, because california's agricultural infrastructure is suffering under a drought, and pistachios take insane amounts of water, so a ton of water is being redirected from the people in order to
My sister just sent me this with the text "pistachio conspiracy."
last night dreamed about the Chinese student who helped me live through grad school, a fraught dinner with her parents in their precise sterile lodge house
uncomfortably in the sun yesterday. today's rain calming.
