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i often see a tintin fan artist on instagram and every few days i learn some new fact about their tintin modern AU, like how tintin and chang are dating or how tintin started as a far-right online pundit or how he had to release a YouTube apology vid for feeding his dog snowy alcohol

trying to write a bit of flash fiction from the perspective of joe rogan and having to listen to a lot of random episodes of his show just to get the voice down

stumbled upon the most freak shit article i've seen in some time and it's somehow from 2025

if haley stevens gets any more online, she's going to be posting ofn memes and complaining about the tno update cycle

google has added generative ai capability to Google Earth and i cannot conceive of any positive, good-faith use of this

every time i think about the biden administration and specifically the foreign policy team he put in place, i start clawing at my own throat to avoid thinking about all the opportunities lost and all the ways he empowered some of the worst impulses within the democratic party

from "The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan"

Logan Roy would love Cersei but Tywin would never love Shiv

shades of nixon's very aggressive pursuit of donations and support from corporate america and "rose mary's baby"

one of my lesser appreciated talents is being able to suss out the contact information for rando VIPs by virtue of understanding how to do open record searches and guesstimate email formats

what if instead of john snow it was jean valjean snow

really feels like a gameinformer ad circa 2003

local man arrested for child endangerment after trying to record "baby diver" bit for social media

no one ever compliments my beautiful colorado shaped pool

things you hate to hear from your boy mayor moments after he’s been launched into power by various weird activist groups

man, things are going to get really, really nasty if utility costs go any higher or the AI bubble ever bursts

the only buckley anecdote that i find remotely charming is that he had a very tall wife who seemingly loved to neg him and was nicknamed "timberr" because she'd chug kir royale cocktails and then fall over drunk

i think a real question is whether the minions go to leaders that, in their heart of hearts, view themselves as evil or whether they possess in themselves a kind of perfect moral clarity about what evil is and an ability to quantify it

fun fact: fonzie was originally not supposed to be a character on Happy Days. he’d just show up later on tape. when castmates tried to recall how the scenes they had filmed earlier that day, they’d become nauseous and start vomiting.

i am not a reader of douthat's columns but i did read his book on religion, which i found to be a uniquely unpleasant experience because it very much seemed like he had not given much thought to his own relationship to faith and was instead arguing against imagined arguments against religion