Just at an aesthetic/craft level it's wild that two out of every five ads on every sports broadcast for the last few years has been for a gambling app and every one has the most rancid miserable vibes you've ever seen. Not even in the same ways, either. You can just feel Cheap Evil each time.
During this extremely serious political scandal, I think we need to note that the indictment against Eric Adams is also very, very funny: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A brief roundup of the absolutely slapstick levels of corruption contained therein.
Big strong men come up to me with tears in their eyes saying Sam, I have a copy of Eoin's new book, do you know if he'll sign it? Maybe he could make it out to my nephew of the same name
The threat of Trump is too great, goes the thinking; there will be time to push her on Gaza later. That is, once voters have no leverage.
With two months to go, the party thinks its Gaza problem is in the rear-view. But what if objects in the mirror are closer than they appear?
Just spotted this on Edelweiss, looks very interesting: OWNED by @eoinhiggins.bsky.social, due out in Feb.2025 via Bold Type Books.
I don’t care if someone who killed hundreds of thousands of people is subjected to something Bart Simpson would do to Principal Skinner and no one believes you do either