Andy Waddington

Remember every pearl-clutching journalist and commentator who insisted it was in the public interest to know every single detail of a Cambridge academic's life, even after he resigned his position, because he did some sloppy copy-and-pasting as a post-grad student?

🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.

Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

Conclusion? South Korea needs its own independent nuclear deterrent, fast.

@gregpak.net Because of you I thought "You're expected to perform, but no one wants to know how you do it" meant AI not actual cocaine.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

On my way, Clacton.

"She was wrong about me on the Elections, although she knew I was going to win" What does he think this means? How did she know he was going to win? But knowing that, then why would she be "wrong" about him? What would be the point?

was wondering if elon musk would be rooting for the south african world cup team but then i turned on the tv and knew immediately that he would not

Can you imagine being so mired in the nonsense of rightwing BS—and so goddamn stupid—that you call for people to die over [checks notes] reality TV idiot Spencer Pratt coming in third in an LA mayoral election? What D-U-M-[another letter] times we live in.

Very possible this is cover for facilitating unfreezing Iranian assets via the backdoor (US regional allies pay Iran to open Strait and US uses frozen assets to compensate regional allies) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

very noticeable that Trump is doing his exact rally speech in Wisconsin, only sitting. Almost like he's not able to stand for a long period of time right now and the "roundtable" (nobody has spoken other than him!) is a front

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

Rhetorical. Playing along with the charade in order to maintain access is what (evergreen)

An American political journalist is calling POTUS directly to indirectly ask if he wants to launch a nuclear weapon. And then they report that conversation to us as if it is a normal part of their job.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class

Chuck Norris had just finished directing a documentary about human trafficking.

Does this even make sense? Driving down the street I get frequent reminders that Iran's deterrence of disrupting the oil markets is working just like everyone thought it would.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I still believe, even after this shitshow of a war, our press was more institutionally outraged about Biden’s stabilizing tennis shoes.

This time 3 months ago we were a bunch of wankers whose war dead weren’t worth a squirt of piss. Now he needs us. The bloke’s a fucking clown.

NYT when a Muslim congresswoman says “motherfucker”: This is a problem for Democrats NYT when a Christian Republican congressman says “Muslims don't belong in American society”: 0 results

Having faced no consequences for anything, Trump has noticed that he has the world’s largest military at his command, and believes he has found a brilliant solution for solving problems that no one before him was smart enough to discover: just kill everyone in your way, until they obey you.

So Iran was an extremely serious threat. But also the US had no plans in place to evacuate Americans in the region if Iran had been the one to strike first?

The Washington Post polling director doesn't comprehend that "afford to buy a home you would want to live in" is not the same as "afford a home". Why was the question phrased like that? Does it matter if people earning six figures say they can't afford seven figure homes?

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

Verification (establishing truth), Deliberation (arguing about it), and Accountability (binding power to it). When these work, you have substance. When they break, you slide into performance, and eventually, simulation, and people recognise this, even if they don't use a shared terminology.

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

I extremely hate the policies and personality of Donald Trump to an insane degree but I’d be offended if China sent in team to kill a bunch of our civilians and military personnel and kidnap our leader and his wife and then declare that they now “ran” the United States, this isn’t hard

Reminder: All People Had To Do Was Fill In A Little Oval Next To The Smart Black Lady’s Name.

Saturn, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-38

Somebody could have ended all this by handing her a single book

The Premier League is now 5 seconds of open play then 30 seconds of prepping for a set piece. We can fix this with rule changes: - Teams only get four set pieces per possession - If the set pieces are bad, the other team gets the ball - If they're good, they get four more - Let's call them "downs"

Should be wearing a Greinke jersey as a show of solidarity between guys who got a 9-figure deal in LA after abandoning the Royals