FYI I’m on Thr**ds and Bl—sky. Keith_a_spencer and keithspencer respectively. I will be crossposting my articles, leftist screeds, curated news, ripostes etc.

It’s always bothered me that the past-tense of “glide” isn’t “glid.”.

You can't post this question accompanied by an image from the most forgettable movie franchise ever made.

RT @ZaraRahim: Cuomo’s got the penthouses. Zohran’s got the people.

RT @itsalexvacca: BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn….

RT @TimothyS: A victory over the Silicon Valley techno-profit model of monetizing every aspect of life.

RT @Srirachachau: This looks like it’s from Akira.

Been thinking about the George W. Bush years, when this bumper sticker was on every blue state Volvo

The NYT Connections writers must be Simpsons fans

RT @BrndnStrssng: Every act of personal sacrifice is seen as performative to people like this because they can't conceive of doing a single….

Phoenician Scheme was middling. Eye-candy, like all Wes Anderson movies. But his shtick is growing cliché, and leaves you wanting. Why can't he do something new? It's always the same brand of whimsy.

Got a text message that Texas is fining me for a ticket I got in Baltimore for breaking Illinois law 🥲

There is a bar in Cleveland making hotdogs that are an affront to God

Zuckerberg became a billionaire at such a young age that he never had a real, adult "friend." When you attain that kind of wealth, all your relationships become transactional and/or sycophantic. The last person you'd trust to pontificate about human relationships.

Worst recent trend is journalism is these articles that write up a recent viral video, but not one of the hyperlinks in the story links to the actual video — just to other keywords on the outlet's site. Newsweek is a major offender, e.g.:

I'm really curious to see what happens as Gen Z gets old and then has to read articles about their Gen Alpha brethren mocking their aesthetic.

Thanks AP for informing us this is the first American pope in 2,000 years. I would have been surprised if there were an American pope in Catholicism's first 1,770 years

RT @JacobRubashkin: The existence of Chicago Pope implies the existence of MLA Pope and APA Pope.

I was teaching a writing class last quarter and the student who used AI to cheat on every paper was caught using AI to summarize the article on AI that I’d assigned them to read.

RT @ycsm1n: mark zuckerberg is evil

Rideshare users have been documenting how ride prices go up when they load a giftcard into the app. Companies deny it's happening. My latest investigative story: .