Whenever I’m in a new location that’s far less populous than Dublin I pretend I’ve been sent there to report on a murder that everyone in the town is covering up. It makes me hostile and paranoid but it adds a little juice to a weekend getaway.

SVU: Tutuola gets all the best lines.

Just recalled a childhood memory where I complained to my mother that I was bored and, as a solution, she printed out a bunch of papers on a murder cold case and told me to solve it.

Five years since we learned Mark Wahlberg's harrowing daily schedule, in which he gets up at 2am, has lunch 10½ hrs later, spends more time with snacks than his kids, and takes an hour in the cryo chamber after his 30min golf game.

In pictures: Trans rights counter-demonstrators dwarf anti-trans rally in Dublin trinitynews.ie/2023/09/in-pic…

Mayfair Theater Mayfair Theatre

finally watching True Detective and man have I been missing out. Matthew McConaughey saying shit like “lunch is nothing but the aftermath of breakfast and the prefigurement of dinner” while Woody Harrelson throws spitballs at him. this is fun as hell

Some great Toronto Bookstores (more to discover): ACADIA (on Queen), RE:READ on Danforth (Amazing sci-fi room), D.E. LAKE on King st, MONKEY'S PAW, HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN on Danforth (great Cinema bookstore), BAKKA-PHOENIX Sci-Fi bookstore, SCRIBE on Danforth, Karol Krysik

I was the White House staffer who decided that Biden should swallow an entire pineapple whole and then hold his breath and do a few spins before this debate

We got a bad review

very cool that we’re debating whether elevated testosterone means you’re not a woman when almost 20% of all people with periods suffer from pcos. very normal thing supposed feminists are doing rn

"beloved local ice cream shop releases 5 part apology for making a chappell roan themed ice cream series" has instantly become one of my favourite ottawa controversies of all time

doing a masters degree is so embarrassing sorry guys can’t come out i’m too busy reading the news from 1911

Anyways! Two excellent books to read if you want to easily filter out lies from politicians!

it’s hard to think of a more underappreciated actor in history. when someone’s first ever movie is one of the best performances you’ve seen from anyone it feels like their name really needs to be on some all-time lists

Jordan Peterson is such a funny figure to me. an out-of-practice, out-of-license clinical psychologist who fancies himself a philosopher and theologian but tends toward extreme reductionism in such a way that no philosopher or theologian would ever take him seriously. a sad clown

There's so many things including so many old cartoons and books that would be lost to time without the Internet Archive, terrible to burn it all down

the internet itself had the potential, both as what it does and what it stood for as an entity, to be *about* information and history. the internet archive was proof that the internet could *be* an archive. but now, by law, it mustn't be. it is literally obligated to be worse.