Jason Weiser
@jasonweiser.com
Writer & podcaster @mythsandlegends.com. I used to fold towels at the professional level.
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Big Bird sighs and takes a long drag on his cigarette when the people who never bothered to learn his name instead refer to him by his appearance and species.
No one knows his pain and loneliness because while you can’t smile with a beak, you also can’t frown.
No one knows his pain and loneliness because while you can’t smile with a beak, you also can’t frown.
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Big Bird sighs and takes a long drag on his cigarette when the people who never bothered to learn his name instead refer to him by his appearance and species.
No one knows his pain and loneliness because while you can’t smile with a beak, you also can’t frown.
No one knows his pain and loneliness because while you can’t smile with a beak, you also can’t frown.
Big Skeksis dinner party vibes
Per Danny Kemp via press pool
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL
“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”
November 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Big Skeksis dinner party vibes
If this isn’t the start of a 30-year Trump family reign maybe it’s a good idea to change things so that the whole system doesn’t hinge on honor, shame, and norms because the exact people who lack honor and shame don’t care at all about norms
For 125 years, White House architecture was protected only by an honor system. When Donald Trump abruptly demolished the East Wing, he shattered that culture, Neil Flanagan argues.
White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If this isn’t the start of a 30-year Trump family reign maybe it’s a good idea to change things so that the whole system doesn’t hinge on honor, shame, and norms because the exact people who lack honor and shame don’t care at all about norms
Reposted by Jason Weiser
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
If you’re wondering what happens in a version of Back to the Future where Marty doesn’t stop Biff and Biff goes on to become president, turns out it’s not great.
Oct 27th 1985 - Marty confronts Biff in the alternate 1985, and travels back to 1955 to retrieve the sports almanac from young Biff
📽️📅 Back to the Future Part II (1989)
📽️📅 Back to the Future Part II (1989)
October 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you’re wondering what happens in a version of Back to the Future where Marty doesn’t stop Biff and Biff goes on to become president, turns out it’s not great.
To be fair we don’t know that any of the other candidates don’t have tattoos of a rat’s anus.
Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"
YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations
m.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:33 AM
To be fair we don’t know that any of the other candidates don’t have tattoos of a rat’s anus.
The Democrats are the Washington Generals to the GOP’s Globetrotters. They get paid to show up and get dunked on. They hate their own voters way more than they hate Trump, and they can fundraise on being the only opposition to Trump while shrugging that they can’t do anything.
Where exactly are the Democrats on this? There is going to be no better symbolism of Trump's utter vandalism and corruption of American government and democracy.
The White House heard the complaints
Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage”
And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday
New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage”
And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday
New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Democrats are the Washington Generals to the GOP’s Globetrotters. They get paid to show up and get dunked on. They hate their own voters way more than they hate Trump, and they can fundraise on being the only opposition to Trump while shrugging that they can’t do anything.
Crazy that the US gov got on Bluesky literally just to troll. The only way to “win” against a narcissist is to remove the attention. Anything else gives them what they want.
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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October 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Crazy that the US gov got on Bluesky literally just to troll. The only way to “win” against a narcissist is to remove the attention. Anything else gives them what they want.
Those evil liberals tarnishing Christopher Columbus’s legacy by… detailing the things he did and said
theoatmeal.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Those evil liberals tarnishing Christopher Columbus’s legacy by… detailing the things he did and said
Reposted by Jason Weiser
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there
September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
A cat when they see a closet they can slip in unnoticed and then get stuck in for HOURS:
a woman wearing a blue shirt with a fork on it is being hugged by a man
ALT: a woman wearing a blue shirt with a fork on it is being hugged by a man
media.tenor.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A cat when they see a closet they can slip in unnoticed and then get stuck in for HOURS:
The only representations of non-white people in this video are Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and Carl Weathers’s forearm.
October 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The only representations of non-white people in this video are Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and Carl Weathers’s forearm.
SpongeBob would absolutely be radicalized by Patrick. Mr Krabs is the business owner who looks the other way because fascism makes him rich. Squidward and Sandy would be the only real resistance, Sandy because it’s right and Squidward because he’s a born contrarian.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
SpongeBob would absolutely be radicalized by Patrick. Mr Krabs is the business owner who looks the other way because fascism makes him rich. Squidward and Sandy would be the only real resistance, Sandy because it’s right and Squidward because he’s a born contrarian.
Trump’s investigation of James Comey being an affront to our democracy and the rule of law on one hand, it being the James Comey who reopened the “emails” investigation in Oct 2016 leading to Trump winning the election on the other…
a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it
Alt: Larry David awkwardly waffling back and forth between two seemingly bad options
media.tenor.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Trump’s investigation of James Comey being an affront to our democracy and the rule of law on one hand, it being the James Comey who reopened the “emails” investigation in Oct 2016 leading to Trump winning the election on the other…
One of the most annoying things about Trump is that, as an elder millennial, he makes me miss the coherence, professionalism, and ethics of the George W. Bush presidency.
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One of the most annoying things about Trump is that, as an elder millennial, he makes me miss the coherence, professionalism, and ethics of the George W. Bush presidency.
No, my office isn’t messy, I’m cultivating a tasteful patina of papers and old coffee mugs
September 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
No, my office isn’t messy, I’m cultivating a tasteful patina of papers and old coffee mugs
At least AI slop is fairly easy to spot. This is also why I make poor design choices. Like you can spot a natural diamond by its flaws, I show that I am human by my poor understanding of Adobe Illustrator and very tenuous grasp on the core concepts of audio engineering
People are flooding YouTube with AI Generated slop history videos that drown out human creators.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube and Drowning Out Real History
"These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet, so you end up with a very simplified version of the past."
www.404media.co
September 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
At least AI slop is fairly easy to spot. This is also why I make poor design choices. Like you can spot a natural diamond by its flaws, I show that I am human by my poor understanding of Adobe Illustrator and very tenuous grasp on the core concepts of audio engineering
Our economic system is like in the Dark Knight Rises where everyone hopes to make it out of the hole because they saw someone do it once but that’s the point of the hole
Exclusive: America is becoming a nation of economic pessimists.
Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds
Trump is contending with a disconnect between the nation’s sour outlook and traditional measures showing a robust economy.
on.wsj.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Our economic system is like in the Dark Knight Rises where everyone hopes to make it out of the hole because they saw someone do it once but that’s the point of the hole
I’ve gotten into Japanese green tea and order it from a place in Kyoto (bougie I know but it’s cheaper and better for me than coffee or beer). Checked on the site and there’s now a $17 tariff on $26 (200g) of tea.
September 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I’ve gotten into Japanese green tea and order it from a place in Kyoto (bougie I know but it’s cheaper and better for me than coffee or beer). Checked on the site and there’s now a $17 tariff on $26 (200g) of tea.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
August 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Tech companies: how can we make health insurance *more* evil 🤔
What a cursed sentence (gift link)
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Tech companies: how can we make health insurance *more* evil 🤔
I’m a midwesterner and I’ve been to DC twice this year. I was murdered both times. He’s right it’s out of control
Trump: "You come here from Iowa, you come here from Indiana, you come here from Idaho because you're so proud of your country and then you get murdered ... see the media? You get murdered."
August 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I’m a midwesterner and I’ve been to DC twice this year. I was murdered both times. He’s right it’s out of control
Christianity Patch Notes:
Removed: Empathy
Deprecated: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (function no longer supported)
Removed: Empathy
Deprecated: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (function no longer supported)
The Christians Who Believe Empathy Is a Sin
When suffering is irrelevant, anything can be justified.
nymag.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Christianity Patch Notes:
Removed: Empathy
Deprecated: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (function no longer supported)
Removed: Empathy
Deprecated: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (function no longer supported)
In 1957 Batman donned a rainbow suit to distract criminals because Robin was injured and he didn’t want people drawing connections to an injured Dick Grayson.
Right-wing commentators are freaking out about Batman going woke, proving the rainbow suit still distracts the bad guys 68 years later.
Right-wing commentators are freaking out about Batman going woke, proving the rainbow suit still distracts the bad guys 68 years later.
August 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In 1957 Batman donned a rainbow suit to distract criminals because Robin was injured and he didn’t want people drawing connections to an injured Dick Grayson.
Right-wing commentators are freaking out about Batman going woke, proving the rainbow suit still distracts the bad guys 68 years later.
Right-wing commentators are freaking out about Batman going woke, proving the rainbow suit still distracts the bad guys 68 years later.