@johntalaga.bsky.social
Psychologist. Autism specialist. Just trying to say one stupid thing a day.
This isn’t quite “Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk” levels of bad take, but good lord is this a bad take. People died buying 99-cent TV’s but what about all the friends we made along the way…
Black Friday Nostalgia
If we’re going to worship consumerism and consumption, let’s at least do it together.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This isn’t quite “Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk” levels of bad take, but good lord is this a bad take. People died buying 99-cent TV’s but what about all the friends we made along the way…
Why does the person who brings dessert also have to serve the dessert? Does the person who brings the stuffing have to go around asking everyone how much stuffing they want, endlessly reenacting a little psychosocial drama about what constitutes a ‘tiny piece’ and then guilting them into ice cream??
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Why does the person who brings dessert also have to serve the dessert? Does the person who brings the stuffing have to go around asking everyone how much stuffing they want, endlessly reenacting a little psychosocial drama about what constitutes a ‘tiny piece’ and then guilting them into ice cream??
The cast of Stranger Things is in only their early 20’s? That’s not possible; this show has been on for at least two decades.
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The cast of Stranger Things is in only their early 20’s? That’s not possible; this show has been on for at least two decades.
We can never just admit that conservative ideas are bad. We have to excuse their badness as a reaction to something liberals said or did. When that fails, we have to act like they are somehow a betrayal of other, better conservative ideas instead of just their natural endpoint.
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
We can never just admit that conservative ideas are bad. We have to excuse their badness as a reaction to something liberals said or did. When that fails, we have to act like they are somehow a betrayal of other, better conservative ideas instead of just their natural endpoint.
Fuck off. Fuck all the way off. Fuck so far off you get pulled into the sun.
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Fuck off. Fuck all the way off. Fuck so far off you get pulled into the sun.
Lowe’s gift cards are the in-game currency of middle age.
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Lowe’s gift cards are the in-game currency of middle age.
Can we get to the part of the economic collapse where shit goes on sale.
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Can we get to the part of the economic collapse where shit goes on sale.
Ah yes, the stifling wokeism of 2020. When you couldn’t so much as murder a man in broad daylight without the censorious left freaking out and renaming a middle school.
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Ah yes, the stifling wokeism of 2020. When you couldn’t so much as murder a man in broad daylight without the censorious left freaking out and renaming a middle school.
Is there a name for the unearned sense of accomplishment that comes just from watching a YouTube tutorial?
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Is there a name for the unearned sense of accomplishment that comes just from watching a YouTube tutorial?
Between Pluribus and The Best in Me, it’s been a banner week for the traumatized famous shut in lesbian author with an implied drinking problem prestige thriller subgenre.
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Between Pluribus and The Best in Me, it’s been a banner week for the traumatized famous shut in lesbian author with an implied drinking problem prestige thriller subgenre.
It seems like the one beneficent use of AI would be summarizing 20,000 pages of Epstein emails for the good of the public? Isn’t that its whole thing? Digesting tons of information?
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It seems like the one beneficent use of AI would be summarizing 20,000 pages of Epstein emails for the good of the public? Isn’t that its whole thing? Digesting tons of information?
Life is too stressful right now for 10-episode seasons. Give me a one-off where a minor character has a normal day. Give me a bottle episode about a gentle mystery that resolves without consequence. Let me escape the real world in the aimless narrative bloat of 24 episodes.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Life is too stressful right now for 10-episode seasons. Give me a one-off where a minor character has a normal day. Give me a bottle episode about a gentle mystery that resolves without consequence. Let me escape the real world in the aimless narrative bloat of 24 episodes.
Really excited to watch the public confirmation of a ruling class sex trafficking operation and its subsequent coverup to have no impact on our political situation whatsoever. Just a cool time to be living in this country.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Really excited to watch the public confirmation of a ruling class sex trafficking operation and its subsequent coverup to have no impact on our political situation whatsoever. Just a cool time to be living in this country.
One of life’s purest pleasures is people getting famous titles just a little bit wrong, like tonight when my partner mentioned the classic sit-com “Who’s Loving Raymond?”
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
One of life’s purest pleasures is people getting famous titles just a little bit wrong, like tonight when my partner mentioned the classic sit-com “Who’s Loving Raymond?”
I realize that our rapid descent into fascism is the post pressing issue of our time, but the increasing popularity of mustaches has to be a close second.
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I realize that our rapid descent into fascism is the post pressing issue of our time, but the increasing popularity of mustaches has to be a close second.
Sam Worthington’s IMDB page is a wild ride. Sixty-odd movies you’ve never hear of, occasionally punctuated by the highest grossing films of all time. It’s like if Paul McCartney wrote Hey Jude and then took a gig as the triangle player for Right Said Fred.
November 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Sam Worthington’s IMDB page is a wild ride. Sixty-odd movies you’ve never hear of, occasionally punctuated by the highest grossing films of all time. It’s like if Paul McCartney wrote Hey Jude and then took a gig as the triangle player for Right Said Fred.
Thanksgiving is not a season, we should keep the cobwebs and witchy shit up another 4 weeks.
November 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Thanksgiving is not a season, we should keep the cobwebs and witchy shit up another 4 weeks.
Just stumbled across a Reddit user whose posts fall into three categories: 1) 1940’s beefcake photos, 2) reflections on the Asian-American experience, 3) passionate defenses of Donald Trump. Intersectionality is a hell of a drug.
October 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just stumbled across a Reddit user whose posts fall into three categories: 1) 1940’s beefcake photos, 2) reflections on the Asian-American experience, 3) passionate defenses of Donald Trump. Intersectionality is a hell of a drug.
There’s no way it’s a $300 million ballroom. At best it’s a $50 million ballroom and $250 million that fell off a truck.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
There’s no way it’s a $300 million ballroom. At best it’s a $50 million ballroom and $250 million that fell off a truck.
Reposted
watching American news right now is sort of like watching Squid Games except only half of the contestants actually signed up to be there and for some reason the prize they're all competing for is additional ruinous debt
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
watching American news right now is sort of like watching Squid Games except only half of the contestants actually signed up to be there and for some reason the prize they're all competing for is additional ruinous debt
It speaks to a certain pre-guillotine sensibility that we’re all a little delighted by a heist right now.
October 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It speaks to a certain pre-guillotine sensibility that we’re all a little delighted by a heist right now.
Depending on what state they grow up in, children of the future will see one of two photos when they open their history books to the Trump chapter.
October 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Depending on what state they grow up in, children of the future will see one of two photos when they open their history books to the Trump chapter.
I don’t want to see any more panic editorials about Gen Alpha slang when full grown business adults have done this to the English language.
October 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I don’t want to see any more panic editorials about Gen Alpha slang when full grown business adults have done this to the English language.
If your phone is above 50% when you get home from work, you gave them too much of your time.
October 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If your phone is above 50% when you get home from work, you gave them too much of your time.
Honest question: do you think Donald Trump has ever read a book? Like cover to cover, all the way through, one with words. Gotta be a no, right?
October 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Honest question: do you think Donald Trump has ever read a book? Like cover to cover, all the way through, one with words. Gotta be a no, right?