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Xander Lenc
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Geographer. California apologist. Writing about prison history, ecology, labor, and capitalism. Go read @oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Similar problem with "[event] sends [group of people] reeling" and other "Democrats in disarray" style headlines.
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's also the worst poem I have read this calendar year.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The editor openly claims to be good friends with him and insists he simply values intellectual diversity. It's so embarrassing.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If it makes SFO mad I'm all for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I didn't care about the Berkeley-Stanford rivalry when I was a Berkeley undergrad. It was only after graduation that I started meeting Stanford grads, and it was then that I realized that Palo Alto itself must be destroyed.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
When exactly did he embody the "good charming version" to you?
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Me preparing to open a wikipedia page about an unfamiliar British pop culture reference.
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Domino's used to be so bad that the chain had an ad campaign apologizing for the poor quality. The idea that it used to be good is wildly revisionist even for him.
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I genuinely believe that most people who own these cars have absolutely no idea how bright they are. The real perpetrators here are the car manufacturers (and to some extent, the dealers).
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
If you give a public speech falsely accusing someone of having a weapon and intent to murder, and that person is subsequently murdered, you can be held liable. If you do this to an entire nation, helping kill MILLIONS of people, then you get to be a NYT columnist for decades.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Future jurists are also going to have to ask whether climate denial propagandists like Stephens are additionally guilty of something even more heinous than war crimes, but that's a separate story.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Not enough people realize that journalists can be held liable for war crimes. Broadcaster Hans Fritzsche had no actual hand on policy but was still convicted at Nuremberg.
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I hate to break it to you, but that was aired just a little over 25 years ago.
November 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
That's exactly it! He has shown that he knows how to act but he just does these goofy cameos instead. And he does it intentionally because directors are hiring him to please the absolutely WORST type of moviegoer, which makes it so much worse.
November 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Christopher Walken has phoned in almost every single role he's taken over the past twenty five years, to the point where I feel acutely disgusted by his laziness as an actor, the laziness of his directors, and the laziness of his biggest fans.
November 16, 2025 at 5:27 AM
We probably shouldn't be surprised that the podcast commentator set has become the biggest engine of bad-faith Boys R Struggling narratives that selectively blame women for the problems men face, because podcasts are making a boatload off of DraftKings ad revenue.
mashable.com/article/gamb...
Endless gambling ads have become the scourge of sports podcasts
Sports gambling is here to stay and so are the endless ads on your favorite sports podcasts.
mashable.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I have repeatedly been asked by supervisors to watch for guys watching international horse racing during class, because they often end up missing class after frantically taking on extra jobs to pay off their gambling debt. Maybe it's just me, but this sure seems like a bigger issue than dating apps.
November 16, 2025 at 4:58 AM