Jim Shipley

You may remember me from such roles as That One Guy in ''That One Thing,'' or from such tweets as ''Look at me! Look at me!''

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

Never trust anyone who decided to add “y’all” to their vocabulary between the years of 2020 and 2022.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

Willing to renounce your football-team-of-birth and cheer on the Yanks? Welcome to America!

But you, Echo Park hipster who pretends to support Brazil because you discovered in college that it was an easy way to feel worldly and superior, hope you can find a tv in the favela.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

Ok. I think I’ve finally devised an immigration policy EVERYONE can get on board with. And it even works for every other country on Earth too. Alright. You ready for this?

Whichever nation you support in the World Cup, that’s your homeland now.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

People out here don’t seem to know who Robert Wadlow is, but where I’m from, he’s huge.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

Missed the Rousey/Carano fight but I caught the highlight

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

@mynamehear Or alternatively, imagine being the stupidest motherfucker on this website. Sadly, you lack both the imagination and cognitive ability to do so, which is ironic because you don’t NEED to imagine it.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

I may venture back through the rotating cast of vagrants, addicts, and miscreants outside in pursuit of an interesting walk or, I don’t know, an amusing misdemeanor or stabbing.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

I’m staying in likely the shittiest motel I’ve ever stayed in (if you know me well, you know this is saying something). Since alcohol sales ended in this God-forsaken wasteland as I arrived, I am reduced to seeking diversion in the room.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

One drawer of this bedside table is apparently the ashtray, and the other, it seems, has been employed exclusively as the toenail receptacle. Neither contains the remote to the TV I’m quite certain won’t work anyway.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

What in the world are these guys doing to each other??

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

It’s interesting how many aspects of modern political commentary hold up the 1945-1971 postwar period as the natural state of things that was broken by our weird new modernity, when instead maybe it’s more accurate to see this period as profoundly unusual.

I think about this with media commentary all the time: “Why can’t we get back to Walter Cronkite, shared sense of reality, etc”

A brief and strange information oligopoly created a scarce number of radio/TV stations, which enforced a news monoculture on radio/TV audiences. Whether that was altogether good or bad, it was extremely weird! Look at the 19th century. A zillion newspapers, many of them insane and terrible and partisan. The chaos is what’s normal.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

I was once this kid.
I still am.

[NickyX @NickyXPhoto]

This fuckin kid 🤣🚀

[𑣲 ashe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇧🇷🇳🇴 ✮⋆ @galindafc]

so many people speak this way on here because they clearly hold a lot of pent up resentment from never speaking back to people in school, etc. so they exhibit viciousness online to strangers they’ll never have to actually confront irl to reap that sense of bravery/accomplishment

[Black Archie Character @ppppp1245688]

Y'all aren't progressive. Y'all are just mean and angry. But because you don't want to confront these feelings and handle the real forces that upset you, y'all get unjustifiably upset at innocent online strangers. Other people have become your outlet. A way to let off emotional

[Evan Brown @faulttolerant]

@daveweigel I wonder if it's even possible for some to imagine a world where every last piece of culture isn't put through an ideological purity test.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

The best version of the Democratic Party is a party that taxes the public to fund an efficient, simple, robust safety net, and that can build public infrastructure fast.

The worst version of the Democratic Party is economic slop about 'nobody should pay taxes but millionaires', and also grinds economic activity to a halt with a million regulations on everything.

The first actually believes in the power of the state to do good. It thinks the system is worth funding and defending. It believes in the fairness of a safety net but also in the power of economic growth and dynamism.

The second is cynical crap that just wants to identify heroes and villains and hysterically strike out at whoever is 'bad'. Rich people bad, only they should pay taxes. Big Companies bad, they shouldn't be allowed to do anything. It has no actual vision of the good.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

…and thus began The Great Corned Beef Famine of 2026.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

Holy cow, I just realized St. Patrick’s and Purim fall on the same day this year. Better stock up on corned beef while you still can.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

It’s actually perfectly understandable that people are mad at a guy for not being able to control his Tourette’s when you consider the fact that every single other person they’ve ever seen with Tourette’s was faking it.

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

* and this is coming from someone with actual Canadian heritage, unlike you Benedict Arnolds

[Jim Shipley @JimmyShip]

Got to the airport just in time to catch that goal!

I also saw some of you were cheering for Canada and I just wanted to let you know you’re terrible people 😘