Xan

He/Him. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to missing out on some great Grover Cleveland takes. xanwisegamgee dot bsky dot social

[Xan @XanwiseGamgee]

I barely ever posted here. Probably will barely post at the new spot.

[Haus of Decline @hausofdecline]

I don't hate men. Frankly, they got some heavy hitters. Abraham Lincoln, Weird Al Yankovic

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

Establishment Democrats love this chart. They point to that 12% average increase in the incomes of households at the 10th percentile between 2019 and 2024 as DEFINITIVE PROOF that Biden “delivered” for working people, and that working people have nothing to complain about. They, of course, never stop to ask themselves what that 12% increase actually amounts to for an actual person.

A household at the 10th-percentile earned a little under $15,000 a year in 2019. Assuming they actually experienced a 12 percent increase in their income over the next five years—and that’s an unfounded assumption considering the 12-percent figure is just an average—that means they were making around $1,800 more annually by 2024, or a grand total of $16,800.

That was never enough for a single person—let alone a 2- or 3- or 4-person household—to live on. With that in mind, how do you think that person feels when they go to the grocery store and find everything from bread and butter to milk and meat has become more expensive? When seemingly any small trip to the grocery store now runs them $50 or more? When their rent has gone up 10 or 20 or 30 percent?

This graph has little or nothing to do with reality.

[Michael R. Carlson @phatcarlson]

ringo turn on a TV

[Aaron Benanav @abenanav]

This is the chart. She spent months courting Republican endorsements, riding the 2016 Clinton strategy to certain defeat. They risked it all to build a centrist party of suburbanites and college kids and lost. It’s time to move on but I don’t think the Dems will move with us.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Squinting at this headline like Hank Hill

[Xan @XanwiseGamgee]

@bummygroover The dad is such a funny character. I love when the son asks him asks if they'll go to hell, and the dad is like there's no way to know for sure but if we're being honest, yes, probably.

[INACTIVE - workingclassicists.bsky.social @WorkClassicists]

Modded my tablet to have a day and night mode

[Canderous Ordoliberal 🫥 @butleriano]

Nations were invented in the 1820s by poets and newspapermen. you’re confusing this with tradition, was invented in the 1880s by cigarette carton manufacturers. Anderson and Hobsbawm are two different guys.

[🇧🇦 Horacije Dobravolja, dobavljač tonika 🇧🇦 @eff_hey]

In a way I think it's kind of sweet that there's a Nobel Prize for economists. It's like giving a child a fake steering wheel so they can pretend they're driving the car too

[It’s Keaton! @EvilKeaton]

One of the key elements of good character design is that you should be able to recognize them by their silhouette. George Lucas is a well designed character.

[TomWalker.bsky.social @tomwalkerisgood]

KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

It seems incoherent to say the Republican party is Trump's party, that it existentially threatens democracy, that it will take away bodily autonomy, that it made the disasters in the south worse, that it'd be worse on Gaza than you… then say you're gonna add them to your cabinet

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

This is a position with 60% public support. The Harris campaign has completely lost the plot.

[Xan @XanwiseGamgee]

@rachelllevine Same, we really enjoyed it.

[Claire Penis @ZeroSuitCamus]

Sergio Leone: The first shot will be a horseman in the distance. [tearing up a little] And he will be shot in the head so beautifully….

Ennio Morricone: Sergio my friend I love this first shot. It is molto sublime. Perhaps one second later a spring should go “boing” 100 times?