Grumpy Old Manchild

I'm living with my own Duncan Idaho (he/him, 50+ years old)

[Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat]

I never managed to read Walt Simonson’s entire run of Thor, despite having hailed it as the greatest run the book ever had.

Today, I will fix that.

[Conor Wilson @ConorWilson2]

The landings were enabled by thousands of codebreakers, signallers, nurses, factory workers and intelligence assets - many of whom were women.

What a ridiculous hill to die on on today of all days.

[Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat]

@michelleyroo2 I'm free on Tuesday.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.

She fired him.

JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.

The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.

The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.

[best of amber benson @ambensonarchive]

amber benson and anthony stewart head singing together 'under your spell / standing - reprise'.

rest in peace, anthony 🕊️

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

Erika really is knee deep in pedophiles, and not just from her Trump/Epstein connections.

Both churches she appeared at recently, Harvest and Dream City, have open lawsuits involving multiple instances of sex with minors. She's fucking disgusting.

[DG @DPGINLA]

@RepFine You should do it. Wouldn't be the first time you voted illegally.

[Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat]

@RepFine You’re talking about stealing her vote, but sure. It’s totally not you who’s the problem here.

[Grumpy Old Manchild @snakebitcat]

@TALOOOLYC00KIE_ @ThatChristian12 It was less “went along with it” and more “didn’t know how to respond to having him pull that shit on her the way he did”.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

Your regular reminder that while the "Gender Critical" movement is primarily about removing trans rights and abusing transgender children, it's also deeply, obsessively homophobic.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

The thing that got him in this position wasn’t upper middle class leftists, it was the overwhelming majority of Maine Democrats who preferred him over their incumbent governor. That’s the fulcrum of power you need to focus on if you want to understand this.

[ΘΔ Rush Girl 🔆✡️ @kripchakmentum]

it’s crass and wrong imo to point to her political affiliations and say she has to be lying because of them. thing is, she’s presenting herself as a consistent moral crusader on an issue where at its most salient she actively worked on behalf of evil. that crosses a line

[ΘΔ Rush Girl 🔆✡️ @kripchakmentum]

i don’t think it’s victim blaming to demand answers here. she’s acting all high and mighty about sexism in politics after actively laundering her womanhood to get a rapist confirmed to SCOTUS and run one of the biggest misogynistic smear campaigns of the millennium in so doing

[ΘΔ Rush Girl 🔆✡️ @kripchakmentum]

look i wouldn’t be shocked if a blackwater guy who got a totenkopf to be edgy did the awful shit you allege of him but you fuckin engineered the smear campaign against christine blasey ford. you have absolutely no credibility on the matter of sexism in DC!

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

no comment necessary

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This one's going deep in the Bad Tweets contest, I can feel it. Just exquisite.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

It's so effing crazy that this lady was the founder of LADIES FOR BRETT KAVANAUGH, a right wing op to run interference against his accusers, and the @nytimes never once felt the need to mention this in its story.

[Larry Conger 🇺🇸 @eMTBrides]

When Nic Cage was nervous about starring in Spider Noir, his friend Charlie Sheen gave him some INCREDIBLE advice 👀🤯😂🎬 Nick impression of Charlie is on point too! 🤣 via The Star Tracker

Man, if you haven’t seen Spider Noir🕷️ u shud definitely check it out 💯 great show, bring on S2 Amazon Prime Videos
#niccage #spidernoir #spiderman #charliesheen

[iza @izamamaa]

Wasn’t her husband assassinated in broad daylight here in the U.S. while Trump was president?

[Andrew Mercado @AndrewMercado]

Every attack on Graham Platner has been an actual GOP-funded hit job from 1 person. Lindsey Fifield leaked his Nazi tattoo story to try to end his campaign the first time. When that didn’t work, she made up this story to the NYT without evidence. This same woman previously worked to discredit Judge Kavanaugh’s accusers. Never trust a Republican for anything. Liberals that are ‘concern trolling’ are cowards and clowns. The NYT should be embarrassed they ran that story yesterday.

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

The two reporters on the New York Times Platner story — Katie Glueck and Lisa Lere — are the same reporters who described Zohran Mamdani's July 2025 win as a "Spiritual Kristallnacht."