Years of Lead Poisoning
For our first TF episode of 2025 (recorded in 2025, that is), we're talking about recent events in the United States, plus Elon Musk's decision to weigh in on British politics and its downstream effects: ruining Keir Starmer's toboggan ride, among other things. We very much hope you enjoy.
Comments (68)
That first script (the Marvel one) isn't the script for some generic marvel movie, that is just a poorly made copy of the script for End Game, the specific movie.
Whisper libidinal to me, stroke me with your golden arm
You missed a very easy Ethan Frome punchline
Also regret to inform that Adrian Dittmann is real, Maia Crimew posted an article about it
Do I have to pick which ball I kick my boss in?
Seeking funding for my new start up SQUABLR which will turn squibbled novels into very disconcerting audiobooks.
I picked up my British passport today and am now a dual citizen. It really feels like a choice between original and extra crispy crazy.
Vivek is clearly wrong: we yanks have always been like this and we used to rule the world,
"I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives... You know, at one time I think I secretly wanted to be a writer."
The marathon example for an AI slop book really hit a nerve with me. Like, the robot trying to take away all effort and will and enjoyment of activity away from me also wants to sell me a book about the paradigmatic activity one does just to get good at a thing for the sake of the process and self improvement.
Misheard that as "UCAS personal statements," like Unmanned Combat Aerial Systems. Very different motivational book
considering America's literacy rates just came out and they are CRATERING, with Half of the population having a literacy rate below a 6th grade reading level, the "calling Americans idiots" thing is just gonna keep getting worse
Luton Mentioned !!!!!!
Ok, searching Fort Bragg Meth Mafia now thanks
Hand-sewn Etsy Isis flag
Excellent title
me: so I have this swedish guy here squwibbler: what if he was italian
ACTUALLY, you can't stream songs on LastFM a la Spotify. i can't tell you exactly what a "scrobble" is because I never opened LastFM again after I discovered that it isn't a streaming service (for I am little more than a squealing pig and my appetite is only for Content) but it isn't equivalent to a "play" on Spotify. sick of these leftist podcasters just pulling shit out of their ass instead of basing their claims on FACT.
I also have no idea what scrobbling is, but the Gen Zs in my discord servers are obsessed with it.
I hate it when my bomb disposal robot comes in contact with my robot disposal bomb
Explaining domestic terrorism to an American: "Okay, imagine a Livelsberger..."
I don't understand where the money is in book startups when the average person has a distraction even every 3 phrases. they want to make *more* full length books?
picking marathon running as an example is so funny, talking about their marathon training is most coworker yapping at me thing you can imagine
As a writer-American I find your commentary about us at the end deeply offensive.
I didn't know Richard Nixon was Batman
Am very intrigued by Henry Kissinger as Robin.
I regret to inform you that writer identity politics is A Thing. It seems to rise in cycles and I haven’t seen a ton of it personally lately. But it definitely exists.
I'm thinking like ca. 2005 when Johnathan Franzone got name-dropped multiple times on The Simpsons. I smell what you're stepping in there.
The AI stuff is so depressing. Even before AI it was an incredibly difficult thing to make a living doing creative writing and now apps like this are actively making it impossible. I know friends who left their copywriting jobs because they were being forced to edit AI outputs. I know plenty of people who write and whose work is getting drowned out by the AI spam. As funny as this all seems, to people who write as a job, a hobby or a passion, this is devastating. Some writers are even hesitating promoting their work because AI grifters are scraping socials. A lot of us are feeling hopeless. If AI continues this will end a lot of careers and dreams.
yeah, i'm trying to get back into copywriting after graduating but have found that in the last couple of years, all of the garbage 3-cents-per-word freelance gigs that I used to take have been replaced by garbage "AI" training gigs. depressing
Squibler merch when (maybe spell it differently to avoid trademark stuff lol)
The Proust, sometimes it makes the scrobble squib
This is a Jack Vance book, right?
I'm imagining the guy ordered his ISIS flag from the same very nice Turkish Canadian man I got my Anarcho-Comunist Trans Pride Flag from. He was very accommodating, and even gave me a second flag for free.
PM Ethan Frome
2025 should be the year of letting Riley finish a sentence
special bonus episode of him just reciting Terms & Conditions in that successively higher pitched, Jerry Seinfeld-like cadence
The thing Elon doesn't understand in this was is timing. You don't claw back your campaign promises until after Trump is actually president. That's when Trump starts "owning the Libs" at CNN which libidinally excites his feral base of racist voters, but only as a phantasm. The "Libs" acting like Trump is a larger than life threat makes his base feel like he is doing something when he is mostly just talking shit. When the Media and Trump start jangling keys nobody would even bring up H-1B.
no matter what i prompt it with the Scrivener AI just keeps outputting "i would prefer not to," is this a glitch?
BartleGPT. is this anything
‘I’ve scrobbled quibs you’ll never believe’ sounds like a discarded 90’s Oasis lyric
Batman and Nixon are dangerously close together
Alfred: Inaudible.
My ass watching the chud infighting like "just open the borders dickheads"
Not ex-special forces, ACTIVE DUTY GREEN BERET.
The thing about Empire is that eventually it learns that one of the greatest threats to it's self replication is Demobbed soldiers who enacted it's wars. They tend to be used to being organized, comfortable with violence, and used to direct action. The US learned this with the Bonus Army. In order to avoid Bonus Army 2: all Lt. Spears this time, the government felt it had to do a thing that the US government hates to do, giving things to working class people with the Montgomery GI Bill. Only if you're white of course. With sufficient prosperity most normal GIs lacked sufficient anxiety rise up like an American Organisation armée secrète.
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Yall know assmilk.mov but not who Stefan Urkel is and that’s why the west will fall
unfortunately in etsy's current state it's more likely to be a drop-shipped isis flag
New Orleans local government accidentally re-enacting the plot of Jaws.
Batman's starting to sound like Nixon
Alfred: Inaudible.
I will have everyone know that Scribbler unfortunately does still exist and there's one right outside the main shopping centre in Oxford
We lost ours in bath which is a shame because it's a vape shop now, and you can't buy Donald trump dog toys
Clearly we need to fuse two good startups into a GREAT startup. May I present to you: SQuibi. Now we can delve into one gripping metallic arm story for every metal known to man, with the power of AI!
Bury me with my tungsten arm!
You guys are a bit misinformed. The flag kabal has a base of operations kinda like John Wick and if you snitch roughly 1200 trained flag makers/assassins immediately go for you if you're excommunicated.
What's worse is they have solidarity with the united sisterhood of bullet proof sock darning. You do not know what horror they can wreak with five minutes and their wooden mushroom.
Lead? Sweet.
This podcast really makes me feel like Halo
I do like the idea of Esoteric Hasbro. Cluedo where the murder weapon is a hired Tesla is merely the beginning, surely, of a HIGHLY profitable new direction for the conglomerate as a whole.
Apparently Peppa Pig is a Hasbro holding??? So maybe Esoteric Hasbro could do official versions of those YouTube Elsagate Peppa Pig snuff films where Peppa gets murdered or whatever!
Couple bombing notes: - bollards: some were removed from Bourbon St and replaced with human cops for NYE; removal was related to a years-long upgrade (with issues). more: https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/bollards-new-orleans-attack/ - Elon: when I watched Vegas news video it seemed EM stole his cyber brags beat-for-beat from what the LVPD said about the vehicle containing and forcing the explosion upwards etc? What a dork
I'm not an explosives person but isn't that also bar?
nova is correct about the guy in dallas getting blown up by way of cop bot.
Ramaswamy: "Remember when t' white race was 'ard?"
Not enough Whip Lash... A movie that gives you a first-hand experience of what PTSD feels like.
INCREDIBLE EPISODE TITLE 🫡
