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Justice for Jorts

Just a list of updates today, basically.

Rusty Foster
Dec 15, 2021
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The lowest and most shameful form of content aggregation is linking to Reddit threads. That said: “AITA for ‘enforcing an ethnic stereotype’ by joking that orange cats are often dumb?” The tale of dimwitted orange cat Jorts and his caring but misguided coworker Pam is the only thing you really need to see today. Once you’ve read the initial question please continue to the UPDATE, which is where everyone really loses it. There’s already a twitter account and… it’s not bad? Feels like I just torched several years of credibility in this paragraph.

Tweet by @no_dead_weight: “I think we all agree @time made a huge mistake today. I demand some recognition for Jorts.” with a mockup of a Time Magazine Person of the Year cover showing Jorts the orange cat, and the caption JORTS, "I don’t need to be tutored. I don’t need to be buttered, I just need to be loved for who I am.”

Other Updates:

  • Web3 is going just great, by Molly White.

  • The Bad Art Meal Discourse continues, with Geraldine DeRuiter replying to the Bros bro’s reply to her delicious roast of his disgusting foam:

    In Chef Floriano’s rebuttal he explained that “Preparing food that is liked is like making a drawing of a man on a horse. It is not that hard, but most people will admire you.” He dismissively noted that “Many people are able to make good food. Your grandmother could do it. My wife does it great.” Which is a pretty condescending thing to say when your wife is one of the chefs at Bros.

    The next phase will start when someone investigates this tweet and gets the Bros bro fully canceled for running an abusive workplace. Stay tuned!

  • “Eric Adams and Just His Mattress Are Moving to Gracie Mansion:” It’s hard to believe Eric Adams isn’t even officially mayor yet, but Clio Chang reports that he’s “bringing the energy of all four of the grandparents in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the city’s historic mayoral home.”

  • Steph Curry broke the career three pointer record last night, and Dell was there to get his cholesterol checked.

    Twitter avatar for @solomonmissouri
    So_a_king 🤌🏿 @solomonmissouri
    That look in his eyes says he don't have no electrolytes... It's just him against Hennessy
    1:21 AM ∙ Dec 15, 2021
    831Likes102Retweets
  • Today in Crabs: Rust Lang Edition

  • Oh, ah:

    Twitter avatar for @MrErnestOwens
    Ernest Owens @MrErnestOwens
    TIME owner Marc Benioff is an investor in SpaceX. Moving on...
    Twitter avatar for @TIME
    TIME @TIME
    "Person of the Year is a marker of influence, and few individuals have had more influence than @elonmusk on life on Earth, and potentially life off Earth too," writes TIME editor-in-chief @efelsenthal #TIMEPOY https://t.co/ts1iMz6kZx
    12:00 AM ∙ Dec 14, 2021
    1,151Likes295Retweets
  • NASA spacecraft hurls itself into the sun, cruelly leaving the rest of us behind.

  • Wildfire Today reports in from 2012:

    On BuzzFeed you can find articles titled, for example, “Putting ketchup on more than half of these foods is a federal crime — are you guilty?” (for real). But an offshoot, named BuzzFeed News, actually writes serious articles about news of the day.

    This is a lot of attitude for a post that’s just a big quote of Brianna Sacks’ original reporting!

  • Bloomberg reports on COVID pushing the hospital system to collapse in Kentucky, or as The Atlantic calls it, “distant Myanmar.”

  • 30-50 feral hogs “invade Southeast Texas neighborhood.” You’ll never guess how long it took.

  • D.C. access-arbitrage newsletter Punchbowl partied with a bunch of lobbyists at the Washington Football Team game this weekend, reports Alexander Sammon in The American Prospect. It’s not that surprising for an outlet started by people who found Politico intolerably ethical. Maybe they were celebrating their successful murder of Build Back Better.

  • Vice: NFTs are tearing the Crazy Frog community apart:

    People are way madder about the perceived betrayal of the Frog’s foray into cryptocurrency than they could ever be about his missing dick.

Twitter avatar for @JoyceCarolOates
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates
hmm. you know this is concocted by writers, don't you? "she" isn't thinking anything, she is following a script.
Twitter avatar for @glenmazzara
Glen Mazzara @glenmazzara
On #Succession, we know Kerry thinks Roman is childish. I imagine she's either whispering in Logan's ear or he's asked her. Have we gotten a glimpse what she thinks of the other kids, Tom, or Greg? No spoilers, please.
6:26 PM ∙ Dec 14, 2021
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Finally: “Every so often, you get a reminder that Weird Sony is still alive and well,” writes Chris Welch in The Verge, reviewing Sony’s new bong.

A picture of Sony’s new “glass” “speaker” (which is very obviously a bong).
Remember, Sony’s new Glass “““Sound Speaker””” is only for use with tobacco products. Please enjoy responsibly.

Today’s Song: Charli XCX, “Good Ones [Perfume Genius Remix]”

~Tabs can only be understood backwards; but they must be read forwards.~

Jort Sort is the one true jort. I tweet @fka_tabs. Send Polly and me your questions. Run through a field of wildflowers. Loosen your shoulders. There will always be someone with more abilities in newsletter than my own as there will be those with less.

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