Stinque

19/09/2023

Yeah, no.

05/08/2023

13/05/2023

Let’s not lose the baby with the bathwater.

You have been exposed to someone who bought a bluecheck on Twitter You have been exposed to someone who will spend precious moments chatting with the cashier You have been exposed to someone who had chili for lunch You have been exposed to yourself in an alternate timeline You have been exposed to s...

06/12/2022

In which we ask ChatGPT to write a 500-word post making fun of Elon Musk.

Our guest columnist is ChatGPT. Write a 500-word Stinque post making fun of Elon Musk Elon Musk is a man known for his big ideas and even bigger ego. From his failed attempts at launching a car into space with SpaceX, to his ridiculous plan to colonize Mars, Musk seems to think that he can […]

14/08/2022

The Second Time as Farce.

07/08/2022

I'm Just a Bill on Capitol Hill.

24/07/2022

We don’t have time to work up a full treatment of Road to Nowhere, but you’re welcome to imagine it.

We haven’t been watching the hearings because we saw it the first time, and, well, for us the question is whether they have any effect on general perception. So when our Twitter timeline lit up Thursday night with Running Man gags, we knew something extraordinary had happened. Making fun of a chic...

10/07/2022

Joy is where you find it, even if it’s an old Gong Show clip.

We woke up Sunday morning with one thing or another on our mind (and a third, things being what they are), but before our thoughts could evolve from a cosmic gaseous cloud into a pristine planet, someone tweeted an old Gong Show clip that reminded us that joy is where you find it, even when […]

04/07/2022

We’re an illegitimate Republic, not an illegitimate Democracy.

Our guest columnists are Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secu...

30/06/2022

The Three Stages of Denialism

1) They haven’t done that yet.

2) Okay, they did that, but it’s not what you think.

3) Whoops! I’m dead!

26/06/2022

Vote Harder, we’re being told by the people running the show. We did. We have. And it hasn’t made a fu***ng difference.

We’re seeing a lot of pushback to the idea that the Roe reversal is a domino — that despite Clarence Thomas putting gay marriage, contraceptives, and homosexuality itself on the target list in his concurring opinion, well, he’s just one guy, y’know? And besides, the Supreme Court didn’t ou...

19/06/2022

So, yeah, we know a guy from Ukraine. Here’s his story. Part of it, anyway. Dude’s a walking fractal.

We’ve taken a deep interest in Russia’s war on Ukraine, much deeper than we might otherwise be expected to, and for pretty much one reason: We know a guy. His name is Art. He grew up in Ukraine, the post-Soviet version. He’s been in America five years now. And he happens to be a TikTok […]

12/06/2022

A Two-Bit Insurrection

05/06/2022

To Protect and Serve… Themselves

29/05/2022

Taxing bullets remains an option.

22/05/2022

In related news, Tesla’s sinking like a rock.

15/05/2022

We checked out almost six hours Saturday afternoon, joining our Ukrainian immigrant friend for a Eurovision YouTube watch party. When we returned, well, you know.

08/05/2022

God how we love people telling us it’s not as bad as we think, and certainly won’t get worse!

01/05/2022

You Probably Think This Post is About You

24/04/2022

American book-banners hate us for our freedom. They always have. And they’re never giving up.

All we remember from high-school history is Johnny Tremain. There must have been more, since we always got all A’s except for the infernal C in P.E. We must have done the reading, wrote the papers, passed the tests. But nothing stuck. Same with college, really. We kinda remember that year of Engli...

10/04/2022

From the start of the invasion, our young Ukrainian immigrant friend has been telling us that the typical Russian attitude is one of disdain, even contempt. Now we understand.

From the start of the invasion, our young Ukrainian immigrant friend has been telling us that the typical Russian attitude is one of disdain, even contempt. He’s not guessing. He speaks Russian. He’s been watching Russian news. He’s been following Russian social media. It ain’t just Putin. S...

03/04/2022

The horrors of the world we live in cannot — must not — be denied or ignored. But sometimes we all just need a fu***ng break.

Among those covering Russian atrocities — such an insufficient word — in Ukraine is Illia Ponomarenko, defense reporter for the Kyiv Independent, who on Saturday summed up the carnage: Just fu***ng imagine how many people they have executed in Mariupol. In my Volnovakha, and all those cities and...

27/03/2022

We’ve seen tractor memes a-plenty, but none as elaborate as this, via TikTokker Ukrainian Girl.

We’ve seen tractor memes a-plenty, but none as elaborate as this, via TikTokker Ukrainian Girl. We don’t know whether that’s an original composition or an existing children’s song — our secret hope is that it’s full of profanity — but we’re just fu***ng delighted by it. Runner up is ...

20/03/2022

Besides being really fu***ng funny, there’s Kyiv itself, stunningly beautiful in the opening credits as Zelensky rides his bike to work — heartbreakingly so, watching that 2015 footage today.

Now that it’s back on Netflix — the first season, anyway — and you don’t have to struggle to get English subtitles out of YouTube, let’s talk about Zelensky’s political sitcom Servant of the People. It’s very, very good. And really fu***ng funny. The premise is that Zelensky is a high-...

13/03/2022

As a Ukrainian account we follow posted, “Our whole country curses like sailors now and I fu***ng love it.”

In the midst of all this, Ukraine held a competition to design a new postage stamp. Boris Groh from Lviv was the winner. Ukraine reveals ‘Russian warship, go f**k yourself!’ postage stamp [Guardian] TweetShare

06/03/2022

Cable news makes you stupid, polluting your mind with narratives that distort the story. It just can’t help it.

What forty-mile convoy? That was our question when a friend posted about it on Facebook. He was worried about an ominous Russian military convoy headed for Kyiv, and that was the first we’d heard about it. And then another friend posted about it. And we still didn’t know what they were talking a...

27/02/2022

There's something about the Ukrainian sense of humor that captures our dark heart.

Mockup illustration from a Ukraine agency’s Facebook post advising the removal of all road signs to confuse invading Russians. Let’s translate! We suspect that last one better translates as TO RUSSIA WITH F**K. If they can riff on Willie Nelson, they can certainly nail James Bond. But hey, just ...

20/02/2022

Maybe we’re being simplistic, but not nearly as simplistic as the conservative economic ideologues who actually started this snowball rolling down the hill.

Hey, remember how the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed and everybody went Yay! and then American conservative ideologues thought it would be a bright idea to immediately privatize a major economic system that had been centralized for generations and then all the power ended up in the....