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DonP @donfoolery.com · May 28
If I had a band, Sophie here would be my next album cover.
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I don't know what you think is going on here Panera, but you are NOT putting your hand upon my hip...
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Okay, I'm super late to the RESERVATION DOGS party, and I'm right now at the catfish cult episode and this is the most incredible thing I've ever seen on TV in my entire life!!!
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Alejandro Jodorowsky's version of DUNE, right from the storyboards.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I don't know what you think is going on here Panera, but you are NOT putting your hand upon my hip...
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
West Coast AOR music -- kind of like YACHT ROCK: A DOCKUMENTARY, only done like JAZZ.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Everyone knows the best Star Wars is the Star Wars you saw when you were 12 years old!
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
At the very least, I'm sure we can at least get Big Balls in front of Nuremberg 2.0...
DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.

They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.

By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.

That’s their legacy
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I'd never heard of Maigret before the 2025 PBS series. Come to find out there are books and international adaptations with Blackadder being one of the bajillion people who've played him.
Suddenly witness to a man’s dreadful death, Inspector Maigret finds himself faced with a series of sordid events in this haunting tale of guilt and tragedy.

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien and other Inspector Maigret stories support Come Back Alive.
Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret Series by Picador
www.humblebundle.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Even if I wasn't an M. Rickert superfan, I'd tell anyone this is $2 no reader will regret spending!
We're revisiting our back catalogue and the ONLY original novel we've published—M. Rickert's "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie." This exquisite mystery is an amalgam of Frankenstein, and A Confederacy of Dunces. We want you to read it. The eBook is on sale for just $2.

undertowpublications.com/ebooks
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I have all the rants from GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS pretty much memorized, so I don't need AI to do a vulgar roast with forbidden words.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Artists are getting fucked to pay for AI-powered drone strikes and surveillance. Spotify is the absolute devil.
An important message about Spotify for #musicsky
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Wherein it finally gets through my thick skull to make better use of the money I spend on my webhosting and domain name...
donfoolery.com/2025/11/week...
Weeknotes S05 E08: Platform Reset
Pondering the continued enshittification of just about every social media platform, I realized that I’ve got a space that I tend to forget about until I get an email reminder to renew my domain nam…
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November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.

For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Zed's dead, Charlie Brown. Zed's dead.
You’re a sick fuck, Charlie Brown.
Humility endless is, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
How about I keep my Pixel 6 and my 6th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon (the only computer I've ever had that's lasted me 8 years), let the kids eat their avocado toast, and tax a billionaire instead?
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Wherein it finally gets through my thick skull to make better use of the money I spend on my webhosting and domain name...
donfoolery.com/2025/11/week...
Weeknotes S05 E08: Platform Reset
Pondering the continued enshittification of just about every social media platform, I realized that I’ve got a space that I tend to forget about until I get an email reminder to renew my domain nam…
donfoolery.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
🎼 AVE... SATANI...
UVAE... EDIMUS...
These grapes are a devil’s bargain at a mere 666/lb
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wouldn't it be some shit if my parents came to the US from the Philippines under Marcos's Martial Law only for that to be a reason I could end up fleeing the US?

Come to think of it... if I fled to the Philippines, it would be under another Marcos.

Wow, that's depressing.
thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.

My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn:
1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business;
2. worry over small presses closing or paring down.

Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀

IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
If they ever end up arresting anyone, I'll definitely watch the inevitable DATELINE episode!
Did you guys hear about the Georgia man who died in a scuba diving accident after which family looked in the backyard treehouse and found the skeletal remains of his missing adult son? It’s such a weird story and I need there to be any kind of resolution.
Skeletal remains of missing son found in backyard tree house days after father dies in scuba accident
Henry Hank Frantz, 32, went missing four years ago, according to reports.
www.nbcnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BAHALA NA SI BATMAN!!!
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM