Charlie Kirk made a lot of people mad, and then he died . The first part almost certainly contributed to the second. But it’s unlikely that right-wing content creators and political commentators will be backing away from this ledge anytime soon. After all, the broader, ragebait-driven Republican apparatus relies on them. On this week’s Aftermath Hours, we discuss the purpose Charlie Kirk served.

This time around, we’re joined by two popular political streamers, and , to discuss how the far

Last night, I got suspended from Bluesky for writing “rest in piss” while resharing my piece about liberal media’s frothy race to eulogize Charlie Kirk . I quickly learned that I was not alone.

As it turns out, Bluesky’s moderation team has zapped (at least) dozens of people for using that phrase while sharing posts about Kirk or longer descriptions of his legacy both before and after me, but not everyone who uses that phrase in isolation, as evidenced by posts that were still live on the

I woke up early this morning and, like most mornings, the first thing I did was check my phone for work messages, which mostly just means catching up on what fresh horrors have taken place in the United States while I've been asleep . The second thing I did was open Facebook to answer some Marketplace questions, where I was greeted with something that made me wonder whether I'd actually woken up at all.

I don't read The Independent, and am on record as being extremely scared of

Yesterday afternoon, conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot during a stop on his “American Comeback” tour at Utah Valley University. He . In the 24 hours that followed, liberal news networks, publications, and politicians have tripped over themselves to eulogize Kirk, with the New York Times’ Ezra Klein that Kirk was “practicing politics the right way,” while California podcaster-in-chief Gavin Newsom "the best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other,

For a month my phone was, from a technical perspective, “severely messed up.” I am a klutz on occasion, which is partially why I’ve gotten good at backing up my data, buying the most durable tools possible, and repairing the things that I own. But this time my phone was not only beyond the limits of my repair abilities, but also of everybody I brought the device to, and it contained the only thing I could not back up: my (iOS) Signal history.

When we talk about inverted controls for video games, we’re usually talking about the way the camera moves vertically, called the y-axis. We talk about how the screen should move when the right thumbstick moves up and down. If you’re an inverted y-axis person, like me, you’re expecting the camera to tilt up when you push the thumbstick down—as if the camera is being controlled from the back. People who don’t invert the y-axis expect the opposite

Back in July, Riley went public with some very important news : as a newly middle-aged man, he had developed a passion for historical armed conflicts, and was beginning to express it, as so many middle-aged men do, by playing dusty video games about them.

In an attempt to help coach him through this (sometimes) difficult transition from one stage of life to the next, myself and some other strategy game nerds got Riley into the hotseat for an episode of , in which we used Riley

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, is currently of his nearest general election rival, Andrew Cuomo, who he already obliterated during the primary. Despite this, Cuomo has yet to slither back into the cavern of slime and obscurity which most assuredly awaits him in the near future. His latest attempt to jumpstart his raspy, dying cough of a campaign? Concern trolling over Mamdani’s decision to appear on a Twitch stream earlier this year.

Yesterday, , Cuomo accepted the endorsement of a 9

Modern action cinema owes a lot to The Raid and John Wick as mythic revenge arcs littered with bone-crunchingly innovative action choreography that reshaped the genre. But somewhere along the way, their imitators forgot that martial arts movies used to be fun. Not just thrilling, but fun . Jackie Chan wasn’t scowling through grief; he was juggling inanimate objects and sliding down Christmas decorations. Jet Li cracked jokes between kicks. Bruce Lee had comedic swagger and soul mixed into his wataahs. Their films weren’t all Greek