Extremely stubborn and suspicious.
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Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.
this. if this wasn't true, they wouldn't be spinning info so visibly desperately at every opportunity
I demand that every image of Charles Xavier must be a way-too-faithfully traced screencap of Dr. Everett Scott from Rocky Horror
Considering that most authors are introverts who really don't want to be bothered outside of very specific circumstances, this is a feature, not a bug
im watching the americans and it makes me wonder if any one night stands are real or if it's all just spies
Single-source lighting from the enormous fire pit in the middle of this room seemed like a good idea, and it had some advantages (lovely shadows), but you'd never know that this character is GREEN. Olive green. And since you're unlikely to see her in other circumstances, you may never know.
"He who would pun, would pick a pocket"
one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them
At the Amish weed booth anyone need anything
praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith
Hey, my candidate won! I would like to remind everyone of Minerva's platform:
When I post, I am purging the computer madness from my body out into the world, where it becomes your problem
Atlantic editor: he was an interesting interesting man. Me: what was interesting about him? His views on taxation? Atlantic editor: no no lol Me: was it his views on deregulation? Atlantic editor: ha ha that’s not it either Me: then what views? Atlantic editor: oh, you know the ones
スーパーマリオブラザーズ✨
We have reached the "we're cutting these fucking renders off at ten minutes" portion of the Sunday afternoon
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
P.S. Every time I mention Prado I am obliged by law to link the best opening titles of a cartoon ever (he did the animation design for this show, which is why it looks like nothing else on earth) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVAe... For god's sake, turn on the sound and feel the beat
Re LRP: Some months back I was saying to Iain, "I want to do this scene so it looks like something from Blacksad" and he was like "What's Blacksad?" If you have ever wondered what I would draw comics like if I could draw comics like anyone I wanted, it would either be Guarnido or Miguelanxo Prado.
The Art of Juanjo Guarnido → bit.ly/2N8GYqm #artist #portfolio #illustration #art
There's a fairly discredited theory that the ancient Romans poisoned themselves with lead plumbing, but I do think it's useful example of how future historians are going to have to explain this moment in time.
me [lying face down on the floor]: ladies and gentlemen, the weakened
You had me at "Jodie Whittaker and Suranne Jones"
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Best life, Stef, best life
UPDATE: plot plotted. 2500 words of notes. No joke. 2500 words of notes THIS AFTERNOON. I've written stories shorter than that.
"Why are you not doing renders, Col?" you may ask. Well, because I realized I couldn't do this scene without knowing more of the future plot this scene ties into, which in turn meant fully planning out a massive plotline which will take a long time to play out, that I was putting off plotting ...
This is a very good thread if, like me, you are not Extremely Online enough to have had a clear grasp of the intramural politics
I allow follows by strangers if I don't think they're selling something or pushing a one-note agenda, but I also do sometimes let someone in while thinking, "Oh, honey, you're not going to last past the first smut post."
the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (ウマ娘 プリティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,
i love to exhibit behaviors in my enclosure
I think about this at least once a month.
Difficult choice but this one gets me every time
i have to keep reminding people: bsky corp are the right-wingers. they're coiners, rationalists and neoreactionaries. they tried seeding the place with their guys then the queer shitposters outposted them all. they fucking hate their userbase.
In all seriousness, I wonder if there’s a Scots equivalent of the English RP or the American from-nowhere television announcer voice
Having been to Finland I feel I can attest to it with some certainty. Pigeons, however, are a mass hallucination.
Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS
See, I think that just makes it cooler. But I am also deeply uncool so what do I know.
i was thinking since the first photos with the tshirt and the rumors of engravings on the casings, particularly as that happens post-UnitedHealth CEO, that we've hit our first pseudoironic performance art shooting. and boy howdy!
basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain
"Since when have American flags been lowered to half-mast for a ragebait YouTuber? Why would a podcaster who never held office deserve a Capitol monument? And why are elected Democrats and institutions participating in and encouraging this?"
I am at an age where I think I can safely say that I will never reach a point in my life where I like Simply Red or forgive Mick Hucknall his sins.
Jesus christ this is like a phone call with my dad.
Liz, please establish proof of life, this post is 45 mins old and now I am legit worried
Weaponized unreality
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a reminder to folks that people *are* being radicalized, *are* waking up, *are* organizing. On a historical scale, pretty quickly for such a big country, too.
FWIW the Globe's critic liked HAMNET, though he did say it was divisive, and that you either were able to get into it completely or you were going to hate it, with no middle ground.
It really is a two-drink night but I'm not sure I want to get any louder about everything than I already am
“CONTINUE HIS WORK”?!?!?! holy shit dude, that’s fucking awful
A literal "tag yourself" moment
counterpoint: these exact same losers say the exact same thing every time anybody talks back or puts a girl in a video game or whatever so i don't think the liberal urge to performatively flinch at the canned backlash is a useful reflex in 2025
I understand the desire to condemn all political violence but I also think the second civil war started a while ago and it's probably time we noticed that. If it wasn't when violence was threatened at polling places, it was the Minnesota lawmakers being shot in their homes.
i have hated this guy since i thought i was cisgender
It’s gonna be so weird watching establishment dems be performatively sadder about this than they were about the colleague and her husband and dog who got shot and killed
This has been a very Marc post
Brain Cell #1: We need coffee! Brain Cell #2: No, no, we need something sweet! Dessert! #1: Coffee! #2: Dessert! Brain Cell #3, wearing “Supervisor”badge: BURDICK MOCHA, fools. All: ooOOOoo
Would like coffee for walk home but never carry cash anymore and am old enough that i hate doing POS debits for tiny amounts: a tragedy in one act. I do know of at least one operational ATM remaining in the area, though.
Apparently while I wasn’t looking Oliver North married Fawn Hall, and if those names mean anything to you, you are welcome to join me here in my own personal time vortex. Free airsickness bags will be provided.
personally I think the even more likely explanation is that you don’t actually have to be smart, beyond (perhaps) a very narrow band of skills, to make a bunch of money in tech as a white guy
The greatest exchange in comics interview history still belongs to Jack Kirby
No one *expects* anything he says to be true. This is one of fascism's objectives—to make the truth irrelevant. His lies spin up a violent storyline that people either willingly inhabit or are trapped by. It's fiction with real-world consequences.
THIS FILTHY LANGUAGE IN A BANDE DESSINEÉ!!! (espèce de sale schtroumpf is a great swear though)
his father was unavailable for comment
anyone have a quick historical rundown on unplanned military activity in Poland? I’m new here.
Shreveport, LA, the largest city in Speaker Mike Johnson's district, has a murder rate more than twice Chicago's, and a crime rate considerably higher than both the state and national average. And Johnson isn't calling for the military to invade it. One of many ways we know this isn't about crime.
Awkward
Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi as a Democrat against incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith. She says that Hyde-Smith's infamous remark about being "on the front row" at a public hanging helped inspire her to run.
it says some things about the moral quality of the average american journalist that they didnt even have to form a propaganda ministry and do a Gleichschaltung on american media to get it to this point
- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked
Every single one of these fuckers will say some bullshit..
What an expertly called shot
I remember getting into an IRL argument with WaPo investigative reporter Craig Whitlock in 2017 about whether it was journalistically ethical to say that Trump lies. He argued vociferously for the "you don't know what he believes in his heart" argument. Just thinking of that these days.
If there were a version of Pinball Construction for a reasonably modern Windows system I would STILL be playing the hell out of it.
I was just fired from my firm for filing this case lol
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Wirecutter: We're picking the best boxed mac and cheese! Me: Ok, I'm interested. Wirecutter: Here are our six favorites. Me: You are cowards.
Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood? McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood
I made a way better logo for the city of Austin two years ago that they could have used for half as much as the other one cost
it's too bad we don't have the constitution anymore because it would be pretty funny to watch him squirm about how much looser our libel laws are with the first amendment
@jette.bsky.social I felt I should commend this to your attention, since I know you, like me, do occasionally like to watch a film get shredded utterly to pieces. filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
in fairness, Hegseth absolutely does think that the 1947 military brass was "too woke" (fought on the wrong side of the war)
I don't ask much: I just want the next Diablo, since Diablo has apparently run out of Diablo. I want a non-turn-based, non-team-based game which has a story in addition to the combat and is not particularly hard and has boss fights I can win on, y'know, the second or third try if not less.
[Remembers to go look up the game everyone was talking about yesterday] [Sees that it is based heavily around tactical solo combat, by which I mean "I need to know more than when to spam each of my six buttons," and has challenging boss fights] [Makes an unprintable sound and leaves the room]
Just a note that they wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t believe they will make this much money by using these copyrighted works and cannot make it without using them.
I have watched several of these this afternoon and I enjoyed all of them but I am linking this one specifically so certain people can enjoy the lube story (the second question in the video). You know who you are. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y2f...
losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it
As usual, walking is good, lunch is good, walking to lunch and then walking some more is good ... but once I get back home I find that all ertia has packed up and left for the day.
5yo: why do you have all these books ? Me: I went to the library 5yo: you went to the human library? Me: 5yo: Me: yes
Not bad. Not bad at all.
i am going to invent worse reply guys in a laboratory. i am going to splice the bluesky discover feed with hobbyist redditors who are angry that someone is new to their hobby and then make that mate with an infosec german from mastodon and we're going to let grok raise the child
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Theorizing that this is actually a covert attempt to raise Peter Bogdanovich from the grave.
they should also pay the vonnegut estate for stealing the picture of an asshole from breakfast of champions for their logo
For the health of your back in middle age, avoid risky activities such as: - Standing - Sitting - Lying down
When federal troops invade a city and a state that has explicitly told them they were not welcome, that’s not an operation against undocumented immigrants, it’s Americans attacking Americans. We had a term for that in the 1860s.
Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.
just remember: the reason we have book drama is because writers stir shit while they procrastinate doing their actual writing
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.