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Near the end of MLK's life, he and Malcolm X had a thing going where if MLK got blowback for planning a nonviolent action, X would announce plans to visit the area. The message was clear: if you don't want the peace-loving minister, you can have the ex-con who openly hates your racist ass.
Men are people. Women are rocks. Trans women are also rocks, but different rocks. Ergo, sports.
when the rapture doesn’t occur tomorrow, i want every Christian who is disappointed to know it’s because a transgender witch used blood magic to revoke the apocalypse. the demon she was petitioning responded at 3am with an earthquake btws
I mean... (Sorry to everyone else: I forgot to mention that what they mostly hoarded was scientific specimens.)
Again, I note the huge overlap between 1) cancel culture terror about supposed totalitarian speech rules of the left, and 2) very rich, powerful men being enraged to discover that social media could be used to accuse them of the sex offences that they have in fact committed
Why did they remake the Real World house with all Pucks
This also confuses the kid. His dad never saw an ocean growing up.
The audacity of Obama continuing to bring up Bush's 2008 economic collapse in (checks timestamp) 2009
When my parents were living in Derbyshire I had the pleasure of visiting Calke Abbey, which has been maintained in the state it was in when the National Trust took it over: packed with the collections of several generations of aristocratic hoarders. www.atlasobscura.com/places/calke...
It's our fault for taking painkillers instead of accepting our full punishment for the sin of Eve
"Pain only hurts."
I am shocked, SHOCKED by this rare breach of taste by Jizmak Da Gusha and Balsac the Jaws of Death
Yes! Introducing the hot motorcycle traffic cop!
Drop some SNAKES
True! I think Conan caught that one in a pretty recent storyline.
Brendan Carr threatening ABC on Benny Johnson's podcast reminds us it was just a year ago we learned that Johnson and other high-profile right-wing podcasters were LITERALLY ON THE KREMLIN PAYROLL and everyone on the right said "Eh, whatever, no biggie" and they're still doing their thing.
I could do a looooong thread of useless details about Japan I learned from Case Closed mysteries.
Fun fact I learned from editing 90+ volumes of Case Closed: Japanese construction companies almost never do explosive demolitions, partly because it's too hard to blow up earthquake-proof buildings. (Another reason: Japanese weapons laws make it so hard to get explosives it's not worth it.)
Living in California Is Weird: today my kid realized for the first time that other places don't have earthquakes.
Ideally you want some trained, professional protestors who also remind you of your meemaw. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Pa...
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Their feelings are very delicate
The time has come to summon the deeper magic from beyond the dawn of time. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine.
A lot of this is the result of the media uncritically repeating what the party leaders say about their own parties The GOP figured out in 2000 that they can claim a "mandate" to rule like kings based on absolutely nothing and nobody will say "what the hell are you maniacs talking about"
Every time the Republicans win it's treated as inevitability and proof of their mighty power and the true will of the People, and every time the Democrats win it's treated as a weird aberration, even though the two parties win and lose about the same amount
regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks
Sooner or later they all figure out that's where the big money is
New page of CHICKENS! A TRUE STORY OF CHICKENS up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/c/Shaenon
One of my mom's evangelical friends sincerely believed that her flavor of Protestantism was the original faith and Catholicism was a heresy that came along later.
I love the kid noting that they barely think about their gender now that they've figured out their identity and have a busy, fulfilling life, while the mom has made the kid's gender her entire personality
I had to rewatch Jim Henson's memorial service to see how people remember a life well lived. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeEz...
Today my kid correctly identified a sound clip from a video game as five seconds of background sound from Mission Impossible 2 with the music track scraped, confirming both his autism diagnosis and his parentage as my child
Yeah, it's not too surprising that the people who tell you Jesus wants everybody to hoard money and hate foreigners will also tell you MLK didn't like uppity black folks
If anyone other than Charlie Kirk had been shot, Charlie Kirk would've been in front of a camera within 24 hours to tell everyone to get over it.
No particular reason
My kid complains about crying babies on planes and I tell him that he did the same thing when he was little but actually he didn't, planes were the one and only place he didn't scream, he is right to criticize the other babies
repost with your orange art
Earlier this week, Sinclair said it would replace "Jimmy Kimmel Live" with a documentary about Charlie Kirk during the Friday time slot that Kimmel occupies on its ABC affiliates. Friday evening, Sinclair pulled the documentary and aired "Celebrity Family Feud" instead.
I'd love to do one!
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I've seen like 100 conversations on Facebook this week that went: Conservative: Charlie Kirk is our George Floyd! We're going to protest! Other person: Protest what? Conservative: ? Other person: The Floyd protests were against police brutality. What are you protesting? Conservative: ...the libs?
Thanks! I may have it licked, but I'll let you know if the current troubleshoot fails.
This is the problem with Silicon Valley right now: no one wants to make a useful product that earns a steady profit helping a few people, they want All Money from Everyone Right Now and Forever. (See also LLMs.)
Listen to any conservative rhetoric around BLM protests and it's crystal clear that they fundamentally do not understand a) caring about someone different from yourself and b) protesting to achieve a goal and not just throwing a tantrum
The only conspiracies I believe in are this and the pee tape.
Dudes rock
Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people
So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...
All my sites are down. Is there someone who knows Wordpress who'd be willing to look at them? I will pay you in artwork. Message me. Thanks!
Thank you! I'm so glad you recognized the story. I'm a little wary of telling people about the historical context because it's very upsetting, not in the least because it was framed in the popular media as cute and romantic.
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Everything should be run as a big business except big businesses, which should be run as a child's mud pie stand
I've got a horror story out today on Pseudopod! Originally published in Black Static.
"Penelope stringing the suitors along, sleeping with the cute ones, playing them off against each other, lying, cajoling, promising, poisoning, bargaining, weaving and unweaving her web."
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The Diorama Museum down the street keeps adding dioramas.
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.
It's what they've wanted all these years, they're burning the country down for it
I'm beginning to think the endless right-wing focus on letting comedians make transphobic, sexist, violent, racist jokes without professional consequences wasn't about protecting the freedom to make jokes.
Very concerned about what the old man will think because I am Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years in the episode where he shot an anti-hippie ham radio operator
I love when conservatives try to gin up some desperate legal fig leaf for Trump's unconstitutional actions. They get the talking points in place and then Trump announces: IT IS ILLEGAL TO SAY I AM NOT A HANDSOME SPECIAL BOY. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!
As Mel Brooks said, "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
The eternal debate: Conservatives Are Destroying Democratic Government and Killing Large Swaths of People While Impoverishing Everyone Else vs. Liberals Sound Annoying Sometimes and people keep voting for the conservatives
Look out, Yak-Face!
I may very well be the world's greatest player of Super Pitfall for NES because I had to be the only kid who bothered with it for more than 20 minutes
I know from a CS perspective it's cool that software can parse sentences and stuff, but the technology to get a recipe from a computer has existed for 50 years now I probably had a recipe that worked on a Big Blue Disk once
"Maenad romance. She's romantically involved with a satyr, faun, or maybe even Dionysus."
This mf’er is a hugely unpopular lame duck and people and institutions with actual power are out here acting, for eight months straight, like he’s some goddam immortal emperor. Fuck that noise.
I'm now on a solid week of guys on Facebook telling me they loved the intelligent/loving/Christian things he said and then not being able to repeat what they were
People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel
I went to a friend in tears earlier this year. His advice: he was a rural gay kid in 2004 when Bush was re-elected and cried himself to sleep because he had no future. But he never gave up on activism. Now he's married and has a great life. He said: "The only inevitable thing is change."
I want to create a space where we take the feelings of people who want you dead seriously, because after they kill you we'll have to live together and if I was rude to them it'll be SO awkward also they may start wanting me dead
What are the disagreements, exactly?
It's okay, the lawyer apologized to him
We the people won't back down or be intimidated. Join us tomorrow, September 18, for a virtual kickoff call to learn more about the upcoming No Kings protests and hear from movement leaders.
This is not normal, and every time we treat it as normal we enable further erosion of freedom and decency.
The really stupid part is that moderates are more likely to vote for a lefty who seems passionate, sincere, and fresh than for a focus-tested milquetoast. Most moderates hate "politics as usual." That's how millions of people voted for both Obama and Trump!
Right now, creators should think carefully about working for DC. It is not normal or respectful to fire a writer to appease an obvious astroturf campaign. The more I work with book publishers (which aren't perfect), the more aghast I am at the nonsense that goes on in comics publishing.
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It's beyond nonsense for publishers to fold to Comicsgate tactics in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty Fuck This Shit.
These are live now!
To be fair I'm still mad about Iran-Contra so I can hold all the grudges the libs are willing to let go
Some jagoff with a political column just argued that the current descent into a fascist dictatorship is fair payback for Bork I used to talk to a conservative cartoonist who was driven by the urge to avenge Nixon, for whom he campaigned as a teenager
I would not bet against the chance that in reality he heard "Brett" correctly
Nefarious Nights is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection, just so you know.
people who are clout sharks about it being unsafe to sign up for protests or whatever the fuck are basically doing the work of the cops for them and are the bane of people doing actual offline political works existence
I haven't seen it myself yet!
When we lose someone who’s such a Titan and so well loved as Robert Redford was, it’s an opportunity for us to honor him by living the ideals that he held. Helping others reach their full potential. Celebrating craft. Always expanding one’s repertoire of skills. Giving back.
"Psychic mall goth in love with mascot costume possessed by a hot ghost"
Grindcore culture or Peter Falk wandering around Europe drinking coffee and sketching and talking to angels: which way, modern man?
Sluggo is lit.
I based the orc on Dave Bautista because one time he said in an interview that he'd never get cast in a romantic comedy but he would be such a good romance lead.
"a half-elf (human/elf) "baronet" is in an arranged marriage with a high-ranking orc lord; they discover that there's a plot to ruin the war-ending treaty."
Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his attempted military coup in Brazil, but you didn't hear much about it in the news because the people who did the exact same thing in the States dominated the media crying hysterically over a podcaster. None of this was inevitable.
