That's true! Guess that rules out the Secretary of... whatever we're calling it this week.
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That's true! Guess that rules out the Secretary of... whatever we're calling it this week.
Might not be a mole. Maybe Hegseth accidentally included Pritzker on a Signal chat about it.
Multiple normies at work asking about Linux. I think Copilot might go down as the worst move by a business that basically had mailbox money for life lol
In light of DragonCon nonsense, it is worth posting: Escape Artists, the parent org of Pseudopod, does not accept subs generated by automated or machine-learning methods. This policy is based on copyright law and a commitment to protecting authors' original, human-created work.
Putting hundreds of liberals on blast? Sure, okay.
Gary: A Space Odyssey.
If you were Franz Ferdinand, you might even say that Gavrilo Princip... "Take me out."
Definitely a lost battle under this admin, but if we do eventually return to normalcy, would really appreciate a hard requirement that every announced use of force by the state be accompanied by stating the authority under which it occured
Cities are next.
He signed an executive order requiring all states to rebrand themselves with his name within 72 hours: e.g. North Trumpolina, Trumpdiana, Trump York, Trumpifornia, Trumpsas, etc.
The funniest thing about this is Doocy no doubt thought clearing this up would be a softball and instead Trump just launches a new round of conspiracy theories.
For me, part of that comes from just trying to parse one of his sentences as he free associates from one senile bullet point to the next.
Ah, well, it was fun while it lasted but now I guess we're back to the rumors and speculation. Though, y'know, if it leads to reporters regularly asking him if he's dead, it wasn't all for naught. Anyway, guess it's just as well I never made it out to the liquor store for celebratory Scotch.
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Trump may not be dead but I think we should keep going with the conspiracy theorizing, maybe it’ll eventually force the media to cover how he’s obviously demented.
America heartbroken to discover president somehow still alive
I don't know who needs to hear this, but any of you refreshing social media every day waiting to find out he's dead should relax. You'll know it happened when your phone blows the fuck up, because we'll all be texting everyone we know, and God willing will prove to be the best twenty minutes of 2025
Nope, it was AI, which we have because of tariffs, and can blame whenever anything bad happens. Donald J. Trump is the William Burroughs Cut-Up-Method for generating prose turned into an animate sack of crap.
"If something bad happens, blame AI." - President Donald J. Trump.
Well, I'm watching it and he isn't, so make of it what you will.
And you gotta dismantle the iris to relocate it, which pretty much leaves you open to anybody out there trying to dial in to invade us. Seems pretty risky.
i'm afraid donald trump is in a classic Death Becomes Her situation. he drank isabella rosellini's eternal life potion 20 years ago but he's fallen down so many staircases that the seams holding his torso together keep melting under studio lighting conditions. he's very much alive if in total agony
JD Vance has resting WTF face at this thing.
Ah, looks like he's on and it's the Space Force announcement. Wow, really is special.
Yeah, it's probably that and/or announcing a DOD name change or maybe Chicago or possibly the Giuliani Medal of Freedom or all of the above. But if the subtext is proving to the world he's bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, 47 minutes behind schedule is a helluva way to make the case.
Now that I've seen this, I can't imagine there's any way this isn't it. I think Mark Cuban was asking if Trump could do anything somebody like me might have to give him credit for, and I have to admit that this is it: maybe he REALLY does deserve a Nobel.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (1942-2025)
Frederick Douglass on John Brown, 1881
Am I missing something, or is this "2:00 Special Announcement" now running nearly 40 minutes late? What is this, a Guns'N'Roses concert? I guess they're having problems getting the animatronics up and running.
Goodness knows, what kind of person would write something like that, though? Probably a woman with some kind of social justice b.s. going on, and not just a woman--she'd probably have to be associated with some kind of irreverent, atheist/agnostic, irreligious literary movement, too. Ugh.
The result of egotism without empathy, say, or the result of childhood neglect from one's father--instead of some kind of nebulous divine punishment caused by somebody "playing God" or "interfering with nature."
A real lunatic might even go so far as arguing there's more horror to be found in imagining that the universe is essentially godless and that evil is a human creation.
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material. Oh my.
Each and every week there's a new post insisting that Twitter is "our national public square" or "the only conversation that matters" and every time it's written by by Some Guy I Only Know From Twitter and Haven't Thought About Once Since Leaving Twitter.
He's not in the French version, having been digitally replaced in the French prequels by a chain-smoking Jean-Paul Belmondo who responds to most of the dialogue directed his way by cocking his eyebrow and shrugging one shoulder as if he's extremely bored by everything.
Yeah, Francois St. Bernard. Completely accurate plot summary of the novel (Francois finds the bat in a Paris attic).
The Stand is about three generations of rural hunters using the same deer stand, so while none of the main characters are animals, quite a few are killed and dressed.
I've just been reminded of the time the wonderful @tkingfisher.com said lovely things about Peter S. Beagle and The Last Unicorn so this is a day when I have to remind you that that book is ice and fairy wings and lilacs and the death of everything and if you have not read it you absolutely should.
No, you're thinking of the actor who played Loki in all those DC comics movies.
These days I try not to get ad hominem about personal appearances for a lot of reasons, but in this context it's hard not to notice and observe that the Administration obsessing over how healthy kids look is full of people like Trump and RFK Jr. who look like villains in a Troma production.
I dunno, I heard the Craig guy was good in that spy film he did, The Bourne Identity or whatever it was.
I'm excited. I'm very, very excited.
DATELINE: WASHINGTON DC, WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING ROOM, SEPTEMBER 2, 2025, 1400 HRS EDT (1800 HRS UTC). BOB ZMUDA: When Andy and I came up with the original concept for the "Donald Trump" character, you can imagine we had no idea how far it would go and how badly it would get out of hand....
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
I think we need to stop saying that people hate crime. They like punishment. There are clear ways to reduce crime that involve systemic investment in communities but we avoid doing that in favor of ever more militarized policing because too many people in power like punishment.
If he's accompanied by an extremely guilty-and-gassy-looking RFK Jr. still wearing a heavily-stained bib, we DEFINITELY know what happened.
R.E.M. did tons of brilliant music videos, but "Imitation of Life" may have been the cleverest (which is saying a lot). Funnily, the main reason I might hesitate to put the song in my Top 10, much as I love it, is that I already like it: Peter Buck pointed out that it pretty much nicks "Driver 8".
When I was younger, it was "Driver 8", I think. One of the greatest train songs ever.
I love "Losing My Religion," but I'm pretty sure it's not even in my personal top 10. I think these days it's probably "Nightswimming"
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
EXCLUSIVE: Advance clip of Vice-President JD Vance escorting President Donald J. Trump to tomorrow's 2:00 surprise public announcement:
"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin
Stephen Miller: “What do we do?” Ivanka: “There are no bad ideas.” RFK Jr.: “We could eat him.” Ivanka: “There are some bad ideas. Where’s JD?” Miller: “He’s… in the den.” Don Jr.: *snorts a rail* “Bump, anyone?” Eric: “Well, I watched this movie last weekend called Weekend at Bernie’s, and…”
This is totally the face of a man who is not happy about cancelling tonight's hot tub engagement with four other consenting sentients just because a guy he hasn't spoken to in five years needs help "saving the Earth" or some crap like that.
Sure, it would be better if DeForest Kelley was still around, but Karl Urban is pretty great. And I'm not sure how Jonathan Frakes' back is doing these days. But these are quibbles, people! Bridges to cross after contracts are signed!
I don't know why we're phrasing this as a question and not as a pitch for franchise crossover event of the century that brings Star Trek back to the movie theater.
"You're a sex worker." "I wash glasses." "In a brothel." "I'm in the back and I never even see the clientele." "In a brothel." Yes? No? Who's right? Does it matter? ???
But not everyone working in a brothel is necessarily directly engaged in sex work, so my question for you would be whether working as support staff in a brothel constitutes "sex work" even if you're explicitly forbidden by management or personally refuse to engage in direct activities.
A friend has launched a third spec fic project. The first two were awesome, looking forward to this one as well.
The problem with speculation about whether Trump is alive is I've seen a whole bunch of those movies and even if he's not somebody is just going to remove the stake or get blood in the coffin or do a Satanic thing with a bunch of hippies in an abandoned church and we're right back where we started.
An Observation: Roger Moore may have had the most inconsistent run of any of the Bonds and may be the most polarizing of any of the Bonds, but pound-for-pound the Moore films had the best run of theme songs of anybody to date.
Absolute Worst, Hands Down: "Die Another Day" (Madonna)
Guilty pleasure mention: "All Time High" (Rita Coolidge)
Obvious honorable mentions: "Goldfinger" "Diamonds Are Forever" "Moonraker" (Shirley Bassey) "Goldfinger" may not be the best Bond theme, but it's possibly the most iconic.
Top five in no order because I'd have to beat myself up: •"The World Is Not Enough" - Garbage •"Live and Let Die" - Wings •"A View To A Kill" - Duran Duran •"Nobody Does It Better" - Carly Simon •"We Have All the Time In The World" (Louis Armstrong)
Here's what ought to be a completely non-controversial opinion about Bond films: this is a top five Bond theme. I saw them perform it on the first tour they were playing it, around the time the movie debuted. That was a fucking great show. So were the other times I've seen them.
Stole this but it’s mine now
Not sure if it's controversial, but my offering to the convo would be that the first Bond film is actually Goldfinger.
What strikes me as either odd or possibly a statement about Bond Movies vs. Bond Books is that Casino Royale is more faithful to the source novel than any of the others with the possible exception of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
As a Gen Xer, I don't think I can articulate how weird it feels to be doing early '80s "Who's the Premier This Week?"-style Russia watching in my own country re: my own government. Comrade Chernenko has a cold.
404 BRAIN NOT FOUND
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
maga showing their lack of imagination by denying the rumours instead of waiting 3 days to dispel them and then declaring he rose from the dead
That’s me. The inexperienced DJ. You might be wondering how I got here. *record scratch* Shit.
Of course they do: that's why they're trying so hard to avoid it. Don't give them more power than they have, it's bad enough without that, it's bad enough they're trying to circumvent the law and due process. But right now they still don't have the guts for a showdown and that's an asset for us.
He's just one pastoral ecological crisis from going full General Woundwort. You can see it in his eyes.
The original Deities and Demigods taught us: if it has hit points, player characters are supposed to kill it.
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
If you told me they all cheat on papers and exams, fail to learn anything, and students at state schools and some smaller private schools take their educations more seriously and learn more while they're there, I'm afraid it would just confirm my expectations.
As I've gotten older, I find I'm not terribly impressed with the intellectual caliber of Ivy League grads I encounter or the educations they appear to have received, and the main benefit of attending appears to be networking opportunities.
the Nazis literally tried to discover Atlantis because they thought Atlanteans were aryans and would prove German racial superiority Fascism has always been anti-intellectual and full of pseudoscience
People will bring up Blazing Saddles like the production didn't have to replace Richard Pryor for being too controversial (and an insurance risk) or like the campfire scene didn't have the audio cut when it aired on ABC because you couldn't fart on television in the '70s.
And it's always an asinine example of a project that, as a matter of fact, faced controversy, censorship, and challenges to getting made. Palin knows as well as anybody ought to that you couldn't make Life of Brian in 1979, either, they just did it anyway and dealt with the offended protesters.
It would be extremely funny if the committee awarded a Nobel Peace Prize to Trump posthumously for being posthumous.
DOCTOR AT THE D&D HOSPITAL: So yeah, I'm pretty sure if I'm able to kill two or three more high-level patients I'll be able to level up and get Raise Dead added to my spell list.
And then I have to steal from Coldplay and add, "No one said it would ever be this hard." But yeah. We play the hand we're dealt, not the one we wanted.
Miller would totally be my vote to pull an Al Haig.
If the implication here is that a particular somebody should die from the clap, I can't argue with poetic justice.
"I'm Afraid of Americans".
Anybody else around here remember the movie Brainstorm where, like, the last third of the film is Christopher Walken trying to recover and play back the mental recording Louise Fletcher made of her subjective experiences while she was dying of a massive coronary?
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
I remember it well. I always like to imagine somebody showing up in the front row of a performance by the supergroup formed by Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers and yelling "Play 'Star Trekkin''! Why won't you play 'Star Trekkin''?" until they get thrown out.
If and when it happens, President Vance should just steal Gerald Ford's Inaugural and change the names.
It's going to be the weirdest thing watching every news network trying to sell "a nation in mourning" while Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" becomes the new national anthem.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
i need yall to stop thinking that shitty people who do shitty things must be doing them because they’re being blackmailed. almost always, they do the shitty things simply because they’re shitty people.