in the real world if baron trump got in a sword fight with jd vance and donald trump you‘d just sorta hope he [redacted]s their [redacted]s off with no mercy whatsoever

actually the ewoks don’t do an insurgency. they simply win outright the first time they decide to fight.

It’s both a tactical and thematic failure that the empire didn’t clearcut endor. but the ewok insurgency couldn’t have worked any other way. and ironically it’s kind of realistic so it’s a wash.

so in the return of the jedi they just land the shuttle tiberium in the woods and that was their whole plan? just show up and be a mysteriously disappeared cargo shuttle

if i rewind behind a streaming service’s commercial break spot and i get another commercial it better be hardcore pornography

approximately two months into the new year, i don’t think i’m going to become a whole new version of myself this year 😔

If impaled you be, an ER doc you must see. If impaled you aren’t, stay home! You’re fine.

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Can I interest you in a warm bowl of rice in this trying time?

imagining aliens discovering some Philip Glass records and having intense debates about how fast you’re supposed to listen to them

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

There should be a Brendan Fraser Cinematic Universe where he plays every major historical figure

I’ve decided to enshittify. I am going to be Worse from now on.

yeah this is pretty detailed and specific given the date it was released and how much of it checks out

turns out Thor Ragnarok is still good. Myth: Confirmed

soulmogged by an unacknowledged saint. now i gotta prayergoon

such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales

I can tell if I like a beverage just by sipping it

Grievance Is All You Need .... understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...

when I saw wuthering heights (2026) the person in the row in front of me left a lot of uneaten tater tots behind after the movie. trust me, I thought about it.

New from @katherineeban.bsky.social in @rollingstone.com: CDC appointees bypassed the agency’s scientists to rush-fund a study questioning the hep B birth dose. The ethics committee president says his name was used on the approval without his knowledge. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Sometimes I rediscover something I meant to read a decade ago but lost track of and I think, Man. web.archive.org/web/20130910...

Spending some time this evening reading through @bardcollege.bsky.social President Leon Botstein's emails to Jeffrey Epstein, and it really can't be overstated how much attention, sympthy, and care Botstein was giving to a pedophile sex trafficker. jmail.world/search?from=...

the kiwifarms model is basically now universal

At this point, we should just assume they’re lying. But by their own account the kid had no record. US citizen. At the very least, it looks like multiple policy violations — they surrounded the car, fired into a moving vehicle, killed him through the driver’s side window.

Trump's tariff defeat upstaged the GDP release, which showed the U.S. economy slowing in 2025, compared to 2024, and particularly in the 4th Quarter.

jaw is on the floor, this is going to go catastrophically bad www.reuters.com/world/middle...?

It seems the “mark of the beast” can be 666 or 616 in different manuscripts because Donald Trump was sometimes referred to as “Drumpf,” the spelling in his native “Queens”. The significance and meaning of “Diet Coke” remains lost to history, but we know he is reputed to have consumed it in quantity.

I can’t recall seeing hair dyed the way Alysa Liu’s is ever in my life until I saw that she had won her gold medal

anyway, net-net, The Verge have decided to be shitrakers for group chats But Leftishly, 404 is quasi-illiterate about the things they cover that I know about so I can't trust them on the ones I don't, getting bad vibes on Wired lately after a strong year or so we need better media

ELON MUSK’S AMERICA PAC WILL RECEIVE A LETTER OF REPRIMAND FROM THE GEORGIA STATE ELECTION BOARD FOR SENDING IN PREFILLED ABSENTEE BALLOT APPLICATIONS IN 2024, WHICH IS AGAINST GEORGIA LAW, PER THE NEW REPUBLIC ...

Bringing back your most singularly unpopular policy using the provision that makes them expire in 150 days where then you will pressure your party to extend them before a major election. We’re dealing with a chessmaster here

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

"Would it not be wondrous for this whole nation to be destroyed like a beautiful flower?" - Tariff Otaku

Broke: Only Nixon could go to China Bespoke: Only Trump could openly talk about making out with dudes and explicitly say he gave an enemy permission to bomb an american military base

y'all said "be gay, do crimes" and now look what happened

donald trump informs the nation that he "wants to be a good boy"

Tbf, “The tariffs are illegal because the Major Questions Doctrine prevents the use of tariffs under IEEPA” - as opposed to “There is obviously no emergency & also the tariffs violate about two dozen other laws & ratified treaties, get rid of this junk now” - is also a bunch of extralegal nonsense.

not a lot of movies let the camera and the music do the talking the way conan 82’ does. the raid on thulsa doom’s cannibal sex lair is a top tier sequence.

I would hate it if I destroyed a village and one of the kids who lived there came along and destroyed my snake cult decades later

I don’t know how Conan T. Barbarian got so swole. I can’t imagine a slave pushing a wheel in a circle for ten years gets a lot of protein.

HG Wells -> The Terminator -> Nick Land’s Technocapital -> The Shrike from the Hyperion Cantos -> Roko’s Basilisk

@ some of y’all…

thursday night

I can have a cold one just by drinking it

I learned today that Charlotte Brontë may have burned one of Emily’s manuscripts and I’m not going to get over it

baron trump looking at Corey Levandowski's gun and seeing a "Push X to Interact" pop-up

Excellent review of lab leak nonsense from @wendyorent.bsky.social www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/4nd...