Yup

Am angry, will repost any beef.

this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something

Used yesterday evening's outage to finally move my stuff to @eurosky.social . Very easy, works like a charm, nothing changed but the handle. I don't recommend moving when Bluesky is glitchy though, nothing worked *at all* right after the move, and I suspect that was on the Bluesky side.

It's remarkable— between the two of them they manage to *average out* to the correct tie length. Vance looks like a 13-year-old whose clip-on tie was bought before a growth spurt, while Trump as always looks like he thinks the tie will make people believe he's well endowed.

Peter Keetman, Self Portrait with Camera, 1950

yeah I kind of figured

Whoa! I didn't even try to do anything yet.

I mean I think some of us did know, Scott

How you see yourself/ how the world sees you.

O good Horatio, I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pound.

What we wanted was for Keir Starmer to go on Kuenssberg the day after the election and do this

JD Vance to Receive First Annual FIFA Catholicism Prize

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

Before the entrance to the superhero academy, the boys compared powers. "What do you do?" "Er..." "C'mon, spill!" "I can add pockets." "Like, interdimensional?" "No, just normal, usable pockets. To any garment, matching any material." "What use is that?" "If I can help anyone I'd be happy."

More higher ed discourse like this please

damn

Similar to (but far better put than) my analysis of our European headaches: The bigger problem isn't that the Far Right wants everything, it's that the Near Right doesn't seem to want *anything* (except being the government, so that the Social Democrats aren't).

Today Donald trump became no longer president

Having spent a lot of time recently with someone (unlike Trump in almost every way) who is in mid-stages of dementia I have to say this style of conversational glitching and swerving is bleakly familiar.

Imagining my teens transported to my childhood while watching BACK TO THE FUTURE "Ew, why is everyone smoking?" *starts walking without looking down* "EEEEEWW! Dogshit!!"

Alive

"North Meadow" by Giles, Giles and Fripp (first song on the album, but don't stop...)

oh you make content? name three people you've made content.

I'm in this comic and I like it.

TIL that the earliest example of a pope being "entangled in politics" dates from the mid-20th century. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

ok NOW i bet Zelenskyy will thank JD Vance

I will die mad that he was robbed of an Oscar for this role:

The King (In what regard? At two or three remove.)

simulation games are mom games. action adventure games are dad games. strategy games are also dad games but for the dads who are a little too into setting up the train tracks that go around the Christmas tree and get flustered if you put the post office next to the grocery store

Pretty weird to watch Orban lose and concede and say "see, democracy in the US is fine if that can happen" instead of "oh shit we're worse than Hungary"

the devil just blinked

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Biden Mental Health Debate

It has happened more than once that a Man has told me he is training an AI model of himself to give people access to his thoughts without him having to be present. It's only a matter of time before I tell such a Man that I already have too much access to what is going on in his brain, thank you.

Startling end to comic available here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/witch-2 #smbc #comics #fables

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

As a scholar of religion who has done a lot of work on superheroes, I am happy to confirm that this is 100% accurate.

War is the continuation of sports betting by other means

I think articles about scientific discoveries should legally have to a) say the kind species that the particular experiment was run on in the headline, and b) use a picture of that species as the main image. In this case, it's not humans. It's not even mice. It's woims.

Take a moment to remember how weird it is our president communicates with us through a bottom-tier social media site called Truth Social. It’s like if he governed from the comment section of a porn site.

Indeed, EU law *literally* protected Magyar from prosecution by Orbán, who wanted to prosecute him - but Magyar is an MEP, and the European Parliament refused to waive his immunity balkaninsight.com/2025/10/10/m...

trying to do a NYT-style swing map but the swings are too mad

And could you squeeze in Sweden in September?

Donald Trump Declares Victory As JD Vance Returns Home From Iran Peace Talks With His Wallet

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

The major problem — one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.