I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree, but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found. Psalm 37: 35-36

What a beauty of a map

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

Another John Martin-style #paleoart piece painted for fun. This riffs on 1830s views of the British Wealden, where giant dinosaurs (Iguanodon and Megalosaurus here) engaged in violent combat in grand natural amphitheatres. Pterosaurs and other animals watch on. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? #sciart

Come on, #Ireland. A million signatures are needed. Share with your people, too. #SpéirGhorm

This is known to be a deliberate strategy. The links are right there, but people STILL don't actually like... do anything with that information. atmos.earth/political-la...

Annoyance time This artwork by Piotr Forkasiewicz was created for the cover of my Fairey Swordfish book from Mortons. We decided on the composition after studying all the accounts from the aircrews involved and photos of the op But whenever it is posted online, people decry it as inaccurate…

"Outfitting of the Princess Warrior" I'm really happy that folks here enjoyed the homunculus painting! Here's my cyclops painting which also sprouted from the same weird mind garden, it's still a personal favorite of mine.

it's fucking infuriating to watch these people overwrite reality as fast as they can.

It's a fascinating discourse to be happening at the same time as Grok-generated revenge porn prompts being plastered all over the place.

While it's not great that consumer-facing GenAI can be used to automate CSAM and revenge porn and disproportionately pollute black communities to do so, have you considered it could maybe help detect cancer some day in the nebulous future once we solve a problem that seems inherent to the software?

TFW ur stuck in the Caribbean for an xtra week cuz Trump attacked Venezuela shutting down airspace the day u were supposed to leave, leading to ur flight being canceled & American Airlines being like fuck u Anyway, stupid expensive, here's my kofi if u want 2 help a tiny bit. ko-fi.com/prismal

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Indian mermaids

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 02,1947

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller December 28,1965

Read about the new scholarship on Spain, then contemplate the fact that Franco was venerated in the National Review from the start, and you hav a skeleton key, opening up the fact that "modern American conservatism" never maintained a meaningful distance from fascism. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

MERRY #FISHMAS! It was on this day in 1938 that Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer made a discovery which would change the world — the first (non-fossil) coelacanth ever brought to the attention of science

13, Rue del Percebe es mi cómic preferido de Francisco Ibáñez por el formato que tiene con la casa. He investigado antecedentes, obras anteriores que tuviesen la misma forma de contar una historia. Voy a ponerlas desde la más antigua, pero antes de nada, el primer 13, Rue del Percebe en 1961:

Weirdly, the only Pokemon with split hooves that can learns Cud Chew is the giraffe Pokemon Farigiraf, which I *think* indicates that it's totally cool to eat them, biblically speaking, but not any other mammalian Pokemon.

This most recent "treating women as equal is gay" posting reminded me of an insight I saw on tumblr, where the OP was discussing a misandry poster's post and they were like "we feminists and the misandry posters like OP know that the values espoused upon cishet men are toxic and oppressive, but -

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo... If you could spare some money or signal boost for the lovely and talented Kikunai, an artist in the SCP community, that would mean a lot to me, and even more to them.

NEW SCP article about the death of O5-1 by a bunch of my friends and I scp-wiki.wikidot.com/requiem-aete...

Hanukkah already has a mascot: Judah Maccabee, the friendly violent religious extremist

It’s transgender awareness week, so if you weren’t already aware, you are transgender

Say it with me.

Melinoe #pixelart #ドット絵 #Hades2

Shall we dance...? SCP-9001 — Fractal by S D Locke、Croquembouche and PandoraNuker: scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-9001 #SCP #SCPfoundation

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

ITT: people please don't do this and engage with the matter at hand, thanks. Inability to look beyond the surface level because you think it's just about what's attractive is why we are in this mess

Something lovely for the weekend! Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Hemos suspendido nuestras actividades médicas en Ciudad de Gaza. Nuestros centros están rodeados por tanques y bajo ataques aéreos. Pedimos protección inmediata y cese de la violencia. #Gaza

hi guys sorry to be a bother but i had a lot of medical shit this month and need help with bills so if you wanna commission me now is the time

Dr. Wondertainment doodle

coates is genuinely a generational writer

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

It is as if there are two dromaeosaurs inside all of us. One "is wrong and bad"; the other "is more like it". Which dromaeosaur wins?

"Hades II" trailer by The Line Studio for Supergiant Games. Director: Louve Sarfati Karnas Character design & lead animation: Amanda Jespersen Holm Storyboard : Neil Dieu, Zhihuang Dong Art director: Meryl Franck Full 4K video & credits >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lJ...

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

The highest level of paleoart Zen is painting with the ink extracted from 165+ million year old cephalopod fossils