Thinking about Venezuela bit it's gonna take a sec So, the Pakled episode of Star Trek TNG. When they try to shoot one torpedo and the Pakled first officer yells "WE HAVE FIRED! THEY WILL BE DESTROYED!" And while the line read was TERRIBLE, that wasn't what made me laugh.

The dog that didn't bark after Renee Good's murder: no response from any other agent present. No one rushing to their compatriot's aid. No swarm of agents converging on the car to confirm the kill. No more shots. Just one orc sauntering down the street. They knew full well what they just did.

How hard is it to write a book? So hard! How hard is it to publish a book? OMG I can't begin to tell you! How famous are writers? Less famous than the favorite uncle of a medium-sized Catholic family.

FAR AND FUCKING WIDE. It's rare you catch an attempted kidnapping and a murder on video and Planet Earth needs to see.

Lieutenant Byrd is an American hero. ashli babbitt belonged in a cage.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

SIGNAL FUCKING BOOST

ever get so annoyed that you can't stop the insults like you were mining for funny and you found a whole vein

this is also an excellent takedown of linguistic prescriptivism seriously, if somebody ever responds to your argument by telling you that sentences don't end with prepositions or some shit like that, quote this before you spit on the ground

rolling into 2026...

her husband is being sworn in as the first (like six different characteristics) mayor of one of the Great Cities of Earth how dare she dress up

if you see this, post a random image from your device

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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DO NOT USE US MAIL to return your ballot, anywhere in the United States. Drop boxes ONLY. You know why.

looking for an ashcan outside Lincoln Center during intermission from King Lear rounded a pillar and ran into (who I thought then and later confirmed were) Leelee Sobieski and Sean Lennon shall we say taking a moment to themselves and they looked positively terrified so I put out my smoke and RAN

How I'm walking out of 2025

That yeoman has no coffee because hers is back in the mess, because yeoman Spock has no coffee because he has no need for it and it does not agree with his Vulcan physiology (tummy) Uhura has no coffee because Uhura has only one gear and it's GO

NOPE. FUCK YOU IF YOU OPPOSE THIS. This is an anti-cheating measure that we've demonstrated we need and never more than in the past few years and if your hand hurting from doing work keeps you from a law degree, YOU DO NOT DESERVE ONE. Get out of that seat and give it to a real student.

I have wanted a director's cut since I realized that Weaver's mouth still says "WELL FUCK THAT" no matter what the sound claims (noticed on second watch) (which was less than 24 hours after the first one) (this movie rules)

religion or humanity - pick one.

LIK THE GOD

I know this one dickhead who makes like $300k a year babysitting a server who thinks he would have survived 9/11 because his unassailable common sense would have led him to unbolt the glass from a window and use it as a glider I only mention the salary and the job because that's WHY he thinks this

in The Ring 2 when some deer come out of the woods to menace the cursed kid through the car windows and this one giant crapcgi buck is staring him down for way WAY too long and I bellow out "I WILL TAKE THE BOY! I WILL SHOW HIM THE WAYS OF THE FOREST!"

Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

i'm the guy in the chair

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

"I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye;"

superdickery AND batdickery

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

EVEN AFTER YOU LEARNED YOUR SPELLS ASSHOLES

A new mural has appeared in Ternopil, dedicated to children killed in Russia’s attack. The artwork, showing a child shielding her toys from a Russian missile, was created by artist Andriy Yermolenko. He described it as “a cry for help to the global community.”

this is how my son was introduced to shakespeare and i don't really know how to feel about that yes i do yay

we all knew it

HELMUT

who's on first

Andrew Tate and Matt Walsh are partnering with the Department of Education for Linda McMahon's new MAMA Project - "Make America Manly Again". It's going to be a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America-style compulsory mentorship program with an emphasis on unsupervised one-on-one time. /jk but come on

I don't know why I'm reposting this but the orcs murdered this woman for nothing.

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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?

SCARED OF POPSONGS FROM A KIDS MOVIE onward christian soldiers

GAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLL

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