rivalry and dominance

Jacobs to Hegseth: "On Easter Sunday, Trump threatened to destroy Iran's bridges & power plants, writing, 'Open the fuckin strait you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.' My office phone has been ringing off the hook with military families concerned about the president's mental fitness."

something sort of insane is that we have non-trivial evidence that posting is the top of all possible hierarchies of needs. some of the richest men in the world who could be on their mega-yachts choose to not only post, but orient their lives around posting related things

Cherries https://www.wikiart.org/en/theo-van-rysselberghe/cherries

Interno cubista https://www.wikiart.org/en/aleksandra-ekster/interno-cubista-1912

She had pretty choice opinions about that, too

Love Flannery O’Connor! “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

‘Disappointed’ ‘Surprised’ ‘Betrayed’: 12 Dogs Who Were Given a Bath After Being Embraced and Told ‘It’s Time for Your Bath’

King Pleasure, 1987 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5302

Denny's is a facade, corporate and constrained. Waffle House is naked in the moonlight and fully erect. bsky.app/profile/mana...

FESSHOLE LIVE TICKETS: 14 May 2026 - 53Two, Manchester; 18 Jun 2026 - New Adelphi Club, Hull; 20 Jun 2026 - Cambridge Junction https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

I think one of the most important skills a person can learn nowadays is recognizing when they are making up a person in their head to get mad at and how they can step back from that and ground themselves. No shade. It's an extremely easy behavior to fall into and it will erode you.

Not beating the AI is infested by the Fair Folk allegations with things like this.

ai is re-inventing goblin mode

The Epstein Cover-Up Goes All The Way To The Almost Top. theonion.info.

You can say this for almost everything he's done but starting a war plainly for no reason other than he was bored and wanted to feel important, and not facing even the threat of impeachment over that? Pretty bad

I once got called a witch by a guy who was so dogshit at arguing, formulating thoughts and generaly reasonning that me making sense when i disagreed with him felt like magic to him (he fucking told me that). So i think everything can be a magic system if you're dumb enough

ppl try to claim this and that are 'magic systems for irl' but the closest we have are like incredibly esoteric high-level mathematics and extremely tedious legal argumentation. 'why the fuck do i need to study that. it isn't concrete' 'only sickos and weirdos are into that shit' yeah exactly

She is very lonely

Neil has been a class act fighting for aboriginal rights for decades and I'm so fucking glad to hear this

They Didn’t Want to Have C-Sections. A Judge Would Decide How They Gave Birth. Two Florida women had to attend virtual court hearings while in labor to argue for their right to choose their own medical care.

I've known a lot of trans girls that went through an exploratory non binary period and I think we should call that easter egging. More flamboyant egg, not yet cracked.

Village, Church and Two Characters https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-metzinger/village-church-and-two-characters-1913

Violin https://www.wikiart.org/en/lyubov-popova/violin

Wow I assume he'll be promptly fired and his latest DC comics will all be pulled and pulped!

Why does the White House even need a ballroom? Nobody in Washington ever has any balls.

just got my first weird ai-generated author scam "...If you’re open to it, I can share a short personalized breakdown along with a quick audit of how that initial reader perception is likely landing." if you ever talk like this you deserve to be ground into powder between two flat rocks

#OtD 27 Apr 1919 the crew of the French military cruiser Waldeck-Rousseau which had been sent to fight Russian revolution mutinied. They demanded better food, return to France and threatened to give their ship to the revolutionaries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9875...

Arnaut Blowing Smoke at the Nose of His Dog https://www.wikiart.org/en/jean-leon-gerome/arnaut-blowing-smoke-at-the-nose-of-his-dog

Because "cousin" is a social construct

In light in these events, I do think we need more gun control. Anyone off the street shouldn't be able to just walk in and buy a gun. There should be MANDATORY marksmanship lessons for all gun owners.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Disturbing: it seems the would-be assassin was radicalized by reading accurate descriptions of the president's deeds

call me phallus the way I'm a signifier that governs desire and the subject's position in the symbolic order

BRENNAN: The shooter had multiple weapons. You said he traveled from CA across the country by train. How did he do that? BLANCHE: This isn't about making laws more restrictive BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines w/firearms BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on

more than a few of you are wishing for It to Happen. it’s important that It Happen, but it’s also important how It happens. we don’t want a saint, or a martyr. we want some super fucked up clown-ass final destination shit

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

Most Americans: I’m going to die working this job 😞 Members of Congress: I’m going to die working this job! 😃

john fetterman is in the same groupchats

Marsan-2 https://artblart.com/tag/victor-vasarely-negative-manipur/

Leave a comment for the FCC, they want to warn ppl when a show contains a trans character. Your comment doesn't have to be long, you can literally just say it's discriminatory, offensive and absurd. In the first box put: 19-41. More info in this thread.

This thin-skinned narcissist cannot handle any criticism at all.

there are guys whose whole job is to watch a few candles from each manufacturing batch burn to completion and if anything goes wonky with them they crush the whole batch into a cube and throw it out. those guys only last a few months at the job bc staring at fire too much makes you go insane

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner