everyone is so icked out by mercenaries until they need people with no allegiances to pay for unsavory deeds 💅

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

apparently in texas, paxton’s campaign is dunking on talarico by …giving out free tacos with talarico’s name on them, courtesy of “radical texas dot com”? whose idea was this, lol.

FRASIER: Niles stop being so gauche I simply wish to serve at the will of the republic. NILES: The last will you served at was your ex-wife. FRASIER: Niles you will NOT leak my and Lilith’s script of The Marquis of O! MARTIN: As I recall your playwright prof called it “The Marquis of Oh Brother.”

a quarter!!

MEL BROOKS IS ALIVE PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE BIRTHDAY POSTS ABOUT HIM TODAY I REPEAT MEL BROOKS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE

It's a very dangerous Trump-era instinct to take a celebrity you and your peer group feel a lot of goodwill towards and project both good personal politics and presidential ambitions onto them. That's why I think a more realistic ceiling for johnny knoxville is ambassador to the UN

ancient mesopotamian farmer i'm making watch the sheep detective: this flock is so healthy. so large. it's so beautiful. this future is wondrous me: yeah and it's a movie. that square on the wall is showing another world farmer: you already explained films. do not make me watch ghost of mars again

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Enjoy

I am once again saying that the people who do this are evil but the facts that cops are a loaded gun any random person on the internet can pick up and fire is a far bigger problem

Hm.

since we're talking about it I will out myself as an actual shrimp snob and say it's worth it to me to pay extra for the frozen gulf shrimp at whole foods bc imported shrimp tastes awful

Forrest Gump: (intermittently while recounting his incredible life story at the bus stop) Really. you've never heard of any of this shit

what does this mean

Napoleon Bonaparte made his servants break in his shoes before he wore them. His entire wardrobe was two different outfits repeated. When he arrived at St Helena he had a meltdown about the house smelling like paint. His stare was so unnerving other heads of state believed it was magical.

im buying an arsenal shirt with MAMDANI 91 on the back

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

No, what happened was the religious right in the US, after losing on Obergefell v. Hodges, immediately changed tactics. They held huge conferences outlining their plans to roll back LGBT rights as whole by targeting trans people. They didn't skip a beat. We aren't to blame for our own oppression.

incredible blog defector.com/would-you-ea...

you have 300 characters in which to perfectly articulate the problem with a rushed data center buildout that's causing havoc in local communities and to the consumer economy without implying all data centers are bad & we need to go back to eating pinecones. if you fail we launch you in the catapult

you want to sell a quality product at a fair price? are you fucking stupid?

Gonna think about this post every time a European looks down their nose at average Americans for not simply forcing our politicians to pass gun control.

we need more education about how the long-term punishment of Haitians is crucial to the white supremacist project a proof-point for them about why you should never rise up, how you can never be free

little Goebbels everywhere for those with eyes to see

i remember reading about "hammers of god" as the future of space weapons where they would drop big chunks of tungsten from space to level cities without radiation. apropos nothing

We all have that one follower whose Like feels like this:

I love it when ppl say bluesky is this like awful place where you get screamed at all day. that doesn’t happen to me i just hang out you must be really annoying if that happens to you

the only James Wood i recognize

Mamdani needs to be invited to the Criterion Closet (after they release the Kubrick box)

I'm not going to quote dunk on the piece but I very seriously question whether people who complain about tone and civility from "dirtbags" in political online spaces have ever really been subjected to real life incivility from the kind of bigots currently exercising power in government

Every day I log on here to see the most racist posts from Twitter and every day you guys never let me down. Thank you 🙏

no amount of price hikes could ever make me feel FOMO about an xbox console

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

The argument is explicitly that high-propensity primary voters are rootless cosmopolitans who have disrupted the traditional relationship whereby incumbents represent the true will of the volk through a sort of mystic connection that can only be soiled by something as crass as an electoral contest

there's something really special about a place in this world where people have been gathering for literal millennia to complain about the seating's lack of upper back support

The Times' op-ed section was really eager to work with me when I got laid off at Vox, and I wrote a few pieces for them. I am proud of those pieces, and the editors I worked with were fantastic. And also any time I pitched a piece on queer or trans life, it got turned down or ignored. Ah well!

in the late 2000s people used to say "the Internet is forever" meaning online evidence of wrongdoing never fades, but that turned out to be very wrong. this shit is mad ephemeral. I executed a family of six with a claw hammer in 2013 and there's no evidence because I uploaded the vid in flash player

if you thought $1000 for a steam machine was bad, get ready for the $1750 xbox-branded prebuilt

You watch this video and it becomes immediately clear that this man actually does need support and more importantly needs to realize and accept that he needs support and that’s okay.

Microsoft blaming the rising costs of computer components after spending $146 billion dollars on AI investments

Ya know, maybe we shouldn't hold up John Landis as the standard for "getting it done" in filmmaking.

fragonard sounds like the sort of incomprehensible slur someone would yell at you in call of duty

Shin Godzilla's theme of a stuffy political old guard being both unprepared and unwilling to handle apocalyptic disaster and effectively forcing a proactive new group to take the reins is, ummm, pretty timely.

i never miss a chance to plug @rickperlstein.bsky.social's seminal 2012 history of right-wing mail-order grifts for @thebaffler.com. booze is a relatively new (and dumb) extension of this trend, but it's been going on for literal decades:

Even like 10 years ago this kind of overt racism would have gotten a sportscaster fired

looking forward to friends visiting and going on the World's Worst Monument Walk where half the mall is tarped off and it's lethally hot out