Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Everyone talks about "Kid Charlemagne" being the gold standard Steely Dan guitar solo, but my favorite's either "Third World Man" or "Your Gold Teeth II." TWM's solo fits the song's mood so perfectly and YGT2; I'll just quote Donald Fagen hearing it that 1st time: "Ah, holy fuck that's GREAT! AHHH!"

You're all overreacting. Yes, the existence of billionaires is a problem, but we can deal with the issue compassionately! We just have to invent robots whose sole purpose will be to protect billionaires from the terrible secret of space. (Hey, Siri, do billionaires have stairs in their homes?)

I never had any real opinion about Bill, but based on this I might have to AMEND that. …I’ll show myself out

if your followers are a perfect subset of someone else's followers, you are their vassal and must come to their aid in war as well as remit to them some percentage of your engagement. in exchange your territorial integrity will be protected and you get a seat in the royal court

I don't remember where I found this originally, but I'm dying.

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Evergreen tweet:

Continuing my SG1 rewatch, and it’s interesting how a lot of episodes just… end. Star Trek usually ends with a couple characters talking about what happened, summarizing the themes, how it changed them... SG1 episodes, in contrast, often just end with no denouement. The crisis is over? BAM. Credits.

Today I learned: (1) Bill Amend is on Bluesky (omg) (2) Bill Amend is a real one (thank god)

Not everything is up for, determined by, or worthy of "debate." Truth isn't established via "debate." Debate is irrelevant to facts and we've all been tricked, from CNN to your shittiest uncle on FB, into thinking ZINGERS settle what gets to be objective truth. Stop platforming "debate" perverts.

the confirmation of contemporary transphobia as a political movement has been the brainchild of a boys club made up of some of the most disgusting monsters in recent memory to explicitly keep trans women disenfranchised so as to subjugate and exploit us for their own sexual gain is like a lot, dawg

I mean, Rifftrax is basically Mike/Kevin/Bill era MST3K anyway, except with no silhouettes, robots, or framing story. What annoys me are all the chuds in comments gloating, and insulting the more recent iterations and casts. Screw that. All #MST3K is good MST3K. Yes, even KTMA.

I think people are less surprised it's like this with the files than they are that these guys are so banal and kinda stupid. And it looks like it's a deep conspiracy but it's really more like - they're shallow, and epstein owned le rape islande and when he said dumb shit they were like "so true"

Why wasn't there ever an Iron Chef porn parody

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Happy Groundhog Day, again.

I just think it's important that everybody sees this clip about the time DeForest "Bones" Kelley received a fan letter from a hot babe containing a weed joint

Jurassic Park AND Jurassic World: "We can never know all variables, and thus can never predict with perfect certainty all outcomes. We ignore this at our own peril. Better technology can neither stave off chaos nor save us from our own hubris." This ad: "But what if we had better technology?"

I keep seeing book ads in mobile games, and they’re almost all generic sounding alpha-verse “loser everyone picks on ends up winning” romance stuff, but occasionally something pops up that is so off-the-wall I can’t help but do a double-take.

Not to belabor the obvious, but I really love how Smoke's smoke is creating a border where Mary and Stack are separated and cast in a different light from everyone else. A clever little bit of storytelling within the piece.

Sinners... but make it Leyendecker #SinnersMovie

10/10 ICE protest sign

i always figured the Technology Connections guy had decent politics but i wasn't expecting him to go tf off like that

Reading about the new speedrun discovered for GTA: San Andreas, and laughing at the seemingly random tasks required to force the code to load the final mission early:

By the way- when leftists say stuff like “race is a social construct” this is what we mean Nordics, people so white it’s practically a synonym, can be labeled as swarthy foreign interlopers the instant they commit a sin such as “loving Somalians”

So I actually own a copy of New Vegas and never played it (I've actually never played ANY Fallout games.) I'm thinking I might stream my first play-thru. Dunno if folks would be interested. (Also the game is so old I could probably run my VTube shit while playing.)

Okay time for fun. Go into your photo roll or whatever, and post the first image that makes you laugh literally out loud. Here's mine.

The best laid schemes o' MiHoYo Gang aft Aglaea

This machine yub nubs fascists.

Was looking through my steam library to see what I need to add to the backlog and forgot I changed Yakuza 0's cover art to this

UK anti-trans journalism is the twisted baby of UK anti-vax journalism and UK anti-gay journalism, with a sprinkling of tactics from UK anti-immigrant and UK anti-traveller journalism

US history has conclusively proved that when the cops kill somebody, the immediate project becomes coming up with some crime to convict them with after the fact to frame the killing as deserved, to make them at fault for their own murder. It can be anything at all. Doesn’t even need to be a crime.

First looks are out of the Highlander reboot, and all I'm saying is: the only reason the first movie remains watchable is it KNOWS it's stupid. It's over the top. Clancy Brown is having the time of his life. Try to make Highlander "serious" and you end up with something like Highlander: the Source.

build relationships with: • drug dealers • aspiring ecoterrorists • strippers • biohacker gremlins • yaoi artists • ppl w/ arson charges • 30-50 feral hogs • sluts • vampires • thick werewolves • ppl on 5 different stimulants • tranarchists • dudes who self-suck • heretics • big titty goth gfs

Maybe abolishing ICE is unrealistic. I don’t know! But I do know that Dems have momentum they could be pushing, and you never go into a negotiation asking for the minimum you’ll accept. Demand the “unrealistic,” so the eventual compromise is something acceptable like, say, ending qualified immunity!

I keep trying to make this point. If leftists are to blame for Harris’ loss, then we’re impactful enough it’s negligent to not at least give lip-service to our issues. Yet libs consistently insist we’re irrelevant, too few to matter. Yet their loss is blamed on us. They need to make up their minds.

It was the worcestershire of times. It was the bestestershire of times.

Great to see Wil Wheaton pulling the “everyone’s putting words in my mouth and everyone who disagreed with my take is equivalent to Gamergate” angle. No apology or even acknowledgment that those who disagreed might have some point. Naw. We’re only trolls and bots I guess. Christ, what an asshole.

So I’m on season five of “The Blacklist” now, and I didn’t realize the show could get even more bonkers than it already was. Don’t get me wrong! I’m loving every minute of this ridiculous nonsense. But that’s exactly what it is. Absolutely ridiculous. Also literally laughed out loud at this scene.

What if we kissed in the secret extraordinary-rendition government torture prison? 👉👈

listen here you stupid leftoid, if you just voted blue in 2024, ICE would be ruining the lives of immigrant families quietly and efficiently in a way where we wouldn't have to hear about it on the news

Sure AI is worsening the already catastrophic climate crisis, depriving communities of power and clean water, raising technology costs, and stealing from artists, but we got Plankton singing “Man In The Box,” so I guess it was all worth it, right?

“Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them.” Watch this powerful message from Jon Stewart.

If you're not in Minnesota and curious how to help, this is a week old but is well organized, includes multiple easy-to-understand bullet points, and seems like a good place to start: www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/...

Like I've been saying all along, liberals have always been fine with what ICE is doing, so long as it was directed at "acceptable" targets they could ignore. Schumer and Newsom are the exemplars of this "keep it out of sight so it doesn't interrupt my Sunday brunch" attitude.

Oh fuck I just found out about Michael Parenti.

“Lots of people support ICE.”