[taking the deepest possible breath] the Dutch East India Company was established in 1602,

My fanfiction is and always will be completely free! Thank you so much for reading it! (You can read it here: astudyinscarletandblue.tumblr.com)

So, today I learned Gary Gygax was a fucking hack. Don't believe me? Let's discuss. www.blogofholding.com?p=3889

Every young attorney, intern, and clerk gets the same “lecture” from me: “If you fuck something up, don’t try to hide it or lie about it. That’s how people get fired, sued, and disbarred. Almost every fuck up can be mitigated or unfucked, but you gotta be honest about it.”

Ahahaha, OSP Red throwing hands on the OSPodcast... "I have a more fond opinion of Zach Snyder than anything I've said might indicate. I got nothing against the guy personally. It's just I've never seen anyone more transparently incapable of original thought.

Piece I did on the request of a friend. Stay strong Maine!!!!!

There's something perverse about being asked to confirm my humanity by helping to train an AI.

It just hit me that TRON is an isekai. He even gets special protagonist powers.

just remember that fascists are the dumbest assholes you will ever meet

my nam is trol and wen i see a skete that dos not tend to me i rant and ror i run amok i am a bor i get the blok

Wow! I was lucky enough to see the unfinished Sagrada Família a few years ago, and it was spectacular then. Now I have to go back.

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my 2028 candidate is whoever promises to take the construction equipment that lay waste to the east wing of the white house and drive it directly to the supreme court of the united states

There are no words to describe the joy this brings. A Condor back in Oregon skies. Just a lot of gratitude for all the work from the Yurok Tribe, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's on the Northern California Condor Restoration Program. www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

Didn’t expect to hit the hysterical laughter portion of the day quite so early…

DAMMIT I really liked Linktree too. Oh well. Guess I have a week to set up an alternative.

New personaje for the Loteria cards just dropped.

Two years ago I made the rather obvious statement that D&D was changing editions. I was called a drama farming fearmonger. Later, it was confirmed to be, in truth, a new edition (gasp!). I hope the Class of 2024 Grognard Graduates are doing well.

Yeah, that’s the thing. The overwhelming majority of these performative types don’t actually line up with any of the classical masculinities most of us grew up with, which were often toxic but at least useful. Where is “can’t talk about feelings but changes your oil?”

This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

my head hurts

How the marine lab cafeteria solicits tips 😂

It's basically the frog and the scorpion but every time the frog gets stung, a new frog immediately swims over to save the scorpion from drowning

It's genuinely funny a 74 year old senator got played by the most obvious conman ever and is now posting passive aggressively like a pre-teen who hasn't learned subtlety yet.

Some cloud iridescence seen today over the South Carolina Midlands. #Photography #Clouds #Weather #WX #CloudIridescence

And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.

It's not a small order of magnitude either.

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

if you want to share that blue octopus pic/footage, find a reputable source like SciAm. not some random content theft/engagement farming account with dodgy caption and no accountability.

half of my feed right now is brits complaining about the heat wave with the occasional pics of melting puppies and kittens have we considered collecting photos of melting puppies and kittens (and human babies) to pester politicians like "what's your climate plan because look at my sad puppy???"

accidentally ordered tokusatsu instead of tonkatsu at this restaurant and now this guy won't stop doing stunts. The waiter can't even take him back because whenever he tries the guy strikes a pose and a bunch of explosions go off behind him

between him and Cassidy I am sick and tired of guys who are personally responsible for putting these dudes in their current positions of power whining about them on the television Tillis was the deciding vote for Hegseth, Cassidy for RFK, own your awful choices and apologize for what you did

It’s flycatcher season! ID tips: 1) Find elusive flycatcher lurking in the woods. 2) Consult apps, books, internet, passers-by, and/or chosen god for answers. Nope. 3) Quietly approach bird and ethically collect a DNA sample. You’re almost done. 4) Set up your field-case DNA sequencer… 🪶

C’mon man. No one can live like this.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

I switched to DuckDuckGo for my searches a year ago. There’s other search engines out there too that haven’t gone through the same enshitification process that Google has. Pick one and be free

Someone pointed out years ago that conservatives will defend truly heinous behavior by reducing it down to the most context-free components and I can never not see it. “Is learning things and making money bad, actually?” Off the charts bad faith bullshit.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.

Ok Kevin Sorbo posting this is honestly incredible bc one thing I loved about his Hercules was how accurate it was

Scientists named this species of hairy ghost pipefish after beloved Sesame Street resident Mr. Snuffleupagus and we're obsessed.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

‘We aren’t socialists, we’re just better at accounting’ is a killer line.

UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 3!!! VFX artists are overworked and underpaid! #UmbertActually #UnionYaoi #MistermanGuyfella #Jellybox #IndieAnimation

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