A good way of defining the working class versus the rich who need to be eaten is: If you could go into a coma for 10 years and wake up richer than you had been, you are not working class. Literally every billionaire would *make more money* while in a coma. The coma test.

You, teachers, doctors, baristas, lawyers, plumbers, programmers, literally anyone who has to work: you're not waking up from that coma richer than you were 10 years earlier. Any billionaire would probably be *even richer* than they would be had they been awake making shit decisions.

“More people pay attention to me at the Nazi bar than here” is not a Bluesky problem.

A favorite genre of social media interaction: POST: Sometimes I just want to forget everything and have fun on social media. REPLY: No. Things are very grim right now. You must suffer at all times.

Seen the first three episodes of Ressha Sentai #ToQger Conductor unnerves me. Seriously. Imagine him and that wretched puppet in black-and-white. He'd be straight out of Rod Serling's IMAGINATION.

...and i now have context for mecha-penis

47 will croak before or during his hissy fit with the Green People.

WHAT IF WE HAVE A PLACE WHERE EVERYONE ISN’T JUST POSTING FOR CLOUT ALL THE TIME bsky.app/profile/astr...

Here’s an idea: what if Bluesky can just be Bluesky and we don’t have to want every single social media platform to be the global townsquare and how about if no platform becomes that and how about we just make the platform what we want and stop considering niche a failure for no reason.

Started watching Ressha Sentai #ToQger -I can't get over how SERIOUS their mech looks. I love the gothic steampunk design of the villains & the shiny outfits of the sentai team, which are tinted a bit differently than usual. Episode 1 was frenetic & visually overloaded, I almost felt overwhelmed

If you need more evidence that Minnesota is not going well for them

My frustrations with the state of the world just boiled over and I had to expel the bile in a short piece thinking about the machismo of these fascist thugs and what the world they are "fighting" for would actually be like. It's not perfect or polished, but I just needed to get it out of my head.

Of all the ways I could be represented in Star Trek the most accurate is captain nahla ake sitting in chairs.

More modern Star Trek has tried to fill this void, you see people refer to current pop culture stuff, and the impression is always that this is memorable. It stands out, as strikingly memorable, when a character actually references human culture post-1950 in Star Trek. Because it's so rare.

Can we boost this?

A significant part of the Dems say back and let this happen too. The whole political system in America needs reexamined and rebuilt

This book is hilarious and a must if you're a fan of #lowerdecks. I especially love the framing device that lets the Lower Decks humor express itself in a traditional Starfleet publication.

Donny doesn’t hold all the cards.

Star Trek TOS (1966-1969): Linwood G. Dunn, ASC, shoots the 11-foot USS Enterprise studio model It's been 60 years this year.

✨Cheeky Kitty✨ This #MosaicMonday celebrate the ancient cats and the birds in this glorious artwork. Such panels are thought to depict abundance and the suggestion of ingredients for a banquet.

Puppy pad users, check 'em for mold. (Hold them up to the light.) We just bought 100 of them awash with the fruits of the fungal kingdom. Bleah

What was it that Yeats bastard said about the worst being full of passionate intensity

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Tfl were testing the new Piccadilly line trains over the weekend, and luckily I managed to find some in the wild and get a few shots. Here's the train arriving at Hammersmith London Underground station, I love how the lights look in the darkness.

Dressing up as a Long Island ghost so I can convince Chuck Schumer that the Baileys actually find threatening war with Europe more upsetting than egg prices

I will admit the high price of groceries is really hitting me right now because I’M BUYING GROCERIES TO DELIVER TO MY NEIGHBORS WHO CAN’T LEAVE THE HOUSE BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT HAS SENT AN OCCUPYING FORCE OF FUCKSTICKS TO MY CITY.

I can’t fault them for that assessment. The Western alliance was supposed to be bedrock, an asset all members can count on while dealing with other problems. The US opposition party going “how does that lower prices?” rather than “what’s wrong with you, our alliances are great” must be unsettling.

The Newsom thing is because they think the pendulum effect will give the election to literally any Dem, which may well be true, so they want to make sure the nominee is as far-Right and ineffective as possible.

This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Sam Bankman-Fried sort of embodied that mindset, in a way. The desire to not only be a Genius Who Got Money Through Being Smarter Than Other People, but also a Hero Who Saved The World. Of course, he also revealed how hollow that vision was, in many instances.

If I had to hazard a theory, Wall Street Guys are big on "Get Money All The Time", while Silicon Valley VC Guys tend to sell themselves as Builders Of The Glorious New Future (where coincidentally they also have All The Money). They desire not only obscene wealth, but worshipful awe.

Too much of my life right now is at the whim of capricious, vindictive, selfish, shitty people in the twilight years of their lives who seem determined to make themselves the main characters to the bitter end. Anyway, maybe tomorrow.

To be clear, Disney asked for quotes, then deleted the post because folks passed the vibes check 😂

Saw someone speculating that Jim Carrey would have made a good American version of the Master. One thing I don't like about nuWho is how it's made the Master largely this manic figure. I miss the cool, calculating Delgado Master. Is the feeling that sort of villain is too dry for modern audiences?

These issues themselves are fine but the refusal to place immigration and the secret police terrorizing our families alongside those issues presumably means that a bunch of leadership are white supremacists and I am fairly comfortable jumping to that conclusion at this point.

For the 50th anniversary of Trek, they put out a special blue ray with a bunch of recently uncovered deleted scenes and outtakes, so been going through that for the joy of William Shatner forgetting who Mr Sulu is and Uhura singing a song about banging Mr Spock.

these people are genuinely not prepared, materially or mentally, for a war on multiple fronts smash-and-grabs, yes; using the engines of state to crush individuals for the lulz, yes but they don't have the resources or the attention span to handle a long-term conflict, let alone several at once

WWE AAA put up an AI generated video for Dom Mysterio and the slop machine made him AEW Champion lmao

“Leave Greenland alone!” Heckler interrupts Star-Spangled Banner at NBA game in London, wins cheers from crowd. (Video via Reddit)

If I was going to the Met Gala, I'd dress in a big yeti costume and call myself The Meti, which is probably why I'll never get invites to the Met Gala

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

imo a part of Zohran Mamdani's appeal is he interacts with regular people spontaneously and enthusiastically in an era where most nationally prominent politicians respond to a Normal Person like a vampire seeing a cross

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

lots of good theories going around about the weird whole milk advertising going on right now, but my personal one is the milk industrial complex is worried and mad about the growth of milk alternatives like soy or oat milk and want to reclaim previous cultural dominance

The absolute accuracy of this.

No ally of the US can trust it anymore. Trump and his team are a Russian assets.