In the '60s and '70s, one of the biggest producers of drug paraphernalia and trippy blacklight art was the Houston Blacklight & Poster Company. But its history has been nearly lost. I wrote about its influence and the importance of saving artifacts like these: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.

Not only does this dialogue absolutely sing, it shows Kirby's understanding of the dynamics of power and its concentration - there are always Godfrey types who assume that their special skills will somehow drive not surrender to the authoritarian process; that is not how Darkseid sees things

🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Close the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Open the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🤭 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! 🐰🇮🇷 Open the Strait! 🦆🇺🇸 Close the Strait! Look, I say we're closing the Strait, and that's final! Don't try to talk me out of it! 🤡

TV anti-war ad from 1971

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

Did everyone stop posting ALT text on their images? It used to be that whenever someone posted a pic without ALT text other folks would show up to scold them about it. I realize there are now many other things to scold users about and it's a scold's paradise here, but that was one I approved of.

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From 1915-1924, a dog named Prince lived in a seafood shop on Colston Avenue. His master (Alfred William Collins) charged customers a small fee to “smooth” the friendly pup - who spent his days seated upon the counter. Prince helped raise £37 (about £500 today) for the Bristol General Hospital.

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

well that went way deeper than I was expecting

John Entwistle collecting horror comics and Creepy magazine in particular is new information to me, but also the least surprising thing ever. It could not be more on brand for him.

Me, when I doomscroll.

It's like they saw my life and made it into a tv show!

move slow and repair things

TIL: Chester, Illinois has a "Popeye Trail" of 19 statues (28 characters) situated throughout the city in honor of hometown hero Elzie Segar. Beyond the main cast they have Castor/The Whiffle Hen, The Sea Hag/Bernard, Alice the Goon & Child, King Blozo, Toar & more. I have a nerdly urge to visit.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Lmao

If jeffrey epstein ran for president the media would call him a businessman who has been criticized by democrats

I’ve been thinking about it all day and I’ve decided that the golden snake with golden eyes that can snap at cars and spit fire should be the symbol of New York under Mamdani

The Monkees knew. They always knew.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

i’m hearing democrat leadership are preparing their strongest response yet: looking at the ground and mumbling “come on guys stop being a bunch of turkeys”

every 3rd congressional Democrat is Like This

“the world no longer inherently likes and trusts Americans now” congratulations on waking up from being asleep since 1955, I have a long list of bad news and some cool pictures of the moon for you

In light of Democrats calling for more "training" for ICE, this passage from my book Copaganda seems relevant:

Reminder: Troops are still deployed in NYC subways, under the Biden administration's direction, as ordered by Kathy Hochul, both Dems. The National Guard is in NYC subways supposedly to "fight crime," even though NYC crime is at close to historic lows🤡 1000 troops have been there since March 2024

As a priest watching the news, trying to come up with halfway decent spiritual response to evil and injustice, sometimes the right and holiest word available is just FUCK.

I love this piece by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social—and not just for the obvious reasons: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reagan's project was successful: now, many Americans have no idea what a "public good" is. Their only framework for social interaction--outside friends & family--is set by the concepts of private property & consumer choice. That explains a lot about voting patterns & the dying sense of civic duty.

Gavin Newsom is the latest Democrat to try and suck off Ronald Reagan’s dickless skeleton, but he wasn’t the first and won’t be the last. It’s never a bad time to remind ourselves that Reagan was a complete disaster of a president, so today on IMMORTAL SCIENCE, let’s remember…the Reagan Legacy!

I will never understand how so many people argue “the government can’t effectively provide healthcare” when it’s one of the few things we know, for a fact, it can do, because it already does this. It’s like claiming the government can’t deliver mail. Buddy sit down you’re not gonna believe this

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

It’s gonna be tough to top this spread.

Billboard in Loughborough Junction.

I don't think there's been a definitive unpacking of how the U.S. has been subject to forty-plus years of Reaganism propaganda. I think most Americans do not realize we are still living under Reaganism. It's like the water we swim in - most people can't see it.

A lot of people are pretty freaked out by the current political state of affairs and carrying on because they don't know what else to do, except out one foot in front of the other. And I think a lot of Very Online folks mistake that for "normie" indifference

Um? Wasn't it John Hurt who played the Doctor? (I'm sorry, I'm trying to delete this.)

You can get your donation automatically refunded if you give "accidentally donated the wrong amount" as the reason your requesting a refund.

I didn't know how much I needed to see the cover of Abbey Road recreated by Sumo wrestlers until I saw it.

Synagogue leaders accept Harvard Law prof's assertion he just didn't know he lived next to a temple or that it was the start of Yom Kippur when he decided to go hunt varmints with a pellet gun on Beacon St. in Brookline. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

It's impossible to make a "slippery slope" argument against this administration because they spend all day greasing up the slopes themselves.