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My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

along with cheap Shakespearean stage actors, I don’t want to see a single face I know unless they were desperate for work

Hasan this hasan that. How about you ha-sign up to volunteer at your local food pantry

The feds are once again targeting Somali-run daycares in Minneapolis, a reminder that they're always going to slink back to their nonsense when they think no one is looking.

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when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Im not tryna do a "whataboutism," but i do find it interesting that we're continuing to do a deep dive on this alleged shooter at the Correspondents Dinner, but it's been completely radio silent on that NC cop traveling to New Orleans t massacre Black people at the Jazz Fest

Ignoring racism as a motivating force in society allows racists to advance their causes with a freer hand.

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

The Republican obsession with that Obama quote about Trayvon Martin needs to be studied in history and psychology classes for centuries to come. Nothing so simple and benign has ever so fundamentally broken the brains of tens of millions of people.

The "Princeton Study" (a famous 2014 study by Gilens & Page) found that the preferences of average citizens have a "near-zero" impact on U.S. policy. While economic elites and interest groups carry significant weight, the will of the majority rarely correlates with enacted legislation.

rene's casa basso restaurant statue, quogue, new york, 1989

How everything feels right now...

She wants teachers making 50k to pay more taxes than cops making 6 figures lol

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

highbrow is the stuff I like that you’re ruining by being a snob middlebrow is the stuff I like that you’re ruining by being anxious lowbrow is the stuff we both like that you’re ruining by pretending to enjoy ironically

They’re running back the playbook to dehumanize enemies in a very neocon sort of way, except doing it at home this time. It’s MAGA with an Ivy League mask, trying to take hold of the Democratic Party. nothing more

I had a different take but nah let’s cut to the chase here: they’re doing this fear mongering over nearly non-existence communist violence when MAGA is shockingly violent and ruining the country and world via mass murder right now. This is the political project the centrist elites are concerned with

Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:

every comedy writer's dream is to get into their heads like this using as few words as possible

The wildest thing is they think they do this because they want to "protect" kids, but what they really want is to ~own~ kids. They want to make decisions for kids, take away their agency, tell them what to do and think and how to live, because kids are the future - and they want to own the future

Sound up lol

It's literally the same people running the same playbook.

Gerry Conway has sadly passed away at the age of 73. He co-created the Punisher, Ben Reilly, Jackal, Man-Wolf and the first Ms. Marvel. He also wrote one of the most iconic comic book stories in history — “The Night Gwen Stacy Died”

The only thing that can save them now is some kind of exogenous act of god type of intervention, they aren't building anything or doing anything to gain people back, so they go all in on every possible event

Intelligent

Imagine declaring “adolf!” to a round of applause and then gunfire

But back to the main subject: People have a very hard time differentiating between "I had a good time at a place because I was young and innocent and discovering things" and "This place was good and directly caused those feelings"

Same energy.

I think you see so many politically moderate would be Trump assassins because Trump's assault on norms has been more jarring for people who had more faith in the American way.

The thing is that in addition to being loathsome, he is completely uninteresting. There's no 'there' there. This isn't a rotten person with depths to plumb or anything. He is an incredibly boring villain

Because of Gavin running his mouth, I now know that his son: 1) Is gullible 2) Does not have a strong moral masculine presence in the home 3) Is seeking out masculine figures online to figure out the world The public should NOT know this! Protect your kid and be quiet!

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was held with a lower level of security than typically used for events attended by top U.S. leaders, even though Trump, JD Vance, and several Cabinet members were present.

Imagine not having to be limited by metals that are both rare and toxic in building out batteries. Just fucking amazing stuff here.

The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.

Not really. Again, this makes perfect sense if you are anti socialist, follow anti socialists and think Trump is an aberration and support the US. His actions have a pretty clear through line with that logic.

Amazing to me that people keep screaming about security failures in a situation where security did not fail. Bad things didn't even happen to bad people, so you can stop pretending to be worried about that. Stop whining for a bigger, badder police state.

Compare the wailing and whining of the DC press corps to the quiet, almost fatalistic determination of Palestinian and Lebanese journalists