Happy May Day, ya’ll!

“not to point fingers but-“

“[Prove] to the plutocrats that they actually are in the same game and bound by the same rules as common people... This can be done within the confines of the rule of law—but only if legal consequences are swift, painful, and delivered on a timescale they cannot ignore.”

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

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

Man's Life Riddled With Continuity Errors https://theonion.com/mans-life-riddled-with-continuity-errors-1819572659/

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

In a world where "AI" submissions are a plague, human-written stories are the cure for an editor's breaking heart. Don't let the flood discourage you from sending your work out there. You are better, no what the hype of the moment says. We want your stories. Not the slop-infested noise.

Hot take: the open fuck you energy of 10-1 did better than 9-2 would have. L. Louise Lucas was right. Soft-pedaling it wouldn't have sold, "you're goddamn right we are" did.

Historian here posting for no reason whatsoever the state flag and motto of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.

Sun Tzu feelin real vindicated

I'm feeling targeted

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

personally while "force majeure" was on the bingo cards I wasn't expecting to see phrases like "piracy" or "letters of marque" in contemporary discourse quite this much. maybe there's still hope for me to try out a swashbuckling era as a privateer

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

Goku: This Sparrowhawk guy seems strong! Ursula K. Le Guin: Yes, he was quite strong, but strength meant nothing compared to his foolishness. Goku: Wow.

When we create a state that is so focused on cruelty, we are always going to empower people like this. The cruelty is not a byproduct, it is an inevitable consequence.

Would go so far as to argue that ethnic diversity is the norm. Where it doesn't exist, people will invent it, out of whole cloth where necessary (as anthropologists and historians have found repeatedly)...

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

First trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ In theaters November 6

LOGGING ON

absolutely floored by the degree to which the first picture looks like it was taken in 2003

of all the complaints i will never take seriously, complaints about tipping on touchscreen checkout tablets is one that i take least seriously. you are an adult with agency, the decision to tip or not on your take and go sandwich is one that is solely yours to make

saw this "nomad edition" recently and had a deep yearning for all books to be in this form factor www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-magical-...

initially my attention was caught by the president doing the vulcan mind meld with an infirm hugh laurie, but then i noticed the silhouette in the background cant be a coincidence !!

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

Getting ready for the return of Artemis. Does everyone have their lights ready?

Hall of fame FT correction

The irony about a lot of these AI detectors is they foster cognitive surrender while delivering wildly unreliable information

Over half of Americans want Congress to impeach Trump now, according to a new poll. One in seven Republicans backs it.

I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process. Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.

A special TV report on the late Osamu Dezaki will air this Saturday in Japan on NHK (as part of the "I Want to Meet That Person" program). www.web.nhk/tv/an/anohit...

Gundam x McDonald's (2026) natalie.mu/comic/news/6...

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

I'll see you this classic and raise you two Tove Jansson Hobbit covers

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

A bit late but here's Char pondering a Cadbury Creme Egg.

TRUMP: "I'm gonna fuckin' blow up all the fuckers! I wanna use all the bombs before I die! Helter skelter! Helter skelter! Race war! Race war! Fuck Easter and fuck you, too!" NEWS: "Trump promises to strengthen military in early morning Easter greeting."

In hindsight it is grimly funny of him to have had that week or so of going "They're calling it Heaven and I said it's a beautiful name but I don't think I'll be getting in. But we might. We'll see." totally unprompted a few months back and now it's a mad king's war.