maybe the most telling thing is that trans women have no way to stop anyone from watching harry potter stuff or buying it. they only way anyone knows is if you make a big show of it and the only thing we can do is say we hate it. but they still need us to tell them they're good anyway.

Jules Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) 🎥

Sure, I might not have any qualifications for psychology research, but give me some fMRI machines, and I'll find the most pleasing RPG leveling curve.

My stock response to anyone who decries the singular "they" is that they have assuredly, at some point in their life, walked into a room and said, "Oh, someONE left THEIR coat here."

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself www.oed.com/discover/a-b...

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

psychology as a concept is revisionist, speciesist, and Italophobic.

He's a near-mythical combination of idiot, coward, sociopath, and loser.

See, this is why I like Hume.

Part of growing up is listening to London Calling yet again and realizing that you've always under-appreciated "The Card Cheat."

The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified on February 3, 1870, was officially certified and adopted into the Constitution on March 30, 1870, prohibiting the denial of voting rights based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. #OnThisDay

Circa 2010, a grad school friend said that I should check out Glen Baxter, and it immediately felt like someone was drawing cartoons for an audience of me. RIP to one of the greats.

Maybe if we called cooking raw chicken "pasteurizing" we could solve some societal issues quickly

Hogwarts Academy has been enveloped by The Mist. All the students and teachers are being mutilated and devoured by misshapen insect-dinosaurs and lobsters the size of Toyota Forerunners. Dumbledore shot Harry Potter in the back of a car to prevent him from being obliterated by a tentacle colossus

How people are still not seeing Jar Jar is beyond me. 😇

“How is diversity a strength” well it’s better than racist dumbass homogeneity, you see

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

imagine being tge first guy to think of a rappin granny.... probably felt the exact same as oppenheimer

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

My grandmother called this practice "puccia" (guessing on the spelling there), as in, "Here, take some bread and puccia." Like many words from the northern dialect she spoke, the origin and meaning are lost to us.

One funny thing about the old boomer complaint about millennials getting participation awards is that no one ever felt good about receiving one. Just a tangible reminder of losing.

Somebody said millennials usually use their laptops (instead of smartphones) for major purchases, including booking flights. I can’t stop thinking about this.

American pundits are more offended by the words 'fascism' and 'concentration camp' than fascism and concentration camps.

today I learned.. legendary hater status indeed. aspirational, really 🥴

A new and more expansive collage of fighting game characters engulfed in flames.

this, to me, is america

Okay, but I really identify with the rabbit who gets anxious and decides it doesn't like competitions.

The Arrow Collar Man reading a book (1916), illustration for an advertisement by American commercial artist, J C Leyendecker (1874-1951) Oil on canvas 74 x 51 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

Masters of the Nefarious is very much included in this anniversary sale!

workboy, game boy peripheral, cancelled, displayed at the consumer electronics show (1992) 'a pda-style, keyboard addon for the game boy with calendar, phone book & convert measurement functions.' archive.org/details/mico... gamehistory.org/ep-16-the-el...

Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky

Let's hope, but much as Brexit foreshadowed the 2016 election, I fear that Dems retaking Congress will follow the feckless path of Starmer and aggressively squander a mandate.

We need to bring back this style of cover illustration.

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

Maine voters - You have more options than Platner and Mills, plus you have ranked choice voting.

Our house, was our castle and our keep Our house, in the middle of our street

Sure, he's a Nazi-tattooed mercenary-turned-oysterman-cosplayer with no political experience beyond a zoning board who keeps being caught changing his stories, BUT have you considered that he has learned to repeat vaguely leftist phrases?

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

This week on The Pitt: when every pen in the emergency department runs out of ink, Santos and Mohan devise a means of sharing patient charts via HIPPA-compliant poetic oral tradition.

Pitching a Netflix dating show where everyone wears stilts to be the same height, and only at the altar do they find out their respective heights.

Look at this thread of beautiful art made by humans to serve a small but specific and very important purpose: making things more fun to look at.

Didja see all the pins @philjimeneznyc.bsky.social gave Ollie? We love a proud ally.

Spoilers for a months-old movie, but it still rankles me that "Superman" has our greatest immigrant superhero discover that his evil old-world parents tried to use immigration to enslave humanity with a sleeper-cell baby in America. Don't worry, he assimilates and forgets his heritage.

Earth has two neighboring planets that are both utterly and impossibly uninhabitable for humans, but we only fantasize about colonizing one of them because Venus is "the girl planet."