Jul 3rd 1984 - A chemical gas which reanimates corpses was accidentally released. 📽️📅 The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

Holes xkcd.com/3266/

if a true sigma chad came in and shot granny free throws because it fixed his glaring weakness and helped the team, it would occasion a sea change in the way the game is played. and people say space is the final frontier

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

Ooh! Wanna newsletter that's NOT on Substack and features awesome cartoonists? Here it is: 🌼 garden-variety.org (h/t @galegalligan.bsky.social)

‘Take Us To Your Biggest Pedophile’ Demand Surprisingly Politically Informed Aliens https://bit.ly/4eTxZ8V

Clarence Thomas is not a biology expert Sex is bimodal - it's why intersex people exist Sex is mutable - it's why HRT works Transness is innate - it's why we have existed throughout human history and across cultures He and the court are the ones who lie

imagine being married to an online journalist and the day after you forget to get them something for their birthday it's like "I wrote about the loss of celebrations, public and private, and what it means for an increasingly polarized, atomized America"

One year? It truly feels like it's been a thing since then first administration.

"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)

This is so fascinating and unnerving, as science should be.

Fingers crossed that this season of X-Men '97 adapts my favorite story from the comics (the Church of Humanity trying to make Nightcrawler pope and then using exploding communion wafers to simulate the Rapture, a non-Catholic theological concept).

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

Another day, another example of Republican election fraud: the two guys who appear to have been lazy in using forged signatures to get on the ballot. gazettenet.com/2026/06/29/g...

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Dun-dun-duuuuuun!

I love how X-Men '97 plays with the opening sequence. Reader, season 2 episode 2 made me squeal.

Saw a furniture-store ad for "the sofa America waited 250 years for," and that is the correct level of tackiness for this holiday.

#XMen97 season 2 kicks fucking ass!

Today is the birthday of artist Billy Graham (July 1, 1935-April 4, 1997), most known for his work at Warren Publishing, and his great runs on Luke Cage: Hero For Hire, Black Panther, & Sabre.

The sort of thing that happens when people elect leaders who actively hate the country and its people

a lot of writers and podcasters need to learn that they are not entitled to freely adapt any book they take a liking to. do you want to tell an existing story in a new medium? cool. talk to the author. collaborate with them if they want. license it if they're interested. or start from scratch.

much our country, including our elites, live in a farcical anti-reality where Trump's was running on "secure the border, throw out the criminals" and Biden was running on "open borders." In reality Trump actually supported "mass ethnic cleansing" and Biden ran on "secure the border"

George W. Bush must be so envious, because he really, really wanted to be the president to start and lose a war with Iran.

Deeply disturbed by my mental state after being able to name all four stars of "Wild Hogs," a film I have not seen, off the dome.

Burdening the public with one’s private ailments, if presented without sufficient decorum, is a disadvantageous way to become the talk of the salon

"It's just sports," "It will only affect a few people," & "It'll also be used against cis women" are, IMHO, all equally not-great takes on today's SCOTUS ruling, just different angles. The Supreme Court ruled it's okay to discriminate against a certain class of people. Full stop. That is a horror.

This really sounds like the title of a forgotten Altman film.

Now that's how you make a movie poster.

This, as requested by @mhplives.bsky.social, is the @newscientist.com cartoon that Alan Moore describes (rather well) in a recent episode of the Team Human podcast www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/371...

Describing "vote blue no matter who" strategies as a form of "harm reduction" is clearly a misuse of the term, but I'd be willing to overlook it if it didn't so frequently involve supporting politicians who oppose literal harm reduction policies.

Anyone involved in the decimation of NOAA should be proscribed from ever again possessing an umbrella, hat, or coat.

So passes another Pride, though the Rainbow Doom is eternal.

Due to my Catholic upbringing, I've said the Nicene Creed even more times than JD Vance has lied about his upbringing for profit.

I'm sure I drew tomatoes in crayon at some point as a child, and now I resume my artistic career decades later.

I think humidity should be: Illegal

OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: ahahaha I have decided to scam the government by paying thousands upon thousands to an insurance company and receiving nothing in return. But will Dr. Pillhawker see through my evil plans?

"Government officials can be fired even if that isn't in the Constitution," John Roberts said, confident that surely no one would ever fire him in a way that isn't in the Constitution...

Ray Harryhausen was born June 29, 1920 in Los Angeles.

Step 1: Great talk Step 2: One word to get her to a Rhenish wine-house Step 3: Give her a Lobster The Sammy Peeps method works every time.

I do love how everything Robert Eggers does sounds pretentious, but he's just so damn earnest that it all evens out.

i say something similar to this roughly every 28 - 31 days but how the fuck is it July this week?

Oh, is Mel Brooks turning 100? Celebrate by watching this fun cartoon short, The Critic, with vocal work by Brooks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pram...

Aragorn, buddy, you want an entire city made ready? When your guests—whom you have been expecting—are already approaching the outermost defensive wall? Miss Manners would say you have a lot to learn about kingly hospitality.

I didn't know the difference between a rent freeze on 1-year leases and a 3% increase could cause the citywide collapse of all NYC building maintenance! It didn't happen in 2015, 2016, or 2020, when rents on 1-year NYC leases were also frozen. Maybe it only happens if you yell "Socialism!" 3 times.

The Magpie - 1868/1869 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7285

What's it like inside your head?

You can say that again, Mandrake.