This'll have virtually no effect on trans women, who already weren't competing in the Olympics (in the more than 20 years in which trans women could participate in the Olympics, a grand total of... 1 actually made a team. She came in dead last in her event). However.... apnews.com/article/ioc-...

I knew about the skeleton animals, but skeleton people???? Nature is amazing

My thought on the new Harry Potter trailer is that it sure sucks that JK Rowling has poisoned her own well

When your president is the cornfield boy from that episode of The Twilight Zone

Awesome, we've definitely proven to Iran that they can take us at our word

As someone who sat through way too many soul-crushing meetings with Jim Spanfeller, this is just...so satisfying to read

Helluva 2026 pic by Megan Varner.

So much of domestic news in the US since last January is just reporting on the consequences of drastic policy shifts reverberating through complex systems with terrible first, second, and third order effects.

they’ve fucked air traffic control, oil, and TSA. commercial air travel might just die.

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

So weird how there was NO BROAD DISTRUST OF ELECTIONS until one dude built his entire candidacy on saying any election he lost was fraudulent!

The worst part of this is how the cute animals still look exactly like the animated versions, underlining how pointless the whole endeavor is

This seems like a good time to point out that 95% of what the TSA does is security theater and it doesn't actually make flying any safer

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Six and a half years later, my rent overcharge case with DHCR has finally moved into the "review" stage*—and consider that NYC is a city with GOOD tenant protection laws *now I just have to wait ??? days for a decision and then ??? days for the landlord to appeal and ??? days until they pay damages

it’s just remarkable how dedicated this administration is to making people’s day to day lives worse in every way

I miss the old internet. Social media ruined...everything (offline too)

Papa! I’m stunting on them, papa! It’s ever so based

"As a history teacher, I never once taught my students about fascism."

If you've never seen the intro to Dirty Pair: Project Eden, you may be surprised to discover that it's one of the most beautiful things ever animated.

Kids will never understand how great the internet used to be

After nearly 100 years, CBS News Radio is being dissolved, per a note from Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski to CBS staff today

I miss '90s nihilism

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Pretty much every headline reads like one a movie would use as shorthand to reveal the protagonist had slipped into the bad timeline

found

OK, I watched Tenet. It was very stupid!

Why are we doing a full discourse cycle over an obvious joke

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

He was 8 when his parents brought him to the US. He has abided by the law, earned two bachelor’s degrees and was en route to the NICU to see his wife and child. This serves no purpose but cruelty and does not make the US any safer.

This doesn't have to keep happening. It is possible to craft worlds where women and children are safe, rather than objects to be either dominated or protected from the domination of others. It is possible to create a world where people can just be safe in their bodies.

Because I am a chaos agent, I watched The People's Joker (also it was MUCH SHORTER and I was sleepy)

Right now on Reddit, you can read a post from a guy who saw Hamnet and didn't realize it was about Shakespeare until the final moments, as if it was a Sixth Sense-level reveal. Sometimes I genuinely love the internet

What movie my wife doesn't care about should I watch while she's on a work trip? 1️⃣ Tenet 2️⃣ Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World 3️⃣ Inherent Vice 📊 Show results

My wife is trying to explain the plot of Rashômon and I keep telling her that's not how I remember it

Whenever I've posted about this fact online people try to catch me out as a liar in the dumbest possible way. They go "erm I THINK that cat would be dead by now..." YEAH M8 THE FILM IS 40 YEARS OLD OF COURSE HE'S FUCKING DEAD. But, and this will shock you, at one point in the past: he was alive.

wait did we know this? this is neat!

I know rage bait when I see it

OBAA is transparently set in the contemporary U.S.???

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

[trying to keep things straight in my head] OBAA - One Battle After Another OBBA - One Big Beautiful Bill Act OBAMA - 44th president of the United States

Wait for my wife to hand it to me, open it right away, then she tells me she "loosened it" for me

Seems silly to release Sinners and One Battle in the same year. You coulda had consecutive Best Picture Oscars!

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit

look on my works, he added