Gettysburg Fort Ligonier Buhl Planetarium Hershey PA back when the company still *made* chocolate there

You could read any number of specialist or even non-specialist articles and understand that the West has not waged war in Iran since 1979 because once Hormuz is closed there is no practical way to open it. Or you could simply bet like a rube on his first night in Las Vegas.

On my morning commute, they’ve changed out the tube advert for testosterone replacement for cis men for a tube advert for oestrogen replacement for cis women, and the state continues turning the ratchet on the rack that tortures trans people

My one step plan to save democracy: Instead of Presidential debates, Chotiner interviews each candidate live on TV. We've done dumber things.

This makes way too much sense

Happy Irish Pi Day

There were terrible proposals during the early days of the AIDS crisis, but at least few of those became law.

Among the many changes Avengers: Doomsday will wreak upon the Marvel cinematic timeline is that the Red Skull will have always been Italian

I would usually assume someone ceded this story, but the writer is n00b per the little bio so he could just be writing weird stuff that pops into his head to get a sale.

david bowie: ain’t there one damn song that can make me break down and cry-y? me: yes. up the junction by squeeze. every time.

In the land of billionaires, the millionaire is a peasant

Soon there will be so many anti-trans bills each bill can be against a specific, named trans person. I can’t remember a moral panic in my lifetime with such persistence, scope and zeal.

HEY Y’ALL are you super mad about people being kidnapped and/or renditioned by the federal government, want to do something about it, but aren’t a lawyer? See below!

All of these are policies they're already supposed to be following. So why would anyone believe they'll start following them in exchange for DHS funding. I mean, come on. The proper response to "We won't deport U.S. citizens if you fund DHS" is, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Coming soon: Kharg ARG

ain’t that close to love well ain’t that poaster love

Okay, this stuff just badly misunderstands how power works, doesn’t it. Britain did not end up with a political and media elite packed with foaming wingnuts because any foreign power chucked them all some cash. Britain is like this for British reasons, embedded in our own society and organisations.

it’s beautiful to think One Battle inspired a whole new generation to read Thomas Pynchon’s wikipedia page

Okay but did he win it for Smoke, or Stack? The Academy has to choose!

Damn youtu.be/glHbp7ukPZA?...

This is a very good joke but it occurs to me Trump can’t really want Germany to massively rearm. It’s the last thing his buddy in Moscow would want. It’s got to be a pretextual demand aimed at providing an excuse for a US exit of NATO.

Pi Day! (Rounded up.)

Not that anyone cares, but a contemporaneous letter emerged in 2025 that shows Anne Hathaway living with Shakespeare in Trinity Lane, near today’s Mansion House

BTW, whenever you hear the phrase, “war of choice,” substitute “war of aggression” and recall the Nuremberg judgment declared that to be “the supreme international crime” because it causes and contains all the rest of the crimes of war.

There is, however, a discussion to be had about the damage the demand by TV producers for moody bumper music with indistinct lyrics has done to indie “rock”

Yeah, in the 80s or 90s it felt like someone sold out if their song was in an ad and now I'm thrilled for them "good for Andrew Bird, get that mortgage payment"

“People need to realize our donors are making bank and will settle some of that money on the president and a decent sum will dribble down to us toadies. That rocks, peasants.”

Steve Earle giving a talk in 2017: “When I started out I had a hard and fast rule of not licensing songs for commercials. I would *never* give that advice to a new act today. The music industry has just changed too much [collapsed].”

Whoever pointed out it’s cheaper to make new labels than to retool the toy assembly won that meeting and I admire them

Because of me, Fareed Zakaria, and the class of “experts” to which I belong

On reflection, “If antisemitism ever gets really bad in the United States, American Jews can always find a safe haven in the Jewish homeland whose military is wholly dependent on the financial support of the United States,” was never an airtight plan

This is exciting. They just made all of the Ars Magica RPG - rules and suppliments - open source and free to own! www.atlas-games.com/arsmagica/op...

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

Sometimes when I step into a crowded elevator, I ask, “does anybody want to get off?” And then I beat the shit out of them with a trash can lid. They are always surprised at first but I think they get the joke later.

Very bad politics. Work down the game tree:

Apple could make an iPad with two USB-C ports. There can’t be any reason they haven’t except spite.

If you have an opinion on Meade’s pursuit of Lee after Gettysburg but can’t describe the Downsville Line you’re a fake fan.

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood. trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️ republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️ “sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️ naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️ villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️ powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️ list goes on

Got the first 50. 100 to go 🤞🏾 #MutualAid #helpsky #signalboost #MAboost 💸💕

It was never actually that quiet that the target was to destroy women's rights...

Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?

Happily the WSJ provides the information we need to settle the disagreement

my glass coffin company “remains to be seen” is not doing as well as i thought it would.

TFW you have to deal with highly educated women all the time but you get to experience working-class men at a safe distance

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

There are all sorts of taboo left positions but people who insist they are motivated by saying forbidden things never decide on something like border abolition.

Alternatively I can train as a process engineer

This goes to @jimhenleymusic.bsky.social ‘s argument that the U.S. should really be poaching ceos from smaller countries. President Carney maybe.

"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids." That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.

Heartbreaking: The worst regime you know just made a great terrorism.