“And now, Harry Potter, you will make your great entrance into the Wizarding World,”said the Sorting Hat. “Just like that?” said Harry, astonished. “Putting on a dusty old hat?”. The hat grinned, wryly. “Not at all!” it said, “first (of course!) we must Inspect Your Genitalia!”

gross

just to be clear: Imane Khelif is *biologically* a woman. she's not a trans woman, the entire intellectual edifice of terfism is a completely capricious attempt to define anyone they don't like out of being a woman

I've seen a bunch of these and I think the reason this resonates so much with people (beyond it being, y'know, inherently funny), is that it's a rare time when people aren't being subjected to hyper restrictive word filters or whatever. People are just free to fuck about.

i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

lmao

this is a huge deal!

INITIATE::{MOD} {SH0CK WREATH} ... //APPLICATION CONFIRMED "SEEK... HEAVEN... THROUGH... VIOLENCE." -- #LANCER | #lancerrpg | #ArtAdventCalendar | #art | #mecha

Alec Guinness was famously totally checked out all the way through production while Cushing - who was a wargaming hobbyist and played Doctor Who a decade earlier - knew exactly what kind of film he was in better than anyone not called George Lucas

30% is effectively 0%, since 30% of people think the earth is flat and that all politicians are lizard people, which means the first 30% is simply a noise floor.

He's really good at this.

We’ve got a woman Archbishop of Canterbury.

I really did think those books were going to have an overall positive effect on literacy. It was hard to imagine they wouldn't, at the time! But then so much of what has happened to the world since then has disappointed me

In his 1992 novel Snow Crash, writer Neal Stephenson coined the phrase "Metaverse" to describe a VR world experienced through goggles. Now, Stephenson says he no longer believes face-worn computing is the future: “People don’t like wearing things on their faces and don’t trust those who do.”

suck shit bari

📣 GOOD NEWS TODAY 📣 1️⃣ Sora A/I is sunsetting ️2️⃣ Disney cancelled OpenA/I deal 3️⃣ City of Baltimore suing xA/I THE GEN A/I BUBBLE IS POPPING📌

Oh do fuck off with a Moana remake. Give us a book accurate live action Black Cauldron you cowards

In Zephyr #ttrpg, Windfolk traverse the back of a sentient continent to find the source of their passion & convictions, and to to fulfill sacred communal obligations. Get it w/free shipping in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere at araukana.com/store #dnd #rpglatam

I cannot stress how important these reviews are on a variety of levels, from me learning about my pitfalls, feeling like my work is valued, to getting eyes on games. I send dozens of emails and get ghosted or turned away because my game isn't a D&D, it's really disheartening. If you wanna... 1/3

Really glad this is coming out. Unfortunately seems to have whiffs of Jimmy Savile to it. There were people who knew, who saw what Chavez was doing and tried to shut anyone else up from revealing the truth.

yeah this is how like 30% of the electorate works

This is a pretty good show of exactly the sort of things AI cannot do, like managing ambient light, because of how abstract and intentional the treatment of light is in visual media www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Vd...

Being a "professional cage fighter" is core to Markwayne Mullin's brand. He says he has a 5-0 record. I found documentation of 3 wins. Two came against a man who almost always lost. I dug up video of his opponent and the guy just got knocked out repeatedly. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/markway...

I have just finished the box art for Footsore Miniature's reissue of "Cry Havoc". All new artwork throughout!

oh and if you back at one of the levels that gives you a digital version of issue #1, I've got a story in there called "Come Lay the Crone to Rest" about an adventuring-party-as-polycule with witches and knights.

Israeli forces shot all four members of the Bani Odeh family in the head, including their 5yo and 7yo. The 7yo, Othman, was blind and had special needs. This comes a day after Israeli settlers shot 28yo Amir Moatasem Odeh and stabbed his father.

Yami Yugi’s English VA on a Yu-Gi-Oh clip being used in that White House Twitter video. It’s insane that this is where we are as a country now.

I've learned more about how I actually like to paint with these two figures than I have done in an age. Really knuckling in and playing with mixes, texture, different highlighting methods and materials... Can't recommend enough just grabbing some paints and doing something utterly for its own sake!

Feeling absolutely honoured to receive such a positive review from Little Wars TV for Midgard Heroic Battles. Design/ artwork by @handiworkgames.bsky.social and photos by Pete Jenkins also need a shout out. Thank you both! #spreadthelard #wargaming #nerdlings #miniatures youtu.be/bW1xLdPJNWE?...

Not great that a sitting Congressman can just say shit like this with zero consequences.

Images published by Iranian state media show remnants of a US Tomahawk missile at a girls’ school in Minab. It’s not possible to independently verify the provenance of the remnants from this imagery alone. But Bellingcat previously detailed how a Tomahawk missile hit a structure next to the school.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Suicides increased fivefold when adolescents on the waitlist were told they would be permanently waitlisted. 45 kids and untold relatives of these kids are now grieving. And still they are like, but wait, we don't have enough evidence.

It’s not quite ‘have someone come in with a gun’ but ‘if you’re not sure where a scene is going have a bunch of capitalist giants fight a crab’ is also a maxim to live by.

Roan of Arc Mini from @vaevictisminis.bsky.social Tried doing a limited palette paint here, but cheated in the green for some extra contrast. #minipainting #fantasy #chappellroan #nerdlings

the U.S. military has been undermanned for years, we are absolutely unready for any kind of meaningful conflict. i imagine the regime will back out before they try to force a draft. it would not go well for them.

i almost had my head bitten off by a giant freakish monster, why is this old man making lame jokes at me 😭 #re9

I think worrying specifically about the censorship of information is maybe a 20th century framework. Today it’s far more effective for bad actors trying to suppress the truth to just flood the zone with bullshit than it is to actively suppress information they find politically inconvenient.

these are in fact legal targets in wartime

Yes, constant fight mode goblins are a thing on social media, and they feel threatened and lash when questioned, because they care deeply about their engagement numbers, more than any Politics.

man. nibiru www.kickstarter.com/projects/xan...

In the Zephyr #ttrpg, Windfolk traverse the back of a sentient continent to find the source of their passion & convictions, and to to fulfill sacred communal obligations. Get it w/free shipping in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... or else at araukana.com/store #dnd #rpglatam

They clearly committed a war crime, but we've been watching an active genocide for years at this point, as well as watching the US commit *other* war crimes in the Caribbean in addition to murdering both citizens & immigrants on our own soil & no one with any kind of power is doing jack shit so

me: posts an analysis of various revolutions that were built from local councils, including the so-far uncontested fact that the Russian revolution started that way before Lenin consolidated power and disenfranchised the soviets. bsky: "yeah makes sense" substack: "sure" IG: "You are the CIA."

Our many aging cherry trees, originally a gesture of friendship by pre-war Japan, blossomed last week. Lovely, but: global warming.

i know the "let people enjoy things" approach to media is annoying, but there's a difference between being a tactful hater and going reply to reply being a miserable dork because they like something you don't.

Awww fuck not Bruce