Obama doing a history podcast on US Reconstruction with a British-Canadian non-historian airport book guy really does capture his whole post-presidential vibe huh

a revelation in the same vein as “boredom is necessary, actually” if you are constantly enabled, you end up a boring, helpless baby

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

This is a disgrace.

Make a band singular: Belle or Sebastian

Make a band singular: 1cc

This, of course, implies that the allied forces behind the D-Day landings embodied a "dangerous ideology"; presumably antifascism.

Seems like the interests of capital at large can still prevail over the interests of particular capitalists and capital factions But as always, the open conflict is a sign of the crisis of hegemony

Right about now (BDST) W/C L.E. Healy, the AAEAF armaments officer, received a call from the Air Ministry reminding him that the 1000 lb bomb had not been cleared for use on the Hawker Typhoon. Healy replied with one of the finest memos of WW2. RCAF Typhoons had dropped 48 of them that morning.

One of the most frustrating things about all the Platner stans is that they’re accusing his detractors of hating him for his leftist politics, when everything we’re talking about indicates he is neither a good person NOR A LEFTIST

This tells you exactly what these people think of their employer's sexual harassment policy, I guess.

This is a constant with Trump: whenever he learns a new thing, he assumes it must be esoteric knowledge, known only to a tiny few.

This might be the most fun task yet, and I say that with this episode also having a task which is literally "have the most fun". www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAw...

Making the narrative of the last 18 years even more plain than ever

I daren't rewatch Buffy in case it doesn't match my memory (how could it?) but I do know that whilst the Scooby Gang gave the show its heart, Anthony Head's Giles was what gave it the necessary gravity. When he said "no, this shit's real", a part of you really believed him.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

Feminize a movie title: Die Golem

What are your favorite movies from each decade of your life? 70s: Chinatown 80s: Aliens 90s: Three Colors trilogy (honorable mention: The Iron Giant) 00s: Snatch 10s: Arrival 20s: Nosferatu (I've seen very few movies in the last few years)

Unfortunately, Tetsuo came out in 1989, so I'm going to have to pick Tetsuo II: Body Hammer from 1992. I was obsessed with these movies back in the day, but I bet I'm the only person with this pick. youtu.be/HsXo57pZSCM?...

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Feminize a movie: Seven Brides For Seven Sisters

ANYone defending platner is telling on himself

she's finished 🥹 she's so beautiful (I had the great privilege of visiting her 26 years ago, very much in process)

If you see this, QTP with a sword

We could've avoided potentially losing the senate if people had used their damn common sense to ask a guy with a nazi tattoo to drop out. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.

if he stays in the race and wins, his will be the template that democrats search the nation to replicate. a spouse-abusing, rape-fantasizing, nazi-tattooed veteran to run against the same on the right. if he stays and loses, strategists will say progressive politics are unpopular and this is proof.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

Merge to movies: A History Of The World According To Garp: Part One

ohhh. i've never read this poem before. "hope is not a bird, emily. it's a sewer rat."

Merge two movies: Star Wars Episode V: Empire Records Strikes Back

Merge two movies: 12 Angry Birds

I gasped. www.lego.com/en-nl/produc...

The Power of Positive Thinking element also explains why his reaction to failure or setbacks is to merely lie more about how the setbacks aren’t happening: A) He literally has no other tools for coping with failure he can’t bully his way out of B) For much of his life, *the tool has worked*

Merge two movies: How To Lose A Guy In 500 Days Of Summer

Merge two movies: Scott Pilgrim vs Jurassic World

I started watching season 14 of Taskmaster last night and realized that Sarah Millikin has exactly the same accent as my aunt.

Merge two movies: Babe 2: Pig In Sin City

Not a movie, but the French cold wars spy drama/comedy A Very Secret Service (Au service de la France) is a lot of fun. youtu.be/K1eBLuiDK-w?...

Merge two movies: The House On Haunted Hill Is Alive With The Sound Of Music

Anyway, here is a good rundown on how we eradicated the new world screwworm from much of Central America for decades, only for the Trump people to (of course) fuck it up

the lying is obviously enraging, but the biggest problem is that they're all focused on shifting blame rather than addressing the problems.

The president is admitting that it's a partisan event here, so it shouldn't be getting any more federal funding. He can pay for it himself.

This should be a much bigger story A priceless collection of art has gone missing during trump's chaotic and secretive renovation of the Kennedy Center share.google/EgXWR11JELf6...

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Incidentally, this makes the nihilism and the zero sum game of fascism seem appropriate and realistic while basic things like a functioning healthcare system or a government not being run by Elon Musk and Donald Trump are framed as impossible and undesireable.