One should never think age stops you from doing anything. Oates was born before WWII and yet is the most savage poaster in the history of man.

Inject this into my veins.

Släpp ingen djävul över bron

Going to Ypres and being like "These foreigners have no right to wear the poppy"

In the salmon life cycle you get one chance to have sex and you either die on the way there or die right afterwards and this little guy was not gonna throw away his shot.

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

can't remember whether I've ever shared my Predator essay here, but it feels like a good time to do so

I was thinking earlier that you could do a tremendous Predator movie where the protagonists are a Viet Cong patrol and the Predator to some degree represents their experience of US military’s combination of arrogance, superior firepower and technology, and ability to inflict terror.

Federation colonial policy is based on thinly veiled manifest destiny and carried out through in the best case benign neglect from the Federation government.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

There is something patently absurd in all the moaning about EU unity as a contrast to America when we are now in week 5 of a US government shutdown that increasingly looks permanent

I mean, Yasser Arafat was also a Nobel Laureate. So was Aung san Suu Kyi, who went on to run cover for Myanmar's violence against the Rohingya. Hell, in '73 they gave the prize to Henry Kissinger. So, you know, it's a little hit-or-miss.

"If you want a picture of the future of war, imagine a guy jumping through a flaming hoop to assuage the masculinity-anxiety of his boss - forever."

Translation: "Eight-year-old Edda Svanlund Sekander dresses up as a hefty electric bill for Halloween, something she believes will scare the grown-ups as she goes trick-or-treating."

Anyone who has studied medieval history knows that the first thing you do when finally King is shank your brothers. This is monarchy 101 folks.

King

I cannot only be following North Americans why is the entire timeline baseball?

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Why is Sweden’s worst coffee brand selling in the US and why have they made up the bastard child between e and ä?

The reason why a lot of us Europeans living in monarchies are okay with that is that the alternative often turns out to be “monarchy but significantly more cursed”

My take is that while the Shire is obviously Britain with its meadows, ales, breakfasts and teatimes, Mordor, with its smog, industrialization, imperialism (including of peoples that seem African and Middle Eastern) is also Britain.

It's incredibly normal to feel uncomfortable being near people who are different from you. And your job as a human being is to feel a little ashamed of that, grow the fuck up, and get over it.

Will deporting Mel be the spark that breaks up the MAGA coalition?

This is the ideal body. You may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like.

*EU apparatchik voice* And this kids is why we have freedom of movement

So much of the glam & shine of everything that gets gushed over in T1 Cities - especially by the all-expenses-paid-govt-sponsored-tour Obvious Shills™ - is, one micron below the surface, powered by some of the grimiest, soul-crushing jobs that even Charles Dickens would've blushed at

From the L.A. Times via Yahoo News: here is a great story on the history of the St. George Reef Lighthouse off northern California and the determined efforts of volunteers to save it. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Women saved Star Trek, women put together the first Star Trek con, women put together the zines and wrote the fanfic (and decided Kirk & Spock should be together and that ship was called Kirk/Spock and "slash" is literally a thing because of that slash). I could go on— fanlore.org/wiki/Timelin...

Been too long since I did a big silly ancient history 🧵so let's bring an old one back over from the Bad Place: It's time for ::air horn:: Publius Ventidius Bassus, the coolest Roman you have never heard of and the only person to walk in a triumph first as captive, then as triumphing general. 1/

While the question of what language to speak in Ireland is a question for no one but the Irish I hope they understand how much bullshit they could avoid by making the switch fully to Gaelic.

I love people who take pride into their work

Every day I learn new things about Anglo politicians against my will

Abject fantasy

Mob War: Philadelphia vs the Mafia was billed as a gritty documentary and yet he doesn't even seem to be in it.

Thor's helmet should emote like Asterix's, my only deeply held superhero opinion

"Is that a swastika on that man's face?''

I’m sorry but if Pluto cannot be a planet this thing is not allowed to be a moon.

@Marvel let me me write a UN series that's about a guy trying to get the UN to do something good but the Human Rights Council constants of Krakoa, Atlantis, Wakanda, Latveria, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia and they're like "what even *are* Human Rights? Sounds like an internal issue!"

You get these occasional statements from this or that EU leader only for intergovernmentalism as an approach to get steamrollered the moment member states face another crisis that sits beyond their institutional capacity to handle

The plot thickens. Are we witnessing the early stages of a Bonapartist coup? 👀

Errr these are pro-Palestine demonstrations. This is some weapons-grade US exceptionalism.

There's a strange hopefulness from historians that historical figures they adore would have agreed with them politically were they born in another time, but this is just wild projection and a useless hypothetical. Who's to say they were merely a product of their time & wouldn't be ICE agents today?

Indeed, everyone most definitely came out of world war fucking two assuming everyone wanted to be nice to eachother.

Man be out there subtweeting his entire fandom

He should be treated with all the privileges due to his rank (shut up in a castle tower in Cornwall until forgotten and quietly smothered by royal agents in the middle of the night)