Reading The Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler in 2026 is quite an experience. "Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be led by all the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. 1/2

What an excellent spooky fess.

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

This blows my mind as there were so many great games in that era!

So I have a question for Bluesky. This food truck was outside work, but they appear to have a roasted dinosaur on the roof. My question is: what species of dinosaur have they roasted? Allosaurus? Iguanadon?

How many more airlines do they intend to kill off?

Pretty sure fridges are not meant to be 54°F / 12°C

I profoundly object to phrases like “listen to women” in this context because we really do not all agree, nor necessarily have much in common at all. Inherently, this constant reduction of us to a bottom line of imagined biological cohesion is patronising and dehumanising.

The original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series does show its age, but the most shocking thing is them buying six pints of bitter and getting change from a fiver.

Slightly increase a band Indigo Young Women

i always offer to go along to my gf's doctor's appointments because doctors are so fucking worthless. there's no symptom they won't say is anxiety, no evidence they will accept, but if a man says "i've seen her have anxiety and this is something else" suddenly they're sherlock holmes

SIXTY candidates for CA Governor? WTAF

Because you have to read halfway through the article before they mention it - the chemical suspected of triggering early puberty is 'musk ambrette', which is used in many inexpensive scented personal care products.

There’s a vas deferens between self-care and … whatever this is.

Try googling David Attenborough today on his 100th Birthday

Having given this some serious consideration, I think I could beat Donald Trump in a fight. Neither of us knows how to fight, neither of us are physically brave, and he is probably 90lbs heavier than me. However I am almost 30 years younger and much fitter.

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Happy Steam Controller Day!

Oh my god

If those pictures are accurate, it is wild that the officer is firing in the direction of his colleagues in at least three of those shots. I think they are lucky that none of them got hit.

*everyone* really needs a set of miniature pewter goblins hand-modelled by my friend Jon. Get yours here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/jon...

If you have not watched 'Delicatessen' (1991) directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, you should definitely do so. You can rent or buy it on lots of the usual streaming services, but you can also watch it on Kanopy, which you can often get free through your local library!

No it's because the final part of his plan was a wildly mismanaged sprint.

With the exception of his unreliable Scottish accent, Richard Attenborough is really good in the first Jurassic Park

When I saw the sea was higher on one side of a mountain range, I thought "Oooh! that's quite a flex!" And then when he made a hole in that mountain range and the ocean came flooding though I realized I had totally underestimated the level of flex...

Here's another Janky Display Device Build Video youtu.be/YbxsYhTjYFI

I saw the future, and it is winking at you.

Goddammit I stubbed my toe

Getting out of bed today was a mistake

I don't really like that thing in movies they do where they take some 80s song and rerecord it for a modern film. I wasn't expecting Chesney Hawkes, though

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

I think it's important for Donny boy to understand that we will destroy his arch. And then to recoup some of the expense we will make toilets and urinals out of it, and sell them.

Orban conceding prompts me to think about how far outside the norms Trump is - even Orban could concede with reasonable grace.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

I think Democrats need to start talking about the US joining the International Criminal Court.

I wonder if the guy with the 'Peace through Superior Firepower ' tee shirt will have the gall to wear it to work now

Sometimes I like to think that I am salty and hot.

There is no definition of a species.

thai food is no joke

One side effect of attending a protest around here is that it makes me feel quite young.

Bruce Springsteen now wears hearing aids just like me, which is ironic since I blame him for mine.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a weed game. Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is a caffeine game.

Billionaires

Those Lackadaisy books are absolutely wonderful, by the way

1. Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade 2. Who let the dogs out - Baha Men 3... I was going to put Come on Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners on there, but I can't quite bring myself to do so.

Welsh speaker here. It's completely untrue to say that the only times we speak Welsh in public are to annoy boorish English visitors. But it is true to say those are the *best* times.

I don't think therefore I am

Make Jack Aubrey a commodore with that mission and give him almost no material support