It's not everyday you get to shake a dinosaur's hand

How is it you have no notion of anything, a question I ask myself regularly in 2026

Its literally

I loved him as Pierre!

The main character also falls in with a bad crowd, and they tie a policeman to a bear, and then push the bear (who can swim) into the river, which even the society ladies find funny

So many great quotes from this book. Love this arc for Pierre, who then goes on to join the 1810s equivalent of a Jordan Peterson lifestyle cult through the Masons:

I tried to read Anna Karenina a long time ago, and really the only thing that got in the way of me finishing it was the book got too heavy to carry around! But if I get an e-book or audiobook, or both, I’d love to finish it.

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Yeah, I always got the feeling that brutal honesty was a very Russian way to communicate. As is complaining. And considering a lot of my family came from that part of the world, that would explain a lot.

I’m reading War and Peace, and you know, probably a lot more people would read it if they knew just how extremely cunty the dialogue is

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

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Nirvanna: The Band: The Show: The Movie is the closest thing we are ever going to get to an adaptation of Chrono Trigger and I am perfectly happy with that

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

me: dad the new season of for all mankind premiers tomorrow! my dad (invented the directv satellite): what’s that me: it’s that alternate history nasa show about “what if the soviets did the moon landing first” my dad (again, who works in aerospace): i think they did! WHAT DOES THIS MAN KNOW???

strongly hope gavin newsom never becomes president and is forgotten in 5 years

“Yeah well the jerk store called and they’re running out of you” but with homophobia

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

call Hollywood, we have our reboot of Three's Company

Two of my very good friends were married by a “what a waste” priest fifteen years ago. The gay Best Man was hardcore flirting with him. Maybe like five years back I asked whatever happened to him, and they said “Oh, he left the priesthood and is out and proud now.”

“is margo madison NASA’s omelas child” - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

I grew up going to Conservative or Modern Orthodox synagogues, and I’ve got to say, one of the risks no one tells you about when you start going down the reconstructionist route is how suddenly your rabbis will be young and hot

One of them is half American, and one of them is married to an American. And I don’t know why, but for some reason Black British actors seem much better at doing American accents than white British actors.

pudding is the funniest dessert. one blop of sweet slorp please

Wikipedia page for median Bluesky user

I have no interest in this man’s problems

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

we’re not going to get anywhere until we stop letting companies pay millions in settlements instead of putting their leadership in fucking jail

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

OH MY GOD STOP TRYING TO SAY X IS AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM ITS NOT ITS THE SIZE OF PINTEREST BUT IF I WAS LIKE 'DEMOCRATS GOTTA WIN THE COMMENTS WAR ON PINTEREST' THEYD LOCK ME FUCKING AWAY

He can do a pretty convincing English accent, in my opinion. The man played Churchill and no one complained. But 25 years ago, Brits REALLY didn’t like Americans playing British. And it is true that we’re not great at the accents. Although most of them aren’t great at ours, either.

Slytherin: Inherited your title Ravenclaw: Oxbridge Giffindor: Granted a title for like being in a band or something Hufflepuff: The "virtuous" working class Muggles: The, um, Other working class Goblins, house elfs, etc.: jfc what the hell man

Yeah, I remember people telling me that they thought I’d make a good Hermione. And people wanted Haley Joel Osment as Harry. But we knew it was never going to happen because British people really don’t like Americans playing Brits. And JKR had enough control to say that she wanted British actors.

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Wikipedia does what is essentially a full ban on AI content: www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”

Related point, I was under 12 when my endometriosis started. I was not a woman, I was a child. Saying people instead of women is not just gender inclusive, it's also age inclusive.

Also, just like… Why the fuck do we need this? We have a series of movies. We have video games. We have a theme park. We have radio plays. We have audiobooks. We have a fucking West End play. It’s diminishing returns at this point. And it was never fucking Tolstoy.

I don't really think your opinion on Harry Potter has any intrinsic moral valence, but c'mon, you should really not be giving Rowling money or attention if you care at all about trans rights, y'know? She's not an author with bad opinions, she's a full-time political activist who used to write books.

The single greatest move a YouTube chef can do is when they reuse a bowl and say “let’s just reuse this so you don’t have to clean a second bowl”, that’s when I know they are working with me and not against me

right and the secondary part of this which maybe seems frivolous but is still worth mentioning: harry potter is not guernica. it’s a not-very-well-written commercial fantasy franchise for children. there are dozens of better alternatives

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

Honestly, Narcissa as Carmela would have been more intriguing than “She’s just loves her shitty child, you guys 🥺”

They have. Nobody knows for sure what causes it. There are two theories, but no one is sure yet.

I think about this for a lot of Very Rich people. They have the money to cure endometriosis. To cure cancer. To solve climate change! They could save a whole species and be famous forever. But no, gotta spit on trans people and go to Mars. Priorities.

Also, another thing on endometriosis research: it’s incredibly fucking important to study endometriosis in all genders, because not only has it oddly appeared in a few cis men, but trans men do seem to have higher rates of it. We also REALLY need to study how hormones affect it.

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics