Happy international women's day to all women tall or short, thick or thin, cis or trans! #iwd #international #womens #day

The perspective looks all wrong. You're staring straight at this barmaid, but her reflection in the mirror is way off to right. Even worse, her reflection is facing a guy who doesn't appear in the main view! But in 2000, a researcher showed this perspective is actually possible! (1/n)

We used to make things

"First." If there's a country in Central America and the Caribbean where we didn't send Marines to enforce order between 1914 and 1932, I'd like to hear about it.

if you want to understand how trump talked himself into an war of choice to overthrow the government of iran, you have to start where all discussions of great wartime leaders start: with french postmodernists and SUNSET BOULEVARD

All the best oracle are saying, Donald, if you invade PERSIA, a great empire will fall! We love our ORACLES, especially as regards to Delphi and Future! thank you for your attention to this matter!

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day. Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

First they came for the trans people, and I said nothing because I wasn’t trans. Then they were like actually I’m pretty sure you are trans and I said no I’m not and they went okay well show us your penis then and I said what no get out of my face and they said that one’s a girl get her

move slow and repair things

the thing about being part of a diaspora is that your culture is formed around diaspora and people who didn't leave may not share it, even if diaspora culture is a lot about the place from which you left. At this time, I am speaking of Irish and Irish-American.

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

"From every kind of man obedience I expect. I'm the emperor of Japan--" "And I his daughter-in-law elect!" He'll marry his son He's only got one To the daughter-in-law elect. Bow! Bow! To the daughter-in-law elect!" "Bow! Bow! To the daughter-in-law elect!"

As I thought: she was fired because she did a bunch of corruptions and Trump didn't get his beak wet. Oh sorry, not fired, transferred to the "WTF Are We Doing in South America" desk.

I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.

doing everything you can to kneecap renewable energy development and then immediately launching an illegal war that threatens non-renewables and may result in a catastrophic increase in energy prices is the republican party in a nutshell

in my day kids were named normal things like Gunt or Pecker. basically all the girls were named jerriette or jerry. that's how things used to be. now parents these days just farm aura with rare biblical names like "Go Up Thou Bald Head", "Perfect Hatred", "Issue Of Horses", "Spirit Of Whoredoms"

David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

Reup: "Squirter:" The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict emptywheel.net/the-catastro...

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Phillips O’Brien. The US/Israeli Bombing Of Iran: Means and Ways Without Ends open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Me: Do you feel like I listen to you? 10yo: Yeah. Me: You know I'm always here if you want to talk about anything. 10yo: Yeah. I know. Me: I love you very much. 10yo: I KNOW. ... can I go now?

SG says the CSA is a fair judgment about dangerousness KBJ: "I guess my problem is that it might be a fair judgment but, conceptually, that is precisely what the Bruen test prohibits. That we don't credit the judgments of the modern legislature about who is dangerous and who needs to be disarmed.."

Total eclipse of the full blood moon is tonight, in case you haven’t checked in on the doom portents lately.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

I kept needing this, so I finally made it.

had occasion to remember this one

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

Poems for Lent (2nd Sunday) • Gerard Manley Hopkins •

Iran? You haven’t even finished Venezuela. How can you have any Iran if you don’t finish your Venezuela!

YES PLEASE

According to the Ming text Yu Xie (玉屑), cats first came to China with Tang Sanzang on his journey to the Western Kingdom of Tianzhu. Tasked with guarding Buddhist scriptures from mice, they were sacred guests: foreign, watchful, and 1/2 #caturday 🎨 Anonymous (19th century), Cat and Lily

Inside you there are two Finnish icons

Is this fucking Pilgrim's Progress, what is going on

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

the entire pitch of Cuomo was that sure he's a loathsome sex pest but he has what it takes to stand up to Trump, and then the hot leftist starts every phone call with "what's up big dog" and gets Trump to do whatever he wants.

white voters get their legitimate concerns addressed, non-white voters are pandered to. it's an irregular verb.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

BREAKING: Scientists have discovered the world's oldest writing in a cave in Germany. It predates all human civilisations at 38,000 years old. Excitingly, it has already been translated. It reads: Warning: Iran is just two weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.

I genuinely think this is the funniest cartoon still of all time. I have no idea why. I just strongly believe this is the single most perfect frame in the history of cartoons.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

A rare outtake.

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

Warring States Period (Far Occident): 476-1945 CE eautbc.hypotheses.org/212

I feel like this regularly.

Maslow’s hierarchy of supersessions.

DONE: Shovel front porch Shovel back stairs TO DO: Deliver cookies to neighbor who shoveled shared front stairs