It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue. The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...

"hornysmo" is such a beautiful word.

Brennan being genuinely horrified by the antics of Darkness Man and Bat Child is the highlight of any live play I've watched.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

A reminder that Jesus condemned the Pharisees for being hypocrites who made a public show of their prayers.

Ever have an idea you just have to post to get it out of your head?

Cornell employee: oh hey u guys are back early melittologist: bees haunted Cornell employee: what? melittologist [loading a bee smoker and getting back in the beekeeping van]: bees haunted

just found out this is watercolor and spent like a good five minutes pissed off

Oh shit, the Maul show is actually good.

i am serious, a winning line in 2028 could just be "aren't you tired of these people? aren't you tired of 14 years of this?"

show this map to a 16th century Genoese Merchant and he will nod knowingly (assuming the bit about the suez canal is how it can't be built, but god if it could, it's just be another choke point)

AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”

it’s a huge mistake to start liking or respecting Ro Khanna because his personal random number generator high-rolled a couple in a row, I remind myself for the seventh or eighth time

My Spring to do list by JD Vance 1. Prevent Iran war 2. Negotiate end to Iran war 3. Reelect Viktor Orbán

Jesus Christ, Legends.

An episode of America's most wanted basically did this intro while showing B-roll of my house back in the 90s.

i will say it again: challenge coins should be outlawed and as a social matter we should make fun of these people for collecting Big Strong Boy Pogs

Spider-Man by @beetlemoses.bsky.social

Pssst: if you miss Mara, go read the Interregnum trilogy on AO3

I think it's perfectly fine to leave some things well enough alone, even if it's Timothy Zahn asking you not to (perhaps, in some circumstances, especially if Zahn is asking you not to)

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

100% agree, provided that influence is "more bloodthirsty MILFs in stuff".

Actively cheering for 2028 to look like the last hour of Downfall.

lol the first episode of this show is literally titled "Dark Revenge."

every day that it doesn’t happen brings us one day closer to the day that it does

This is no way to live, man

Come on then, and remove him.

that would be Doing Politics though, a thing contemporary Democrats are terrified of

Congress is more afraid of the appearance of our democratic system failing than they are of the system actually failing ngl

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

We used Claude to target some kids and blew them up with Tomahawk missiles and absolutely no one batted an eye and now people are shrugging off Trump and Vance threatening to use nukes as bluster. We are cooked through, man

As if personally killing a hippie during a sit-in isn't something Hegseth fantasizes about.

Marc Thiessen is just writing his columns as the opinion of the "Editorial Board" now.

I Photoshop Neel into things… Day 224 #StarWars

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Johnson sitting down to outline his Star Wars movie like “Poe tells Hux ‘Yo mama’ joke”

Today we celebrate Him