"Up to zero leaks and bunching" implies the likelihood of negative leaks (inflow) and negative bunching (product spreads out like a Venom symbiote).

Apparently we're only allowed to have sociopaths and/or octogenarians in the US Senate.

While the link goes to the special edition collectible signed hardcover, the ebook is also now available.

Zex Talk. Well, the fact I could find images means SOMEONE besides me remembers it....

sospx: nooooo we can't not be mad about Vatican ii sospx: you don't understanddddd sospx: we really hate jewsss Pope Leo: ey then you can all get fucked Pope Leo: i'm da Chicago pope!

Okay, the neighborhood illegal fireworks displays seem to have wrapped up, hopefully going to bed now won't be a display of hubris.

www.humblebundle.com/books/john-s... This one's in epub, not some proprietary format I'd never heard of before (glares at the Pratchett bundle).

I think we should officially change the birthdate of the nation to when the Articles of Confederation were signed in 1781, so a different President can preside over it. The Declaration was just the conception, the birth was in 1781 (and christening in 1789).

I have made it an annual tradition to document Mark Twain’s hatred of July 4th celebrations, but I saved something special for America 250. Twain was part of the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. He was part of what the dubbed the “Congress of Authors”…

Always fun to try to do a reverse image search to figure out who did a piece of art, and every engine gives either no hits at all (the artist probably uses anti-scraping code) or spews out dozens of no doubt AI-generated "is this your card?" guesses that are only close in the vaguest sense.

Ooh, where can I find all three volumes of Library?

pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me

also in case you have missed the excellent memes about this in the replies: yes, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith did in fact used to be called the Inquisition you may be familiar with their earlier work

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Governor Polis might as well just announce he's retiring and will be living in the shrubbery at Mar a Lago.

Right wing propagandists love GenAI deepfakes not just because it lets them easily make convincing fakes, but because it lets them claim inconvenient but authentic videos (like Reagan praising birthright citizenship) are AI fakes.

To heck with the "stuck in an ice cave" nonsense. The Minions went to work for Hitler in 1936. They accidentally ran him over with a Panzer in 1937. Then they went to work for Mussolini, and we Do Not Talk About the Spaghetti Incident of 1939. Stalin wisely declined their services. 1/2

To my understanding, this is an accurate summation of the state of schism:

Looks like the Secret Society of Super Pious has got themselves excommunicated again.

Meanwhile, *well* to the east of anyplace where people once upon a time sometimes got in trouble for consecrating bishops without permission... 😏

We definitely need a new term for this kind of person, and I propose “prolapsed Catholic.”

I’m starting to think that the book I’m reading is structurally The Wizard of Oz.

So, I think people have the notion that I saw BIRTH OF A NATION was racist and that's why I want to remove it from the canon. That's not actually true. I kept hearing about how BOAN was the first this and the first that but as I started watching more silent movies, the math was not mathing.

Huh. Profile pics don't have a spot for alt text. That would be helpful for those whose pics are from obscure sources. I guess the vibe code wasn't there.

GOP announces we are closer than ever to creating the Republic of Gilead from the classic novel "The Handmaid's Tale."

Welp, here comes a return of machine politics. What other ills of the Gilded Age will our captured court system revive?

Not sure I'd want to eat at a restaurant where the waiter is ready to pull out a bottle of Pepto Bismol at a moment's notice.

*pitches bingo card into the sea*

Unless they're @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social 's giant magic horseshoe crabs, then you're gonna need a crane and a lot of help.

Yeah I really do not think people should be able to get millions of dollars if a fire starts

Low-stakes conspiracy theory: all of those "get out of timeshare" companies also sell timeshares under a different name. Work the churn from both ends.

Game over. It will NEVER get better than this. #WorldBollardAssociation

Another gift from Japanese Transformers Twitter: Sideways as a mech suit.

The technology has long been available to inobtrusively show viewers tuning in to network TV after a sports delay exactly how far behind regular programming has gotten, but they clearly don't want people to know.

In case you missed it, J.D. "not the name on his birth certificate" Vance defended Nixon as a mostly-innocent victim of the Deep State. Sure, he did some bad stuff, but it was totally minor, barely worth mentioning, it was all Deep State that drove him from office.

I'm not saying I'm getting old, but the guy at the pharmacy counter does greet me by name.

www.thefifth.world/2026/06/dave... - Nancy Drew Secret of the Old Clock #3, The Daughter of the Demon Lord Is Too Kind!! vol 1, Magical Girl Dandelion vol 1-2, Chainsaw Man vol 21, Ichi the Witch vol 3...

He's so obviously lying. He's just been shot down by at least one bisexual woman to whom he suggested a threesome, and he's bitter about it (but still turned on). If there's something you can trust from a right wing guy, it's to say the opposite of anything regarding his turn-ons.

Texas has approved mandatory Bible stories for public school students (as "literature," I guess). They better not just give kids proper Bibles, or they're all gonna find Judges 19 (and frankly, Judges in general).

..."THE LEGO ZARDOZ MOVIE"??!! 😅

If someone says they're not racist because they hate everyone equally, challenge them to be more explicitly anti-racist. Why should white men not suffer as much as everyone else, if you really hate everyone equally?

The Pope demands you write that rarepair.

There will be no twenty-second pilot.

SCOTUS: As long as you wrap your racism in a veneer of xenophobia, it doesn't count as racism.

I've said it before but the rise in adult ADHD diagnoses is just because it stopped being socially acceptable to unknowingly self-medicate with cigarettes as a cheap stimulant and fidget toy.

This needs to be handled by people who have training in the use of explosives against flesh, in open settings rather than confined within a building or a hole drilled in rock. In other words, this is a job for military ordnance experts. This is a year the military needs a solid win, let them do it.

It's easier to shift blame for real harms onto a scapegoat group than it is to manufacture fake harms, which is why the GOP keeps doing things that hurt their own voters. They can always blame it on the Dems, the trans, the immigrants, etc. once the harm has been in place for a while.

It doesn't matter if 358 bipartisan Representatives say yes, if Mike Johnson says no than the expected pocket veto isn't getting overridden. (I dunno if you can even do a discharge petition for a veto override, but I suspect the support of a lot of those 358 will evaporate now.)

"Is the pasta ready yet?" "I dunno, if I check too soon it'll be dismissed to the underworld."