gonna start reading The Trail of Cthulhu, August Derleth's direct sequel to "The Call of Cthulhu" and the second novel-length Mythos story after The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (third if one counts The Hour of the Dragon, which included Lovecraftian ghouls)

my therapist: Drawfee Biden isn't real, he can't hurt you Drawfee Biden: 😎

this didn't get any responses but anyway the correct answer is Verdant Command so you can summon infinite squirrels

I reckon Ithaqua is August Derleth's most enduring creation, his elemental classification of Lovecraft's gods was silly but on his own Ithaqua as an evil air elemental is pretty cool

fuck Sean Penn, I hope he dies

Noriyoshi Ohrai's Godzilla vs Destoroyah Poster (1995) #godzilla

this is what happens when you let this much wealth and power concentrate in the hands of so few people nobody wants any of this but them and they’re the only ones who get a vote

21: MECHANICAL VIOLATOR HAKAIDER - S an absolutely amazing film that balances slow, avant-garde, imagery-driven cinematography with spectacular, ultraviolent action perfectly. very obviously a much more refined Kamen Rider ZO. and very enjoyable because of that a must-watch for any toku fan!

I always smile when I remember this 900 year old Sam & Max fanart, carved into some old twelfth century church in england

Yes, even for the surgical stuff www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S000...

Put another way, if Israel itself defines its existence as contingent upon permanent military dictatorship over millions of stateless people and the suppression of the non-Jewish citizenry, then its existence is not protected by international law as such because those acts are criminal.

Hum, serious question: as we're in the beginning of a huge global energy crisis, why aren't we talking about AI data centers? Like, why aren't we just saying "fuck that" about the most useless and wasteful source of energy consumption?

Reminder once again that the idea of generations sharing inherent traits is astrology for people who think they're too smart for astrology.

As usual it flips responsibility. If you didn't manage to represent the anti-war side against the _literal_ republican party and _literal_ Donald Trump, the blame is on you, not on voters. If we can't hold candidates accountable for terrible campaigning, there won't be good candidates.

The point wasn't that Trump was a peace candidate, it's that our politics is so diseased that Dems feel the need to talk like Col. Jessup. Violence is conveyed as serious and mature and peace is naive and silly, and the one-way ratchet effect is toward war and doom

I think that this guy has more than his share of bad takes, but I don't think this was actually one of them? • The question: What do young men want to hear from Harris? • The response: She should be vocally anti-war. • What it wasn't: Him saying Trump was pro-peace and Harris was pro-war.

if your reaction to the news of ICE at airports is to tell minorities that you are not a member of "uh oh, looks like you guys better not fly now, better safe than sorry!" may I make a suggestion? put a finger in your mouth and bite down. hard. harder. it's only your mind holding you back. harder.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

you kinda have to have brain worms in the first place to accept any notion that people who aren’t bothered enough to do anything about an open pedophile ring involving the president and keep trying to legalize child marriage in various states suddenly care about protecting children

There’s no such thing as harm reduction when it comes to ICE. Putting them in MORE places is only going to increase their terror. This seems obvious? bsky.app/profile/true...

I would not be caught dead saying “I’ll take it” in reference to ICE literally going anywhere at any time under any circumstance. Also…ICE isn’t gonna stop terrorizing cities and towns just cause a few of them are headed to airports. I feel like I’m in the twilight zone?

Precedent has shown that ICE is literally incapable of being chill for the life of me I can’t understand why folks continue to gaslight themselves into thinking things will ever be ok when they show up.

ICE isn’t gonna just hang out passing around bins and looking in a few bags. They’re gonna beat people up, arrest people, abuse women, and be the fucking Nazi thugs they are.

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

Nerd culture is funny because it fooled an entire generation into thinking that if you liked sci-fi and disliked sports, that somehow made you smart.

“I’m sick of wiping tears, I’m sick of hugging people, I’m sick of saying I’m sorry." @sarahlazare.bsky.social reports on Minnesota rising with civil disobedience and mass protest.

YO FOOMIN TRANSITIONED?

We’re long past a point to where layoffs deserve to be seen as a form of industrial sabotage. The damage done to gaming and many other industries by mass layoffs following mass acquisitions is irreparable. Ruined lives, squandered money, stripmined resources, businesses left fucking sabotaged.

The temp I was working with went AWOL and now I have to stay at work until the agency sends someone to relieve me. Fuck my life.

This is actual evil

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones. We’re just weeks into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in. Everything is for sale.

I'm sure cutting off energy supplies to actual humans in favor of powering the burgeoning chatbot sector will be a very popular decision with no downside

Also, let's be very clear, to the extent he had a policy platform in the last election, it was this

Yes so it... will be a black man... hated by the protagonists father bc said man is in love with his girlfriend, and said black man will call the white woman a slur and join the wizard nazis? That's... that's what we're going with?

Right-wing ideology isn’t just killing people today. As a consequence of these cuts, it will kill people decades down the road when we don’t have answers for certain diseases that we might have otherwise. It’s so heinous, and everyone should be outraged.

These people are villains, killing Americans across every generation through negligence, willful ignorance, and right-wing death cult politics.

It’s so disgraceful. Slashing cancer and Alzheimer’s research serves no one. It’s just cruelty as policy and incompetence in leadership. This is the revolution conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy Jr. promised. The utter destruction of American public health, research dominance, and modern science.

If you're feeling weird or uneasy today don't worry it's just an echo of the worldwide uptick in mental disturbance triggered by Cthulhu's momentary awakening 101 years ago on March 22, 1925

See also: Opposing AI because it looks silly or fake. It only becomes less silly looking and more realistic with time. Centering your argument on this shaky ground means having to reposition later. Generative AI is bad for labor bargaining, the environment, and its training data is often stolen.

kind of seems like the people saying data center energy use is overstated were full of shit

This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH. It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

$1 billion in damages and has the president of the United States said anything about it?

A European colleague came to the US recently for an academic meeting On arrival at JFK, she was whisked off by immigration officers into a windowless office, which had a giant picture of Trump, & relentlessly & aggressively questioned for hours They let her go—but she ain’t coming back to the US

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

I want to follow this up and say the centrists staying silent on the genocide and suppressing leftist voices on Palestine are one of the biggest forces fostering the anti semitism on the right and pushing people in their direction by leaving a vacuum that right wing antisemites will occupy

It is true that liberal media is squashing and silencing left adjacent voices around Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. It’s also true that the silence and cowardice of the center/ center left to speak on the issue has conceded the terrain to right wing freaks. But we don’t have to hand it to ‘em

And simultaneously claiming that it's not happening and that you can't believe your own eyes.

And all the while the media and a large portion of the population are cheering it on, insisting that it's good and how everything ought to be.

Why bother even questioning. Obviously you’re allowed to just kill people of the wrong ethnicity in Israel