1000 rich idiots invest in random types of magic beans One type of magic beans turns out to be pretty valuable, actually. This randomly makes one rich idiot mega-rich Mega rich idiot: "I am a bean visionary! Buy my new beansMAX™️, UltraBeans™️ and MAGIKBEAN 9000™️. These beans are inevitable!"

The reason 'trans women in sport' is a fertile line of discourse for the right is that women's sport, in general, has always rested on poorly defined sex essentialism. People instinctively try to resolve related contradictions along lines that have always been bullshit but are completely normalised.

The word 'cleavage' implies that at the birth of the world women had a single giant boob but they were too powerful so Zeus had to send down Hermes to cleave all the boobs in twain

Past thinkers have theorised that Roman Christianity and latter European cultures were built on a foundation fusing Greek and Jewish influences. In Jack Kirby's New Gods no.1 'Orion' meets the 'High Father', who draws power from a wall that is a remnant of a previous religion. In this essay I will

Thai food is the only cuisine where recipe writers are happy to write "add the generic coloured gunk that makes the recipe taste like what it's supposed to be". TELL ME WHAT'S IN THE RECIPE!!! That's what I was trying to look up. I don't need guidance on how to add gunk from a jar.

I don't get it. This is just a regular Batman comic www.smbc-comics.com/comic/joke-5

Old, ineffective plug remains defiantly in damn as everybody around him frantically but unsuccessfully searches for a new plug.

'Postmodern neo-Marxism' is a strawman that serves as a generic Other to a particular tendency. It's instructive to reverse† its component terms to get a clue about what that tendency is. One possibility is 'neoreactionary postliberalism', which I think nicely exposes the fascist ideology at play.

Most people will choose to argue illogically in defence of logic's authority rather than commit to thinking logically about logic's limitations.

Normality is an overdiagnosed condition

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—a small pile of rocks stands in the desert with one word… "UNLESS." Whatever that meant, well, I just couldn't guess. But we might imagine that it means, "I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees, Plant a new Truffula, treat it with care!"...

Are you currently looking at a screen while wearing clothes? These weirdly specific details that describe a very large percentage of the people reading this post prove I have special insight into you particularly. My insight tells me you are super cool, interesting and virtuous. Like and subscribe.

Abuse→ Cult→ Religion→ Mainstream Understanding There are profound qualitative changes as you travel from one end of this continuum to the other, but it 𝘪𝘴 a continuum. At one end a single person defines another person's world. At the other 'everybody knows' what powerful people tell them they know

Some songs lead a lot of different lives open.spotify.com/track/2mNKUB...

This is what happens when you determine the legality of a firearm based on its length. Listen to @bloodwork.show

It's fun to see McSweeney and Mandelson get a few Consequences, but at this point I'd like to know who the new fuckers in charge are. Who's up and coming at the Tony Blair Institute? What bushy-tailed Fabian is going to be restructuring Britain's oxygen into a public-private partnership next week?

Every joke was new once. The first gen X-er to combine random nouns with swear words was an innovator. The first Millenial superhero to disbelievingly narrate their own actions was charming. All the best jokes inevitably die through repetition. Like the cake, the eternally funny joke is a lie.

Those chuds who pretend that sex education is somehow comparable to grooming obviously never experienced the horrifying social awkwardness that sex ed classes involve for teachers and pupils alike.

Beauty and the Beast tune: 🎼Grift as old as time Copy-paste each line "Why I left The Left" 🎶

If I had a billion dollars... I'd certainly have power, but it would not be trivial to exercise it. I'd be a mark. I'd need the help of someone who understands how to spend that sort of money, and everyone qualified would be dangerous. Being rich is a set of cultural privileges, not just a number.

Guy who has formed his entire identity around a soft drink brand: "I have switched to a new soft drink brand. This changes everything. I am utterly remade. Everything is new and nothing of the old remains. All hail the one true soft drink!"

I hate the term 'ally'. We should have a concept of being basically decent™️

Analytic philosophy is one of many philosophical traditions invented in mainland Europe. It later became influential in Britain and America. 'Continental Philosophy' is a term invented by British and American analytic philosophers to name non-analytic European philosophy.

New ADHD just dropped: attempting to put on a second pair of glsses

Considered a Straight of Hormuz/Hokey-Cokey joke: "You get your trade route open, now your trade route's closed; open, closed, open, closed, now claim regime's deposed..." When I thought of calling it the 'Trumpy Bumpy' I did the responsible thing: the POST GONE SHITLIB button ejected it into space

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

"The gods are dead, but they have died from laughing at the suggestion that there is only one of them"

Left vs right is the majority vs elite power. When considering the right, this boils down to two pieces of information: 1/ the right are not the majority 2/ the right have power Right wing propaganda is designed to obscure these facts. When they become clear, that's when you get a revolution.

By my calculations, we're in a window of about six or seven months before this is no longer recognisable as satire. theonion.com/trump-escala...

Memory is a public good that the rich and powerful want privatised. Social media platforms have vast archives of people's opinions and interactions. More traditional outlets also record what they publish. Shutting down public archives should be understood as part of the enclosure of the commons.

A simile is like a ska band in a sushi restaurant. It doesn't necessarily provide conceptual clarity.

it’s like i’m always saying. the only thing that defeats fascism is less aesthetically offensive fascism

History repeats itself: first as farce, then as a second, stupider farce

Between the Incredible String Band and John Prine I'm starting to think that Jesus used to be pretty based back in the 60s and 70s

Does anyone have a link to the footage of Kemi Badenoch trailing the Cass Review - that is, saying that she has an upcoming whitepaper that will support her agenda on trans issues?

I found the template for Israel's diplomatic model www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUr...

It's used to mean 'anything reactionaries don't like', but the word once named a practical awareness of racism's effects. Words naturally drift from specific to general, but left-wing language gets hollowed out deliberately. An early example is Von Mises redefining 'capitalism' to mean 'markets'.

One possible positive outcome downstream from the Iran war stupidity is it might be an incentive to switch to renewables. Right now a bunch of states are probably thinking: 'what if we had a bunch of energy that *didn't* rely on international shipping lanes?'

subject identified: 'old flat top' tactical analysis: walrus gumboot ju-ju eyeball feet, knees (standard configuration) knowledge of basic addition recommendation: initiate bukkake protocol

This is the only possible good take on Deadpool. The comedy has to be a cover for the tragedy or it's nothing. Everything else - specifically the fourth wall breaks - works following the same pattern.

Wild that Bluesky right now is just a wall of nostagia for Twitter. Was it really such a unique moment? Can it never be made again? Is there something wrong with the algorithm here?

The Tilly Norwood fake shutdown is the exact opposite of an ordinary April Fools joke. For a brief moment it seemed like reason had prevailed, but then the world reverted to a status quo where we're all expected to believe in the stupidest shit imaginable.

An evergreen sentiment for every occasion

@lindsayellis.bsky.social are you aware of this absolute triumph of automatic subtitling?

If nothing else, this isn't the mirror image. The mirror image would be if people were trying to make cis kids trans and straight kids gay. That's [checks notes] the precise bugbear that every shrill rightwing grifter pretends to believe is threatening society and needs to be fought off at any cost.

Upwork is wild. $300 for a 12,000 word history of Nicholas Copernicus? It's conservative to call it a week's work to do such a job properly, and accepting that estimate you'd be working for less than minimum wage. The alternative explanation is that the job is literally asking for you to use AI.

Luigi, Goombas, Bullet Bill, Toad, Quentin Meillassoux (From Super Mario: Denying the Principle of Sufficient Reason)

It's fun to fry chilis as part of cooking because it feels super hardcore to make food that it hurts to even *approach*.

This seems to be burying the lede that the original is significantly better than the more famous cover. Putting this on the list with Tainted Love and Hurt.