germans fall into the same kind of categories as elves in popular media do so you have High Germans (lower saxons) Wood Germans (Easterners) Sea Germans (Schleswig-Holsteiners) and Dark Germans aka the austrians

architecture teaches us that before long, gothic girls WILL be replaced by various types of renaissance girls hailing back to the styles of ancient rome and greece

hasbro executive, sweating: stars wars for Commander? have we done star wars? do a star wars we need more FUCKING money

One of the reasons Julius Caesar was assassinated was because he started putting his own likeness on Roman coins, where previously that was reserved only for people who were already dead.

<to be read in Werner Herzog voice> "Of course, the heart of Fascism as a project or government rests on telling a fantasy story about "Stuff That THEY from THERE Stole from US", yet no fascist's fantasy survives the inexorable power of Reality's ass crack as she grinds it into their noses"

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

"Deithwen Addan yn Carn aep Morvudd, Emhyr var Emreis" would be a beautiful name for a trans girl

I would say that one of the big downsides of living the good life, that philosophers don't often talk about, is that it really dampens your ability to whine. Whining and complaining, which is one of the greatest joys of human existence, is tragically robbed from us almost entirely.

i hate having poly friends. my bestie just asked me to call her wife but every single one of her contacts is labeled "wife" just with different heart emojis

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

ttrpgs are when your goblin has a fat ass, and the fatter the ass on the glblin the more ttrpg it is

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

I would say that in retrospect Microsoft's Clippy wasn't so bad. He gave some pretty great tips on how to write a memo. He didn't destroy the environment by consuming more energy than most countries. He didn't help bomb any countries. All in all, C- to B+ range, realistically.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

islamic christology is probably the funniest theological field because the things muslims believe about jesus are fundamentally 99% identical with the things christians believe to a genuinely funky extent. like including the "he'll come back at the end of days to battle the antichrist" part

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Wrong. America could never produce Socrates because Big Sophism would give a billion dollars to Protagoras to form a think tank that would drown out his message with a million sock puppet accounts on social media, who would all claim that Real Men don't care about the philosophy or the truth.

The modern mind is not able to comprehend how the Roman Empire was able to administer an territory all the way from Egypt to Hadrian's Wall without making use of Jira Sprint Planning.

Israel two hours from now: Hamas was hiding under that Iranian preschool so. you're welcome actually

Declare victory and go home

*sigh* great. There’s obviously some sort of device nearby I’m gonna need to use this on to compete a puzzle so I gotta lug it to the leftist coffee shop and bookstore with me

This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟

Slowly realize that everything is terrible: sadness. Quickly realize that everything is terrible: comedy.

In fairness to them, “I would rather just not do my job than talk to a SovCit person for another five minutes” might be the closest an on duty cop has ever come to a normal human emotion.

Haha holy fuck man

Here it is, your moment of zen.

What empire did Sparta have? Sparta's military existed mostly to keep their slave population under control. They hegemony after the Peloponnesian War lasted only 30 years. They then got obliterated by the Macedonians, turning their town into a tourist attraction for the Romans.

People that worship the spartans are so, so funny like yeah we need to be more like the unequivocal losers in history's most famous one sided feud, owned in every conceivable way, still trying to wash off the stink of being losers literally millennia later

they look at the intricate machinery of the most powerful system of imperial extraction the world has ever seen and say "this is gay shit for the wokes. the wokes love this imperialism. but it cannot rival my alternative: forcing everyone into direct resistance against me"

From the award-winning developer of "Seduced by the Busty Elf" and "Ravished by the Burly Orc" comes a brand new title, "Made To Question Your Long-Held Assumptions About What Constitutes Sex by Some Kind of Fucking Goblin".

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

two days ago, the WSJ described young people as "splurging on" rotisserie chicken, the $6 item that, by weight, is the cheapest meat at the grocery store. the ruling class tells each other with increasing desperation that we deserve what they're doing to us

democratic party cheerleaders are really doing their best to make it seem like the nominee for president in 2028 is gavin newsom already huh

A lot of these free market libertarians in the last year or DID shift some of their attention to combatting Trump's attacks on free speech. But they want to pretend they didn't play a starring role in paving the way for the total destruction of the federal regulatory state by autocratic zealots

66% of 18+ members of the Democratic party report a positive view of socialism. This number has, generally, been on an upward trend. If the party is not bound by the political views of it's constituents, who increasingly want socialism, then what is the point? (www.statista.com/statistics/1...)

finding out that 100% of the "rude" tag warnings are applied manually by bsky mod staff has been enriching because now whenever i see a post that objectively rocks tagged "rude" i know that some bsky mod was getting mad about what a good post it is

WE CALL 'EM SKEETS

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

I just thought everyone should see this

I showed you my prunus. Please respond