extremely hard racial personnel quotas throughout the court system

one thing i don't believe in is the great covid social rupture theory. you can explain all that by noting that the US has been loudly led by its very worst people for 10 years and people take their social cues from their leaders

yeah. there's a lot of ways to get to the basic truth that it's been a short hop from that (last 20 years) to this (gestures at 2025), but this way makes you see it pretty well

wise. unfortunately you also need to come up with an os

there are lots of fantasy games but only dwarf fortress is capable of magical realism

UP Chuck’s Kenton, MI

The Barbed Noose with the Mice https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484863

i wonder how many of them are screwing around trying to get chatgpt to "commit suicide". remember, everyone is twelve

This map is highly misleading. In the American electoral system, votes don't influence policy.

beautiful building. not nearly enough shelves and desks

China has this totally correct. your society's richest person should periodically go missing for several years and then come back as a professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Tokyo.

woke up with a hard case of ennui and then had a look at the sports page. look, it was a depressing game, but why even print a newspaper anymore?

re "everyone is twelve", one thing i've observed for some time is that luxury trucks and houses seek to replicate a child's physical relationship with their environment as well; iow compared to your massive-ceilinged house and giant truck you can be a little kid forever

so, 1) being an artist who 2) can't be too mad at art thieves (of physical art). is there another vocation with that kind of relation to its product and its violators? it's hard to think of it. soldiers, i suppose, at times, historically

country music (classic): a funny guy sings a song about how he doesn't have any money country music (current): literally just a republican congressional campaign commercial from 2004

horror-novel concept where what's happening is that earth is travelling through a patch of extremely alien ghosts

this is generally not a bad point but this is a way better chart than a lot of them. i count 7/20 actual jams i'd be happy to sit through. OP is letting milli vanilli and the power ballads lead his nose here i think

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

there's this netflix house tic where, for location transitions, they throw up a slideshow of vaguely related outdoor pics in an appropriate palette instead of anything else. infuriating. i'd 1000% prefer silent-picture cards

"A Burglar Bitten by a Skeleton," Illustrated Police News, June 27, 1874

ok this is my new favourite thing

"lead poisoning," i smirk, as i fall into the classic evolutionary trap of having no defenses against newly introduced predators

"My Suicide" from Dan Clowes' Eightball #8 (March 1992)

i want to be lost and free

rolling up to the function like:

Honestly we'd be a much better world if all art from over fifty years ago were just available for free instead of locked behind pay-to-watch streamers, overpriced home video releases, or just non-existent beyond piracy. Public domain takes too long and copyright owners usually suck.

i am glad for charles burns but i can NOT see 2025 netflix pulling off a black hole series

if you're a former mercenary who has turned to defending democracy and liberalism, that's fine, but i need you to be very convincing about it. bring us some heads

i think this should take place in a fully modern brainworm-infested fbi. skinner keeps yelling at mulder to investigate some youtuber or rosie o'donnell. the cigarette smoking man just works for nvidia

good. fuck up the white house. as conqueror i am tearing down the whole thing. there will be a pretty park and an odeon built into the earth

repeating myself: with the great shrinking of the useful web, a new & current yahoo best of the web that is built just like this would be legitimately useful. where is it?

Death and fire https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/hammamet

i'm preemptively calling out all the marchers. to fight fascism, you have to actually fight. here's a bunch of other things you can do that are also not actually fighting. fave and subscribe

webforumocracy.

reminded by this: i also think the general public online forum is a massive civilizational wrong bet and has already proven its malignance. if bluesky were to die, fine. if i conquered the country i would ban these sorts of sites outright

found your avatar in the far side comics

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

turns out all kinds of stupid shit becomes possible when "raising an army" becomes forgotten tech

(in a twilit forest, a blind, blue-skinned crone, a crow with three eyes and four wings, and an amphisbaena convene around an effigy of me) today will be The Bleeding

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. One for practice and the other one is the "main" grave.

i definitely understand/feel/know the struggle of writers and artists trying to pay bills. that said, if *i* were trying to hit my dudes up for cash, i'd look hard for a bill that was for more than 40 dollars

now if people could start doing this with the whole computer

i do not understand the psychology of guys like this. fascists, easy. various breeds of dumb/cynical/macho republicans, sure. "abandon all hope," sure, that's me most of the time tbh. cynical centrists who are part of the game, yeah. this - no clue. more a literary question than a political one.

i am neutralizing peter thiel by getting him to play fire emblem: three houses

i don't actually have taylor swift opinions but usually musicians start releasing some real clunkers around her age

maybe a path forward is that from now on we only use light verse to lambast our various cultural irritants

this reminds me of this one guy in the french revolution who was up for sentencing during guillotine times and the judge got his last name wrong by adding the de and the fella was like "hey judge i'm here to be made shorter, not longer" and the judge thought that was so funny that they let him go

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