This is real btw

It's probably fair to say that a disgusting racist freak would find the presence of an innocent person of colour in female spaces "unpleasant", but we don't give in to them because they're disgusting racist freaks. Draw whatever parallels you wish to this situation.

"type of person who is Different isn't allowed because they're Unpleasant" is a fucking kids' cartoon plotline, it cannot get more on-the-nose than this

it's been 27 years and it still gets me, how clearly that Zubat is trying its best at the end of the Pokémon: Indigo League intro

one thing that always gets me: futuristic settings where mobile phones appear to not exist, and which were created when mobile phones were commercially available it was definitely A Choice to know MicroTACs and Nokia 2110s were out there and to still fill the 23rd century with videophone booths

this makes me wonder a bit about how future accents might develop and what modern ones they'd resemble

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

his full name is michael entertainment mouse

the unspoken but core message of the anime Isekai Shokudou (Restaurant to Another World) is that amazing things are possible with food safety regulations

fuck, i'm running out of stories. i need to write more stories while i keep planning out my novel

having spent a significant chunk of my childhood hiding in my room playing P.T.O. II, definitely gonna be a bit weird to see a real live Zero in a couple months

"the '80s were better" is bullshit. not even architecture was better in the '80s. you have to go back to the '30s for that

"aircraft-carrying multi-role cruiser" is an interesting way of saying "aircraft carrier"

it's not all bad. it's not unheard of for women to fall into vats of chemicals and grow gigantic. we need to encourage this.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

i appreciate that the Hiroshima Electric Railway's English website translates the vehicles it uses as "streetcars." buzz off with that "tram" stuff

hot take: grammatical gender started as a prank that got way out of hand

Gilligan's Island is an isekai

we need to resurrect Mao

this YouTube comment reinforces my hypothesis that Don Quijote is Japan's Honest Ed's, but to the max

"dude" is also useful in that it would be applicable to sapient nonhumans for whom "man" may be insulting

The tailors admire the cat’s new cape, which says “meat.”

while I can understand the likely intellectual property reasons behind it, it still bugs me that Hatsune Miku's presence in Magic: The Gathering is *not* as a planeswalker

Everfuckinggreen There's a decent paycheck waiting for any cis writer who wants to write chin-stroking articles about trans 'issues,' but a couple of quarters and a cigarette butt for the trans writers standing on the media corner with the sign reading "Will write about my people for food."

hot take: Japanese prefectural flags make most Anglo flags look like worthless shit though Aomori thinks it's being clever, reeeeeeeeeeal clever

it's amazing how much traces back to these ten seconds. like there's a wikipedia article about it.

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

eisenhower's "every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed" speech takes on a different dimension when you remember he was already planning to overthrow Iran

when your video starts up with the scare music less than two minutes in, *and* you're American, pardon me if I assume that you came to #HamOnt with an agenda

from watching a few episodes of the Phoenix Wright anime, I find that my willing suspension of disbelief about the legal system is annihilated when it's no longer in the context of a game I kept wanting to see the series start objecting to the fucked-up society instead of the witnesses

i found the cure for autism it's called minding your fucking business

today in wikipedia sentences that are alarming if you don't know which article they're from:

if Massachusetts needs a new flag, they're in luck, because the perfect flag already exists

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it's a good thing that, when she travelled back in time from her future world where music was lost, Hatsune Miku landed in 2007. if she'd arrived in 1977 the Anglosphere would've renamed her "Futura Firstsong" or something

even better idea for a hot dog eating contest: one bear (animal) vs. Hatsune Miku

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Happy September Equinox! Today the dividing line between day and night runs exactly from the North pole to the South pole, and the sun is directly over the equator. This is an actual image of the Earth today, taken from the Himawari-8 satellite.

why wouldn't it be legal to enroll a bear (animal) in an eating competition. there is no way a bear (animal) would turn down the prospect of eating fifty hot dogs if the opportunity arose naturally

concept: a giant woman scholar takes up geology, because some rocks are still pretty big

it's my harpy biphdayt, everyone has to be nice to me

i don't think i've ever written a character whose emotional journey in the story is "does not want to change and is actively pushing against it," but i think it's a workable arc even so

if modern Americans had been asked to make the kind of sacrifices their grandparents did during the Second World War, particularly in terms of gasoline or treat rationing, they would've been suicide-bombing government buildings within a week

subsistence farming is easy, so long as you have an inexhaustible labour supply of robots

god damn, languages have a lot of words

"Suggested solutions [to overpopulation in 20th century science fiction] not involving mass murder are rare, and not usually to be taken seriously..."