SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: OK, WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE BOND PRIEST: I don't know, I guess I liked the Dalton films. SKULL: WHAT, DALTON IS SHIT SKULL: YOU LIKE SHIT BOND SKULL: THE THINGS THAT WE LOVE TELL US WHAT WE ARE

"You should throw a f***ing beach party" is universally applicable advice

Why has the government kept this tragedy secret for so long?

when you take all the wrong lessons from Rush

i was smoking when i read this and fucking choked at the end oh my god

Anyways, the point is: Go back just a hundred years, and you'll find people think of murders and assassinations and riots as just a normal part of "politics as usual" That's the norm, for our history. And we haven't buried it as deep as we like to think.

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

The only right way to start today this year:

Thomas Paine is my favorite founding father. He was famously abolitionist and one of the earliest voices to point out the hypocrisy of fighting for independence while keeping slaves. He also firmly believed that keeping any friendship which required compromising your morals made you a bad person.

"honkai" is the perfect name for a sapient digital goose

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today marks the tenth anniversary of the most uncanny experience of my life: being surrounded by thousands of Americans reciting the Pledge of Allegiance

IT IS TIME AGAIN The best day of the week has arrived! That's right! You know it from anime and manga! Welcome to STROGANOFF SATURDAY!

The whole internet loves Larry the Truffle Cat, a lovely cat that digs for truffles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Larry is AI generated

love to see someone criticizing the idea of cities on Mars by contrasting it with the idea of cities in the Sahara, and how that would be a terrible, terrible idea because of the inhospitability and cost, completely unaware of the fact that millions of people already live in the Sahara

You *cannot* believe how utterly insane the nation went for the Macarena unless you were there

gasp @premeemohamed.com, it's like this place was made with you in mind

Today is the last day for CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Some have said we need a miracle, but I disagree--we just need YOU. tinyurl.com/AWBWCO

why would an embassy have a vat of boiling oil in it it?

this Type Of Guy drives me up the wall in part because who ever said that??? who supposed photography would kill painting? who supposed digital would kill analog? if you're that confident in your argument, provide examples and names rather than build a foundation on assumption

#OTD 3 July 2003, ESA's Mars Express was pointed backwards to see a view of the Earth-Moon system from 8 million km while on its way to Mars. This was the first image of planetary objects taken by its High Resolution Stereo Camera 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... @science.esa.int @cmundell.esa.int

all monarchs are usurpers and descendants of usurpers

beginning to strongly suspect that some people perceive radiation as some kind of evil, magical miasma that cannot be managed, only run away from

Americaaaaaa, AMERIIIICAAAAAAAAA!

in the context of Mars: "no one ever suggests colonising Antarctica to solve overpopulation" ...are people seriously suggesting settling Mars to solve *overpopulation*? a mechanism that has never once resolved "overpopulation" anywhere, ever?

hypothesis: more and more creative works set in the future are consciously using retrofuturistic aesthetics because we already live in "the future" and it sucks, and it's also a stylistic wasteland

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it occurs to me that since it starts out as part of the United Nations, GDI would more accurately use the spelling "Global Defence Initiative"

rewatching these scenes gives me a new appreciation of the work the filmmakers put in to setting all of them beneath the city destroyers and avoiding horizon shots so they could film at night and blame the darkness on the destroyers blocking the sun

WASHINGTON: THE WELCOME WAGON HELICRAFT HAS BEEN SHOT DOWN BY THE ALIEN SPACECRAFT OVER WASHINGTON WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH COMMUNICATION!

Under any reasonable interpretation of international law, the United States is an illegal occupying power. Happy Independence Day.

When It Happens, we may have the opportunity to do to the rest of the American right what the reaction to Kirk's death did to the zoomer right. Bouncing between "your body my choice" and "this is so disrespectful to his memory" broke them

hypothesis: more and more creative works set in the future are consciously using retrofuturistic aesthetics because we already live in "the future" and it sucks, and it's also a stylistic wasteland

🎵 It's how you look at buccaneers that makes them bad or good And I see us as members of a noble brotherhood 🎵

that cis look when the stakes register

if only trademark genericization had done its work properly, we could've been calling computers "univacs"

BREAKING: Multiple reports from Baghdad of a glowing disturbance in the clouds overhead. Unless Israel & Iran are firing missiles at each other again, this is presumably the first alien spaceship breaking into the stratosphere. A truly global happening.

"Communism and dictatorships seem incongruent to me" oh my god with the exception of the state-level Communist government in I think West Bengal at one point, when has there ever been a government that called itself communist and was *not* a dictatorship

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

i find myself thinking again about the game I wrote (currently on sale as part of the Steam Summer Sale, hint hint) and it puts into harsh perspective how much the plague hit me like a torquing truck

so if I'm reading this right, given a Catholic bishop who ordains a woman a bishop without a papal mandate, they would both be automatically double-excommunicated? sounds amazing for stacking debuffs

Okay, my ACTUAL take on all this transsexual Discourse™ is that we never should’ve stopped calling ourselves “sex changelings.”

The Youths are flocking back to physical media, so I'm sure entertainment industries desperately trying to court them will take heed, and - hold on, I'm being handed piece of paper...

just stepped outside and while it doesn't feel like 49 C with the humidex, it nevertheless remains uncomfortably hot

It's +46C today in Ottawa because our governments sold this country to the oil and gas industry! Even though O&G represents only 5% of our GDP! Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

it's too hot to go outside here and maybe where you are too, so look at this gnarly old tree instead #filmphotography

the penguin's full name is Chilliam William

worldbuilding should be when u draw a map of ur fantasy land halfway through the story, bc u couldn't keep track of where shit is in your head anymore, not whatever this is:

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