Today is the birthday of Yasuda Michiyo, a colour designer who worked on nearly every Miyazaki or Takahata project from Horus, Prince of the Sun in 1968 to The Wind Rises in 2013. She would have been 87 today.

OPEC and NATO in the same presidential term LMAO

This is the sort of thing the Bulwark means when they complain about edgy communists posting memes celebrating death

The US is the most Protestant country but the UK is the most Calvinist.

literally fucking eugenics

He never shuts up about his bit part in A Scanner Darkly because it's the only time he's been thrown into a van for speaking truth to power.

I'm not learning what Euphoria is.

It's still funny that one guy got mad and tried to dunk on me by posting these back at me.

It's fucked-up that lighters as we know them aren't really that old, technologically. Ferrocerium was, as far as we know, applied in 1903.

✦ Cigarette kiss ✦

Sorry that I'm wearing Adidas track pants and a Thrasher Magazine tee. Unless you're into that.

I still really like the Taser scene I wrote.

i just found out about a french nazi ‘feminist’ group that i’m a little intrigued by, so maybe next time the show takes an international detour we’ll get some gender parity on the podcast. girls can do fascism, too and i’m sorry i’ve been neglecting their contributions!

mexican coke is a health drink because it contains real sugar. people should drink it instead of water

Hegseth feeling his successor coming down the pipe.

“ohhh anime women aren’t realistic transition goals” WRONG FUCK YOU

Debating asking my parents for the unbelievably ass-kicking vacuum they have from, I think, the early-80s. It's brown and white, sounds like an industrial air compressor, and I think you could kill someone with it.

The H&K P7 is so funny. The perfect Cold War German euro-cop pistol. I kind of want one just because they're so fucking terse and weird.

Designing a weird revolver that was the sidearm of the android officer-field-intelligence class of a communist government. In the zone.

I can only remember the coldest post of all time

Mainstream comics outside the boy's club shit are maybe the thing that's closest to this feeling. The answer to a lot of "what happened to whoever created [character in the current Marvel or DC movie]" is often "died in obscurity, or is crowdfunding."

Sometimes they’ll just deny it

Really curious how you thought this would go over.

Many cartoons go on for too long, and it makes creativity stagnate. The Simpsons is probably the most extreme example, but a lot of stuff that runs too long inexorably dips in quality. The creative teams don't grow the way they would from moving onto different things, with different styles.

all software is as hard to use as a janky as the shitty open source equivalent. the most functional social media i use is mastodon

Something grim about learning this on my way to get stink-eyed by some CHUD sticking his thumbs in his "AGENT" vest at the CVS, trying to psych random minorities out.

nothing online works for shit anymore. everybody who knows how to work computer is unemployed. we are stuck with these losers shooting up peptides while they vibecode their claude dongle

ICE guy at the Locust Street CVS where all the trans people go.

California-compliant assassin LMAO

Aw man, RIP Gary Conway.

I don't think it should be legal for a company you bought shorts from to text you

CAVEMAN: Thag heart like sunset with no sunrise. Forever become night CAVEMAN THERAPIST: maybe Thag heart like old fire, got cold, but not gone forever CAVEMAN: Thag understand allegory, Thag need reignite heart fire. Thag buy 2026 Dodge Charger at 29% APR

A sharp thing about "buy art from trans women" that I don't think will be abating any time soon is getting some comic or book you really love, and then finding out that the creator died of not having healthcare or from suicide like five years ago.

100% on her side as long as she isn't also a white rapper.

Speaking of Swan Boy, one of my friends who's really into '90s hentai tried to sell me on Hooters once and I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do less with her. This is not commentary on her, so much as where our tendencies diverge very sharply.

asking metafilter if its okay to have a red bull after a can of cold brew

Hexa Gear exists at a specific intersection of ball joint pervert, tactical pervert, and people who feel the stress of extremely fussy gunpla like a weighted blanket.

I had a conversation with my mother about a week ago, where she was still clinging to the idea that this guy is "the smart one," instead of a putty-brained treatboy huckster who managed to trick liberals with classism like a decade ago.

that's why they are cutting queer kids off from finding communities online, it's why they're coming for kids on adhd meds, it's why they like to force raped children to give birth. if the easiest kids to steal and torture are Indigenous or otherwise racially marginalized they'll do that, etc

they just like knowing they have the power to hurt and kill people who cannot fight back, they get off on it, they don't really care if they're fighting against autistic kids getting accomodations at school or putting raped pregnant teenagers in mass graves behind a magdalene laundry

Practicing drawing faster and more simply. That is not my fursona.)

Even the corporate Mars cops in For All Mankind are doing the "thumbs in the vest" thing with their stupid plastic body armor, this is solidly a pop culture signifier of dickhead cops because the ICE and border patrol guys do it so much.

help out if you can. gofund.me/a414e342

i'm going to offer my ko-fi as an alternative method of payment for the forseeable future. if a direct line is preferable, this is the way. anything and everything is appreciated. ko-fi.com/ichorplus

Versailles was built cuz the boy sun king had an unpleasant run in with some peasants and decided that the entire economy of France must be redirected toward building his fuck bunker

Just when you think there's a rock-bottom for The Atlantic, man. It's the New York Post for people with "in this house we believe" signs.

I don't know, I've explained medical transition after male puberty as "like having to break and reset every bone in your body." Maybe that colors my perspective. I'd feel differently if it were cops or rich shitheads hitting themselves with tack hammers, but it isn't.

One of the first steps to keeping the looksmaxxing guys immersed self-harm and self-isolation is elevating their influencers to people whose important opinions are published in a magazine that's been notoriously against other forms of bodily autonomy.