I love Ronald Hutton to death but he did a little video talking about why vampires are the only "sexy" monster from folklore and in it as a counterexample he said something like "You don't see people wanting to have sex with werewolves" and I almost died laughing. Oh Ronald

I've been very critical but I will always hand it to him when deserved

certainly willing to have my mind changed on mayor johnson if he locks in

remember that Game of Thrones quote where Littlefinger is like "Whose peace do the Gold Cloaks protect? The man who pays them." ??? seems relevant

I think we have to acknowledge now that Madison‘s central insight in federalist no. 10 has failed entirely. The interests of the office do not determine the interests of the officeholder. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

in that it's an action that basically nobody on earth is seriously calling for, but rather a strawman a bunch of feckless capitulationists made up to dismiss the idea of taking material action against oppressive systems? yeah, good analogy

true but often civil war and revolution go hand-in-hand

"every gesture betrays me" This applies to me every day.

"You dont need rules for roleplaying in dnd " is why so many people have anxiety over joining their first game, when they wouldnt over board games

I rarely make proclamations about dead artists like this but I'm 100% confident that if Tolkien came back to life and saw this he'd kill himself

probably not good that the most impressive thing about this ad is that it managed to not make all of the criminals black

it's wild to me how much liberals give a shit about this

(unless they're Algerian)

if ever there was a construction worker who dreamed of doing Killdozer 2.0, by jove is now the time

Mamdani has already disappointed me with his (entirely predictable) lurches to the right, but goddamn should every actual leftist who might be any kind of public figure in the future take notes. This is the way you do it

This, from Steve Albini, is a good start (I love the Dan myself)

This is so real. People acting like it's on the same level as like, sexual assault or exploitation are UNHINGED. It's related to the tradwife "movement" and the extreme individualism and isolation we're all suffering under And yes, I've been cheated on, so I know how it feels

(don't mistake this an an endorsement for bloodlines 2, it looks like trash, but it looks like trash because it decided nobody wanted any nerd-ass *roleplaying* in their TTRPG adaptation, they wanted a linear action game)

i think liberals are so dismissive of working class people, so elitist about rural and red state folks, absolutely no empathy or understanding of what their lives are like. but man, just last week we were roasting young GOP for being nazis. let's not let leftists do it too. the bar is very low!

now if I had my way I would tear the whole thing down and sleep like a baby about it, but that aside, God I love the symbolism. So perfect for where America is at in the 2020s

"There are no vital and significant forms of art; there is only art, and precious little of that." -Raymond Chandler

if you want to write fiction you owe it to yourself to read at least one Raymond Chandler novel (preferably not The Big Sleep even though it's the most famous)

"Cuomo’s spoiler rhetoric demonstrates a point socialists have long made about American politics: a large flank of Democrats see Republicans as allies against socialists."

I couldn't ask for a better encapsulation of the liberal mind. This exact attitude underpins every single political policy they support. "Bad things are okay as long as they happen to someone else." From Palestine to Ukraine to Venezuela and beyond. Perfect. Sublime. No notes.

i think we need a reminder www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYUj...

Columbus Day should be replaced with Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito Day because then Italian-Americans could still get a holiday, we wouldn't have to celebrate a rapist slaver anymore, and it would piss off all the worst Italian-Americans in the country

it's very funny that some studio executive was like "the people DEMAND to see Lord Farquaad again. I have my finger on the pulse of the nation"

*liberals

there is no city on earth that it is more insane to say this about than New York City

this is actually more compassionate and protective than Israelis usually are to children

yeah it does suck that he disavowed those earlier statements

"no kings" as a name, is the product of think tank non profit ass nonsense. No material demands, an undisprovable abstract etc etc

this mf is gonna run for president and immediately pivot to "we must restore the old status quo"

Star Wars

ok but can we also pull the plug on Jared Leto once and for all

teachers, whether in college or otherwise, are not "knowledge repositories" whose job is to place Knowledge Units into students' brains. If that was the purpose of education we could have replaced it with Wikipedia 15 years ago

why do these people keep doing this. "better alienate the base that got me to where I am" ok but for what? Not a single conservative on Earth is ever going to support a social democrat no matter how much groveling they do

fascism has taken power through the institutions and ideas outlined in these documents. you're not "antifa" you're "kinder gentler fa"

boy it would be really nice to have tech journalism that didn't operate as an advertising arm of the tech industry

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

George Miller has fallen

USDA's analysis shows a significant increase in foreign ownership of U.S. agricultural land, with foreign entities holding over 45 million acres today. This includes a 1.58-million-acre increase from the previous year,

where were you when Obama was doing exactly that

If you're a RPG designer in (or near enough) to London and want to run a promotional intro game in our little shop, get in touch. We've got a weirdly large pool of TTRPG-curious people chatting to us every day. NAB THEM BEFORE 5E GETS THEM!

It’s Bad Actually for the blue billionaire savior to feel so comfortable lying about the excessive force his state police are using in Broadview. His relative superiority to Newsom, and the desperation for real opposition to Trump, discourages open criticism or even critical thinking re: Pritzker

Can we go back to the Metaverse being "the future" instead of this shit? I promise we'll all take it very seriously this time

Tbh Charli and Taylor is the grandest "let them fight" moment I can think of. I hope they kill each other so I can listen to their music in peace without ever having to worry about them as human beings again

And the thing is she could have just kept playing the NGO circuit to audiences of rich libs and she eventually would've gotten that Nobel. Instead she chose to embody what it actually is supposed to mean and dedicate her life to the struggle

hell is empty and all the devils are here