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I keep thinking about this Alex Ross painting of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen that is, for some reason, also the cast of 30 Rock

Not becoming a US senator≠going to jail. Americans are owed due process in the legal system (though there are many better recent examples of that right not being honored). You are not owed a Senate seat.

Democrats if you told them not to do insider trading

Some of my new favorite SB panels in this one. Love to see the guy experience such boundless, unfiltered joy.

this is the official scooby doo account

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Frederick Douglass speaking in 1852:

Happy Victory at Vicksburg Day

I would kill or die for Larry

Don't do any of this.

Wild to read this just minutes after reading D'Aulaire's out loud to my infant son. I should have another kid and raise it on Swanboy as an experiment, like that pharaoh who tried to make a baby invent language.

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

Garffeld

Hell yeah, Chiitan

whenever anyone I know admits to using ChatGPT this appears above my head

I do feel like Kenan is a good story because he used to get some thankless work but now about 80% of his time on SNL is coming in 2/3’s of the way through a sketch with a funny hat and saying a single line and then leaving and that’s the dream, he is the NBC peacock

lol

i just have a hard time accepting the premise that there's a hidden code in the works of Leonardo da Vinci because that's exactly the sort of ambitious project he would have abandoned almost immediately

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Very frequently I'll see a post online and I will very easily understand "that person does not need or want my specific reply on that specific post" and it's always a bit surprising to me when people let me know they have never experienced that 🙃

No one is doing it on YouTube shorts like bow and arrow guy

If Richard Scarry illustrated TRON

I did a lot of data entry right out of college and got super good at using the numpad. perfectly typing in a long string on the numpad without looking feels so good, man. I bet this is what it felt like to be one of those archers at agincourt and see your arrow punch through a knight's chestplate

constellations are such bullshit, where's his fucking head? did he break every bone in his body? i could kick this hercules ass if he had one

Hell yes I'm having a Brat Summer Big Ravens Are Tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor,' I mutter, 'tapping at my chamber door. Only this, and nothing more.'

of course bluesky is a bubble. i want MORE of a bubble. I am subjected to right wingers asinine caterwauling on 99% of the rest of the internet. they have nothing more to say to me

Please stop using “revisionist history” as a stand-in for falsehoods. Any worthwhile work of history uses untapped sources, novel methodologies and/or new connections across fields to improve, alter and, yes, revise our understanding of history. Truly revisionist history is a *good* thing.

NEW LIL GUY ALERT

Jesus Christ

hey re: world historic events, just let me know if somethin changes. i'm not interested in stuff that almost happened or whatever. im busy

well done william

this is the most millennial dad joke ever conceived

the fuck it will

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

the internet used to be mostly images like this

Surely they've suffered enough?

why would i want to watch a podcast. podcasts are for when you are doing something else

If you read them from the beginning they're the words of a dog who desperately wants you to come over because they've seen a frisbee

This finals season I just want to be clear that posting student work online to make fun of it is evidence that you are a bad teacher