she has the Poster's Blade, which he longs to touch but can only cut his fingers on repeatedly

joe koch isn't just one of the finest writers of weird and transgressive literature working, today, but truly is one of the best to ever do it. if you ain't reading joe koch, are you even really reading?

I feel like we already knew Jeremy Renner was a piece of shit.

I love this ✊🏼

Two words that will determine if this is worth seeing: practical effects.

The whole 'three hops' conversation has come and gone and I only now realised that since I shook hands with President Erskine Childers as a kid, and he presumably shook hands with his dad, I'm three hops from the entirety of those who signed the Proclamation of Irish Independence.

Modern fascism sees Israel, an oppressive ethnostate enforcing ethnic homogeneity with genocide, as a template for the world. The ADL serves Israel, not American Jews. And so it's unsurprising it has allied itself with fascists. It is, however, very disappointing.

Unfortunately, Democrat leadership will take the wrong lesson from this and will see the split between Mamdani and Cuomo as between an insider (Cuomo) and a pro-gay spoiler who they wish wasn't part of their party.

I truly wish Mamdani was as cool as right-wing media thought he was

If you haven't watched Mississippi Masala you should. (I don't know whether the "weird psychosexual horror" critic recommending a relatively straightforward romantic drama is a good thing or a bad thing for a film's reputation but it's a good film.)

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

Robots don't need to look like people. It's ridiculous to want them to look and act like people. Anyone who is excited about humanoid robots is just someone who wishes they could own slaves, tbh.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

Canadian schools mostly taught of lactose intolerance as a thing that happened to people in China.

"democrats worried winning will damage chances" is the most democratic party headline imaginable

Thinking about all the families around the world who faced unspeakable tragedies because of Dick Cheney- particularly families in Iraq and Afghanistan

Break out those 10 hour crab dance gifs folks.

The type of ammunition (pastrami vs ham for instance) might be more indicative of damage inflicted by the missile.

Technically speaking "point blank" is a ranging indicator, so it's a matter of ballistic drop after launch as opposed to damage.

You know what is a movie that defied all of my expectations? The Babysitter. I don't know what I expected but it was absolutely not horny early teen Kevin McAllister, recently aware that his parents have sex and anxious they might get a divorce, Home-Alones a satanic cabal led by his cool babysitter

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

The "best person" I ever played was a former Italian partisan still fighting WWII for so long. He'd done so much killing that he was getting real sloppy and becoming a threat to the masquerade.

Apparently the New York Post has been really struggling with opposition research on Zohran Mamdani and the best they have is that his wife doesn't want to talk to them and young, attractive, people are campaigning for him. It's honestly hilariously inept.

Finally 30 familiars

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

Wait I go offline for 30 minutes and now the USA is talking about invading Mexico? Totally not managing to duck the Nazi allegations.

I don't know who "real" Diane Yap is. But she's a monster.

"Go to Cons" is often a huge part of my field's advice of getting work opportunities down the line. And it's like, I live in rural North Wales. I can't afford to go to Cons, on top of the travel and accomodation costs. It makes me feel very disadvantaged.

My self-identity is tied to my professional output as an artist and an art critic but my income is tied to my full-time job because making a living in the arts is just fucking impossible.

No Melissa? We will NOT be seated.

Remember that this production saw: The star fired for objecting to genocide. The second star quitting in protest over the firing of the first. The studio lying and saying the second star quit for scheduling conflicts.

HELLO SIDNEY. DO U CONDEMN THE ACTIONS OF HAMAS

Ezra Klein's "not left, not right but bigger" reveals pretty clearly what he wants: a polite status quo that never changes.

I.e. she’s a grifter with an anti-trans axe to grind that she hopes will keep her employed. She is a straight woman who has no relevance at all in speaking for the queer community.

Every time she comes up, I remind you all that Pamela Paul killed a pro trans paragraph in a review I wrote for the New York Times, lied about it in the press, then when I confronted her with receipts, said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

All Your Party had to do was NOT be bigots. This was a bar they failed to clear. And now the Green party are eating their lunch and they're having a big whine. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stak...

Could you help me diffuse my drawings??? 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Talking to ppl who have never had DSL but whose lives are affected and disrupted 24/7/365 by access to electricity reminded me of how much time, clocks, calendars are socially constructed. And the material reality of how our lives are affected by such social construction shapes us profoundly—

Lol you would say that.

Just so that people understand how big "three jumps" is, I have a 3-step connection to David Tennant. I have never met him, never been in a room with him ij fact. But I know Rob Shearman who worked with Russel T Davies. I never asked Rob if he knew Tennant personally so it might be in fact only two.

⭐️💥💥TREND BROKEN 💥💥⭐️

bro biologists won't even agree on the definition of "alive" you think you can get them to back you on "two genders" lmao

i will discuss biological sex with you AFTER you have submitted one (1) five-page, hand-written essay answering "is a virus alive"

I have to respect Brennan Lee Mulligan for being like "balance is for chumps" in ep. 4 if campaign 4.

This really does not work, alas

Actually, seeing a man of color, getting scared, and calling The Police, is pretty typical racist behavior

the British Royal Family this week