A really fun conceit of TNG is that they lead you into thinking that Klingons are humorless stiffs, but then it turns out that Worf is just like that and he’s weird

blood eagle, poena cullei, a classic impaling, literal human centipede, saw traps. your only limit is the audacity of your imagination

"Is believing that beautiful crystals have healing properties any stupider than believing that God sent his son to earth to be crucified and then he rose from the dead" I don't really believe in either but yes I think it actually is significantly stupider to believe the crystal thing to be honest.

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

It's OK if you don't want to be friends with people who voted for this.

*This* is why Platner will be a Senator and Talarico will not, calling my shot

Oh hey, I just wrote about this for @popheist.com 📚 Leading Public Library Groups Call for E-book Action www.ala.org/news/2026/05...

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Yes. An example of how you can't actually "win" this competition even if you superficially hold all the cards. Media will emphasize "gay" characteritstics of Democrats while portraying prep school male cheerleader draft dodger Bush as a tough cowboy bsky.app/profile/drpe...

imagine this fuckin weirdos browser history lol

G'bless. The Guardian is our last, best hope for journalism. The Guardian U.S. posts record revenue of $81M www.axios.com/2026/05/26/t...

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People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Great comic, great review/feature (read all three for bonus points!)

This is a really cool mixed-media story package and I feel bad for the journalists who worked hard on it that they are being attacked by people with child-minds on this dumb website.

No it wasn’t. That isn’t true.

Orson Welles: I worked with Grogu. Not in film you see but on the stage. Brilliant performer but a cruel disgusting wretch of a soul. Interviewer: Pourrions-nous parler de Citizen Kane à la place, s'il vous plaît ? Welles: yes he did sell out his friends to HUAC, I will never forgive him for that

Everyone keeps saying it's $1.8 billion so I missed the fact that it is actually $1.776 until I heard someone say it out loud, and I want to leave the fucking timeline where even the most blatant corruption you've ever seen is also a meme pun parody of patriotism just because they wanna rub it in.

it's cool that the president is trying to steal two billion dollars from my taxes to give to his pedophile friends and i'm supposed to like keep doing my job or whatever

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

honestly new litmus test for the California Governor election should be if you support going all the way with a 52-0 map now that John Roberts ruled the VRA is over

We must break American democracy in our favor faster than the GOP can break it in theirs

Virginia supreme court's inexplicable ruling against the will of voters on redistricting dramatically raises the urgency for Dems to redistrict in other states before 2028. The stakes in state legislative races this cycle just got more urgent. My piece on that here: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

I go on about this occasionally, but state legislatures are the most insane U.S. example of this.

Marcus Mumford, Dave Grohl, and Jason Isbell were all "White Dudes for Harris"

incredibly funny how the outbreak happened after the two main countries involved, the united states and argentina, completely obliterated their public health and regulatory agencies for insane kulturkampf reasons

Hasan Piker calls out President Barack Obama for saying he wants a strong Republican Party "I want no Republican Party. I want an ineffective, feckless, weak Republican Party, like the Democratic Party is today...

The actual problem is 1) Democrats have popular policies but the country never hears about them due to right-wing propaganda; 2) Democrats constantly blame themselves and their base for this —a message right-wing media amplifies, making the problem even worse.

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

I'll even go further; "normal" people fucking *like and admire* people who sound smart, and trying to "dumb down" your message always comes off disingenuous and disrespectful

My take is that this argument is and has always been paternalistic at best and outright disdainful of poor people at worst. What gobbledygook are you talking about, man? What have you personally seen "normal" people struggle to understand?

1. Empire Strikes Back 2. Return of the Jedi 3. Star Wars 4. Solo 5. The Force Awakens I have now celebrated

"this wizard has a WAND that can kill you INSTANTLY the muggles simply cannot--"

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

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Still the best to ever do it

thalassomedon you have to stop. you smoke too tough, your bitch too bad, your neck too long--they'll kill you (mass extinction event)

I just want one coach to be the hardest atheist imaginable. No gods. No masters. No salvation but existence. It's 3rd and 17 and we need a first down. The universe will never care and no one is here to help you. Now go get 'em, cowboy.

A 1984 Marvel Comics full-page ad.

Middlebrow media enjoyers rise up. We want art with complex stories and emotional nuance featuring characters with interiority and yes we also want them to solve a murder or be a spy or kill a vampire or something

Oh please. Really.

the mf who just took 36 duck breasts out of the sous vide

I hope this doesn’t break up Tenacious D again

Trump soared in the polls after a 2024 assassination attempt. Could another assassination attempt help Republicans in the 2026 midterms?

This is objectively the correct take but I wish he'd died so I'm having fun with it instead