mr prop's coworker from queens told him that he knows trump is the antichrist because it was conveyed to him while the physical embodiment of moloch raped him "in connecticut"

FAA to let Boeing decide, purely on its own say-so, whether its 737 MAX planes are airworthy. This is the same plane that-- due to Boeing deliberately covering up its design error-- caused the deaths of 346 people. None of whom (unlike Boeing) contributed $1 million to Trump's inauguration.

5/ “Using a wife as a sexual decoy to distract Sitler from children didn’t work. Later, a judge ruled Sitler must be chaperoned around his infant son, due to admitted sexual stimulation resulting from contact with the baby.”

i see the vision with matt damon (oscar isaac is the obvious choice but maybe too much of a cipher) but man he should have let john david washington play odysseus

(Really, though, and to your point: God forbid we try to make things sound nice in the target language. Even Cicero knew about core concepts of translation studies–weird that these didn't make the "Freedom U" syllabi..)

this is the secret to all nolan's neuroses, the good ones and the bad ones, and why he loves oppenheimer

odysseus suffered 20 years of monster attacks and date rapes just so he could say ma'am is this guy bothering you

a faithful adaptation of the odyssey is not possible as educated writers and audiences will always see lying/deceit as a sign of cowardice

cutting nausicaa and making zendaya athena-as-virgin-mary actually makes sense now that i've thought about it for a second

between backrooms and the odyssey, it's a huge year for goya's saturn devouring his son

backrooms felt aesthetically like NOPE, look, californians with camcorders, let's recreate a dead store, but in every other way the opposite: not strong thematic coherence, and if there was a moral it was the opposite of NOPE's "the monster does not care about your stupid inner life"

backrooms is the shining and ready player one is the shining where jack is the hero, the best, specialest boy

keep finding out people are belgian. diane von furstenberg. luce irigaray

"My wife is probably already cheating, I deserve to go rape a high schooler" - pop culture's main message regarding heterosexuality

"My wife is probably already cheating, I deserve to go rape a high schooler" - main theme of American Beauty

Its become trendy to claim that American Beauty spends so much time oogling that teenager to mock Kevin Spacey, and no. That is not what the movie was saying and its not what the film bros we're saying when they rejoiced over spacey sticking it to his bitch wife.

it does kind of amuse me endlessly how hugo schwyzer internalized this narrative to the point that he destroyed his entire brain thinking that society would actually follow through with canonizing him while living for being this. he was working at trader joe's thinking he was goodbye mr chips

another example of this was that in the uk until about 2010 (gay) and the us until around the same time (straight) it used to be a complete national consensus that the saddest, most sympathetic and most put-upon people in the world are high school teachers who rape their students

what's the deal with all the re-revisionist accounts of watson/crick/franklin that boil down to "well rosalind was really annoying to work with and kind of weird"

backrooms would have been a 10/10 if it had explored how her subconscious desire to go back to her mom's weird pre-gentrification paranoia world in the squatter house was how the backrooms got into mary's head. that said i loved how it fully rejected any semblance of himpathy

one of the foundations of rape culture is that everyone, men and women, is expected to always feel a little bad for men at all times. like in exchange for having a job and not being a rapist every one of them deserves tradwife margot robbie and the exact number of children he wishes for

george the prequels were one of the biggest out of pocket employers of traditional artists since the italian renaissance. your job right now is running museums. you don't need the slop train money. why are you on the slop train?

There is a lot of space to fill in these things so while cracking say The Claremont Review is hard, being Director of the Migrant Vilifcation Project at the Enoch Powell Institute and having a 2.1 from Porterhouse College Cambridge is easily enough to get you a slot in The James H. Hammond Review

strange days

argentina took more nazis probably but are americans aware that mass european immigration in the nineteenth and early twentieth century was curated in exactly the same way in the US and argentina? by the white settlers who ran the place before that?

Brazil, famously a nation free of racism

i said most because i wasn't sure about cuba, fwiw

a lot of discourse about argentina frames it as the sin eater of latin american racism. the only latin american country where racism has ever been a problem, because of all the nazis, or possibly because of all the italians

Trump: "'Affordability!' That's a fake word they use ... they came up with this word"

maybe gen x concern trolls could take into account victoria's secret turning out to be a huge part of the epstein machine, indeed epstein's whole deal, when trying to work out why younger women/girls are not showing skin anymore

i'm so sick of discourse on so-called prairie dresses. ever since handmaid's tale (which is a show i'll defend). like some of what's being identified is probably real but the imagined "progressive" opposite is mandatory minidresses

Performative profanity is gen x coded

Reminder if you are not Catholic do not say top o' the mornin'

rip adorno and benjamin you would have loved the backrooms

backrooms is how you get omelas. infinite power supply infinite (weird) furniture supply as long as you send a traumatized alcoholic down there once in a while so it can feed on their demons

backrooms is a film about how y2k was real

Paolo Uccello, St. George and the Dragon 1460 from the series Details of Renaissance Paintings, 1984 https://botfrens.com/collections/19/contents/1147631

"They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. That's why I have bad intentions."

peter thiel just insists he's not ozymandias from watchmen because he knows he couldn't shut up long enough to do the "i triggered it 35 minutes ago" trick

i'm doing mental calculations in my head about whether 12 months of using ai to write things or reading 1 paragraph of peter thiel results in a larger catastrophic iq loss

this is vile

kind of wild to remember that US climate policy on the right has basically accelerated in reverse from this moment in 2010

terrifying author name/subject matter/cover art combination

Wait that big wooden horse is full of fucking GREEKS??

Fascinating story about the Mascogos of Coahuila – an Afrodescendent group who arrived in Mexico in the 19th century fleeing slavery in the U.S. english.elpais.com/internationa...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

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