Menelaus gonna straight up shoot Doctor Doom in the face.

This is one of those summer Fridays where I don’t have to care about not doing any more work for the rest of the afternoon because all my co-workers have skived off too. I think extra post-lunch walk is called for. And possibly some coffee.

When we were redesigning Bug Hall, they wanted to put a grasshopper on our door. I said NO, give me the biggest cockchafer you have

The TVs here in the restaurant are perpetually on FS1 these days, which is OK, but it’s usually either horse racing or auto racing at this time of day/year, and I’ve noticed FS1 covers them both exactly the same way, in terms of hype, infographics, etc. Guess they figure racing is racing.

Canadian firefighters hauled ass to get down here when half of Los Angeles was on fire last year. What a characteristically classy way to repay that favor.

Dear metal bands: stop calling your songs "I eat your baby's entrails for Satan" or whatever shit. There are 300 songs with nearly that title. That title isn't gonna shock anyone. That ship sailed decades ago. Wanna get people's attention? Call your song "This bagel tastes quite good, actually."

Like how it made sense to ignore most news about long term projects coming out of Warner Brothers as it was being stripped down for resale, we should probably do the same for Xbox and any of its surviving studios from now on.

We have to tax billionaires not just because thats what tax is fucking for, but because they’re almost by definition sociopaths, so will do the absolute dumbest, cruelest, weirdest shit. You don’t allow world-changing power to only be given to people who don’t actually share your world with you.

when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people

Not yet 2pm but one of the tables here in the Cheesecake Factory bar area has declared the day is over and has ordered a round of something large and pink in champagne saucers

Mayor Mamdani is not its first victim

I carried the torch for manual transmissions for years longer than most of my peers. What finally got me was CVT and other innovations that finally made automatics that didn’t suck

No fuck off we're not calling this "Millennial grey" this shit was dictated completely by boomer retiree house flippers we absolutely had NO say in this

I just remembered the IKEA bisexuality couch and if I have to remember it so do all of you.

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

"blasphemy against AI if you say it’s a bubble," actual quote from the article if anyone needs more evidence that this is a cult

So many people getting unsolicited Democrat fundraising messages this afternoon that I realize it's now the last twoish weeks of 2nd q fundraising, and that ability to get fundraising history from NGP VAN and upload your ActBlue data is why Dems mostly don't care to pass data privacy laws.

Happy 80th birthday to a legend, a Mexican-American icon, and one of the greatest vocalists of all time, Miss Linda Ronstadt ✨

not being able to move on from a fandom is stunted growth. fandom has gotten weirdly reactionary about this but it’s true. if you can’t let go of characters created by someone suing amnesty international for identifying her as a bigot and need to be told that’s just fine you are not a serious person

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

your taxes are going up because donald trump and his family and their friends raided the treasury and gifted their friends. your taxes are going up to make up for everything they stole.

i am not kidding in the slightest; the next dem admin is going to have to deal with extremely profound fiscal challenges, and making examples out of the trump officials who profited (which is all of them) will be part of the process

Lol, the tour guide said "This building is spelled W-I-L-L-I-S, but pronounced SEE-ers. It's a Chicago accent thing."

Gen-X’ers in 1996: we are a cursed generation of wage slaves, working 9-5 office jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need Gen-Z’ers in 2026:

Crouching Tiger (netsuke) Bamboo with inlays Japan, mid to late 19th century AD Los Angeles County Museum of Art #MenWithCats

If you're seeing this phenomenon for the first time, understand that they are like this about something at all times

Christopher Nolan has done some of us a great service by making a movie that has become a heat sink for all the illiterate chud rage grifters who usually spend all day talking about videogame bustlines

This is a great and normal idea that will end well

As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

cabo verde held both world cup finalists to a draw across 90 minutes and almost took argentina to penalties, easily the best performance anyone has put up against either team all world cup

Incidentally, I'm not saying "Opposition" was in any way inspired by a current local political race -- for one thing, BOTH of the men in my story are kind of horrible, whereas I think Markey's a pretty decent human -- but I'm not saying it wasn't lurking in the back of my mind, either.

Some really underhanded stuff from Seth Moulton's campaign on social media. The campaign launched a "fact checker" account without disclosing that it's campaign operated. They're claiming to be a "journalist." All of the account's Instagram followers are Moulton staff.

This little story is mostly an excuse for an involuntary TGTF with a side of dubcon. Consider that both your advertisement and your warning. www.deviantart.com/deepesttrilb... archiveofourown.org/works/88622476

Apart from what it says about capitalism’s inability to wash its produce, I can’t get worked up about cyclospora in this day and age. I’m like ”percussive diarrhea? is that all? call me when you got sonething real”

120 MINUTES was an absolute oasis in pre-internet pop culture. So many bands that you could ONLY find there (TV-wise) became ubiquitous online later (and relatively recently). A pioneer. consequence.net/2026/07/dave...

If I had a nickel for every time 90s genre television did lesbian selfcest, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL

"Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane" I haven't even read it yet I just love that tag lime. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am having the buffalo chicken mac and cheese and it isn’t up to their usual standards. The chicken is superfluous and it needs more hot sauce. Actually there’s a possibility that this is a me problem and i’m just having one of those fire and vinegar days

The sky is giving me anxiety because I grew up in hurricane country and down there when the sky goes this color it means bad things are about to happen and you might should have been somewhere else by now

When The Batman Part II finally comes out, Robert Pattinson, the younger, fresher take on Batman, will be almost 42, four years older than Christian Bale was as the over-the-hill Batman in DKR, and one year younger than Ben Affleck's over-the-hill Batman in BvS:DoJ. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

it's good enrichment for me to be periodically reminded how horny Herman Melville was for Nathaniel Hawthorne

Testing to see if stuntmen can comfortably straddle a speeder bike while clad in brittle plastic Stormtrooper armor, they quickly realize they need a new Imperial trooper variant with soft goods thighs/crotches.

I'm having one of those evenings where I used up all my brain doing my day job and thus do not have any for the IMPORTANT stuff (which is working on my current story, of course). This is why my work ethic for my day job is so poor. NONE OF IT IS IMPORTANT. The only thing it does is pay my bills.

Maybe not the best time to start uttering this bullshit just as you’re about to open in a billion-dollar museum dedicated to real artists, George.

It cracks me up how mad people are about Eliot Page existing in a story that pretty famously contains Tiresias the Transition Enthusiast, an mpreg headburster, and a chick who hatched out of a swan’s egg. Yes hi I am Homer my gender is “lol” (Yes I said chick she’s a swan & so’s her sister. HONK.)