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The example of the Washington Post is worth considering the next time you feel the urge to say "I wish some nice billionaire would just GIVE me something or being my patron or float my business!"

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Washington Post, 2017: Democracy dies in darkness! Washington Post, 2026: [Emperor Palpatine voice] Democracy dies in darkness.

let fall the stones, cold, embittered, into the eye's own only sea, adrift in ridicule and melancholy. all graves unmarked but with the stench of a thousand cats' pissings.

I harbor a special loathing for quisling editors. I spent ~20 years in news. The best news teams in the world are near powerless to save an organization from complicit leadership.

After a lengthy appeals process and productive discussion with the Blue Sky safety team I will no loinger be sending George Thorogood lyrics to beautiful women on here via DM. Thank you all

@rezendi.com needs to write about this phenomenon.

everything, alas, Paul Verlaine, tr. C. F. MacIntyre

going on bluesky to talk about twitter is like going in the kitchen to take a shit

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

Oh! This is one of those times I get to remind everyone who knows what this is, *especially* those of us who can quote the bit, to schedule your colonoscopy and get your shingles shot, if you haven't already.

Q: What is your one purpose in life? A: To explode of course. Invoke Dark Star, get Meat Beat.

I can accept English as a concession to modern sensibilities, but if the Greek subtitles are not a competent mix of the Ionic and Aeolic dialects in use at the time, I will pout and strut like any angry white man, who, if he hasn't read Homer, at least has the CliffsNotes. Fuck Charles Murray.

There's been a couple of heavily re-tweeted Epstein posts that insinuate all the conspiracies are real. They are. Because they don't have to be smart to be in one, just rich, and protecting other rich people. That's it. Reminded of this quote from an article back in 2020:

Guys, it’s fine. It’s probably DNS. Or BGP. Or us-east-1 Frankly, the entire Internet is made of duct tape and popsicle sticks held together by bubble gum and string and it’s amazing that anything ever works at all

You pick up the newspaper. “10,000 jobs slashed by Universal Corp” then you frown. Your eye wanders. You see “Marmaduke.” Now wait a minute. That dog is just too big for the situation he’s in!!

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Check out this kickstarter. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...

in retrospect in the wake of the epstein files being released, no wonder ‘me too’ was met with such anger and ultimately those in power it meant to target never face many consequences

The President of the United States signing an executive order and then shitting himself pretty much defines the entirety of the Trump presidency tbh

SCIENTIST: hi Jeff! Here’s our latest work. It’s a few years off but I think we can use this plasmid model as a jumping off point to clone you an animal crackers era Shirley Temple. How should we thank the foundation? EPSTEIN: threir not like us, Very rude song . fuirous at grammys

These days I find the idea of nature devouring humanity to be a comfort.

White people are finally facing the America everyone else has had to deal with for 400 years.

qrp with your pfp

Love this pair of shots in The Thing '82. By now the audience is expecting something to appear in that negative space behind Macready, but it doesn't happen and the scene is allowed to fade out. The scare is delayed for a couple minutes later when Fuchs encounters the jumpscare instead.

Ray Nelson passed away in 2022, having lived to the age of 91 years old. In that time, he: - Wrote the short story that "They Live" was based on - Introduced Phillip K. Dick to LSD - Was Anne Rice's writing teacher - Invented the propeller beanie

"Their claim was self defense, sir Just don’t believe your eyes It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies" #MusicForTheRevolution

ICE Issues Ransom Note Demanding $65 Billion If U.S. Wants To See Minnesota Again https://theonion.com/ice-issues-ransom-note-demanding-65-billion-if-u-s-wants-to-see-minnesota-again/

Alex Pretti was the best of us. He was murdered by the worst of us. May his memory be a blessing. May his killers face swift justce.

I would love to just post about horror and my love of movies but my country is falling into a fascist hellscape and I refuse to remain silent about it.

It's something people say about disasters. If you successfully raise the alarm enough to prevent a disaster from taking place with appropriate precautions, many will think the disaster wasn't as big of a deal as you made it out to be. But if you didn't, the disaster would have absolutely happened.

I keep seeing leftists from outside of Minneapolis say they’ve seen all this before, and no, you haven’t. I’ve been at this for 30+ years and I haven’t either. It’s not what you’re picturing. This is something else

Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

This is how most anti-depression advertising looks like to people who have depression.

Stingrays do not have Bluetooth attack capability. Period. That is not a thing. They do not work like that. If you get a security alert that looks like a chain letter that tells you this, you should take it about as seriously as any other chain letter you receive, which is to say not at all

Yaaaaaay we're plague carriers. Thanks RFK and antivaxxers!

How it started/how it's going

As a point of evidence: people are discussing mutual aid and how to respond to ICE on Nextdoor.

Block the absolute shit out of this nazi filth. Do it with an ancient curse on your lips, with black lightning coursing through your blocking finger. Or just do it the regular way. Point being: block ‘em.

Security folklore of the morning is that no one should share URLs on Signal because it exposes IP addresses and people should use QR codes instead. Please don’t do this! QR codes are much less secure. If you’re concerned about link security, turn off link previews which you can do in Signal settings

I need people who don’t live in the Twin Cities to stop telling people not to join massive Signal groups right now. People are doing it. They’re going to keep doing it. Give them good advice about it. The actually practical advice is don’t say anything to 1000 strangers you wouldn’t say in public

boy that gyre sure keeps getting wider

good ol' Clark Ashton Smith's birthday, why not read my meandering thoughts on some stories of his, eh? "The Colossus of Ylourgne" from Weird Tales, v. 23 n. 6, June 1934: geoliminal.com/2023/10/12/s...

Not counting ICE

San Francisco is in solidarity with Minneapolis right now. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/i...

On the surface delusional fandom conspiracies are relatively harmless, at least until it leads to the harassment of creators. But I legitimately despair every time I see it because the mechanism that drives their delusional thinking is the same mechanism that leads to shit like QANON.

“you won’t get away with this”

If there were three lawyers, Thomas Dye, Edward Chitt, and Willard Eet, might the name of their firm sound in court like Eat Shit & Die? Asking on behalf of some extremely childish part of myself that may tantrum if I don’t.