Another funny thing about mdzs is that literally everyone is an orphan EXCEPT the one guy who would be much much happier if his dad was dead

"Did they seem afraid of you?' #art #wolf #horror #eeriecrests

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

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I think the reason romantasy is dwarfing sales of fantasy & sci-fi is that it's a subset of romance. And romance is the biggest, most profitable category in literature. Romantasy allowed romance readers, who read very widely, to take cross-genre romance mainstream & it's reaping the rewards.

Epstein, Bannon, Austrian ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz 🤷🏻‍♀️ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

“It's five thousand miles to Rome. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.” “Hit it.”

another new Frankenstein adaptation has dropped this year, courtesy of The Onion

This is a delightful read about a really fun, not uniquely British phenomenon but definitely not a worldwide one, on Hollow Ways, which I personally consider to be deeply sacred spaces

Der Witz ist, die „Wirtschaft“ als Opfer/Betroffene darzustellen. Nicht als Verursacherin

New York und der Erfolg von Mamdani zeigen, dass der Weg gegen die Autoritären und Faschisten (zumindest in Städten) über klare soziale Forderungen, eigene Erzählungen, über Hoffnung und Zuversicht bei gleichzeitiger Angriffslust gegen die Milliardäre führt.

"Standard", "Presse", "Kleine" und andere Zeitungen werfen hunderte Journalist:innen raus. "Puls24.at" wird nach Berlusconi-Einstieg eingestellt. "ORF.at" wurde redaktionell eingeschränkt. Dichand wird die "Krone" übernehmen.

only i am willing to ask tough questions like what if a dragon was baby

it's so sad to watch people get as far as asking an interesting question and then concluding that no possible answer exists simply because they personally couldn't think of one these questions all have interesting answers!!!! 1) the flag ISN'T blowing 2) they had two layers of shoe 3) it's daytime!

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

aside from being a dogshit idea for dogshit technology, what are the data storage and transmission implications for this? like there doesn't seem to be a substantive reason for this decision, and actively erodes lots of important internet history. will this impact recent lofi vids as well?

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

It has little to do with whether the White House "matters" (I think it very much does, but way less so than, say, assassinating boaters, attacking cities, killing pregnant women, etc.). It's just super-insane and super-corrupt. "It doesn't matter" is just tedious, faux-cynical preening.

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

Good morning.

Tonight on A-Yokai-A-Day! If pets could speak what would they say? Something wise? Irreverent? How would you react as a pet owner? Would you be happy or horrified to have a talking pet? 😾 Read what happened to a certain family that had long-lasting repercussions: www.patreon.com/posts/yokai-...

Apropos of nothing: It is vitally important to always have a person in your life that will not hesitate to, honestly and kindly, tell you when you are completely full of shit.

Two Harry Potter fanfics are on the NYT bestseller list. The author of one was uninvited from Romance Con because readers believe she's helping to keep JK Rowling relevant and profitable. The issue has exposed how HP fandom may never truly be separate from the bigot. I wrote about it for Pajiba.

I understand this makes me a bitch but I truly have no sympathy for this notion that "HP fans who don't support Rowling need their own space to reclaim the books." Why are we so much quicker to appease this coddling than the people who Rowling's legislative fury is destroying? Read another book.

Glaub die Louvre Gschicht ist nur ein PR Stunt für eine neue Staffel Arséne Lupin. 🤷

Das Budget ist saniert.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

😈WISHLIST ON STEAM😈 #mythiclove

bluesky devs wanting to make twitter-reddit linkedin but getting mad about getting e621 and deviantart instead will never stop being funny to me shoutout unmarketable queers and kink artists keep doing good work

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

Apparently this was only possible because all the IOF were busy with the flotilla, leaving nobody there to harass/shoot and prevent the Gazans from fishing. So while the food did not make it to them, the action made it possible for them to catch food ✊

OMG "Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances" got listed by Sherry Thomas! °_° (big fan of the Charlotte Holmes book here) crimereads.com/on-writing-c...

"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Been saying [some version of] this at least since Michael articulated it so well on You're Wrong About... Excluding bigots from cultural and political influence because of their behavior is fundamentally different than bigots excluding people because of their identities and physical attributes...

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining. The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Solange erfolgreich mit Kopftuchverbot oder Bezahlkarte abgelenkt werden kann, bleibt dieser toxische Mix ein Randthema. Die Menschen wollen davon nichts hören, Politik und Medien liefern Ablenkung und der toxische Mix wird immer bedrohlicher. Noch geht es uns gut genug, die 3. Republik wartet.

Fall Anna: Das Oberlandesgericht Wien bittet allen voran Journalist:innen und Politiker:innen darum, mit ihrer "falschen Berichterstattung", Mutmaßungen und individuellen Spekulationen aufzuhören.

Happy Spooky Season!!!

応楓 #xingyue #刃丹 #renheng

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

This whole section really.

Der angebliche „Durchmarsch“ der AfD bei den Kommunalwahl in NRW sieht heute übrigens so aus. Baden gegangen.

Es wird an der Zeit, dass viele verstehen, dass nur „gegen Rechts“ sein zu wenig ist. Wer nicht gegen die Umstände ist, die Faschismus als Massenbewegung möglich machen, genügt sich selbst. Es geht aber um Mehrheiten. Wir müssen die Bedingungen ändern die Faschismus möglich machen.

I told you guys