today I learned that Japanese castles stored emergency rations inside the walls and under the floors and now I understand why Dracula's Castle has hidden meat all over the place

Four a.m. this morning on Sunset Pass Road in Hansel Valley, Utah. This is the proposed site of the world-infamous Stratos hyperscale data center, which its builders estimate will require about double the energy currently used by the entire state of Utah. 1/2

May this cute skull bring you joy on this Tuesday.

Nobody undermined Kurt Vonnegut's writing by calling it "whimsy" because he wrote in a time when having a wild imagination and mixing extreme seriousness with extreme silliness wasn't seen by publishers as something freakish and troublesome to deal with.

If you’re a gender nonconforming woman and not doing a complex “I’m so soft and cuddly and sweet and will do everything you ask” song and dance routine 24/7 you *will* be experienced as abrasive by a lot of people. There’s really no way around it.

We lost another legend. Tom Kane has passed away today, who was best known for voicing Professor Utonium and HIM from "The Powerpuff Girls." His voice will always be with my childhood. Thank you for the wonderful memories, Tom. May Rest in Peace🕊️

🐸 [Id 1 to 4 : A wood carved plump, grumpy rainfrog on a workbench, next to a carving knife. Its eyes are painted with black, burnt yellow, grey and white paint. It has buttcheeks.]

Werner Herzog: In Grogu, we wish to see hope and goodness can still exist in the Universe, but Grogu himself tell us this is folly, through his refusal to speak at all. Indeed, what words could he say that would truly comfort humanity, dammed as we are?

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

Jamaican model, singer, and actress Grace Jones was born #OnThisDay in 1948. She wore a hooded bandage dress with openwork lacing on the side from Azzedine Alaïa's S/S 1986 collection to accompany the designer as he accepted an award at the 1985 Oscars de la Mode. #fashionhistory

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

Casa de Adobe (1925) was gifted to Angelenos, a faux Spanish Colonial hacienda filled with antiques, paintings and a 19th century garden. Shuttered alongside the Southwest Museum, the City landmark needs to be in use. No more fires in empty buildings. Why can't we play here?

The Sheep Detectives // Wake Up, Dead Man double feature

whew, this got me good. in 2003 singer Michael Passons was kicked out of the mega popular Christian band Avalon for being gay and refusing to continue conversion therapy. he and one of his former bandmates just recorded a new version of one of Avalon’s biggest hits with a bunch of LGBTQ artists

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

im at the bird social rn and this pair of reed warblers are really proudly showing me photos of their huge son. Don't have the heart to tell them its a cuckoo

If he’d cratered in the league from minute one I would still love him forever for this

The Simpsons pointed this out:

depressingly accurate post, as much as we want Retribution on here (and it’s the correct policy) a lot of folks saw 2024 as “Dems say the Trump is going to destroy everything, Trump promises everyone several ponies” and their takeaway was “promise everyone ponies, they’re a bunch of dipshits”

sir, this is an Arby's where we talk about Deep Space Nine

the president loves stealing your money and giving it to pedophiles, folks. it’s like his favorite thing to do

Quetzalcoatlus northropi: a flying carnivore as tall as a giraffe, with a wingspan the size of a Cessna. Probably took off by pole-vaulting with all four limbs. The largest animal ever to fly, and we've spent 40 years arguing about how it actually did it. #Pterosaur #Paleontology

If we’re being real the best way to “find your audience” as a young artist is to make a lot of stuff, post it regularly, and make it easy to find. The best way to make a lot of stuff is by creating things that are fun for you to work on so you’re motivated to keep doing it.

This, right here: "Despair is a gift to those that want you to believe that what we've got is all we'll get and there's no way to make things better."

are these guys just touching Horcruxes in their spare time

I've been trying to think who Altman reminds me of and he's the spitting image of Burke from Aliens

Cocktail experimentation: Lumpy Space Princess 2 oz Gin .75 oz fresh lemon juice .5 oz honey lavender syrup About 5 fresh blueberries Shake this all together and double strain into a coupe. Express lemon peel to garnish.

Reporter: What languages do you speak? Werner Herzog: Not too many. Basic, Rodian, Shyriiwook, Huttese. I understand Jawa, but refuse to speak it. I was once taken prisoner in Mos Espa by Jawa, all of them drunk. Unpleasant. I had to say a few things in Jawa. I regret it. I shouldn’t have done it.

rules so hard that one of our main sources for the evolution of fencing in the 1600s is a guy so misogynistic that there was a play written in JAMES "TERRIFIED OF THE PUSSY" I'S ENGLAND calling him out for it

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

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

“only by being Perfect Victims, wallowing beneath our heel, and quietly begging for our benevolent mercy that Good Invisible Trannies can ever hope to gain anything. As Normal Humans we are essentially their gods, for they are made in our image, and just like the God of Abraham, we are wrathful.”

Dear automated phone tree, we both know your menu options haven't actually recently changed, so why don't we skip the formalities and cut to the part where I yell "representative" six times and you connect me to a human

Unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent after traveling underwater roughly ten miles towards the ice shelf’s center. www.earth.com/news/ran-rob...

The first episode of our new @propublica.org podcast, “Paper Trail,” is out! And we’ve got a doozy — it’s about a secretive FDA policy that my colleagues spent two years uncovering. What they found, I have to admit, actually scared me … 🧵

The largest federal reparations fund in US history goes not to indigenous tribes or descendants of formerly enslaved people or interned Japanese-Americans — but to J6ers who smeared shit on the walls of the US Capitol and attempted to hang the Vice President.

toby's got you @polphilpod.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2042...

This whole thing of the entire global economy now being based solely on gullible fascists selling each other magic beans would be much funnier if the global economy wasn't how I feed, clothe, and house myself.

the thing about this is that it’s still shocking, because they don’t believe it, either. the whole thing is a troll, it’s intended to make the rubes do seal claps and make the rest of us bay like hounds at them, and we’re all paying them for the pleasure.

“check out today’s fair & balanced piece specifically about who does & does not possess beauty. in the thumbnail, we have a woman who is professionally hot & next to her is what happens if the beeswax candle you kept next to your phrenology skull goes rancid & melts.“

Anyway, ICYMI: Putin's post-"Victory Day" parade speech was widely interpreted as him prepping the Russia to eventually accept defeat in Ukraine. The rhetoric has gone from "We must eliminate Ukraine's gay drug addict Nazis" to "Russia survived this act of western aggression, so we won actually."

Is this what mice look like in Warhammer 40k

you know that feels so goood

How did I not know until today that Vincent made not one, but two Dr. Goldfoot movies? Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs are spy parodies with sort of beach party movie aesthetics. also, Mario Bava directed the sequel.

After Devo, Mothersbaugh has continued to work as an independent artist, and on scores for everything from decades of TV (Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, yo!) and animated series to film scores for Wes Anderson and for Marvel Comics films. An absolute giant of creativity.

Peng-Yi Chang’s Demon Fighter/Night Orchid (1983) (it has more alternative titles than I think anyone knows what to do with) is a showcase of Taiwanese wuxia’s near miraculous ability to blend utter goddamn junk with genuine avant garde absurdity. LOOK at this stuff!!!!