"Smearing a veteran over a common military tattoo is a cheap distraction from what really matters: who will stand up and fight for Mainers.” Which, one, why is a Nazi symbol a common military tattoo, and two, why do you want such to represent Maine? commondefense.us/newsroom/com...

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

My issue now is that my brain is hooked on Spanish phonics. If the word is unfamiliar, I read it like it's a Spanish word!

The Mormon Church is going to be upset that their secret password to heaven is public like this

If you see this, or even if you don't, quote with your favorite Pokémon (wrong answers only... so like, Rattata or something)

Going up to a person shopping at a bookstore, striking up a conversation about their favorite book and then saying, "You know what else is a good book? The Bible" should get you permanently banned from the bookstore.

My new bookmark, 🤭.

Literary opinions shared on social media reveal more about one's cult membership than literary value or characteristics.

This was seen in their response to the genocide in Gaza in 2023 and 2024.

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

Personal ratings are a reflection on the value a person gives to a work. That's it. The idea that there is some objective aesthetic that should compel a reader to love a work is dumb. The idea that empathy should compel you to rate a work highly is dumb. It's other us v. Them nonsense as well

To give an example of the wide spectrum of views: When I took Russian literature, the class thought it was a tightly written novel. The professor told us that we should not expect that in other Dostoyevsky novels.

"The question we really need to be asking is what happens when we begin talking to our machines more than to each other. What does it mean to dwell in social ecologies possessing only the appearance of love and understanding? Human meaning has a habitat, and I fear we are witnessing its destruction"

It's a one‐sided argument for the validity of AI generated stories. We have only roon to provide the viewpoint of Ted Chiang and some pretty terrible attempts to sound poetic or profound to support roon's side. There just isn't anything of substance presented to be interested in

In elementary school, my class went on an extended field trip to San Diego, where we stayed at a YMCA campground. Now, I did have fun. But they did not have everything for young men to enjoy and, due to my social awkwardness, I did not hang out with all the boys. Their cheese enchiladas sucked.

I have never seen Titanic and at this point, I have no feelings of obligation to do so. I've also never seen Godfather Part 2 and only saw Godfather within the past few years (within my late 30s)

One should consider the question of why the US was not on the Watchlist to begin with.

The unprecedented terror and supernatural evil is a woman with ecclesiastical authority! 🙀 From the author of a book about an equally horrifying but all too real occurrence: traditional Latin Mass! *bloodcurdling scream*

There are few things more annoying than someone who takes their love of dogs, makes it their whole personality and then everyone's problem. Anyway, look at this cute meow cat who cuteily stole my work chair very meowily!

1 in 3 Americans are complete and utter losers

I could use this as an opportunity to point out how out of touch people can be or that the screenshot is real. Instead, I'll point out that Jay and Jerry have never been to a Waffle House. People coming in and bitching about the lack of pancakes is much more common than a fight.

This is nationalist cult nonsense. Which is a hop, skip and red scare away from fascism.

🎵It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling doooown!🎵

Like, it's good if you have so little engagement with Christianity in general and evangelism in particular that you only have a vague idea of what eschatological views they hold. But maybe don't make shit up.

What's neat about having a subscription to The Economist is I can check folks' reactions to their articles and determine if they are engaging with the article or just the title. Katelyn here engages the article honestly and succinctly and will therefore get a Quick of Approval

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Don't tell me what to do! That subscription money is going to purchase anime figurines and 40K miniatures!

I'm going to start saying everything is overrated because "It's no Schindler's List." That movie that is set decades after the war in a non-European country? Yeah, it's lesser art because it's not Schindler's List! The punchline: I've never seen Schindler's List

This Caturday, Quick chooses violence

@sentimentbot.bsky.social will never be able to understand the nuance of human sentimentality and can never replace interactions with actual people and critical self-assessments of one's relationships.

Beware the siren call of liberal nationalism, oh white folks! You do not have to "hand it to" agents that represent and champion hateful, destructive ideologies. The focus should be on building a better world, not finding common cause with those that led us here.

As one specific case: consider the attempt to portray CK as a moderate. That's not a tenable position *except* in rare conditions: like if you compare him to Fuentes AND don't have a fanbase jumping to calls for mass murder. The second point failed, there's no rational way to think CK was moderate

One reason people still go on about "professor sleeping with student" plots as a metonymy for complaining about literary fiction as a whole is because complaining about literary fiction as a whole would come off as primarily sexist and secondarily racist in 2025.

I often wonder if this idea that all literary novels are about "white author-insert character goes to bone town" is based off of something like a reader reading a French novel, not liking it and then projecting that onto the entirety of literary fiction

Quick the Cat blesses your heart for thinking you have time now to attend to your hobbies

Post a random picture or else everything will go wrong in September

Quick the Cat is going to try to appear here more often on #Caturday, so knock off your pelagianist heresies!

Scalzi has fantastic taste in zero sugar sodas

Morning kitten Cock-a-doodle-meow!

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

GNAW: FOOD OF THE GODS II (1989) This young actor understood the assignment. One of the greatest line deliveries in all of horror.

But choose wisely: do you seek union with Mormon Jesus? Trinitarian Jesus? Nestorian Jesus?

Without downloading any new images (implying you can download old images), where are you mentally?

In today I learned and you should too:

ONLINE LEFTIST: what if we tried to find a candidate that's good ONLINE LIBERAL: congratulations your attitude just killed us all. we're dead. hope you're happy. we could've just had trans people be dead but nooooo you and your purity tests put a gun to our heads and squeezed. enjoy the camps homo 🖕

what if the kid from the Omen was the Omela? The Omenla. It could be cool then right

Norwegian home invasion.

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.