Happy 20th anniversary to Final Fantasy 12 - a game I genuinely think doesn't get talked about enough. One of the best-written entries in the franchise, impeccable world-building, and so many influential systems (Gambit system is still incredible). A game ahead of its time in so many ways.

Yeah I’ve seen the groundbreaking movie where a leading man plays two different brothers

The dumbest fuck on the planet is President of the United States.

People are so used to sanewashing that it is jarring to see the president quoted verbatim sounding like a crazy person. Trump the actual person and the media presentation of The President are usually completely divorced from each other.

“Tonight we are celebrating people, not AI. Animation is more than a prompt, it’s an art form that needs to be protected.” — Will Arnett presenting the awards for Animation at the Oscars

Instead of the Oscars I'm watching NOROI: THE CURSE, combining my love of J-horror and found footage horror.

Burger King has joined Dominos in the elite club of businesses to advertise with the message “We heard you: our food sucks and we have decided to try to make it good instead”

Confession: I've always really liked Burger King's fries.

Seriously considering introducing future episodes of TURNING MODERN with "Will never be brought to you by AI, but with coffee and Wellbutrin."

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

The media insists on treating Hanania as so uniquely insightful that we have to overlook the whole Nazi thing, meanwhile his actual insights are "Black people are subhuman," "Pedophilia is cool," and "My friends teabagged me hundreds of times, therefore there's no such thing as sexual assault"

if you understand that u.s.' refusal to provide public healthcare kills people, then the assassination of private healthcare ceos and other lobbyists is plainly proportional. the only coherent argument for public healthcare which condemns luigi mangione is hardline pacifism.

Holy fuck, Gore Vidal basically predicted the 2016 election and its consequences in 1952:

act like it? buddy YOU act like it, what the fuck is your job

This reminds me of one of the greatest descriptions of Pokemon - just plain one of my favorite tweets ever.

This made my weekend.

I wish I realized this in time to put it in the episode, but I wonder if the reason why King Afonso of Kongo complained in his letters about the corruption of the priests sent from Portugal was because very few priests wanted to be assigned to Kongo in the first place...

Denny’s are the restaurant equivalent of K-Marts. As in, in the USA, they’re all run down, and you mostly are only there if you ended up there on a weird road trip or at the end of a night out. But international locations are clean and gorgeous and don’t even look like the same chain.

The fact that the "You have to admit AI is useful" people aren't confident enough to just wait until it becomes obvious that AI is useful and then enjoy saying "I told you so!" to all the AI detractors is, quite frankly, suspicious.

New episode of TURNING MODERN! I'm especially proud of this one and put a lot of effort into the research, so if it sounds intriguing to you or you enjoy it, do share. turningmodern.com/2026/03/14/t...

If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this

this person analyzes American politics for a living

The next episode of TURNING MODERN is going to be dealing to a large degree with the topic of the origins of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and comparing indigenous Central African slavery to European chattel slavery, so it's probably a good thing I don't have much of a reach or audience.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxTi... Crows in Tokyo learned to construct fake dummy nests to distract municipal workers whose job is to remove nests

Bush II set the bar very high but between this, USAID, the mass deportation atrocities and a conservative projection of the result of the anti-vax movement I think we can pretty definitively say Trump is the worst President now

hmm

These days when you tell people the ADL was founded in response to a high-profile lynching, the reasonable response you could expect is "oh, were they for or against?"

Can you imagine you're indicted for like mail fraud or some shit and you get to jail and your roommate is now the president of Venezuela

Look I'm already willing to surrender, denounce Israel, and pretend to be a trans woman and forced to marry a burly Persian or whatever as long as they open the strait and my electricity bill goes down.

not in California tho, where our shitbag governor Gavin Newsom is a wholly owned subsidiary of homicidal power monopoly PG&E 🙃

It’s incredibly alpha to be afraid to buy shoes that fit because you think it might make your boss dad angry

Yeah, no thanks, email from the company running my 401k, I'd rather not know how geopolitics is impacting my retirement fund.

I do like that in FINAL FANTASY XI there's a quest where you get someone to make you a new outfit because a guard dissed your fashion sense.

oh my God it's a real image from Getty www.aol.com/articles/jd-...

It's really incredible that this one fundraiser was able to get $50,000 to support displaced people in Lebanon. Lets keep this going cause the needs are huge and the government in Lebanon is non-existent. www.chuffed.org/project/1719...

I wrote a thing where I share some of my feelings on Ian Morris' book "Why The West Rules - For Now", meditate on the question of how "the West" invaded the world in the 1800s with some alt-history possibilities. derelicthistorian.ghost.io/westen-uber-...

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

Love this new stage of capitalism where the thing I buy increases in price between when I click „put in shopping cart“ and „purchase item“ and then the company also delists the thing a day after I bought it and I can no longer play it.

Seeing neoliberals on this site adopt the mirror version of Republicans' contempt for urban populations has been...interesting.

Oh who could have seen this one coming.

The thing about Newsom is that he isn't just a creep with opinions I abhor, he's genuinely an awful politician and campaigner. He waffles and backtracks to such a degree that he might as well be a two-dimensional satire of a politician from a comedy.

you don’t hate rich people enough

this looks like it has the final save point of the game on the first floor

I can't compete with this.

So many people have now unconsciously adopted the politics-savvy "pragmatic" stance of beltway insiders that they don't seem to have any true sense where that ersatz pragmatism has led us. It's allowed moral and institutional rot that normalizes everything, even insane death-cult fascism.

It's been 65 days since Donald Trump invaded a sovereign state, abducted its leader, and declared the US will "run" the state indefinitely It's been 9 days since Trump launched a war (his word) against Iran without congressional approval No House member has filed articles of impeachment for either

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.