Character idea: Monster created via urban legends but slowly generations changed it from a crazed killer to a vengeful protector. Plot twist: Someone wants to release a movie about it being a killer again and it's desperately trying to stop it. It doesn't want to be a killer again.

I am pleased to inform that I have achieved the perfect level of fun tipsy, wherein one enjoys a lovely sensation of detachment from one's body and a most amusing combination of heightened sensory perception and fuzzy numbness. Now I shall experience further with spicy chicken and feel good rock.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

This is actually false. The Taliban movement was organized by the ISI in 1994 to simplify trucking bribes/taxes and to keep India out of their rear area.

Assigned's mentions for this post are flooded with people who want to jeer at Biden so may I just say: When a Democratic former president makes a point of standing up for trans rights in a situation where he is absolutely not required to do so, for God's sake, just take the W.

yeah man I wouldn't tell people I thought Stalin's only crime was not waging cataclysmic war against the victorious Western Allies either

Comic book company shocked that the fash audiences that kept the lights on actually take the fash character with cool aesthetics as aspirational instead of not getting the satire that's *totally* baked in (trust us).

wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this

this is a perfectly good theory which presents the problem that it has not happened once in american history

Lovely stuff from cartoonist and huge Tom Stoppard fan - Nick Newman

Pleased to find myself in the era where millennials have become old enough that lame mass media stuff like football game halftime shows now shamelessly pander to our nostalgia

“Small countries must tiptoe around the sensibilities of big violent nuclear powers or else they’ll get what’s coming to them“ is a bizarre kind of brain worms that often passes itself off as anti-imperialism. Nearly always said by people from nuclear power bully countries like the US or Russia!

Extremely funny to see this headline, read the laudatory reactions on Bsky, then click through and learn that one of the only things they agree on is support for the Nazi Tattoo guy

Hasan Piker went on a podcast yesterday, claiming there were Jews in the command structure of the Nazi regime.... ...and people still insist on telling me that this guy is some genius political commentator.

i cannot imagine being so addicted to failure that you will not allow your enemies to deliver an unconditional surrender

new “you cannot kill me in a way that matters” just dropped

Look, if literally any other Democrat rushed to the White House for a fawning Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump where the two flattered each other for thirty minutes, we'd tear them a new asshole for it, and we all know it.

I actually have a lot of confusion about judging the morality of a composite, corporate entity like the United States as if it was an individual with individual views and coherence and moral intuitions. A state is simply not that thing at all

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

lol I thought this was a joke and then I looked up the plot of Badlands. which, don't get me wrong, sounds pretty rad.

"I don't know a single Korean or Chinese person who approves of the bombings of Japan" So you have no Korean or Chinese friends lmfao

"noam chomsky was more involved with jeffrey epstein than bill clinton" is not an outcome i was expecting

Marge, you're all right. We'll stay your execution and commute to a life sentence at Gitmo for participating in the January 6 insurrection. Call me a softie.

This is true, that said, I've watched this happen a lot, with BLM and Pride where key organizers or organizations have unleashed unhinged antisemitism and the 99% have just kinda stood by, and as a Jew you're left going "okay but is the person next to at this protest an antisemite?"

wrong Biden imo

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.

It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Day to all who celebrate. Be sure to let all your screams out and then disappear.

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.

Look, real talk. The reason I care so much about the McBride thing is that it’s a good example of how cruel online discourse in the trans community can make it scarier to come out. I‘m talking from experience here.

It must be so frustrating to be Jewish when everyone accuses your religion of being the international conspiracy religion while the front page of the news is like “Pope declares this Opus Dei thing freaks him out too.”

Getting talked to by the people's police isn't so fun now is it you stupid bastard

I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.

Picard: there ARE FOUR GUYS! FOUR

I think it is the job of the press to tell people what's in major legislation and how it will affect their lives.

Cats are liquid Especially on Halloween 🎃🐈‍⬛🎃

Well, Tiberius was a pedophile who abused children at his private retreat.

THIS IS THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE

That only follows if you believe violence is inherently bad, like some kinda schmuck

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

...i'm increasingly convinced that some people have no clue about the fiscal sociology of the Soviet Union knee-jerk anticommunism is stupid but this is also *not* at all how Soviet planning worked whatsoever

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