this is why you should *never* hit someone with an rpg. it’s dangerous, it’s shitty, and it’s wrong

A particularly disturbing and brutal method of execution was being “fired from a canon” where the condemned were strapped to the front a canon and obliterated. This was performed by the British recently enough that photos (before shots) exist: rarehistoricalphotos.com/execution-ca...

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If the President cannot be held to account then he would seem to be a Monarch.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Gonna be honest, it did feel a bit like I had been going crazy, especially since even before any of these revelations, a lot of career transphobes were quite openly pedophilic, Germaine Greer self-described as a pederast "like all women of taste", and yet nobody seemed to see the red flags.

Nyx looks like she has tiny little munchkin legs in this picture.

"average male has 3 friends" factoid actualy just statistical error. average male has 0 friends. Georg Epstein, who lives on an island & has over 10,000 wealthy male friends, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

imagine getting so thoroughly bodied by the Beano like this

Alan Baxter's ( @alanbaxter.bsky.social ) trilogy sounds like each book will have me up 'till the wee hours because I just can't put it down! Can't wait!! #booksky #WelcomeToTheGulp

My wife is freaking out whilst watching IT remote in and ‘fix’ her computer, especially as the person has just googled ‘data recovery’.

Apparently someone/group is trying to get my next book cancelled. And someone else has written a pearl-clutching article about this demand to cancel my book. This novel was written to honour members of the Stolen Generations (ie Aboriginal children who were forcibly removed under racist policies) 🤷🏽‍♀️

I wonder if that “6 degrees of Kevin Bacon” game can be repurposed for politicians/intellectuals and Epstein? Sadly it might turn out to be 1° for most cases…

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men "Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular."

BRAKING: Top 10 Ways to stop. 1. Footbrake 2. Handbrake 3. Anchors 4....

@ivalaine.bsky.social you was right!

(1) Long 🧵 Time. Today we learned that paleontologist Jack Horner (the same guy who helped give us "Jurassic Park") is in the Epstein Files. As a paleontologist, I feel compelled to say something because this touches my field and I want to make my stance clear on this...

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

Hey. Why didn’t anyone tell me that Color Out Of Space is an excellent sci fi movie with a batshit (as always) Nic Cage and awesome monsters straight out of The Thing? That was a surprise for a lazy choice!

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

"Extreme heat has caused more deaths in Australia than any other natural hazard", researchers say. But the media no longer cares about global warming.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

This isn’t quite right. From memory at least one of the journalists involved in the expose were murdered afterwards. www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10...

Two spoons one knife. We are civilised people in this household.

Love that the only impact the average citizen can make against AI companies is to goad other overly-litigious corporate overlords to battle them like two Kaiju destroying each other for world dominance

Boycott the World Cup Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Go into your photo roll and post the image that literally makes you laugh out loud

Go into your photo roll and post the image that literally makes you laugh out loud

Ilhan Omar: “He was saved by security”

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(rushes to be the first to make the THERE'S ALREADY A STARBUCKS THERE joke)

what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?

Pretty sure he’s trying to hide the scar he got trying to steal a medallion off a woman in a bar fire in Nepal in the 1930s.

Snow leopard joins Team Orca. I get like this when people take photos without asking.

So excited last night when this beautiful South-western Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa wambenger) visited our Perth Hills garden, taking the opportunity to get a quick drink 😍 Our first time seeing this amazing Australian native marsupial. #auswildlife #wildoz #native #marsupial

/2 Reminds me of a jail call I once got. Inmate: I have a big police corruption story Me: yeah? Inmate: I’ve got proof and recordings Me: yeah Inmate: I need a real writer to write it up Me: Yeah. Inmate: Someone respected. Me: Yeah! Inmate: So can you introduce me to @radleybalko.bsky.social

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

The Onion remains the only credible corporate news source in the United States. theonion.com/kristi-noem-...

Peter Broelman Canberra Times

“I have come to work for a company named Evil Eye of Corruption and I am currently upset with both the evil and the corruption.” 🤷🏻

Apparently it was the hottest night on record in Adelaide - it’s already 34.7C at 7:20am

ICE agents setting out for the day.

What we have to remember is that this story starts way back. Way way back. It begins when the founding fathers had a simple dream. A dream of America....

Blanche: "Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."

AI Company be like "Oh no, is it possible the technology we've been working on is too good and might become self aware? This is definitely something to be concerned about and write headlines for the shareholders to mull over."

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.