Much of the coverage of Ann Widdecombe's death is just voyeurism justified by the fact she was a politician and it may therefore be a 'political' story. Think it's just crass rubbernecking featuring frankly excessive detail in many cases.

seven part pact launches in 2 days, here's some sketches by @badbucket.bsky.social showing the process for designing different boards — each of the seven wizards has their own board game with completely different rules (and inspiration from different styles of medieval art)

the 90s tv miniseries merlin was utterly formative for me as a little gay nerd and i will be rewatching it in honor of a guy who just seemed really sweet

let us just take a moment to remember that in the original World of Darkness, Louis Pasteur was turned into a vampire and proceeded to develop a scientific method for both turning *and* curing vampires.

it's hard to convey to younger people what it was like to have to police your space in public 24/7 and the things men felt free to say about women's appearances, in front of others, so that confronting it caused a disturbance and WE were the problem it was tedious and predictable

Noooo! Not Sam Neill! (This was just posted to his Instagram a few minutes ago)

at least 70% of the fucking bullshit idiot rancor on this website is an unwillingness to understand that different people have different fucking jobs

Arthurian knight kink, by which I mean our RP scene must be prefaced with a lengthy apologetics establishing that it totally happened exactly like this and any other chronicler who tells it differently is full of shit.

it's one of the reasons people are always running into each other in the past; there just aren't that many of them, especially when it comes to the kind of people who wrote things down.

Arrested at CPAC in 2007 after throwing a chair at Milo (for being a queen) and Elaine Chao (for being Taiwanese)

so Graham Platner crashed out, Lindsey Graham died, I can only hope that Graham Linehan is feeling a little peaky.

it’s so bleakly funny to me that we discovered a heap of math that exposes questions about the nature of problem solving and people want to sell us on using it to write work emails.

we have a traversable map of the distance between abstract concepts as represented across all human language. let’s use that to make a flyer of a dog on a surfboard. aaaaaaa

I don't care about the supposedly problematic age gap, I still admire Peter Rabbit.

The fact that both John Norman & Piers Anthony have both survived to extreme old age is an interesting coincidence. Maybe what Brian Johnson should gave been doing all this time is writing intensely misogynistic, pervy pulp fiction

a fun little game is 'guess which science-fiction novel this is talking about'

Piers Anthony just putting all the perviness in the books instead of his life.

Conservatives used to argue that if a popular movie encouraged courage and hope and celebrated family that that meant it was conservative and you should vote Republican. Now they argue that if a popular movie encourages courage and hope and celebrates family it is leftist propaganda.

occam's razor is that this was a prank mcconnell was doing which he discontinued as soon as lindsey graham died on account of it becoming distasteful, like when Mr Peanut's rebirth was stalled due to the inopportune demise of kobe bryant

Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today. The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is man Sex and the City. Jeff Garlin is Samantha. Richard Lewis is Miranda. Larry David is Big.

rereading Asimov's Black Widower stories and every so often Asimov will mention how pretty his editor is and how he 'chases her round her desk' or whatever and it's all kind of grubby amid these otherwise quite charming nonsense stories, given what we know about his habits

this is the perfect use of axios’s bullet point house style

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.

so Lindsay Graham's lifeforce was absorbed by Mitch, got it.

This is extremely funny.

Discouraging an activity with a benefit-to-cost ratio of nearly 10:1. A triumph of policymaking.

yes, your flight was held up for four hours, but did you consider that in 1884 cabin boy Richard Parker was murdered and eaten by his shipwrecked colleagues?

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Cooked a meat pie for a dinner party in Frankfurt and it absolutely killed. Northern English cuisine keeps on winning

guys, there is no universe in which a senator does not express distress and say some anodyne nice things about a colleague who dies unexpectedly, even if that senator is AOC and the colleague is Strom Thurmond. This is a very basic human ritual.

one exam, 31 contests. I wrote about the geography of the gaokao. To get why much of the recurring debates about the gaokao are centred on regional inequalities and perceptions of privilege and unfairness, one has to know the provincial quota system. chenchenzhang.net/2026/07/12/w...

We're gonna find out that an hour ago someone placed a $100,000 Polymarket bet that Mitch McConnell would outlive Lindsey Graham

"Suburbs" is an amazingly bad translation of "banlieue" which almost completely fails to capture Mbappé's point here.

He doesn't deserve retrospectives or eulogies or even takes. The best, most appropriate reaction we can have, the one that would have made him shake with impotent rage the most, is to simply laugh, shrug, and immediately forget he ever existed. Quislings don't get monuments.

my wife, regarding an envelope shredded by the puppy: "I always used to think "The dog ate my homework" was a joke"

The "Mamdani hates Italians" stories seem like they're going to be much healthier for society than the antisemitism angle. It's funny on its face and it takes the wind out of the sails of all the worst actors

one thing is that Lyman Stone hasn't been saying that for years. there's actually a post where he talks at length about the warmth and generosity of the Somali community, from personal experience, and then he is willing to turn around and support pogroms against them out of political expediency.

By using lethal means to stop narco vessels in SOUTHCOM, the U.S. has completely ruined its ability to hold the high ground when Iran does the same in Hormuz. We view these artificial theaters as separate when they’re not. There’s no plan, let alone a strategy.

I can’t overstate how bad antisemitism is on TikTok, even in apolitical topics. I saw a video complaining about the VAR favoritism shown to Argentina that ended with AI footage of him at the Western Wall and standing next to Netanyahu.

I do think, in an odd kind of way (remember these specific words) BOJACK HORSEMAN is actually underappreciated. Like the ending was very honest, I think, but I also find myself thinking about Diane's "I don't think deep down really exists" scene as well.

all of these are also stories about how Americans were lovely gracious welcoming hosts — including Americans from the diasporas of other competing countries!! — and gosh I hope that’s never lost when the historians write about this tournament

AI boyfriends are more common than AI girlfriends in China, and judging entirely by my subreddit browsing potentially very popular in the West too, just underserved by the market as it exists at present.

Pathetic. If you want an imaginary computer date, you should follow the old ways and beat up some skeletons in a dungeon then pick all the simp options in the dialogue tree first.

The ceasefire doesn’t even matter here: it’s blatantly illegal under international law period. It’s a testament to how bad the U.S. has screwed this up that Iran can do this and not be faced with global condemnation. Before the war they would be.

Look, I know this site doesn’t actually follow what’s going on with Iran, but Iran didn’t hit a U.S. vessel but a Cyprus-flagged vessel. It’s the maritime equivalent of you being mad at the U.S. and then shooting a random pedestrian outside your window. You don’t get to do that.

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someone could bring down this administration by getting trump and rfk jr in the same interview and asking if they agree they’re “pretty much in the same shape”