I kind of see it as a larger scale expression of the same impulse that informed Roko's Basilisk: in rejecting the notion of religiousness and thinking themselves above it, many of these figures are recreating gods and divine accounts from first principles.

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

This is an incredibly revealing chart about group-based political identities in American politics today. Via @today.yougov.com @dhmontgomery.com

1st console played: Atari 2600 1st family console owned: Nintendo Entertainment System 1st console that made me properly fall in love with games: Sega Genesis (Megadrive) 1st console that was just mine rather shared: Sony Playstation 1st console that I bought with my own money: Sony Playstation

Tim's got some fight in 'im. Oughta be fun for everyone. Maybe even Tim!

slightly increase a band A Fire Outside

Indianapolis. I think of that city, and the term that pops immediately into my head is "arm pit."

Linkin Property

This wonderful, incredibly smart woman. 🏆❤️

Library fines have gotten weird since the change in management

The controlled opposition isn’t the Democratic Party, it’s the mainstream press.

Was actually wondering about this

did It Happen? no, of course not but the periodic weekend “maybe It’s Happening” rumor mill is an important mental health salve, carry on

One hard, painful lesson I had to learn over 2024 and 2025 is that there is a significant number of Americans who don't give a shit about politics and that there's no argument that you can make to dislodge them from this position.

You've heard of "I can make her better." But are you ready for "I can make her worse"?!

thank god i found it again

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”

-deep, deep sigh- Also gender.

trump’s bellicosity on the war, tariffs, the economy, the senate, and everything else makes a lot more sense when you realize that his aides are carefully controlling everything he sees and hears to avoid him getting upset by bad news, as you would do with an elderly parent

Cowards

The two Rottweiler puppies I ordered on TEMU just arrived. I think there's something wrong with my order. 😐

this is unironically the best case for punitive taxation there are arguments about fairness and freedom and whatever else but at the end of the day it is self-evidently far too dangerous for society as a whole for anyone to have that much money, the end

This is breathtaking. Thank you for sharing.

Palette cleanser.

Been itching to replay Breath of Fire 3 again... in the meantime here's some old Momo fanart~

Really hope he’s just straight-up lying here because the alternatives are 1) he mistook a random person for Clinton, Biden, or Obama or 2) he hallucinated an entire conversation with someone.

went to my childhood home recently and had a chance to sit down and really talk openly with the bogeyman in the basement. pretty decent guy actually and very sensitive. all those times he chased me up the stairs he just wanted connection. we did a pretend chase for old times sake

new video youtu.be/zv1SFurxwbE

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

-heavy sigh- This, too, is gender.

If you look past this moment, you’ll see you’ve got a friend

I can't compete with this.

Hey, chat, is it possible to have negative approval numbers?

Thank you to all the people who are good at talking about random things for hours.

you ever think how this is all because america elected a centre-left black president once, and the right never forgave the left for it

Look at this beautiful hawk I just saw!!

THIS TIMES ONE MILLION

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

“Extraordinary wealth corrupts and enshittifies exponentially” me, just now

As ine fond of saying as regards the related topic of cringe: what did irony and cynicism actually accomplish?

defining meme of our time