YOU MUST TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

Once again, I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats do not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn 🤔🧐

Surprise! I have been re-running Master of Survival with director's commentary on my Patreon as a way of celebrating its completion just over ten years ago! Updates are posted roughly on the date of each episode, & you can sign up for them at the $2 level here: patreon.com/collection/1768040

NOW WE’RE TALKING

good news everybody

The Mighty Milkshake Ducks

Aragorn halts their pursuit for a moment when he sees hobbit-prints veer from the main track of the Orcs. Where the prints end, he finds the elven-brooch that Pippin dropped: at least one Hobbit was still alive at this point. With Legolas and Gimli he continues the chase.

RESULTS: Democrats have defended two state House seats in Pennsylvania, one in Allegheny County & one in Lehigh County. This means Dems will keep control of the House. (Had GOP flipped a seat, they'd likely have flipped House next month.) One seat leaned blue; the other was safely blue.

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Forget the "looksmaxxing" shit. This is what you need to carry a hammer for.

look!! my book has a FANCY STICKER NOW!!

Take at least one small moment for the ways in which Black Disabled people are going the fuck Through it, rn, is2fg

Gavin Newsom & the New York Times are doggedly working to strip rights and human recognition from transfolk, while insisting anyone who *doesn't* share their obsession is obsessed with "pronouns". Trust no one who claims to oppose Trump while taking delight in bullying the same people Trump bullies.

I know the response of 'you're causing irreversible harm to children's bodies!' to trans healthcare for kids comes from transphobia, plain and simple. But it's wild that the same people are never vocal about MUCH more common things that ACTUALLY cause irreversible harm. Take high school football...

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

Um es nochmal laut zu sagen: Theo Müller (Müllermilch,Weihenstephan, Landliebe, Sachsenmilch, Milsani, Milbona, Käserei Loose, Homann, Nadler, Hamker, Lisner uvam.) untertützt die AfD! www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Municipales à Paris : Lucie Castets remplace la maire sortante écologiste du 12ᵉ arrondissement, en tête de liste

“I don’t like Streugut. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.”

Happy Election Day to those who celebrate

Not only did Neil Gaiman get away with absolutely heineous SA without any fucking legal consequences he now claims he's writing a new novel. He hasn't published a book since 2013 and now thinks he can just magnanimously drop a literary turd to reclaim our goodwill. Do not support him or buy his book

Can’t leave the house without buying flannel apparently

Happy #AroWeek ! Here's a little comic made last year about figuring out I'm aegoromantic 😜 #aromanticawarenessweek #arospec #aromantic

IT IS A GLORIOUS DAY WHEN I DO NOT HAVE TO SWITCH ON THE SAD LAMP

Vier Jahre Krieg mitten in Europa. Und wir tun alle noch viel zu oft so, als sei das alles weit weg. Als ginge uns das kaum etwas an. Als litten unter diesem Krieg nicht Menschen wie wir. Als könnten Kälte, Unsicherheit, Angst, Terror und Tod uns nicht genauso treffen.

16 years ago I did a single-page story called "The Process," and only much later that I realized I was just describing the ADHD thought process... 😅 dresdencodak.com/2010/02/09/t...

it must suck to be a cat. you are born into this world, no one feeds you. you live a long life, but no one feeds you. you have never been fed, not once, not ever, never ever

Arte a déprogrammé son documentaire sur le “Terrorisme d’ultradroite”, qui devait être diffusé peu après la manifestation des amis fachos de Quentin Deranque. À la place, la chaîne diffusera un doc sur Georgia Meloni. Et ce n'est pas une blague…

Reminder for fellow ADHD people who have a hard time not doing things at the last minute. 😩 This affects voting by mail but also beware of anything else time sensitive that you have to mail.

Seeing Trump and Kash Patel interact with the men’s hockey team is a solid example of how misogyny functions as a male bonding ritual. Patel is clearly trying to impress the athletes and Trump, Trump is trying to impress the athletes, and the athletes are trying to impress the president

Ryan Coogler‘s The X-Files reboot has received a pilot greenlight at Hulu. Danielle Deadwyler is set as the co-lead with Jennifer Yale as showrunner. Source: Deadline | Read More: bit.ly/4ayla2N

🫵 YO 🫵 💫 BALTIMORE 💫 💃 AWP-GOERS 💃 We're throwing a rager on the Thurs! March 5! Free! There will be DJs! Tons of readers! including 💪 GWEN AUBE 💪 📗 with her new book 📗 🏀 MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS 🏀 DID WE MENTION IT'S FUCKING FREE March 5, 7 PM readers, 9 pm dancing ☠️ BE THERE ☠️

Ambiance

BREAKING Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

Criterion releasing K Pop Demon Hunters is a net benefit for everyone - those who like the movie will get a really good home release of it, those who don’t care about the movie will benefit from Criterion having a certified money maker that they can use to help fund more obscure/niche releases

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down by me, @planetx.bsky.social, and @longtalljodie.com comes out on 5/5/26!!!! Preorders are open AND if you’re interested in reviewing the book, it’s up on NetGalley and Edelweiss!

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

Time 2 ink

being at the age where everyone you know is having children

Cold 1.2 - Improv, Pastence

mi5 bob: before ron, screenshot, pc (2004) www.mobygames.com/game/68956/m...

Donc à s'allier avec l'extrême-droite, après avoir appelé la gauche à l'aide pendant des années pour sauver vos mandats. Assumez-la, l'union des droites, ça sera toujours aussi laid mais un peu plus franc.

Baseball: After every out, a new player takes the field but the outfielders have to move in 10 feet. By the 9th inning, there are 24 players, all on the infield, like a foosball of death.

Haha what if we were each other's lighthouses? Guiding each other back to shore despite the choppy waves, despite the charcoal skies? Our very own beacons of warmth and safety in the unpredictable ocean we call life? Anywayy

I wrote about the first ancient fish who deserved SSRIs

I’m not tearing up at the Olympics montage with “Partiró” playing, you are

Basically every horror movie I’ve ever watched except for Sinners, which is why I otherwise haven’t watched horror in like a decade

Repos du lapinou 🥰

On rappelle que l'"anti-France" est un terme apparu à la fin du 19e siècle dans les milieux d'extrême droite antisémites, popularisé durant l'affaire Dreyfus puis par le régime de Vichy.

You want me to wuther these heights? In this economy?

(furiously developing and testing poutine hotdish recipe for rash of celebrations)