The Mandarin word for honey, 'mì' 蜜 shares a common root with English 'mead.' Both go back to Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Let's just say that the appropriate law enforcement response to encountering pogroms in progress does not put a lot of strain on the prison system

Trump is not just a bad president. He's the Confederacy in control of the White House. Not merely an administration violating the Constitution in this or that particular matter, a regime fundamentally without legal validity in all respects whatsoever. A rebellion against the supreme law of the land.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

It is amazing that oil hit like $120 during the initial panic, nothing has changed since except being assured a deal is a day away, and oil was $90 last time I checked lol:

I struggle to understand the person who does not regard this spectacle with revulsion. Clearly, many such people exist. But it is a sort of block-headed nihilism (hedonism, really, I suppose) that I just cannot imagine holding with even the slightest shred of self-respect.

Trump and his apparatchiks are working to weaponize the entire federal government on behalf of election subversion. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten. Dating to around 1353–1336 BC 📷 Metropolitan Museum

some Very Serious People are going to act like the pogrom in Belfast tonight is just evidence that These People Must Have Their Concerns Seriously Addressed instead of the truth, which is "these are rabid animals and must be put down"

Nancy Mace 🤝 Riley Gaines Trans obsessed conservative women who placed 5th

it says right on the tin that this is a fucking republic. as a purely technical matter we are supposedly in charge of this fucking thing. we cannot continue to allow the worst elements of human society to turn their worst impulses into global policy. this is a matter of human self preservation

i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time

I have no time for narratives of the American-Israeli relationship that position America as a victim, mainly because they are 102% false. The reason that relationship is bad for the world has nothing to do with it being bad for America, for which it is mostly costless.

I am less concerned about Trump literally “canceling” the midterm elections than I am about him insisting that no results can possibly be legitimate, and urging his most psychotic acolytes to take matters into their own hands (again)

Regarding oil supplies, I really really want to believe that the US can still suffer material consequences for the evil stupid shit that we do, but I also remember about this time last year when the economy was gutshot and Christmas was ruined because of tariffs

Religion has zero place in healthcare. Religious organisations should not be able to object to abortion, transition, vaccination, or any other form of medicine they may choose to have an issue with tomorrow. Enough of this nonsense.

Maybe with two and a half more years of this we can finally kill the dumb hog voter belief that Republicans are the economy party. I am ready for the median voter to hurt me again

Chesterton

The fact that I don’t have any evidence just proves how deep the conspiracy goes.

There is no world in which you're going to convince committed Republicans that elections they don't win are legitimate. In my conversations with these people, you can cite whatever evidence you want and it doesn't matter, because their belief that they're entitled to win overwhelms everything.

The pedophiles worked out a way to separate trans girls from cis girls by molesting all the girls. A non-issue turned into an issue in order for white cis men to gain sexual access to children.

Unironically one of the funniest jokes in Star Wars history is literally that bit from Empire where an asteroid smacks into the bridge of a Star Destroyer and just flat-out kills a guy in the middle of a call with Vader, and everyone just ignores him

Is it too late to tell the people at Madison Square Garden about the Nika Riots? This time just don’t sieve the emperor, capture him immediately

got a $10,000-a-head filter at the door of one of the most heavily surveilled places on the planet and everyone inside is still like DONALD TRUMP KILL YOURSELF after one sip of beer

Tonight, should Allah will it, his aim will not falter.

I think about this Tweet a lot.

Lots of people in the replies attributing moral and political superiority to people who can spend a bunch of money to travel, and they shouldn't, but treating as absurd the idea that other people in other places can teach you valuable things indicates that this guy probably does suck yeah

Dems won ww2 and built postwar prosperity. Republicans are chucklefucks who couldn’t run a laundromat

I do get emotional at this speech every time I read it

The modern Agora

That's a UFO to them, they'll be dining out on this story for years

To this point: Remember the absolute shitfit that conservatives pitched when people said how they really felt about Charlie Kirk? Yeah, that's them feeling this pain. Do more of it. Be absolutely unapologetic. Reflect their own cruelty back to them.

I get to use this meme twice in 24 hours

Okay that's enough posting about Captain HitlerTits for one evening, time for a beer

jrpg boss-looking motherfucker

The conservative movement explicitly, no-shit, no-other-explanation believes that an educated populace is directly opposed to their vision of a peasant class having 15 kids and building wealth for the Chosen Few Elites forever and want to repeal the 20th and the 19th century to achieve that goal

Every headline now is President says country ‘hotter than ever’” and then there’s another story in the corner that says “mosquitos now have rabies”

This has been something I've been meaning to write for quite some time and the Homer contretemps gave it the opportunity. The thing I most wanted to draw out is that it isn't one fool on Twitter with a helmet, but a radicalization pipeline designed to lead antiquity-curious young men into fascism.

This dick-measuring contest is exhausting and pointless why are we still doing it Japan fell to the indispensably combined efforts of the Allies the same way Germany did, simple as

I've said it before and I will say it again: the hated 'administrative state' -- and much of what is disparagingly and dismissively referred to as 'big government' -- is a Chesterton's Fence

My favorite part is when Brooke Rollins says, "Don't be rude" as she's trying to defend cutting food benefits for children. Truly MAGA in a nutshell: They get to be horrible people and then act offended when someone criticizes them.

"Frog-build looking bitch" and "barrel-chested Ewok" are like the Homeric epithets of our time. "Sing, O Muse, the stupidity of sand-eating Elon Musk."

Her bio reads “35th Generation New Mexican”, just an incredible flex on the United States as a concept

Three and a half centuries after the Pueblo Revolt, a Pueblo will be the Governor of New Mexico

A team of archaeologists are digging beneath the Notre Dame Cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago. The excavation has uncovered hundreds of objects, including a fourth-century coin and a medieval jug with undeciphered markings.

So I’ve been watching a lot of American true crime and one thing that really stands out is how police officers, prosecutors and lawyers often have no qualms in describing a person as “evil”. And I have never heard a police officer or a prosecutor or a lawyer talk that way about anyone in Iceland 🧵

DADDY SAYS THE SHOES FIT FINE SO THE SHOES FIT FINE DO NOT SAY TO DADDY THAT THE SHOES DO NOT FIT FINE OR DADDY WILL BE VERY VERY CROSS