Happy Bastille Day to you all! The Patrouille de France and their AlphaJets flying over the marvellous Mont Saint-Michel in 2019. © Patrouille De France (PAF)

reminder:

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Thrilled to reveal the cover for my new book Scaredy Cats: A Devilish History of Felines in Horror out next spring from @arsenalpulp.bsky.social. Cover design by Fleck Creative.

This would’ve been a spectacularly fun year under President Harris. Winter Olympics, World Cup, America 250. Would’ve been great.

There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

A bedsheet, you say? Something like this?

I'm concerned about the US becoming a Third World country. That's why I support a movement devoted to personalist rule that rewards rampant bribery and influence peddling.

Per last repost, I do think that in the US a lot of people, like a LOT of people, do not realize that if a birth certificate is no longer proof of citizenship then most of us have no proof of citizenship. At all.

So, learning that the AI was like, "Yeah, we, uh...we're a business!" and Mr. Weird found out only at the last second that they were an AI company is so...fucking revealing, they KNOW how much we all hate them

This. So. Much. This.

A most excellent caption (story: https://carleton.ca/news/story/cats-a-history-rod-phillips/)

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

i do find the imagery of pouring endless, unnecessary money into a corroded mirror of rancid water a little heavy handed

That a government boxed in by its own timidity proved unable to address the deep economic challenges bequeathed by the GFC, Brexit, the pandemic, the wars was predictable enough - the unforgivable bit for me, however, is the endless pandering to the profoundly fascistic tendencies in our society.

New reaction image and I couldn’t be more grateful for it lol

His cat disagrees.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

A great thread on the perils of AI summaries extrapolating from a limited source base.

Reading N. A. M. Rodger's The Price of Victory and this passage on the Lusitania is eye-opening in light of Hegseth & company. #navalhistory #booksky

After Wile E Coyote died, Road Runner ran on, as was his nature, but without purpose. Once he painted a tunnel on a rock face, but none hilariously tried to follow. He sought a fresh pursuer but found no one. Ten days after Coyote, he, too, went still.

...like. Part of me really digs earnest naïve/outsider art, but. Part of me is also VERY aware many of these botch jobs exist because whoever was in charge of the project either - Didn't believe a professional artist was worth paying for, or - Thought art was easy. And fuck that.

They get to fight each other for VA benefits.

Are you really even a cat owner if you have never said to your cat "Thank you for saying that: I really appreciate it" when they have done an especially good meow?

Happy birthday Studio Ghibli! Today is a good day to watch the studio's first feature film, Tenku no shiro Laputa/Castle in the Sky.

Something, something, tragedy, farce

Bonus points for looking like Ghibli production art.

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

I'm just gonna say, if you're one of those people who counters any positive thing with "Yeah, well your country did bad things"....I'm an historian. I promise I can play that game better than you.

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ It's #Pride month and the @holocaustpod.bsky.social has some really interesting LGBTQ episodes! 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Check out below for specific episodes👇 www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis... #pridemonth

republicans. It's republicans. They hold the majority in Congress, refuse to do ANYTHING that goes against him because they're spineless fucking weasels, and every one of them has a bank account that benefits because they get inside info about market manipulation. It's republicans.

Meet Mr XXXX the legendary ship's cat of corvette HMAS Castlemaine! Serving in tropical waters, he could sense flying fish long before the crew. He'd wait by the deck, snap them out of the air with lightning speed. https://arhv.sea.museum/collections

STOP TELLING ME AI IS THE FUTURE OH MY GOD

You know, like this

Repost with the Russian agent who spies on your posts

In 1952, Richard Nixon's career was nearly derailed by revelations that he had access to a slush fund of $18,000 -- less than a quarter million today." People used to give a shit about that kind of thing, you see.

I hate that this is normal

Thus series is great #booksky

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still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

LEGENDARY

@ewacat.bsky.social I’m sorry, maybe, for the spam, but you need to see these