Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

BREAKING: Judge issues TRO reining in tactics against peaceful protesters and journalists at Portland OR ICE facility. Judge Michael Simon bars use of crowd control munitions against people who don't pose physical threat. Doc: https//www.documen...

The crowd waits with nervous anticipation as the singer tantalizes with several different words rhyming with "uck."

None of these colors are in the bible.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Life is what happens while you're busy compiling shaders.

Buddy, you need to win the primary before you can lose the general with this stuff.

We were watching a Muppet Christmas Carol and talking a lot about how much amazing work goes into the puppets. The credits rolled and we got to the credit line for “Muppet Milliner” and my friend spontaneously said “you know what….fuck AI to death.”

The name's Ipsum. Lorem Ipsum.

Caves of Qud

I’m sorry it’s a what?

Hey @mtsw.bsky.social, is there any heuristic that might help me make sense of this headline and image choice?

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

@brandonbird.bsky.social thank you for the joy that the opening of our new calendar brought us this Christmas morning!

Starting to worry that between the original’s poor performance and the passage of several decades we might never get to see Leonard Part 7.

GOTY

Fascinating to see who loses their minds at the rise of a social media platform operating on the radical idea of “let people see content they want.”

The nice thing about the blocklists is it makes chud sightings a rare enough occasion that I get a little frisson of excitement when I get to deliver a bespoke block.

I can tell this site is popular now because not everyone is funny.

I had assumed that to be a prerequisite.

“DON’T TINKER WITH TAYLOR!” SAY SOLDIERS, SPIES

New agony of defeat just dropped.

Tutorial level.

I have good jokes about Scylla and Charybdis but I can’t choose.

Are you supposed to run from a solar eclipse and play dead with a lunar eclipse or vice versa? I can never remember.

This new Beyoncé cover of Jolene is really good, but the song loses a little something when the singer is unable to conceive of Jolene as posing any romantic threat whatsoever.

@rangedtouch.bsky.social its not an Opera, but… www.wweek.com/bars/2023/12...

This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.

quote with a game that is nostalgic to you