The sphinx stirred. "Halt! If you seek to pass, you must solve my riddle, or I will kill you!" The wanderer skulking in the sphinx' shadow froze in place. "Riddless? It wishess to play a game of riddless? We know riddless, we do, my preciouss, we do!"

Movie where the woman who can kill with a smile and wound with her eyes from the Billy Joel song "She's Always A Woman" is set loose and the scientists who created her are forced to let Jolene from the song "Jolene" out of cryostorage to bring her back but instead they team up.

need a German word for the disquieting experience of thinking a poster must be young because their views about the world have the raw dumbness of a teenager and then realizing they're in their 40s.

Evangelical rhetoric about being a "sinner" who needs to be redeemed by blood has led them to embrace the biggest sinner they could find, a negative exemplar of humanity who validates all the impulses they forgive themselves for on Sunday

Melania Trump infesting the White House with bees is the funniest thing no one's talking about right now #Bees #WhiteHouse

Trying to get my brain back to making things, so watch this space for small doll for tiny child

Man, this is such a nihilistic take. Forget Lord of the Rings. My kids have watched The Wizard of Oz. The Godfather. Planet of the Apes. TONS of classics that are quite a bit older than 30 years, and they’ve enjoyed and appreciated them all.

I prefer the interpretation where the Piano Man is the only straight man at a gay bar and all the regulars are betting on how long it will take him to realize why Paul never had time for a wife, why the navy appeals to Davy, and why the regulars keep asking "Man, what are you doing here?"

post your warning sign

W.H. Auden, it turns out, truly hated internal combustion engine cars.

Looke at how these two postes lyne uppe

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

evil breeds further evil by making people feel liberated to do cruelties to whoever they imagine deserves them

[Ron Howard voice] Robert then ate the bird.

can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

Maximizing "liberty" by maximizing poverty is the oldest trick in the book. They free you from democracy & leave you defenseless against the landlord, the bank, & the sheriff.

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

This is a photo of Saturn and its rings. It's also a photo of Earth. See that bright point just right of centre? That's home. That's us.

to take this in a different direction: the replies to this are like 90% "so true bestie" and 10% "how dare you support the pedophile Will Stancil," and leaning in to either tendency as definitive of "what people are thinking about me" will cook your fucking brain

they are the same kind of men who think a woman “having a good sense of humor” means one that just laughs at his jokes

It really weirds me out how many people want conventionally attractive women to not only be incapable of evil, but to be innocent rape victims as well. Sometimes, she's just evil.

the funny thing is, Roofus Shortstack was the only reason I took this screenshot, I didn't realize the absolute genius of the other name until I was out of the instance

I’m not gonna do “the 90s had bad parts too,” because that’s too narrow. Accepting a fictional representation of the past as how it actually was and romanticizing it and endeavoring to drive back to it is the toxic impulse that animates MAGA.

As a guy who was a junior in high school when September 11th happened, I have to have similar conversations with my students. “Wow, being a a teen and the world must have been much simpler/easier for you.” and I stare blankly into the middle distance for about 7 seconds before I respond to that.

If you wear a cowboy hat in Wyoming, you better have a good reason - like living on a ranch *and* it's Sunday. Otherwise you're wearing a baseball cap.

Charging my EV on an L3 after I've gotten used to L2 charging is like "...it's time to drive again? But I had plans."

Update: It appears they don’t like it.

Found behind the new house. We have lots.

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

For fuck's sake, just give him some damn grapes!

A drawing from the last several evenings. Perhaps a mari lwyd having a bit of a dance

normalize premium vegetables sincerely believe that Rancho Gordo is doing some of the most effective climate work out there right now, and I don't know anything specific they're doing besides selling excellent beans

unreasonably happy to discover that science has developed Vitamin Bee www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scyld - he was Scefe's lad - there wasn't a pub in the country he hadn't wrecked on a Friday. Started with fuck all, he did, but by the time he was done they called him boss all the way down the M6. don't make them like that any more!

"Alright, lads, you know about the Spear-Danes, right hard lot back when, but proper good for all that."

'waaaaasssssuuuuppppp'

they dont teach you about macroplastics

As time = money I can say that Bluesky is costing me a lot of money I could have invested in my sleep account instead.

It's really funny to me that Salt & Straw and Rocky Mountain Oysters are both on this list. (Salt & Straw olive oil ice cream is amazing by the way)

I don't need to touch grass, I see it and judge it every day on google earth

When Adam dalf, and Eve span, ChatGPT had not one fan

Pi(e) day pi(e) facts: The guy introduced the Greek letter for pi was the father of the guy who discovered proto-Indo-European (PIE)

And the award for Best Snacktor in a Leading Role goes to … 🏆

No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.

For instance, support for children with disabilities is abysmal. If you have a child with a severe disability your plans change *real* quick. It's a weird situation where only a small slice of the population is affected, but literally anyone *can* be. And no one plans for it.

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

DEMOCRATIC SENATOR: we should either imprison people for life or go even harder than that YOU ON THIS SITE: when are you going to call to imprison people for life