Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard... pfft, easy mode: no Stars (Wars, nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. Some wisdom of the ancients: No matter where you go, there you are. You cannot escape the Self. Be an agreeable companion for yourself on your own journey.

Mom wants to see bad guys get what's coming to them, so we're watching John Wick again, and you know... I still don't understand why they call him Baba Yaga. "This is the most fearsome hitman in the world, so we call him the old child-eating lady who lives in a hut that walks on chicken feet."

Really love it when I have something I'd like to contribute to a discussion but Mr. Migraine says, "Nope, no coherence for you." 🧐

Wait, does this mean that guy who drew Spider-Man's webbing with all the grunkly bits all over was right??

This is 98% correct, but he says something that troubles me: "This is not political, this is a human nature thing." No, this is political. This is the definition of conservatism. No one who is not a conservative thinks that expanding options for other people is oppression.

Good: Taking on the manufacturers of foods that aren't really food so much as addictive amalgams of carcinogens and wood pulp*. Bad: Using nonsense language that includes the staples I rely on as a vegetarian with food allergies and severe chronic fatigue. * Hyperbole, no need to correct.

If my life hadn't gone completely off the rails it would've been, "So... aliens *really* built the pyramids, right? Go on, you can tell me, I can keep a secret."

What people really don't want to understand is that RFKjr is not a singular evil, he is a culmination. The line runs straight and true from the Tuskegee experiments through the AIDS crisis through all the lies about COVID-19 to Kennedy. Someone like him was inevitable.

It's not charming, but when the sea shanty thing began, and everyone was joyfully singing "The Wellerman," a happy song about whalers massacring right whales and ripping off tongues of blubber to render into oil while praying their employers won't starve them to death, I thought, well, we're fucked.

Altruism has always been an evolutionary advantage, a species survival trait. I'm not surprised it's also an individual survival trait. Go do good, folks who can. 😁

Oh, an interesting new (to me) one of these: Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild: Moose Grizzly bear Coyote Manatee Alligator Also when I was a kid, visiting Alaska, I heard wolves close enough that they responded to me, but I never saw one in the wild.

So, with people talking about Stranger Things again... Did that one guy get over being a genocide enthusiast or is this one more thing everyone chooses to forget rather than follow through on pledges to boycott a show they liked?

People felt this way about ELIZA, and it was liable to say, "Come, come, elucidate your thoughts," five or six times in any given conversation. People suck at assigning agency accurately.

When I was briefly involved in scouting, it was nearly the Hitler Youth, full of bullies and bigots at all levels. This must mean it has become less horrible over time. It can only be a good thing if it's no longer a feeder system for the military (and I say that as someone from a military family).

I'm too tired to start a fuss with the person who said it, but I just saw an author complaining about book piracy by saying it's not like the good old days of Napster. *weary sigh* Yeah, life was good when people were only stealing from musicians, I guess. 🧐

When you get caught between the Moon and New York City...

No and hell no. 🧐

Best wishes for all her future endeavors (to fail miserably).

All of these things *are* socialism, by definition, and constantly pretending they're not and that socialism is a terror-word is why we currently have a fascist government rather than a democratic socialist one.

Just saw a fun commercial for Meta's panopticon glasses in which the heroine was spared the indignity of using a phone to: 1) Hear music, 2) Look up an address, and 3) Have a snarky voice tell her, "It's 200 feet to the left," with precisely the necessary derision for someone using "AI" glasses.

*pauses while lowering tiny effigy of Malcolm McDowell into lit brazier inscribed with ancient Egyptian curses* Wait, what?

Translation: My minions assure me the shutdown was long enough for them to redact my name.

Ugh, Elizabeth Weiss is here. This is one where I also blocked everyone following her. If you want to follow someone this egregiously, openly, proudly racist, well, you're a racist and I have no interest in anything you'll ever have to say. 🧐

On the one hand, it's a cool idea. On the other, unfortunately, instead of making the world accessible they're concentrating on making expensive toys for people who don't really need them. It's small, looks unsteady, and sitting in it for an extended period seems like it would be miserable.

*holds hat over heart* I'm glad my poor cats didn't live to see this... ...because I would be cleaning up the mess for the rest of my danged life.

Your regular reminder that Mayor Pete bulldozed the homes of predominantly Black families and fired his Black police chief for bringing him evidence of racism on the force.

Soooooo... This site has some occasionally extremely shitty moderation, but I think it's generally a good idea not to threaten violence even if your threat is similar to a song lyric. 🧐

I have a low tolerance for this song to begin with, but this is about as bad as it gets. Why are the veterans saluting? Why are hands on hearts? It's not the national anthem, it's Irving Berlin! And why the hell is it a sing-along?? 🧐

I am both stoked and gobsmacked because all the Edmund Fitzgerald posting made me finally go buy Gordon Lightfoot's greatest hits, and thus discover that HE FUCKING WROTE "EARLY MORNING RAIN," a song I love so much a cult leader once used it to convince me to join him at his compound in Greece. 🤯

Those who wanted to curry favor with Akhenaten, whose unusual appearance was probably due to Marfan's Syndrome, began having themselves depicted in tomb art as looking like him, with elongated limbs and necks and faces, and heavy hips and large bellies.

A lesson from history, brought to you by Teddy Roosevelt, Third Parties, and the Broken American Electoral System: In 1912 Teddy Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate, as a reformer for the Progressive Party. He lost catastrophically because ours is a two-party system. This sucks, but is true.

Everything sucks, but try to remember: Defeatism is fascist. Anger is democratic.

And Harry Truman made socialism stay a scareword by not saying, "And they were right. All these things are socialism. Socialism is government working for the public good."

This is good for many reasons, including that the headline makes it sound as if the soft green carpet of quiet forests has awakened from its shaded slumber to set us all to rights.

If Tesla wants to pay me $1 trillion to be their CEO, I may not have a business degree but I can guarantee I'll do less damage to the company. And who knows, my radical ideas like "build good cars" and "support politics that let businesses survive" might even improve things.

This is functionally identical to any of a dozen mainstream news articles I've seen recently. In these times, when satire is truly dead, satirists might be better served by becoming fuck-off journalists. Ditch satire for fact, truth, and moral outrage.

The trench coat effect: an FBI agent tries to intimidate a foreign student, and years later New York gets a progressive socialist Muslim mayor. I guess Hoover accidentally did at least one thing right. 😁

I am keeping my hopes very carefully grounded, stapled down in fact, because I am aware of Fraser's movie The Whale and still feel betrayed. I will wait to find out if he does a bunch of nasty fatphobic bullshit in this movie before getting interested.

Five-Can Chili: 28-oz can diced tomatoes 28-oz can crushed tomatoes 15-oz can kidney beans 15-oz can black beans 15-oz can corn If you're feeling fancy, chop a green pepper into whatever size you like and sauté it in the pot. Dump in all cans. Add whatever spices. Cook a while.

I just saw a conversation where someone said it wasn't the right topic for an illiterate website, and everyone participating danced around the subject avoiding specifics, and this is how you: 1) Keep people illiterate, 2) Build the Ivory Tower mythos, 3) Exclude interested people.

This is really neat on multiple levels, but I find it strange that I recognize almost all of these candies. I'm diabetic and have food allergies, I think the last candy I ate was some Reese's Pieces 20 years ago. When I was a kid there were new candies every few months, it seemed. What happened?

People who write articles like this should be made to live in monastic cells on tightly controlled budgets and given strong electric shocks of it seems like they enjoy anything. 🧐

Alt text is descriptive text for the visually impaired and people who have slow internet connections. It is not added space for little jokes. The key words here are "visually" and "impaired." Many of us CAN'T FUCKING SQUINT HARDER. Use alt text correctly, people. 🧐

This is hilariously awful and we should absolutely mock everyone who thinks it's a good thing, but we should also remember that "AI" is not constant. Remember when you could always spot it because still images of people had three noses and thirteen fingers? They keep polishing the turds.

One reason I keep saying that people need to stop giving Nazis the benefit of the doubt is because giving Nazis the benefit of the doubt makes you a Nazi.

Sexy horta. As if the horta could be sexier. 🧐

"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades." (I guarantee Bezos thinks that's a happy song, not a nuclear war end-of-the-world song.)

More than one thing can be true.

Oh good, video game discourse on top of everything. 🧐 And it's all people who don't really need to know how much $100 is complaining that people who do know how much that is don't want to spend it on buggy messes of repetitive side quests wrapped around a short story setting up a sequel.