in general it is very strange for anyone — even gutter racists — to imagine the mediterranean world as somehow looking like northern europe.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

greetings from hell

i know writers who use subtext and they're cowards moment

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

White men are 30% of the US and if they look around the room and see it’s less than 90% white men they think it’s affirmative action.

Does Firefox not realize who their user base is?

It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser " #AI #Mozilla #Firefox

Little fanart for the adorable French Christmas video „Unloved" by Intermarché. Thank you for celebrating good food and creative artwork by real artists (not Al)! Also wolf love! ❤️ #intermarche #christmas #noai #wolf #christmasvideo

As said of old:

not to put too fine a point on it but every guy doing the “we need to reboot masculinity!!!” schtick has fewer masculine virtues than I do and I’m nonbinary

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.

cannot stop laughing at the louvre heist escape video as they’re slowly lowered down the ladder in a bucket

Updating my LEGO White House

This absolutely is Jeff Bezos’s fault. I feel sorry for the excellent journalists and other staff caught up in his mismanagement, but this is his doing. And it will only lead to the Post doing even worse, which will then — almost inevitably — lead to more layoffs.

Dilan Yesilgöz denkt dat criminaliteit bestrijden hetzelfde is als de rechtsstaat beschermen. Of doet alsof ze het verschil niet weet, wat nog erger is. #domrechts share.podimo.com/s/oIf9gd50

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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Silver sisters 🌕✨ [ #hades #hadesgame #art ]

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

The Hades franchise has been everything I could’ve wished for since 2020. I always wanted to thank Supergiant Games with a fanart, but I was always short on… time? Maybe now, time won’t be such a troublesome thing for me anymore. Death to Chronos!

the Dubai influencer/manosphere/grift/sex work space is an incredible story that's massively underwritten

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

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A therapist who doesn't respect your pronouns has someone else as a client; they are serving an interest that is not yours and you shouldn't participate.

Verschillende reformatorische en islamitische scholen dragen bepaalde boodschappen uit die botsen met democratische waarden als gelijkheid en verdraagzaamheid. Dit komt naar voren na onderzoek van Nieuwsuur: nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

🌒HADES II v1.0 is OUT NOW!! 🌘 Battle beyond the Underworld in our bewitching sequel to the godlike roguelike. Go Kill Time! Nintendo Switch 2: supergiant.games/h2switch2 Nintendo Switch: supergiant.games/h2switch Steam: supergiant.games/h2steam Epic Games Store: supergiant.games/h2egs

Genuinely don't think I've seen a better metaphor for modern-day Christianity than this. Self-aggrandizing, plutocratic, white-supremacist, popularity-obsessed, putting oneself on the same level as the savior but unwilling to shoulder the same burden. It's art, just not in the way they intended.

Iedere scheet van iemand met een migratieachtergrond wordt op X een miljoen keer opgeblazen door hitsende politici, maar nu er letterlijk neonazi's door Den Haag marcheren die agenten, journalisten én een partijkantoor aanvallen mogen we het ineens 'niet politiek' maken.

personally if i made a website that found success off the backs of sex workers and porn artists i would not continually add new rules that say “that’s icky you guys are ickyyyyyy”

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

Mainstream media today

The pretense that this bullshit was ever really intended for children got dropped so fast even I am in shock

Ja, nee, de vorige kabinetten waren super stabiel.

"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line. Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.

Tapping the sign

It would be great if VFX artists refused to work with directors who lie and say they don't use VFX. It would also be fascinating to see how their movies would look if they actually didn't have any VFX.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

Oh I plan to