We know from start that the Giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk" is a nasty customer, but it's not until he says "Be he live or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread" that we understand what a real fucking sicko this guy is.

Which brings me to my hot take: I have come around to thinking Paddington was a failure. Paddington Bear is supposed to be a monster but you made him read as cool enough that misguided people see him as admirable. An amoral show that ages phenomenally poorly.

Ten years ago we failed and now we all live in hell and the kids have never known anything else

Neighbor told us about how she got in a fight the other day with a 22-year-old who said she voted for Trump "for women's rights." She had never heard the "grab em by the pussy" tape & when our neighbor played it for her she said it was obviously an AI fake. This is the world we live in

Reminder that northern canada is extremely desolate but also filled with genuinely absurd fantasy terrain

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

Hi everyone! My name is Andrea LaFlamme and I'm running to unseat Susan Collins in the US Senate. I'm a feminist public health professor and the ONLY candidate in this race who has worked in education, municipal health, and as an elected union leader. (1/2)

Managed to slip this into our kids book!

Exquisite corpse weapons

I love being a guard for a crime boss, but I hate when coworkers hear a noise and go walk away and don’t come back. We were in the middle of a conversation, rude! Not my job to find him though.

nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

Aside from the obvious choices of King Lear & Hamlet, I'm quite fond of the Tempest & the whole Henry VI Tetralogy. Also Twelfth Night may be the best of Shakespeare's farces

So what we need is for some future American ruler to declare themself emperor & invade a bunch of countries?

Second case I’ve seen (the other is Cuba) where a deteriorating economy managed to save lives by making people drive less. Truly incredible how cars turn affluence deadly, amazing metaphor for America

"wendys ceo joins viral taste test trend" thats awesome. next lets get hari kari trending

carousel, asbury park, new jersey, 1978

Mullin is of course a dolt of a high order, but there are lots of dolts, & I wonder how Americans' understanding of their government would change if we held our presidential elections in January & inaugurated presidents in March

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Fellas, is it bitchmade to do a no-growth?

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die. May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

It was funny to see, I don't even remember which US newspaper it was anymore, but an obit of Ali Khamenei said something to the effect of "he lived a paranoid life in which he believed the US and Israel were out to kill him, which eventually happened"

Scorpion Says 'I Guess' Frog Should Worry About Drowning in Stream

Kristi Noem on her first day as Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

It seems grimly inevitable that there's going to be an AI-triggered mass-shooting at some point in the near future

The Windows 12 hoax feels like a vintage bit of internet misinfo, the sort of thing that would have done the rounds circa 2005, complete with crude .gifs of Bill Gates with devil horns & dollar-sign-eyes

Which is why I find that alternative history stories can feel, paradoxically, realer than historical fiction

Good? News, the one thing Kegseth isn't is a Dominionist

look there are fucked things about Japan but you have to admire a country so pro-social that when a dude killed the Prime Minister because of his ties to a cult they did all that it was possible to do so no one would ever be killed for that exact reason ever again

it's Keep Your Cool Wednesday. It's where you keep your cool midweek instead of losing your fucking shit and crashing the fuck out.

The virgin "The Amazing Spider-Nan": "Peter and MJ are never getting married again! Nosiree! You'd think after 18 years you'd stop whining." The chad newspaper Spider-Man:

Modern People: “Silent movies are boring!” Silent Movies: (glances up from their Victorian x-ray voyeurism comedy) youtu.be/3gMCkFRMJQQ

when the popularists are making common cause with tattoo man because they want him to become Fetterman 2:

Crockett's handpicked successor in her own district is a Black pastor who is hyper progressive and vehemently anti Israel

i think there is a very simple explanation for this, at least in 2026. the cultural apparatus orbiting around Trump lives in a world entirely governed by short feedback loops. gambling social media meme stonks junk cryptocurrency LLMs

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

this is how you talk to a politician when it's an open secret on the hill that they're way too into ageplay just saying bsky.app/profile/jben...

Latest edition of the Daily Mail looks a bit different...

That stupid agraybee post has so much to answer for The reality of reactionary Catholics is so much stranger than the fiction of them all being LARPing adult-converts (those exist, but they are inordinately visible online).

"In the shroud of the virtual, the corpse of the real is forever unfindable." - The Perfect Crime

currently learning about ancient language from @facilitatrix.bsky.social

I've seen enough. My wife is my mother and I fucked up so bad. Where's that brooch pin

The mysterious magic of Bluesky