also becuase the Shire dialect of Westron has abandoned formal/informal pronouns he's going about tu-ing everyone which they read as either charmingly sincere or as condescension (in the old, positive sense of the word) from an aristocrat.

I can't take a game with character designs like this seriously

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

🎉Happy birthday to the sensational Swedish illustrator, John Bauer, who was born on this day in 1882.🧵

Give it up for KC Green @kcg.bsky.social the man behind 'this is fine', who just made an AI company take down his work. techcrunch.com/2026/05/31/t...

Oh no 🥺 The French-Iranian artist, comic book author and director Marjane Satrapi, who became world-renowned with the graphic novel and film "Persepolis," has died at the age of 56. She also directed Chicken with Plums (2011), The Voices (2014), Radioactive (2019), Dear Paris (2024)...

thank you for this thread! i had an off-the-cuff comic turned into a meme and it's such a weird feeling that my art is just being spread out there without any credit here's a version with my name on it, im fine with people using that one :)

RIP British fantasy and sci-fi illustrator, modeller, and art director John Blanche. This fantastic artist was especially well-known for his work on Warhammer (including 40K, etc). He retired from work at Games Workshop three years ago only. He was 77.

Hercules Poirot has to team up with Porcoroit, Miss Lemonroit, Spideroit and evil Dutch Poirot to solve a string of incredible crimes across the multiverse of MUUURDERRRRR

I've known Paris before and after and the transformation has been incredible. And I say that as a Dutch biking snob

Poirot: into the murder-verse

Can't park there mate

We saw you from across Valhalla and really dig your vibe.

Sony executives curious about the reaction to God of War Laufey

Don't ever allow yourself to get so jaded you can't bring yourself to write a fan letter. Artists like to hear when their work resonates.

"Our world depends on forgotten men" The Lowdown podcast with Horatio Clare on the pride and suffering of the sailors trapped in the Gulf

I can't believe they cancelled my favourite show after one series! They should have let it run for 8 seasons, like that show I used to like but now hate with an incontinent passion.

GOOD NEWS! Amivantamab has demonstrated unprecedented results in an international trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.

Trailer was funny. There's not even really facial animation, which is quite the gamble.

If you know you know

My son, who has a good shot at seeing the 22nd century, played with his grandmother who was born in imperial Japanese occupied Seoul

assuming a lifespan of 80 years, the length of the entire human civilization is only about 70 people old. The US Civil War was two people ago and the Ottomans sacked Constantinople seven people ago. Not very long!

Oh dear God!!! This is exactly what happens when dogs and cats lay down together. 😳 #Caturday

The Japanese "Yancha", meaning an energetic mischievous child, comes from the Dutch "Jantje", which is a diminutive of "Jan" (John in English). So, during the isolationist Edo period when only Dutch traders were allowed in, there was a little Dutch kid annoying enough to spawn a new word.

Also: "Emoji" is not derived from "Emotion" (its derived from japanese "picture character"), but the nearly identical German word "Emoticon" is

Urdu the language and Horde the Warcraft faction both derive from Mongol Ordo meaning chieftain's tent/residence/palace

'wraith' 'wrath' and 'writhe' are all etymologically connected.

Google Photos choosing violence

Most people completely underestimate the insane, inhumane scale of the war in Ukraine. According to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the siege of Mariupol alone saw between 27,000 and 88,000 deaths in only three (3!) months. Read that again and let it sink in

thinking about how the handley page victor is a beautiful airplane

guys I just tried googling this to find the exact Andor quote and jesus fucking christ guys what the fuck is happening here

I feel there's meme potential in these panels

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

An unusual request in the name of archaeological science: Would anyone happen to have a Shetland or Exmoor pony that wouldn’t mind sending some fur samples to me? We’re trying to compare a potentially preserved fur specimen but there’s (perhaps unsurprisingly) few sources on fur fibre diameters!

Al sinds september heb ik kanker. De ziekte is nu weg, maar om terugkeer te voorkomen of vertragen is een medicijn nodig dat voor mij niet wordt vergoed. Gelukkig zijn mijn vrienden een crowdfunding gestart. Alle donaties zijn welkom en delen helpt ook! www.gofundme.com/f/help-floor...

For those in need of a good video game news story.

This one still fuckin kills me

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

Give me your most German play structure. No, too German

My best one of these is the Gatsby I got for grad school. Next to the bit about Meyer Wolfsheim not being in the phone book it says, in pink sparkle pen, “duh, he’s wanted by the po-po”

accidentally ordered tokusatsu instead of tonkatsu at this restaurant and now this guy won't stop doing stunts. The waiter can't even take him back because whenever he tries the guy strikes a pose and a bunch of explosions go off behind him

Remember that Kyiv coffee place that got attacked 6 times and changed windows every time ? This is it. Russia attack burned it down to the ground this early morning, literally. So when I say all Russia wants is to erase us, i’m not being dramatic or biased. it is simply what they are trying to do

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.