The Star Wars is a bad setting for an expanded sci fi universe due to it being held back by some fundamental limitations in its worldbuilding. This is why Star Wars media mainly survives by feeding off the plotlines of the two Lucas trilogies, and will do so until the end of time.

Warhammer 40k also vindicated once again.

attempting to buy my senator over the table like a pound of cheese. wonderful stuff

The "Consequences are for other people" administration.

hospital staff seeing jair bolsonaro again

Over-under the maniacs in the Trump admin give him a state funeral? www.axios.com/2026/05/03/r...

graphcel poasters like me: there is no omnicause that combines us imperialist atrocities abroad with cost of living issues at home; in general american hegemony serves the material interests of the electorate, so . . . Trump: AT LONG LAST I HAVE INVENTED OMNICAUSE, THE WAR CRIME THAT MAKES YOU POOR

Immersive sim irl

The USAID and Soros conspiracies were always about projection, because the far right *is* actually entirely propped up by a small cabal of autocrats and insane billionaires, and would get absolutely obliterated without them.

This might have been a concern in the before times. But we're no longer in the before times. Platner is not running as a Nazi and unless he legislates as one, this will be just as ineffective as Republicans trying to pin slavery on Dems. For better AND worse.

Extremely funny that once again, the only people that are sticking with him are folks actively in the process of dying and Gen Xers, who remain complete psychos for no reason.

Whether people like it or not, this too is Woke 2, and it is the future. Democratic voters want to blow up the De Nothing gerontocracy and will use any grenade to do so, even if they happen to have been manufactured in Germany circa-1940.

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Trump II is a mix of genuinely troubling steps towards successful authoritarian consolidation and inventing rakes specifically so they can step on them

This is the logical result of the anti-diversity ideology that has dominated online right-wing discourse since Gamergate: anyone in a position of prestige/authority who isn't a straight white male is assumed to have gotten there due to their identity until proven otherwise. So better safe than sorry

This "plan" would basically condemn the GOP to electoral oblivion for a generation, and yet Congress Republicans, who could end this at any time still remain curled in fetal position. The power of learned helplessness is a mighty thing indeed.

This image actually unironically became real

it is amazing that people freak out about Republicans freaking-out and the promised all-out war that follows is always just trying to cancel Jimmy Kimmel

*This* is the major difference between now and then. 8 years ago, the left promised them an apocalypse that didn't actually come to pass, so many voters thought the only real bad thing about Trump was that he was mean. Today, the apocalypse has come, and there's no escaping it.

Every reactionary centrist in America looking wistfully at the Trump administration, eyes filled with despair:

Has there ever been a political movement that failed this hard, this quickly, despite having this much elite buy-in?

Everyone is going to firebomb a Walmart before a single leftist whose strategy is to firebomb a Walmart does it.

indie game marketing is untenable right now, bro allegedly took a shot at the president and it got him 22 concurrents

@unavaleable.bsky.social is living in his personal episode of the Twilight Zone where he becomes a character in his own ridiculous alt history vignettes.

Pictured: a "journalist" doing "random shit for work".

So, the shooter was apparently an indie game dev who released a game called Bohrdom back in 2018. It's available on Steam for 2 bucks If this is the kind of thing that strikes your fancy. store.steampowered.com/app/945530/B...

HE'S SAYING THAT'S WHY THEY NEED THE BALLROOM, FUCK YES!

It's starting!

Press conference starting in two minutes.

One problem with American legacy media is that they seem incapable of realizing the extent to which they are hated by people who formerly supported them. Any Democrat who would have the guts to run on antagonizing them would win some easy accolades.

the mf who just took 36 duck breasts out of the sous vide

I'm gonna watch this press conference purely because there's a slim chance something very funny might happen.

Ok, they've officially announced that the WHCD will be rescheduled. Trump press conf in 30 minutes.

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

truly an unforgettable luncheon

taylor lorenz screaming at the shooter for not wearing a mask

The rightful souls of the world weep at this news.

One of the few things Tricky Dick was right about.

The thing about trump and hegseth being very stupid men is that we have not spent nearly enough time grappling with the fact that mohamed bin Salman is also an extremely stupid man

"Ends by justifiable means" is a great tagline of Woke 2.

The core belief of Woke 1 was that "the means justify the means", making the very idea of achieving an end state secondary, which is why it inevitably ate itself. Woke 2 will be about accepting that means must be justified by ends, and that those ends can only be reached through certain means.

Donald Trump has entered his "i ain't reading all that" era of posting. Never has a man been so thoroughly cooked, so absolutely juiceless.

oh great now where am I supposed to get my world’s biggest condoms

BDO is 1,4-Butanediol btw, a primary alcohol mainly used as an industrial solvent. Just to give you an idea of what kind of stuff those people are mainlining.