lol, they gave Artemis II astronaut (and Philadelphia sports fan) Christina Koch an astronaut Gritty

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

"Is Mass Effect fascist" - the greatest thread in the history of Bluesky, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,,,

"Shepard's problem with authority was that they espoused due process" Ah, I see! You've gotten Mass Effect confused with Police Quest IV again!

Yeah, that Mass Effect take earlier today was crap. It was worse than crap, it was ass-crap, and I'm not afraid to say it.

I'm not gonna lie...this particular "Shot / Chaser" example is something that makes my eye twitch.

Liz Cheney actually sacrifices her career: crickets Greene: retires like a day after she needed to get a lifelong pension, doesn’t repudiate any of her past views, or help electorally oppose Trump Clearly Greene is a true ally we can trust but Harris doing like two stops with Cheney is evil

To put it another way: When you burn down the system, you don't get to choose who catches fire.

See also: the United States, 2025-present

"Pain or despair don't end the world. Or despair, or fuckin' beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."

When you substitute “being considerate for other people’s feelings” for “political correctness” you realize complaining about it just makes you sound like a fuckin asshole

Hot take, but Dryden is superior to Allen Schezar. #escaflowne (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry about it. If you do, you should start thinking about scheduling your colonoscopy.)

I'm going to keep saying this: Every piece of information you're getting about the state of the US and the world is being spread, spun, and manipulated by people who like Donald Trump, want to keep him in power, and want his enemies to fail.

One thing I will say that it may behoove some of you to wait more than 10 minutes after a think happens to conclude Dems won’t do anything and we’re doomed

"Americans didn't have the Court's importance explained to them" no the American people liked all the racism and bravado and dumb bullshit from Trump who was a celebrity. Try that thought out fora while

What's the Venn diagram between people who say "Democrats will never oppose Republicans because they depend on them for fundraising" and people who said "Republicans will never overturn Roe v. Wade because they depend on it for fundraising"?

The problem with minarchist libertarianism is it relies on everyone just being rational and nice and honest and helpful and not dumping sewage in rivers, and the problem with that is...

"Your favorite band sucks" articles are always boring, even if you wrap them up in endless paragraphs of grad-school speak.

The average American has three friends.

Detroit-area edition: "Fifty watts per channel, babycakes!" "No job's too big! / No job's too small! / We're Father & Son, / We do it all!" "Hey, beautiful toga!" "Okay guys, this way!" "Wrong way, guys." "Nice goin', Melvin!" "Diiiiiiiitrich Furs, by the Dittrich family!"

Through the course of my life, the US Republican Party has gone from trying to drag America back to the [19]50s to trying to drag America back to the [18]50s.

the clearest giveaway of slopulist brain is agreeing with the slogan "we should cut the salary of those politicians to $1" best case scenario: participation in government exclusively by the independently wealthy most likely scenario: bribes

IN THIS ISSUE: THE VENGEANCE OF HOSSFERATU

Hollywood got away with TROY, where Agamemnon gets killed by Briseis at Troy (instead of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus) and Menelaus gets killed by Hector (instead of returning to Sparta with Helen and living a stable life), so I don't much care what liberties Nolan takes with the source material.

It’s impressive how she’s simultaneously bad for losing this all-important election and also bad because she would do the same things and the election didn’t matter. The people who believe these two contradictory things never argue and are sometimes the same people. Odd!

Two thirds of this site will angrily argue with you that a President Harris administration would also be at war with Iran right now because they liked Trump and need to rationalize how they're not bad people for having wanted him to win the 2024 election.

“The mission of this Allied force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945.” ~General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s message announcing Nazi Germany’s surrender in World War II on this day 81 years ago. Image: Eisenhower Presidential Library.

A great quote from the book Jingo by Sir Terry Pratchett. I like the full quote because it makes it clear how the conspiratorial types fall prey to this thinking. We've seen people who prefer to believe in conspiracies on Twitter and on BlueSky

this is one of those myths that won't stop because it feels too good. it can't be that weird only worked in lib/left circles (and even there, it was controversial) no, no, it MUST be that the dems wanted to lose.

You know, if you seriously thought "Hm, Trump is kind of bad, but on the other hand, Tim Walz stopped calling Republicans 'weird;' guess I've got no choice but to vote for Trump or stay home on Election Day," well, friend, that's kind of on you.

How did I find business conditions in Europe? With great difficulty!

The depth of a political insight posted on Bluesky is inversely proportional to the degree of profanity, lewdness, and/or aggression in the poster's username. Why no, MaosCumSock69420, I don't agree that people with office jobs are the new kulaks, thanks for asking.

it's fine when REPUBLICANS can't actually catch Glonzo, because the act of Hunting Glonzo is inherently Manly and the gender valences here are all stacked in a certain way Democrats need to actually put Glonzo Casserole on the dinner table in front of the kids every night

there is no excuse for this, yet I'm doing it anyway

And once more, we have recreated 1690s Salem from Arthur Miller's classic play "Don't Recreate 1690s Salem."

ok but it's quite funny to imagine that the electorate specifically chose Biden to "Get Trump!" and then he didn't so they said "oh well, have to elect Trump president again I guess". Yet this is literally the logic here???

People talk about Joe Biden as if he resigned and handed power directly over to Donald Trump and that there wasn't a massive intercession of the dumbest Americans in the world who didn't pay a goddamn lick of attention to the race barged in and voted to make it 2019 again with Grandpa

Handsome Jack is a great villain, and one of the things that makes him so villainous is that he's a villain who belives he's a hero, and will tell you so endlessly, and will justify his evil acts through the lens of it, while mockingly denying the humanity of his victims.

I think the history of the United States since 2000 is ample proof that bad things happen when people abandon "Is this thing actually true?" for "Does this thing feel true to me?" and/or "Will I get approval from my in-group if I publicly support or condemn this thing?"

Once again, I can't help but notice which candidates/politicians get extended endless grace and understanding, and which ones get endless condemnation for doing the same things.

My original Star Wars toys are long gone, but one of the surviving treasures of my childhood is this pillowcase. My mom got a few yards of this Return of the Jedi fabric in 1983 and made assorted pillows and sheets for me and my brothers with it. Yub nub, y'all.

Again: Witch hunts are bad, not because there's no such thing as witches, but because 1) they create an environment where a simple accusation is taken seriously as proof of guilt, and 2) makes it very easy to unperson someone for petty reasons.

thank fuck I don't live in Maine

American politics are mutating into a grudge match between those who believe America is a warmongering empire for capitalism (derogatory) and those who belive America is a warmongering empire for capitalism (laudatory).

Slightly diminish a book: The Girl With The Butterfly Tattoo Tropic of Gemini Tasteful Night The Close But No Cigar Stuff Probable Cause and Punishment