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the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

Spoiler: The hat is cursed.

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This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

You’re going to want to sit down for this one, because it’ll come as a big shock, but: they mean “drive out the people who live in southern Lebanon, demolish the existing towns and cities then replace them with a million crank psycho settlers”.

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

This looks like one for the @goodlawproject.org to me.

Look, I may have disagreed with Chuck Norris‘s politics, but that doesn’t mean I can’t also acknowledge he was an untalented actor who made shitty movies. RIP

absolutely wild how the internet has become everything they were warning about it being in the late 90s, but since the guys making bank off the scams are now white dudes in suits whose daddies paid for their college it's actually considered proper business ventures now

In which we see - the first? - admission from a (presumably) well-placed Labour Party source that @greenparty.org.uk now has more members than Labour!

I’ve never seen or read any variation of Dune.

Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are vaccines safe? Let’s ask a guy who has put live animals in a blender to make food for his hawks and injects an illicit tanning drug that the pharmaceutical industry chose not to try to take to market for humans because it caused sexual aggression in rodents.

Bears awake from hibernation in #Catalonia cdn-acn.watchity.net/acn/vod-catn... #Catalunya

It's worth understanding about most of the Labour right have never really had to fight for support. Most of them were handed "safe seats" in backroom deals. They didn't even have to win over local members. When they come under a little scrutiny and face a bit of competition they are lost.

One day you’re just a guy, and the next you’re King Sammy I, emperor of the robot vacuums

What we see here is something very common: that people treated by the media - inc the BBC - as neutral, dispassionate and reliable are actually deeply embedded in capitalism and all its myths. They are as partisan as anyone else. They sound neutral because what they say aligns with "common sense".

In 1256, the king spent £125 (c.£150k in today's money) repairing the substantial motte & bailey castle of Ellesmere, Shropshire. We're funding the first major geophysical survey of this major marcher castle of which nothing now remains above ground. See what the team is hoping to learn below.

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s not a plot hole that Elmo has been 3 years old for 50 years. He was bitten by The Count, willingly. Elmo asked for the Dark Gift

Back in 2021, Nick Timothy wrote this for the Telegraph. There's a man, if ever I saw one, whose entire political philosophy seems to have been plagiarised from the picture on the box of one of those nostalgia jigsaw puzzles.

The idea that "The Metaverse" was a way for Facebook to funnel money to far-right SW devs without anyone noticing is looking more and more convincing.

When I tear strips off Labour - this is an example of exactly what I mean. This is the sort of thing that is an absolute slam-dunk. The only people opposed to it are the worst actors in politics. Why has Lab taken this long to get it done? A simple step to protect UK democracy shouldn't take ~2 yrs

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

Outside my flat, I hear a voice say “Alan, you are being so fucking obstreperous right now.” A woman appears, walking backwards, holding a taut thrumming leash, straining hard against her. Then, seemingly minutes later Alan finally appears: the smallest, lowest, muscliest sausage dog in all creation

The game industry’s obsession with graphics is so funny because every other year there will be some breakout hit called “Stick Figure Mansion” or some shit that outsells 90% of the market and runs on a toaster

Made myself some rice and tuna for lunch. Left it unattended on my desk for a few minutes and came back to find a crime had been committed. But this lil guy said not to worry as he's a detective and is already investigating.

I'd like to propose "Collinge" as a noun, to mean: A post providing a pathetically thin justification (e.g. when you have responded to <1% of the people who replied to you, & can only find 3 instances in 10 years of your "support") - when it would in fact be better to have said nothing at all.

Honestly when I say the rich need to be taxed for their own good this is exactly why. Lmao. There’s obviously the societal reasons of inequity and inequality but also it’s clearly not good for y’all either and you should be taxed to hell and back to keep you from becoming whatever the hell this is.

I think I saw this fella a few times at Escape From Samsara back in the 90s. Or someone very much like him - may or may not have had a crow's head.

Elfwisk – a Hookland dialect word for fate. While it can be translated as god-wished, it's more often used to imply that ill or fortunate happenstances in a person’s life are being manipulated by unseen forces of a somewhat lower order, often for no reason other than their fierce merriment. #WOTD

#OtD 16 Mar 1968 the Mỹ Lai massacre took place in Vietnam, in which around 500 unarmed villagers were murdered by US troops and others raped. One US helicopter crew saw and landed to stop the killing and reported it, but the army retaliated against them workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e14-...

I wrote about Kat.

THIS LINE, though: “The western often plays into American fantasies about the rugged individual conquering a harsh landscape through sheer cussedness, which is a narrative that is actively killing us all right now.” Yes. Yes. Yes.

India elects first openly #queer person to Parliament - www.dw.com/en/indias-pa... #LGBTQ

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

Beware the IDEs of March

Rich liberals stop treating fascists as a intellectually compelling cocktail guests challenge

"Drugs are a one-man birthday party. You don't get any presents you didn't bring yourself." - PJ O'Rourke

but Louis Theroux has been broadcasting the wishes and hopes of the far right and white supremacists for deca-oh

academy award contending tiktok

Can’t stop thinking about how every illustration I’ve seen of the womb, ovaries, fallopian tubes always look so… delicate. Little blossoms on fragile stalks. Because the female reproductive system could never possibly be muscular, could it?

New drawing 😈🎨🦇 Saw an IG post with this text and made my own thing 100% Human-Made Art #FuckAI

Outside the Nazi bar, it's easily possible to disagree with a Nazi without sounding like one yourself, without saying Nazi shit. Extremely easy. Inside a Nazi bar, that deliberately can't happen. All that's on the menu is gonna be different flavors of Nazi shit.

This cat has mad swag.

There’s petty and then there’s ✨opera petty✨ 😂