the mild manners are job security, baby www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

so much cultural and political effort gone towards making a project of pacifism and an end to war seem like a soft, prosaic concern of comfortable people rather than an essential part of the project of justice and human flourishing

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

I looked at them once this morning and then challenged myself this evening

Holds up

Following BAFTA Controversy, BBC Promises to Only Allow Transphobic Slurs Guest Scoop by: @amityblamity.bsky.social www.hwoodtimes.com/scoops/following-bafta-controversy-bbc-promises-to-only-allow-transphobic-slurs

Fellowship done now I’m taking another crack at gormenghast while I wait for Shelved by Genre to catch up

entirely unimprovable execution by the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social social team

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

"Bluesky doesn't have the juice." "Real media access is still only on Twitter." "No one important uses or will ever use this site." Skill issue. If you post good, the right people will figure out how to get in touch with you.

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Last chapter of fellowship it’s his time to shine

What’s most important is that we allow institutions to thoroughly purge anyone with documented Epstein connections and not have any conversations about any relationships with other prospective or actual donors that might reflect similar poor judgment. Best we treat this as entirely unique!

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

a medieval peasant would die quickly if they were strapped to a rocket and launched into space

Criticism isn't online dogpiling or bullying or sending death threats to an author; that's harassment and abuse. But if art matters at all, then it's worth talking about, and certain works of criticism have just as much artistic merit as whatever they're talking about.

Solid little essay. “This is Clavicular’s project: to flatten his world into the 2D of “screen” and to physically transmute his flesh into “internet.” It’s humming along. Don’t believe me? Put down your phone. Notice how Clavicular ceases to exist?”

This is maybe my bitchiest take but no dr who fan annoys me more than casual viewers who watched Some of the show over a decade ago and believe they know everything on the subject. Unfortunately these people keep finding me at social events and expecting me to agree with them on their Moffat Takes

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

so it was written. so it will be

who up trialing their time lord

Time to sleep

Walking towards the sunrise coming home from the all night dr who marathon… yeah baby this is what it’s all about

Trade Offer You receive: 2000 bucks and watching a horrible person go to jail I receive: the same???

they're never gonna do it like world enough and time/the doctor falls again. firing on all cylinders

what they don't tell you about reading fanfic for fan studies reasons is that you have to turn off the part of your brain that is a fan and gets annoyed sometimes at certain characterization or lore choices that are not remotely relevant to your research question

Doing a zoom talk next Wednesday (6pm CST) for DePaul’s Voices of Communication series! Come see me and my classmates talk about pop culture and fandom! www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-of-...

rise of skywalker made me Retire from liking star wars for about four years before my qpp's clone wars hyperfixation dragged me back in

The lord of the rings is about accidentally becoming important at work and it ruining your life

if anyone wants to source me some nice 1000+ piece jigsaw puzzles so i can have something tactile to do while i listen to these audiobooks,

I’d be at the council of Elrond tugging on Gandalf’s sleeve asking when we get a bathroom break

Just realized that I’ve never successfully kept reading past book one of fellowship in past attempts

Me

In re: Debates about the usefulness of "gender identity," I really wish "non-binary" could just be understood as a thing that some people ARE, rather than a rhetorical or political pose intended to elicit some particular response.

returning to sianne ngai for the homestuck book and realizing yes we do indeed now live in the the age of gimmickmaxxing

From a scared grad student: I keep seeing “nobody has ever wished a conference paper was longer” which is true, but I have wished some conference talks hadn’t omitted info that would make the argument more complete, which is the actual thing I am worried about that makes my talks run long. Help.

Learning once again that I am not immune to Aragorn. Quite fond of this Mysterious Stranger lecturing Frodo on opsec

Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants

The striking resemblance between the work of Lewis Carroll and the plot of a particularly player-hostile point-and-click adventure game is in small part due to former inspiring the latter, but MOSTLY due to the fact that that's just what happens when you let people who do math for fun write stories.

art by Jim Burns

...the arkenstone....

TOM BOMBADIL IS HERE

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9