I’ve come to realize people think slurs are just words that hurt our feelings. No. Slurs, particularly the N-word, F-word, antisemitic terms etc. aren’t taboo because of that. It’s because historically when these terms are said they precede or pair with pitchforks, torches, lynchings & gas chambers.

I mean, this sounds cool & tough, but isn’t that because you’ve had to live your life with your guard up? I don’t think people should have to be invulnerable to operate in public life.

The voice of the one and only, the legendary Alice Clark, absolute fire.

Paul Cadmus, The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, 1945 (detail) www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

NYPD officers also had their shoelaces tied together, their pants pulled down revealing boxers with hearts on them, and one was seriously injured when he attempted to run through a tunnel which a vicious criminal appeared to have painted on a wall

Oh! have heard several 20ish women talking about Madonna recently, and they are going deep cuts.

In a hotel bar and I need wifi and I entered a random room number and name on the sign in page and got on, I am the world's coolest cybercriminal right now no snitching

There's an AI thing showing heartwarming scenes of "dogs choosing their owners" from folks in folding chairs who cry and while I hate being manipulated I am imagining doing a similar thing in my town, except I would just let all the trap house pit bulls at the shelter loose in the elementary school.

It's like a Kobayashi Maru training exercise for BlueSky Academy poster trainees, someone in the replies already won by blaming the BBC.

sorry to return to this thoroughly trampled ground but the thought of someone yelling at a posting website for being unimportant and getting clobbered by hundreds of people kept making me chuckle so i had to make something for the next time news breaks on here

"If we were white ... if we were Irish ... our heroes would be your heroes too" youtu.be/ZVjZipnb_hc?...

Exactly as predicted, Comrade Zohran has turned New York City into a dystopian socialist hellscape of horrific violence.

"The most profound observations... wld be prefaced with “I don’t know quite how to put it.. Then out would tumble some staggering + perfectly sculpted insight. Did literature teach him the potency + power of such a humble mind, or did humility + curiosity lead him to read so widely + voraciously?"

I gotta talk about my life as I see it

Todo tiene su final Nada dura para siempre Tenemos que recordar Que no existe eternidad youtu.be/2uLDLBjkMJo?...

Trans rights was always going to end like this and if you thought they’d “settle” for “reasonable regulations” you’re a clown Trans rights have always been human rights Fucking disgusting

Part of being as old as I am is hearing this excellent song and thinking that it sounds like a 10000 Maniacs song and then remembering when you first heard 10000 Maniacs and fuck sake that was a while ago, wasn't it? Anyway, it's a good tune and Cate Le Bon is, I hope, very young.

@strayarc.bsky.social if I were Canadian this would hurt pretty bad ... slander! 😆

Much appreciation to Rebel Talent for making their work available to all. “Cardiac Cosmos 2015 US Open Cup” m.youtube.com/watch?v=FUUS... @jdnalton.bsky.social @ironweed.bsky.social @footballlibrettist.bsky.social @footballheritage.bsky.social @adicicco.bsky.social @dream-king.bsky.social

Old college friends planning a pilgrimage to Albany in honor of our departed comrades reminded me of the pinball machine that ruled the house at the original and best incarnation of the treasured, historic, legendary dive known as The Palais Royale. 98acresinalbany.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/t...

Today I ran into a good bar friend I haven't seen in a while. He told me he has cancer, spreading fast. We drank & told stories, as we always have. I may never see him again, or I might. I hope I do. He saw James Brown and the Famous Flames in Newark in 1965, drove a truck all over NYC. Good man.

George Herriman invented the shitpost, achieved Boddhisatva, is an eternal beacon, points the way.

Easy choice. The horniest couple in the history of television.

I am mostly unfazed by the daily parade of disrespectful perversity and denigration I see committed on here by friends and foes alike, but y'all need to stop fucking with Frog And Toad, fuck is wrong with you? At long last, is there nothing pure and good left in your shriveled souls? I despair.

The most seductive kind of stupid is one where people start believing that the concepts that language signifies are independently real separate from the blurry snapshot of reality that the concepts try to capture. map vs territory

Tell me you’ve never read Tocqueville or even Crevecoeur.

It's 1964-5 and a right wing political organization called the National States Rights Party has appointed a Montanan named Mike Cameron to organize youth groups in schools around the country to fight back against the radical left's Communist assault on America's traditional, white culture. cont'd...

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

Album important to me at 19 also still important

Walt Clyde Frazier as Auston Trusty rejects a shot and collects the rebound to start a Knicks breakaway: "Trusty! The Old Reliable! Rejecting and collecting !"

How your email finds me

My rap name is Oral B.

Yes he was handsome. But give some credit to the meticulous attention his wife Anna Murray Douglass paid to his care, his home, & the presentation of his garments. It was Anna, a free woman who he met in Baltimore, who out of her meager savings gave FD the money for his train ride to escape.

Just today someone I kinda know was bemoaning the Death Of Respectful Discourse & Rational Argument, nostalgic for a pre-internet age. But WTF was that age, either? Baldwin debating Buckley about whether Black people deserve rights? Same foul substance with a veneer of cigarette smoking civility.

I can’t find the extended video so I wanna talk about the kid who got punched. What he documented was his own genesis a future James O’Keefe & especially guys like Charlie Kirk or Milo. These people preach and support violence but they operate within what I call The Civility Technicality.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." -- Mark Twain

It wasn't very long ago that some bitter dimwit went on a rant about how very very angry it made her when she thanked someone for holding a door and they said "no problem" or "sure" or anything other than You're Welcome, it was a window into the world of triggered bitter seething dimwits, amazing.

Ever since the days of my misspent high school youth, alternating Heavy Metal with Song Remains The Same with The Wall at the midnight movies, I have always had a fondness for Moebius and his texture and lines.

The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

Affimatiodisiac

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

My kid just got home, completely smashed, after going out after work with her co-workers to see the Pride Flag re-raised in Stonewall Park and being swept up in a gay bar crawl. She made it home with phone wallet keys and puked here, not the cab. I could not be more proud of my little girl.

Cheers again to @geschwartz58.bsky.social for hitting me up with the good stuff.

Free Valentine's Day advice to anyone looking to win a man over. No flowers, no chocolates, none of that. Just say those six little words he's dying to hear: youtu.be/PW-lgA8Esjc?...

So today this tune came on and I am like I know I have heard this and of course it was a sample from a tune I have not heard in YEARS love shit like that youtu.be/bHuGrKMgC9U?...

Throwback to a better more innocent time youtu.be/JNKeBoRbifw?...

This is the first thing I saw upon waking up and my whole day is made.

Macbeth: SHIT