And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

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Oh holy fuck, yes. We are so fucking back. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Look, say what you will, Leo is STILL managing to make the worst parts of the Catholic Church miserable, and I am here for all of it. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-pope-l...

Using ChatGPT

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

So exhausting..

*swigs from Civil-War-era canteen* "Now DAT'S a fuckin' COUNTRY"

I am a better person because a sibling made me sit down and play Night In The Woods and here it pays glorious dividends.

Feed cleanse!

I've been disenchanted with Ezra Klein for awhile now, but HOLY shit does this disappoint. Klein is as up his own ass as Chuck Schumer is and we need never listen to him ever again, methinks.

Trying to pick just one is a form of torture made for me, specifically. If we're talking something from the real world, either Cologne Cathedral, or- if I wanted to get real freaky- the entire spread of the Ruins of Ayutthaya. If we're talking fiction, probably the Spirited Away bathhouse.

I've been living in Germany for well over a decade, and it still astounds how often I try to convey US gun violence levels to Germans and they just.....can't actually mentally grasp the scale. Like they often respond "Yes but there is gun violence here too" and I'm like, "You DON'T. UNDERSTAND."

Your little bit of hope for this week.

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." ~ Anne Lamott

Are we human or are we dancer, or are we some sort of grotesque human/dancer hybrid, an unholy abomination unto god that should never have been

ok this wins today's internet

Wishing nothing but love, strength, and pugnacity to the black mold in JK Rowling's castle.

So as part of a new nostalgia kick, I am starting to hover up old collector magazines like Beckett. I just flipped through a Beckett baseball edition from 1994, with a feature article noting spiking home run rates and wondering what the cause could POSSIBLY be.

The hero we need.

I have been informed that impeachment has been tried before and didn't result in removal. Had no idea! Well, as the old saying goes, "if at first you don't succeed, give up and spend your energy telling people still trying to stop." Never mind everything I said, let's wrap it up.

From the river. To the sea.

The movie's good! Go see it!

Still thinking about how the recurring theme of Superman is "knowing injustice is happening and choosing to ignore it is as actively harmful to your soul as actively collaborating", which of course ties directly into the very clear analogy Gunn is making about certain geopolitical events.

I happen to think that a lot of big things ought to change quick, and I also believe that the first steps to having big things change quick involve saying they should and believing they can.

Having just recently finished a Masters thesis.....hard second to all of this.

Feel like "Don't you want to fight these bastards for real?" would be a good campaign slogan for a primarily challenger to a Democratic incumbent.

Are you ready for the King? 'Cause he's ready for you! THE RETURN OF THE KING read through thread starts here! Will Sam save Frodo? Will Aragorn claim his birthright? Will Éowyn live up to the hype? Will Arwen finally say a word?!?!!! Let's find out!

Outlive these sick worthless pieces of trash out of sheer spite if nothing else. Live so you can piss on all their graves and keep on being trans as fuck

trans people will always exist (laudatory) trans people will always exist (threatening) trans people will always exist (factual)

I know I say this all the time but my number one double standard in modern politics is how liberal political movements are collectively responsible for everyone in their country with vaguely lefty vibes, and conservatives are given a pass for the actions of their self-selected official leadership.

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

And after we are dead? After Gaza is a crater and half the disabled population died way too early for no reason, after trans people are slaughtered, and you still have your fucking jobs? You and the corporate media will reset the narrative to "no one knew," as always. Fuck you. We see it clearly.

there are decades where no posting happens, there are weeks where years of posting happens

Can Arrested Development please stop proving itself a prediction and not satire?

The LORD OF THE RINGS read continues with THE TWO TOWERS! Will Frodo and Sam finally confess their love for each other? What about the rest of the Fellowship, who were just left in the woods at the end of the last book? Will Arwen say a word? Let's find out!

Making my way through LORD OF THE RINGS for the first time and I will admit to being charmed by how Tolkien goes out of his way to explain why the hobbits have tobacco but says nothing about why there's fireworks but no cannons.

The bad news is Bluesky's daily unique liker count is down over a three-month period. The good news is you can just use whatever websites you want to without caring about that kind of stuff for any reason

Every Disney live-action remake should have gotten multiple people shot.

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

Eurovision is basically like a televised Pokémon battle between every European nations twinks and bisexual divas and that’s why I like it

Andor. Fucking hell.

in college Latin class my friend and I had a running joke about Cato the Elder ending every Senate speech with “Carthago delenda est” no matter what the topic, which we thought was very funny (“aqueduct repairs proceeding as scheduled. also fuck Carthage”) but idk guys, I kind of see it now

Holy hell (literally), this is an essential read if you want to a) really start to understand the uniquely evil drift in White American Christianity over the last 50 years and what possibilities Leo's papacy COULD signify for both the global Church and American politics going forward.

one thing that fascinates me about the modern techbro-fascist movement is their complete fascination with destroying their own personhood. previous fascist movements flirted with it, sure, but they always promised an elevation of the human spirit through obedience and submission to the state

me: I'm done with the pope posts conservatives: we are having the worst day of our lives, woke marxist pope will give your kids gun control & health care in their sleep me: I would like a few more pope posts

I am having way too much fun with the Chicago Pope jokes, this is like Old Good Twitter, someone help me and take my laptop away.

This is the theology drama I've been prepping for my whole life.