This map is highly misleading. In the American electoral system, votes don't influence policy.

bro are you fucking kidding me

TV Glow an Nope are the two that come close but it’s pretty clearly The Beast to me. The last thirty seconds turn the whole movie inside out.

going back to the 90s/00s it's basically impossible to overstate alexander o. smith's role in shoring up square's global dominance post ff7. absolutely insane localisation resume

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin in One Piece style (eh..kind of.....I need to practice it for..... a few more weeks.... ) posting for @lost-fool.bsky.social , of course

Looking at election results when Trump is president and there’s no government:

This is the greatest last sentence ever written in an obituary. defector.com/dick-cheney-...

Really moved by this one. They seem so content.

I bet that security guard felt like a real dope after waking up the next morning and reading this strip in the paper. Imagine missing the opportunity to both see Jucika naked AND bring her to justice for her crimes! Personally and professionally devastating.

Kingdom Hearts has been sealed.

What if instead of Mafia tough guys Robert DiNero played little wizard boys… And was also Chinese?! #harrypotter

That is, between 66.2% and 66.3%.

Padme: I always loved Scooby Doo ☺️ And I have to admit, I think those Scooby Snacks looked pretty yummy! What do you think they would taste like? 🙂 Anakin: Whenever I’m eating food I wish I was scraping my fingernails through the hot dirt outside. And I can hear a dirt yelling.

Spoke at my great aunt’s funeral yesterday. Honoring her by finally cracking open the series of Dutch fanfiction Chinese detective novels she gave me

Really loved “Titus Alone” www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Nobody stopped me.

Reuploading a classic to Bluesky, Forgive me god.

Also, maybe we come up with, like, two more holidays, say in the early and late spring, that involve walking around the neighborhood and talking to your neighbors?

Put on my plastic ruby quartz visor to place my order at the bagelry and then took it off again afterwards. They’re calling it his laziest Halloween yet

Gonna mess around on this, but so far it fails the Letterboxd test in that you cannot create an account, immediately sort every book in history by most popular, and start frantically sorting them into have-read and want-to-read

i've been saying it for years: it is a moral imperative to post your lunch

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

English (US) Phrasebook - Lesson 1: Emergencies 1) Help me! 2) I need to go to the hospital! 3) My hand is stuck in my hamburger! 4) Someone fired a nail gun through my hamburger bun when my hand was on top of the patty! 5) I was feeling the meat inside my sandwich when something terrible occurred!

I just realized that the actual unironic fantasy novel I’m writing shares a lot of thematic concerns with WE FUCKING INTRODUCED DIET DR. PEPPER TO THIS FANTASY UNIVERSE. The processes of my own mind are a wonder to me

Almost every tweet on Bluesky is about baseball today. Zero reference to it on Twitter. Eighteen months ago I seeded my Bluesky feed with only people I already followed on Twitter, the speciation on stuff like this is so interesting

It sucks so bad that newspapers and magazines don’t just have a “buy this article for $3” button

I absolutely promise you I will never put on a tie for a post. My posts may be bad but I’m just going to post them in whatever I’m already wearing. Not going to put on a whole different outfit for them.

Incredible things are happening on X the everything app

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

This cover of Love & Rockets is giving huge Colonel Steven Lockjaw vibes

I can negotiate on Heat which I think is a lower-tier Mann, not liking the Irishman feels Republican coded, not liking The Departed (Scorsese’s best movie) is a personal insult to me and the good people of Southern New England

YOU: what if his name was penis parker and he shot web by jacking his dick lol YOUR FRIEND WHO WAS TOO INTO COMICS GROWING UP: They actually did that as a whole arc in the late 80s. Wasn't Conway's best work.

I still think about when Sean Spicer yelled at “Daft Funk” on Twitter during the Grammys

Yeesh!

I don’t know if there’s a more perfect illustration of the utter fucking nonsense that creative pollution by AI will produce than this choice to illustrate the power of Paramount’s new “localization” and “customization” technology by face-swapping Brad Pitt into the lead role of GET OUT

I remember when BG3 came out and a bunch of gamers online were like “I hope they add a non-turn-based mode soon 😬 Some players don’t like turn-based games so they won’t be able to enjoy and support the game 🥺” They’re anxious about not understanding what the streamers are talking about, I guess!

Comics book club is reading the original run of Tales From The Crypt. Some of the most efficient storytelling you’ll ever see

Nelson's Victory crew included a Brazilian and a Russian, 2 Indians, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 3 Danes and 3 Norwegian sailors. There were 3 Germans, 4 Italians, 6 Swedes, 7 Dutchmen, 9 West Indians and an African, as well as 21 Americans, 63 Irish, 64 Scots, 441 English.... oh, and 3 French men, too.

I don't like the 79-year-old filibuster-lover either, but Jon and his pod bros are pushing a guy who carries the insignia of the Schutzstaffel on his chest and says that's not a big deal. He's either a Nazi or an idiot who is too proud to admit an enormous mistake. Give me a break about "perfect."

"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA" * article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window

Unrepentant JK Rowling fan at least through June 18 2021, when I read the fifth Strike / Ellacott novel (“Troubled Blood”) and rated it three stars on Goodreads. It was unconscionably long but the denouement / parlor room scene (itself like 50 pages long) was a hoot. Never read book 6

In one of X-Men's most sci-fi soap operatic twists Cyclops copes with the death of Phoenix by meeting, marrying, & having a child with a woman identical to Jean named Madelyne. When Jean is found alive, we get a traumatic dream sequence in which Scott gives everything Maddie ever was back to Jean.

Truly hate these people.

There was a minor scandal early in the Obama admin about people disrespecting the White House by wearing jeans in the Oval Office bsky.app/profile/jbf1...

good bit from the Guardian review of Giuffre's memoir; I have heard several people from the NGO world express the confusion and embarrassment they felt at billionaires showing up with very young women at events.

I’m 1.5 for 10 on the top 10. My ranking of interest in the other 8: 8. RDR2 (nah) 7. Disco Elysium (strong foreboding that I’d hate it) 6. Witcher 3 (don’t want to start at 3 or play 1 and 2) 5. BG3 4. CK3 (I sucked at 2) 3. Dwarf Fortress 2. Caves of Qud 1. Stardew Valley (strong get-to)

in its original form the medicaid expansion was basically mandatory and would have very clearly formed the nucleus of a genuinely universal system. and in its neutered form (thanks john roberts) it is still a powerful policy that can be built on and expanded in straightforward ways