Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.

The Blackbird is a simple, masterful gem of stop motion. Only Norman McLaren could've made it. But the film took him a decade to figure out. We explore the story, and the personal struggles, behind the work: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-little-p...

In sixth form philosophy, our teacher asked “The people of Konigsberg used to set their watch by the time of Kant’s morning walk - what does that say about the man?” Student’s answer: “He was autistic.”

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

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“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Reddit is trending and I went to take a look and came to a dead halt on this skeet. #INeededTheLaugh #Reddit

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

@espiers.bsky.social cooked.

luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.

Jimmy Carter dies right wing : lol good fuck him lmao Charlie Kirk dies Right wing: we will go after your job and family and call for you to be raped if you quote his actual words

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Oop.

His face is at half mast in respect for Charlie Kirk's passing.

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

It's Wednesday, but it's also Shut The Fuck Up Friday a whole two days early! Okay?!!

Me….All last week #memes #truth

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

By @poetalicewhite.bsky.social:

Donald Trump has gone from doing nothing wrong, to being an FBI informant. Do you know how bad that is? And even worse an FBI informant who goes to a sex offender Pedophile's parties for nearly 20 years and never brings him down.

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do to stop my simpleminded nephew from destroying your country."

Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that, were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump, Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed. Well MAGA?

Idea: we cap net worth at 10,000 years of minimum wage. $7.25/hr * 40hr/week * 52 weeks/yr * 10,000 years = $150.8M If you raise MW to $25/hr then a married couple could have $600M net worth. Yes it’s high but once you’ve tied MW to wealth you can adjust.

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

If he DOES come back for a press briefing, first question should be EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN. And as a follow up, EPSTEIN.

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?

For the same reason he didn’t submit DNA in the E. Jean Carrol case to prove his innocence. Same reason he doesn’t sanction Russia to show he condemns their invasion of Ukraine. Same reason he doesn’t release the Epstein files to prove he’s not a pedophile.

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Happy weekend! From c. 3,600 years ago, here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog! 🦔💙 Blue faience, c. 1985 -1650 BC. National Museum of Scotland www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c... 📷 by me #Archaeology

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

It's real cool that an administration that's so anti-science is now doing a reboot of Schroedinger's most famous experiment.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

If it does happen, i suggest everyone blames RFK jr.

Remember when the dictator of Turkmenistan rode an atv outside the gates of hell to prove he wasnt dead? He sucks but that was admittedly a sick way to prove you're not dead.

I'm spooked that we both made a similar reference with no connection whatsoever

“The ghosts did it all in one night! Of course they can!”

I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town

TIL Wes Anderson has a patron; a billionaire who literally loves his work so much that he’s happy to finance whatever, and money is no object. This explains why Wes Anderson‘s most recent films have been so relentlessly Wes Anderson-y. I am insanely jealous.

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

MBA CEOs when the tech they bought because a guy promised them it would replace all their employees and increase profits 50000% and restore their hairlines and give them stronger erections does not, in fact, do those things:

Or is the cure learning to play the ukulele? He really got those pirate flappers dancing?

listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think

This is Tuffy. He is the only example of taking up the whole sidewalk that is not only justifiable, but encouraged. 14/10 (IG: mypittuffy)

America: Universal healthcare creates wait times for healthcare. Also America: waits six months for a neurosurgeon consult and a year to get into a dermatologist…

When the VA enacted Choice - allowing veterans to get care in the private sector at 115% of the cost to tax payers - wait times INCREASED. Health outcomes got worse, too.

What blue state is stepping up next? Who’s gonna meet this moment with the urgency it deserves? Who wants to be able to tell their kids and grandkids that when everything was on the line, they didn’t just SAY the right things, but DID the right thing with the power they had?