Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

I’m hopeful that Pope Leo XIV can follow in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II and play a role in liberating his home from tyranny.

Maybe I’m being overly cautious but I don’t want to lionize Magyar just yet. Lionize the Hungarian people, absolutely, but let’s see how his government goes first.

I’ve always thought “bamboo worm” bonsai was one of the weirdest you can raise.

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

Politics But Make It Art

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

The Piker and Shah discourses summon a random thought — have protestors ever showed up at a Trump event and chanted, “Donny, Donny, you can’t hide! We charge you with genocide!”?

As a carbon sink they could defend against Russia in two ways.

Trump called on the Church to remove Leo and appoint his son Eric the next Pope, then return to the selling of indulgences, only this through Trump Bitcoin. (Not really, but …)

“15 years ago, Germany decided to give Putin leverage.”

This is the image Chat GPT generates if your prompt is “Whitey’s on the moon.”

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

Many people are saying!

Orbán and Baby Assad and Dreher to star in cursed Russian Seinfeld reboot.

As the Hungarian elections show, the path forward for Democrats is clear: nominate a dude named Peter America

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

America, take a lesson from Hungary. If you want a dictator-wannabe to concede losing, you've got to trounce him in a landslide vote for his opponent. Close elections allow authoritarians to lie and say the election was stolen. www.cnn.com/2026/04/12/w...

No shit.

One of the most important things about Orbán’s defeat is that he conceded. Even MAGA allies in Europe have accepted that it was a loss, not a “stolen election.”

Viktor Orbán to star as Gru in live-action Despicable Me.

Orban consolidated power by making the electoral system less proportional and gerrymandering districts of very unequal sizes. That gave Orban supermajorities when the opposition was divided and less popular—but it turned an opposition landslide into a supermajority that can now dismantle the regime

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

So, let’s game this out. A Chinese flagged tanker pays the toll and transits the strait. We interdict it? What if the tanker is escorted by a Chinese warship?

The second half of Trump 1.0 and all of Trump 2.0 can be summed up with this post.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

ok finally got a chance to review trump's speech as an economist in manufacturing the mood is thus

Tianjin is almost done with a massive restoration and redecoration of the Quanyechang department store, one of the first department stores built in China and a symbol of Tianjin. The interior mockups I’ve seen look fantastic. Previously the building was musty and messy, like other SOE retailers.

She’s a talented actress, but every time I hear her name I think of Max Barry’s Jennifer Government.

Very, very good essay.

Every time I see this guy’s videos I’m so glad that Guillermo talked Nandor into a less destructive hobby. youtu.be/eftTVouBzRk?...

Bluesky needs to ban this lady immediately. She’s giving a veneer of legitimacy to shit that could easily get this site’s users hauled up on charges.

The mommunism account rules. Trying to get people to fall for scams but wokishly. You need to give out your account numbers otherwise you're discriminating against the unbanked.

21 hours? you are like little baby, that's the average day of a routine trade negotiation with a Chinese team (when they swap the delegates out on the Chinese side every eight hours)

since we're probably gonna be shooting people again shortly worth highlighting just how hard it is to actually destroy any underground facility It is a couple orders of magnitude less resource intensive to dig a tunnel than designing and building a weapon to reliably destroy what's in the tunnel

!!!!! What a disgrace.

its really wild that in the softest of soft ball puff pieces by a literal HS friend, Platner attacks people for caring about his Tattoo and again refuses to express any regret or concern for anyone's feelings and also says a slur goddamn is he not ready for prime time

The fact they made this travesty and didn't even call it Your Own Personal Jesus is the worst crime of all.

I’m not a fan of Pakistan’s government, but my condolences nonetheless.

Too many AI images of the Artemis II/Orion splashdown getting shared because they look cool and dramatic. Watch out for the HDR tone mapping look. No official NASA images use it.

Nepo Traphouse

“If you just watched this three hour video you’d see why him calling an elderly refugee a bitch was actually fine” fucccck offfff

This sums up my feelings well. The Lego video is very well constructed propaganda, *and* it is Protocols of Elders of Zion antisemitic.

JD Vance entering negotiations with Iran

Brimelow was fired from NR in 1998. The New Yorker is mythmaking, but by the late 1990s and the implosion of the California GOP, the right had decided moderate conservatism was the way forward. NR took a stand against VDare and Buchananism as part of that consensus, until the consensus died.

This has been advertised on WeChat a jillion times this week. SB Type Indicator 😅