Reading all the Brigitte Bardot obits that highlight her post-cinema life as a notorious bigot, my brain, for some reason, fast-forwards to the future obits of J.K. Rowling.

It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.

“But in a modern, free, and truly democratic society, it should not be a mystery for days to its population and its voters whether or not their president has just bombed a new sovereign nation, without any declaration of war – all while the federal government that’s funded by our tax dollars…

please do not teach the goats italian

Who needs AI when we had stuff like this? I’ll take photoshop edits over the slop any day

Amending! His last great love, Howard, met him *after* the Frog and Toad books and cared for him during his final illness. He died of AIDS in 1987.

My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

I subbed for free for the last year, found it compelling, and went to a paid subscription last month. Support what you want to see more of!

Post two perfect albums from November 9, 1993 that aren’t nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam or alice in chains

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

It’s wild we’re still talking about masks. I still mask up in grocery stores, elevators, public bathrooms, and public transit cuz I don’t like being sick and I don’t want to get my kid sick and it doesn’t have to be more complicated than not liking being sick. It’s weird anyone would question that.

It's rare that a car dealer does something that truly shocks me, but this is horrifying. If this car is in perfect condition, it's worth, generously, $32k. This person will be paying $183,848 for it. This is straight-up criminal.

not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year

This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.

The phrase "Keeper of the Flame" in relation to fascism specifically highlights how authoritarian movements co-opt powerful symbols and manipulate societal divisions under the guise of patriotism to achieve power, as depicted in the classic film.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

You named your security company after a bad guy who lost to a couple of breakfast-obsessives in waistcoats. Sit down.

Giselle took half of everything

Musk Weighs Return To Politics After 60th Death On ‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Tutorial https://theonion.com/musk-weighs-return-to-politics-after-60th-death-on-elden-ring-nightreign-tutorial/

deadass?

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

This was a really good one

When I say "the US gave up on feeding itself" that's what I mean, it's real bad. At the risk of shameless self-promo, I talked about this a few months ago. It's a part of the food/ag problem that just isn't making it onto the news & it really should. youtu.be/2uypc-c5-aA?...

Cat Moving Kittens by Austin Smith

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” Incredible stuff from our leader, who I thought was planning to make America great again and whose second term has three Christmases to go

We Wish You Baby, A Merry It's Cold Christmas Outside 🤝 not going until you get some

If so, I wanna take a moment to say how insane it is if the NBA is doing a “tribute to the troops” for someone “deployed” to 14th and K St. NW. Like he just came back from Antietam. If true, it just normalizes Trump’s fascist contention that our cities demand military occupation. Free DC. Always.

are these reasonable times? will reasonable people rectify the horrors and injustices of our world? sir you have made the case for deep space nine yourself

[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

People leave out mince pies and cookies for Santa, but the reindeer only get carrots. The only exception is Donner, who has dietary restrictions and gets a pass to eat the same kind of party food Santa does. Google "Donner pass party food" for more information

it makes me cry every single year. merry christmas to one and all.

Not A Creature Was Stirring My Ass (I Am A Creature Stirring)

It's important to remember, when you hear alarmism about the effects of social media, that it's the same arguments that were used when Very Serious People thought that watching too much TV as kids would melt Boomer and Gen X brains, and that these arguments were clearly correct.

We don't have to let like 10 sloplords suck up all the water with soulless facilities that create a negligible amount of permanent jobs, pollute the environment with noise, and drive up electricity prices while the president carries out a fatwa against wind power. My god, everything's so stupid.

I have some bad news for Latke.

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

New Nazis just like the old Nazis: high as fuck, all the time.

Spoiler: Everyone who is not vaccinated gets measles and some who are get breakthrough infections and they all get complicatedly sick for a long time and the people lying are the anti-vaxxers Gift link I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Well all the people who say “we need to hire the most qualified people” are getting a chance to run things and it turns out they aren’t qualified to shovel shit into a bucket.