love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

it’s a nice day out. one cat is asleep under a quilt, her usual morning nap shift, and the other is crouched in the open window, intent upon the birdsong and the smells of this as-yet-unverified spring. and me, I think I’m probably going to make it, too. how are you?

The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

HER: you better not be slutty archer death when I get there ME:

perhaps you would like to see a picture of my cat? if so, here she is! if not, no worries.

It has a certain, as the french say, [Tim Allen grunt]

this is a thick bilbo household always has been always will be

as a s’more myself, I concur (that’s such a good cat name)

i think in the name of fairness the producers of the baldur's gate tv show should demand that tv writers do at least a year of running around in circles doing unpaid writing tests before they're allowed to write for the show

You want me to send an email? The thing Jeffrey Epstein loved doing??

FOUCAULT: I wrote "Panopticism" to show how people are enculturated to think of themselves as subjects and agents of surveillance CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY: at last we have invented the Panopticon from Foucault's famous essay "Panopticism"! FOUCAULT: Jeremy Bentham invented the panopticon in the 1790s

taking a stand against the short jokes. not much of one. but,

the livejournal feature where you could change your icon to indicate different tonalities in which to read your posts was too powerful. They had to kill it to bring on the Long Night

everyone who's ANYONE is playing Commonwealth. make an awful little social-climbing freak in a decadent far future! gamble! court lovers! challenge rivals to monomachy! throw fabulous fetes! march out to battle! and above all, praise the autarch, whose haters wait upon his table of success.

today is for the ladies to have fun. its new years eve not new year's steve

New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..." Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.

Game designer: After lots of hard work we’re proud to announce we’ve created the Wheel of Saṃsāra from the ancient Buddhist classic Don’t Get Trapped in the Wheel of Saṃsāra

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Penda’s Fen is good. this isn’t why it’s good specifically but it’s not NOT why it’s good, either

me after sleeping like absolute shit

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

once again today I am contemplating the legacy of Jack Ketch, an actual human man who did his job so fucking bad his name became synonymous with death itself, and also Satan. really up there with Charles Boycott for “mortifying reasons to be remembered.”

Higher quality cos I'm a sicko

mashallah, tovarishches

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

some nice graffiti rats I saw today. would that I could frolic so carefreely with my friends, and have such a long, luxuriant tail as they.

by age 30 this is what your network should look like

(stumbles in from the darkness with my hair turned completely white) everything's extremely normal out there... No big deal

Happy Jerry Orbach's birthday!

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

look, my black bile levels are already off the charts, I do not need this shit

there were more tonight on TBS at least, please join me in telling them you never want to see that shit again

et in Arkansas ego

"average person kills 10,000 psykers a year" factoid actually just statistical error. average person kills 100 psykers a year. The God-Emperor of Mankind, who is kept alive by the mechanisms of the Golden Throne and kills over 1000 psykers each day, is the only one who should have been counted.

Do you love spooky? Are you a freak for singing saw? Are you scrambling to put together a playlist for your Halloween costume party? LOVE TRAINS? Are you secretly a ghost, ghoul, or goblin? Pre-Orders are up now for the Spooky Express OST for #BandcampFriday ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com/album/spooky...

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know: help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/ tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

I need to get in more arguments with people so I can declaim “I am the only one with clarity of purpose!” like Saw Gerrera. It just doesn’t come up nearly as often as I’d like an excuse to say it.

ME, ADVISING THE KING & HIS WAR COUNCIL: My lord, the Duke of Pelagia is openly fermenting rebellion in the south. Something must be done. A message must be sent WAR COUNCIL GROUP CHAT: 🤔 "fermenting rebellion"?? 🫢 this mf said fermenting rebellion 😂 fermenting rebellion headass 🤣 fermenting lmao