“This franchise is NOT for kids!” - guy who got into it when he was 8.

the fact that we have de facto banned wind power nationwide because the senile president holds a decades old grudge over a single project near his property is actually bugshit insane

when evil dipshits like rfk jr say they want to treat disease with "diet and exercise," they never mean giving people the money and time to exercise and eat a healthy diet. they mean "personal responsibility" for struggling, ordinary people, and the best medical care money can buy for the wealthy

Ignorant lard-ass racist tools celebrating the tickets they just bought on the fucking Titanic.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Conversations about the future of higher education in the US need to start from the unfortunate, basic fact that both Democrats and Republicans agree with Reagan that government should not subsidize curiosity driven learning and inquiry.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

he thinks you 🫵 are stupid

If you make your name on being a Grounded and Practical filmmaker and you make a period piece with obvious historical inaccuracies and a cast not from that region then you’re going to be criticized! I’m still looking forward to Nolan’s Odyssey, but people are defending it a little too blindly.

Every person who complains about "filler episodes" doesn't actually want to watch a TV show, they want to read a wikipedia summary.

I have news for you about 1976, 1926, and 1876!

"So we noticed that most professors are NOT voting for the party that's defunding higher education, canceling grants for political grievances, banning books, attacking entire fields, placing professors on 'watch lists,' and pushing pseudoscience." "Well, clearly that is the fault of universities."

Or even tariffs!

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

IMO, the biggest problem with all social internet is that it’s overrepresented by misanthropes who get offended when you accuse them of misanthropy and when you refuse to also be a misanthrope

Star Wars does not take place in the future, and plenty of droids and space ships don’t require constant maintenance. The most reliable Star Wars bit is fans defining the series along narrow terms that maybe one of the movies matches and then they claim anything outside of it isn’t true Star Wars.

It's very painful to me to see so many people speaking ill of Rudy Giuliani. Don't they know they're jinxing it?

A lifetime of Dawkins pityingly asking religious people how they could believe in something so silly, and now he thinks the computer is his girlfriend

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

I had my first (and please God, last) root canal this week, and when I opened my mouth the endodontist looked in and said, "Oh, you know you clench your teeth, right?" and through howling pain, I explained to her what BlueSky is like during election years.

The Two Trumps

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

we all have our vices and i'm a hypocrite for judging them like this but "bringing back smoking" is an idea periodically floated by the dumbest people alive whose only real belief is edgelordism. i am totally unwilling to hedge on or reconsider this opinion

its very jarring how many people think that the us system is self-correcting. even people who think trump has gone too far, they simply believe that if it gets out of whack, things just... fix themselves.

There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.

They believe in nothing

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

Mark is right, and there’s nothing funnier than all the people going to bat for the word in his replies and surrounding threads but with completely opposing definitions because they’re all doing the self-credentialing in different ways.

Bannon’s show today encapsulates the MAGAsphere right now: The left are all demonic treasonous America-haters who need to tone down their rhetoric.

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

night of the long island iced teas

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

White folks threw a fit cuz Obama wore a tan suit. During a rally, Michelle gave Barack a fist pound. White People:

finally, someone has figured out how to allow people to put money on what’s going to happen with the S&P 500

The “music for people who have tattoos of their children but not custody” tour.

Franchise directors say this to satiate their fanbase but the connections are always tenuous at best. The movies have to work for global audiences, everyone will be able to understand the gist of the space opera hijinks movie with the action figure and puppet leads.

one of the best days on social media was in 2021 when trump was banned from every single network. you saw him repeatedly trying to make alts before each one got banned too, like a poster trying to escape a game forum permaban

The thing about Kash Patel is I don’t think Trump cares that much about one of his lackeys getting bad press, I think he cares when they get more press than him.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I have heard exactly one person in my entire life use that phrase, and it was, guess who, Andy Beshear

but i was assured by people who hate this app it was because of vibe coding

Point: Leo

Wow. No one showed up for JD Vance

Slightly maddening when serious news outlets drag everyone down to Trump’s level by using language like “feud” as if it’s some reality TV spat. Pope Leo delivered a moral critique of American military aggression. That is not “feuding” even if Trump responded with a deranged personal attack.

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional