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CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

You're willing to throw 44 million people to the wolves over nuclear blackmail and think this makes you a noble humanitarian

today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

Yakuza Kiwami 3 (with JPN/English voices) is officially announced

I think eric adams probably has highly bespoke beliefs about the rapture.

the correct response to the authoritarian internationale is not isolationism--whether of the "america first" or "hair shirt" varieties--but the founding of a counterforce liberal internationale

28 Days Later is a great film and I feel like the complete tonal whiplash of the last 10 minutes is absolutely intentional and I LOVE it

Watching 28 Years Later and this movie fucking rocks

also he asks follow-up questions, which as I've noted many times seems bizarrely beyond many US interviewers, especially on TV.

Relatedly, the US having one party that openly invites international interference on its behalf is going to make it impossible to ignore right-wing parties abroad.

the question is not "will the US take precisely the same leadership role as before." we can't. but there is no longer a stable democratic core beyond the reach of authoritarian consolidation, and if we break free of it ourselves we cannot simply retreat from the world while we return to sanity.

in 2029, if the US returns to sanity, we are likely to see at least one of Reform, RN, or AfP holding a parliamentary majority. these governments are less antidemocratic than Trump, but we will be returning to a crisis. bsky.app/profile/osit...

Commission I did~ #art #artwork

It’s a PHOTOGRAPH of the WHEAT FIELD outside of town. Only the very tops of the stalks are visible against the pitch black of the sky, illuminated by LED HEADLIGHTS. “WHO” is written on the back in shaky capitals. By now you think you know.

It’s a photograph that looks like it was taken at night in the WHEAT FIELD outside of town. It’s blurry & indistinct, blown out by the LED HEADLIGHTS of a car. You think you recognize a fleeing figure in a CAT MASK. “S — WH T [ILLEGIBLE]” is written on the back in severe, rushed capitals.

It’s a photograph of the OLD TREE. There’s a tangle of BALING TWINE around the base that looks as though it as been sawn through. “WHO WILL HELP ME THRESH THE WHEAT” is written on the back in severe, cramped capitals.

It’s a PHOTOGRAPH of a person in a CAT MASK tied to the OLD TREE in the center of town. “NOT I SAID THE CAT” is written across the back in severe, neat capitals.

It’s a PHOTOGRAPH of a person in a CHICKEN MASK holding a SICKLE. “WHO WILL HELP ME CUT THE WHEAT” is written on the back in severe, neat capitals.

when people say they want a "strong Conservative Party" yeah some of it is dumb boomer nostalgia, but it genuinely is bad when your only viable political options on consequential things are people who are pretty bad at their jobs or barbarians who want to smash shit out of spite and not rebuild

the policy landscape of education is bleak dude. GOP want to burn public education to the ground and put kids in megachurch clickfarms or homeschool them so dems are sort of the only game in town if you actually give a shit about schools, and the lib education establishment is plenty flawed

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The grunting pedophile who fired countless Virginians from their jobs because he thought it was funny has waddled into the governor’s race to make his endorsement

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

I grieve in stereo 🔇 #Art #AzemBellerophontes #FFXIV #EW

Oh sorry I misunderstood. I went to the underwater city of Rapture and now I'm getting mind controlled into killing my secret libertarian dad #GamingFirst #GamingProud #ClassicsOfGaming #BiVisibilityDay

People will be like “you seriously believe in boiling politics down into a bleak, consumerist nightmare of appealing exclusively to prior held beliefs? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, persuasion” and then have little success persuading people

#birdbot

I love reading this as if I don't know that "baby steps" is a video game

cuomo turned over control of the state Senate to the Republican Party, appointed conservatives to the state's Supreme Court (shut up, NY lawyers), and _still_ collected a huge number of state party endorsements. then he ignored the results of the primary to collaborate with Trump.

A majority of the court are absolute monarchists, which is the opposite of liberal, and I argue its decisions in this vein are invalid.

yo, if you're not willing to describe justice thomas as anti-liberal then i really don't know wtf liberalism means to you unless your answer is "what it meant to the german middle classes in 1849" in which case i'd say "ok cool that's not liberalism by any serious modern understanding of the term"

#birdbot

The enormity of Biden’s failure to prosecute Trump plus his refusal to accept that his stance on Israel was hopelessly out of date are gonna be his chief legacy in the history books. Sucks but oh well

RFK Jr's resignation, imo, but they should also be prepared to simply cause a prolonged shutdown for the purpose of inflicting political pain

well, I didn't foresee Trump being so stupid that he decides Democrats' helpful-to-his-own-fortunes asks are worth a shutdown to *stop* and frankly that's on me

Jeffries and Schumer are more or less demanding to keep a dozen or so House seats and zero to two Senate seats in the Republican column by lessening economic pain that will inevitably be blamed on the party in power and Trump is mad?? okay. sure.

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the ask is extremely simple: if you are a major party figure, you are obligated to mechanically endorse the winner of a Democratic primary if asked. that is the "you must be this tall to ride" line for partisanship.

Meteion: I’m sorry, Hermes… I’m so sorry…

Ardbert: If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it? Could you save our worlds?

My favorite thing about this line is that in context it is sincerely quite frightening and made me go “oh SHIT”

Sphene: If bloodshed is what will save my subjects, then I will become history’s most brutal queen.

Ardbert: Take it. We fight as one!

Hermes: Though I gave you these wings to soar the heavens, I did not teach you how to walk the earth. So loath was I to bind another living being.

Cylva: …He chose love. He chose mercy, and I was undone.