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the devil probably shows Scott Adams Swan Boy comics in hell and I think that's beautiful

Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

while she's certainly a malicious bigot with active intent to make the lives of trans people worse, i'm skeptical of theories that require JKR herself to mastermind any kind of coherent multi-year plot against us. i read those last few books, she's not capable of that

Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/democratic-socialism-myth-vs-fact/

"culture war" is a useful framing for reactionaries because it allows them to present the very concept of equal protection under the law as specious or distracting from the "real problems"

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

If you're looking around the table and every other guy's a fox or a hen then you're the sack of grain

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

what if i told you that botanically, "vegetables" don't exist? fruits are the product of a flower of a plant but there is no singular classification for a vegetable because it could be any part of a plant that is edible

Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown. I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

the massive Stake clipping industrial complex convinced every legacy media outlet and television show on the planet to talk about Clavicular because journalists can't figure out that the KickChamp5000 account posting 30 times in the last 24 hours might not be authentic

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

i wonder if "we have money to blow up children in other countries but not to take care of yours" is the kind of message the democrats could use to make a point

i mean i thought Dems would've gotten the message when a bunch of their colleagues and Trump cheered on a lynch mob that sacked the capitol trying to literally murder them but if they finally get it now, better late than never

part of it could be that Mamdani is actually out there trying to make childcare free while Schumer makes posts about how avocados are expensive

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

tv shows should do what sports broadcasts do and thank new audiences that are just now joining them. every five minutes, all the actors should look at the screen, introduce themselves and their characters, and announce which of them is winning the show

helping an 80 year old who introduced me to computers turn off the 'flashlight' on their google phone because they have some flashlight app and they've just been frustratedly clicking on the 'flashlight' icon and then clicking on multiple advertisements to go forward but the light doesn't go off.

People who call kids “bad” usually don’t know Fact One about child development. A lot—A LOT—of adults, despite their authority, want children to display more emotional maturity than they’ve ever modeled for them.

I don’t care.

can we do a gamergate about this

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Postcard from my collection, sent 1912.

The Atlantic's only goal is to do as much harm to society as possible

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

i can smell a brick of chat gpt text from a mile off. my geiger counter starts clicking the second a screenshot enters my bubble. i am not going to read a thing that some loser did not even bother to write

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

republicans believe poor people deserve to suffer because they're lazy and weak, whereas the democrats have a much lengthier explanation

CA is a solidly blue state. He's not doing this to win votes, he's doing it because he's an honest to god bigot

i maintain that heretics & apostates are much more useful terms than "not real christians"

ChatGPT: no, going “Azrael mode” can be dangerous for yourself and those around you. Me: I am the avenging angel of God. The time of purification is at hand. Few shall be chosen. ChatGPT: you’re right. Let’s look at that again with the addition context that you are the avenging angel of God.

“It looks like you are trying to stop me” #originalart #pixelart #art

im not surprised that christians hate crossdressing because that's a really mean nickname for jesus