Michael

@durak.bsky.social

moderately healthy adult

Watching Attack on Titan. It’s hilarious to see them do the ol’ X-Men “fantasy race oppression mirrors the real world, but this time it’s justified”

of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it

America spends more on police that kill more people and solve fewer crimes than peer nations. These are actual real things in the physical world. Why are we debating the platonic ideal of what really is crime.

Remember when Prigozhin was marching an armored column of mercenaries on the capital of a nuclear power in an attempted coup? I think that might still have been the craziest geopolitical moment of the past decade.

now that everything is on-demand all the time it does make me a little sad that current and future kids probably won’t ever know the joy of channel surfing or discovering something because you left one channel on for too long

Worlds collided in 1986 when G. Gordon Liddy served as a guest judge for the boxing match between "Rowdy" Roddy Piper and Mr. T at Wrestlemania 2. Also pictured: ring announcer Joan Rivers.

G. Gordon Liddy shakes Joan Rivers's hand in a boxing/wrestling ring