We hit season 2 of The X-Files and got to my favourite guy, the Flukeman. I forgot what a great monster design / suit he has. Criminal he never had a follow-up episode like Tooms.
this was a core to us older gen-x heads. we've tried to instill this in our kids (and their kids!) but they all seem to believe in "let me eff this up on my own so that i know for sure!" - it baffles us. society has us trusting in personal struggle as a liberating obligation; it doesnt have to be.
When you’re wise and you’ve done the work, you don’t need to experience everything for yourself to wise up. You can listen. You can learn from what other people have lived through and choose differently. I thought I should share this with everyone because, damn.
You know that saying, “Sometimes people have to experience things for themselves to learn”? She told me that’s bullshit.
One of my gym aunties told me today, “Uju, you do not have to experience the hardships other women have gone through to know pain. Listen to me and do not make the same mistakes I made.”
the responsible stance toward adopting (and thus legitimizing) MAHA's terms and framing
Whatever you think Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg have done in validating transphobes, this is the EXACT SAME but for people trying to help RFK kill my fucking kids.
It's fucking nuts. These people are not just some random mommies who dont think too much about politics and heard some bad things about seed oils, these are people who literally CHOSE to adopt a moniker of a MAGA offshoot! They're completely off the deep-end.
Why the fuck do so many people who should know better want to engage in a little conspiracy-brained anti-modern crankery as a treat? A MAHA-curious liberal/leftist will tell you their version is less dangerous than the one favored by reactionary centrist Atlantic writers (transphobia). It isn't.
MAHA is a eugenicist movement and you do not negotiate with eugenicists. This is a thing a high proportion of people who will tell you not to frequent the Nazi bar apparently forget when the patrons of the Nazi bar share their priors about food dyes or whatever.
In the United States, on January 20, 2025, the air, the food, the medicine, the water were all as clean and pure and safe as they have ever been in this country. Yeah, sure, there were and are real problems, and our army of nerds in lab coats devoted to solving them was the envy of the world.
You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.
He's right. apple.news/AjLmxBYyWQ3C...
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Critics have said their piece about Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," and now he is saying his piece about them.
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Did you see how Apple, Amazon Walmart and other big companies are refunding the billions of dollars they got back from the federal tariff settlement to their customers, who ultimately bore the cost of higher prices? Yea, me neither.
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I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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Interesting cuz gambling is haram in El Qu’ran The Quran strictly forbids gambling, known in Arabic as Maysir, categorizing it as a major sin and an abomination of Satan's work.
In Dec 2024, Mazraoui refused to use a Man Utd jacket with support to the LGBT cause because it was against his religion. Today, Man Utd has announced a partnership with a betting company & yes, he was seen wearing a shirt with the sponsor on it So just a raging homophobe hiding behind religion
Mazraoui recusou-se e jogadores do United não usaram casaco de apoio à causa LGBT
Campanha da Premier League envolta em polémica
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i think it's incredibly sad if you "can't get through a work day without it". why did you ruin your brain on purpose?
buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 19h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Unserious (but hilarious) answer: Mark Williams as a washed up agent called back into service simply because everyone else keeps getting killed and SOMEHOW he has always been impervious to death.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 8h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
M: congratulations Bond, you’ve retrieved the APOLLO disc and saved England. Are you…enjoying your time with Miss Honkersworth *sly wink* Richard Kind: oh with the sex?! Oh no, no no we’re looking at pictures of different cheeses, do you know how many they have it’s ridiculous, anyway GOODBYE Mark
in a sane world this gross motherfucker would just be a carnival geek www.mediaite.com/online/i-wil...
‘I Will Literally Eat Anything’: RFK Jr. Touts His Nonexistent ‘Gag Reflex’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. again bragged about not having a "gag reflex" in a clip released on Monday, telling USA Today, "I will literally eat anything."
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