Words to live by… Depressingly, I don't think these are words to live by. I think if we say things that mislead people in a way that we could have predicted we are responsible In this case though, it's funy if people think this is real. It's unproblematic to laugh at stupid people, that's my point

Rory Blank@roryblank.bsky.social · 6mo ago

yes i do think some people are credulous enough to not get that this is a joke but that's not my problem

Having recently read a bunch of Kirby's New Gods, I've realised one of the things I find most unrelatable about classic comics is the oversold leading stinger. I can roll with your ridiculous story concept. Just don't open by making me read a wall of text about how amazing and unbelievable it is.

Sure, seems fun. I'm limiting my answers to fiction

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L@banalplay.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Frequently bought together

Hangin' from my toes, Fuckin' a tree, Nuttin' while I'm nut eatin' Ain't nuttin' to me

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 3d ago

WOW A spectacular Squirrel of the Day for August 3, 2026 #sqrlpix

Brushing my teeth after a lime Starburst and getting a brief but unmistakeable hit of chaep mojito.

I feel like historically situated, creative environments necessarily have peaks and troughs, and we probably skip over the down-cycles in retrospect. There are probably dozens of post-Shakespeare plays aping the style he exemplified that are forgotten because they were shit.

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The problem with the MCU is that it's too curated and self-consistent. I'm serious. Comics have a critical mass; the insane amount of work accumulated from thousands of artists over decades has a life of its own. The MCU is trying to be a single narrative, which is doomed to failure.

Replies seem united in thinking this is a gaff, but I disagree. This is a moment of honesty that offers a charisma the calculated party line lacked. Trump is evil. Graham was evil. We do ourselves no favours by pretending evil can never be genuine or relatable.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump takes issue with the Lindsey Graham eulogy he's reading: "Virtually everyone liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody. But it sounds good. I have to be honest. I have to veer from this for a second."

'Democracy' posits that power should serve the majority. However, power tends to consolidate itself to serve an elite minority. This elicits opposition, uniting the majority who collectively have greater power than the elite. Hence democracy is eroded until it is re-established through revolution.

Nobody, absolutely nobody, voted for Labour's pathetic manifesto. People voted to get the Tories out. Burnham saying he'll stick to the manifesto is pure cowardice. It says three things of note: GB energy, border authoritarianism and no money for anything else ever.

History will look back on this time and marvel at the fact that everybody obviously knew that horrible, toxic, evil shit was happening and no-one did a damn thing about it. I am in no way imune from this criticism. I am as coddled by learned helplessness as anyone else.

There's not a sudden tipping point where wealth becomes evil. Rather, the path to relative privilege is paved with easy decisions that gradually ease you into benefitting from exploitation. The whole system is set up so that each time you become more comfort and security require ethical compromise.

Outside of compatibilism, 'freedom' is a vague and intuitively defined concept. Outside of its strict, legal definition, 'free speech' is basically meaningless.

Having Wes Streeting as the defence secretary and Ed Milliband as the foreign secretary is like having Lex Luthor as the minister for starting fires and Ol' Gil from The Simpsons as the minister for putting them out.

Excited to see how the discourse develops when we start to get regular wet bulb events. As they'll start around the equator, I predict 'heatstroke has always been a danger in undeveloped countries without AC'.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2w ago

i bet this shit hits so hard if you're stupid

People get so focused on trying to count the bears that they don't notice the basketball player walk into the middle of the scene

Patrick Barron 🐻〽️@bluebarronphoto.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of my views in Katmai National Park last week. Count the bears! The salmon are coming in and the bears are hungry!

We regret to inform you Jimothy is racist

Thanks to my classical education, I am aware of and appreciate the original Odyssey

A rare Deleuze quote that's just an obvious truism, not something you have to think about intensely for half an hour.

Gilles Deleuze For You@deleuzeforyou.bsky.social · 3w ago

But people who have discovered what their concerns are, what they have to deal with, are rare. I think they’re very rare. They brighten up the day. People would be a lot happier if they knew what their real concerns were, what they have to deal with.

I'd say Count Binface is actually quite an effective distraction from Farage's funding scandal, but I actually think Farage's funding scandal is itself a bit of a distraction from the fact that he is an evil fascist scumbag.

Reminder that football is boring

What are some good feminist sources that cover the reasons why terfs should not be taken seriously?

Using 'ethics' in a maximally broad way to mean discipline governing all values and evaluation, we can say: Ethically, ontological and epistemic concerns *should* precede ethics. Ontologically and epistemologically, ethics *does* precede ontology and epistemology.

I think about this quote every single day and I think about how much potential we, as humans and as a country, have lost because of hate. Our Constitution and institutions would be so much stronger right now if they were also built with Natives, Black people, and women as equals.

At some point soon we will reach a brief moment where someone will say 'I understood that reference' and a legitimate reply will be 'I understood that reference'.

I think a fair bit about a version of the Just World fallacy that I call the Lib World fallacy, but I guess a better name might be the Just System fallacy It's the idea that a set of rules exists that would guarantee justice, so all that justice requires is for us to discover and follow those rules

My Descartes book has a a very sexy young Descartes on the front. Dude positively smoulders. Very different to the usual pictures you see, which make him look like Captain Pugwash.

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite