time-traveling back to 2009 to explain to Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope that their lyrics about magnets are actually foreshadowing a hugely consequential shift in American military policy
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CAN HE? WILL HE? IT'S HAPPENING!!!! OH MY GOD HE'S GONE FULL PELICAN!!!!!!! 🪶
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 14h agoSeems like all the news is bad, but remember there are millions of people organizing for A Good News Day, often of which will be ignored unless you're connected to them. In the meantime, enjoy this UNEDITED PELICAN SESSION!!! 🪶
The leader of the most powerful country in the world threatening to annex a strategic waterway would be a five-alarm fire, but we all just assume he’s full of it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoTrump says that after Iran is defeated he’s going to declare the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States
Tiniest dog requires all the blankets and pillows, thank you very much
Eight months ago, This American Life sent reporters from Chicago to cover the protests and counter-protests outside the ICE facility in Portland. They chose Karlyn Borsynko to be their local guide to the world of Antifa. What they failed to mention is that KB self-identifies as a fascist.
i think it sucks a lot that the dude facing professional disgrace killed himself but the solution is not no professional disgrace
if you include CHIP and ACA, it's going to be *more* than 1 in 5 americans getting a shit-your-pants notification about their health care coverage within a month of the midterms, even if gas prices go down (and that's not a given)
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 14h agothere are more than 66M people enrolled in medicaid *excluding* CHIP, it's around 1 in 5 americans who are going to get panic-inducing notifications about their coverage around a month (or less) before the midterms
Question for the day: Who was the most porn brained comic artist at Marvel and/or DC?
Holy fucking shit Jason Arday found dead
Jason Arday found dead
Academic had resigned from the University of Cambridge last week
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youtu.be/fIY7EgMU5wE?... I know this tall lady is a specific yokai that existed long before any of this, but this is like the third of these games recently, this is definitely just people going “wow the internet was feral for Lady D” and doing the obvious thing right
A Very Tall Lady Is Hunting You this is a horror game - Hachishakusama ALL ENDINGS
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It is, in fact, a bloody miracle we've made it this far. Emphasis on the bloody.
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · yesterdayYeah, see, the thing is, a lot of them didn’t. Survive, that is.
for most of early modern Portuguese history, in order to forestall bourgeois revolution, the metropole committed to keep itself impoverished to maintain aristocratic privilege despite the existence of a globe-spanning empire. they even traded away most of their precious metals to ban manufacturing.
Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 17h agokeep wondering whether a historical analogue even exists for the aspect of our current period wherein our elites have gone insane in ways that are basically unintelligible to normal people
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
Today has me back on my two favorite kicks: Billionaires are dragons and cops are Janissaries.
Gentoo #Penguins heading for shore. It's no wonder that early explorers thought these birds were part fish. #BirdingAntarctica #seabirds
this is a map of the United States, plus the most common Chinese VPN endpoints. (The 4.69% Indonesia number is almost certainly inclusive of Singapore.)
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 2d agoAccording to Similarweb (the source cited for this data), ~27% of Threads' alleged half a billion monthly active users came from Taiwan (or ~135M people) Taiwan's actual population is ~23 million
Is Kalshi offering odds on whether or not it can still do business in Washington state?
Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 20h agoA King County Superior Court judge in Washington state has found that Kalshi’s trick of calling itself a “prediction market” doesn’t make it not gambling under the Washington Gambling Act, and has therefore ordered Kalshi to stop almost all activity within the state. Read more here:
Current political reality got me out here giving props to Curtis Sliwa. What in the world.
Molly Ploofkins@mollyploofkins.bsky.social · yesterdayReporter asks Zohran Mamdani's former political opponent, Curtis Sliwa, what he thinks about the campaign to stop Mamdani from attending the 9/11 ceremony: “Ridiculous. He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers.”
Claiming it's too far along and too late for anyone to stop it is such classic Trump and Tech bullshit. "We moved fast and broke things, and now we've changed so much you just have to let us go!"
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 19h agoThe White House's request to the Supreme Court this morning included lots of new photos, renderings and other info on the ballroom WH lawyer claims it's 65% complete and it's too late for any court to stop it. One new addition: Trump's ballroom would apparently have gold seals