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a magnatiles cathedral

there are cathedrals everywhere for those with magnatiles to build

What I learned tonight is the future of the Democratic Party is a trans Muslim CIA agent wine mom who wants to eliminate capitalism and barter with people on the free bus.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

I think there is no better summation of the Democratic Party than saying you want to minimize cruelty instead of completely eliminate it

Get his ass

For fucks’ sake you losers go work out stopping a genocide in Gaza

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Pawn Stars meme: Best I can do is WWIII and maybe the Eugenics Wars

Me: I would like Star Trek, please

Reality:

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

The White Lotus ‘goes too far’: Duke University unhappy over their prominence in show Two characters in the troubled Ratfliff family are Duke alumni, but the association has displeased the US university

I’m glad the universities have found their voice to complain about something

X Files publicity still of a backlit Mulder and Scully in trenechcoats looking sternly at the camera

pov: you're a regional cryptid about to have the worst day of your life

Demi Moore can still win if she takes Pennsylvania

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

It takes until a Palestinian politician quoted in the 20th paragraph of this story before this "remarkable proposal" is accurately described as ethnic cleansing

Thousand stand in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with lights lit on their phones. 14 people at the front hood lit letters spelling out Hope & Resistance

An incredible photo from Berlin this evening.

An estimated 100,000 have been on the streets in the German capital today to protest against the Far Right and fascism in Europe.

#Resist

(📸 Ricarda Lang)

Scientists Have Grown a Human Spine In a Lab Well, almost.

Hey @democrats.org there’s hope fam

I don’t know how widely this works, but I got very frustrated at the Apple phone tree, tried “I want to speak to a manager!,” and was immediately connected to an actual person.

Not sure, but it might be related to why they elected to the House Oversight Committee a 74-year-old man who started in politics five years before the Macintosh came out and not a laser-focused 35-year-old woman who goes after the GOP like a 2x4 to the back of the head.

The Hunt | She wanted an opulent Moscow palace that could remind her of home back in Damascus. He wanted a pied-à-terre on a low floor with no windows and a built-in Geiger counter. Which did they choose?

Sometimes when people are talking about basketball I’m like “they aren’t playing tonight” and then I remember men can play too

TIRED: Crazy that NOSFERATU (2024) co-star Willem Dafoe starred in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000), about the making of NOSFERATU (1922)

WIRED: Crazy that SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000) was produced by RENFIELD (2023) star Nicolas Cage

We’ve been getting rain and wind from the (benign part of the) polar cyclone all day. It made driving to BIL/SIL’s tense & fraught earlier.

But I tell you what, worrying about immediate, inclement weather is a pleasant fucking distraction.

The Arts & Humanities are such a useless, impractical waste of time that dictators and tyrants across the span of history have suppressed the study and practice of these fields.

look it's going to be a long four days and I don't think anybody needed to add an extra hour in there. read the room, standard time.

A photo of an Oakland A's hat that has a shadow effect on the logo to make it look like it says Ass

In what may be their last piece of official merch ever made. The A's absolutely nailed it.

Legit want one.

This is one of the all-time NYT corrections. Absolutely an instant classic of the genre.

adam on northern exposure saying "botany is the next battlefield"

Captain Terrell from Wrath of Khan mentally fighting his ear bug

Captain from Darmok wielding a knife with Picard

Nobody in Star Trek had better one-off appearances than Paul Winfield. Guy was just hitting dingers.