I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military
I'll be the first to argue we don't need to see a character fuck to count as queer rep, but if I see ONE MORE bisexual character who's allegedly tremendously sexually adventurous off-screen, but is coincidentally always single or with a conventionally acceptable partner whenever they're on camera
Star Trek Deep Space Nine scene. A PADD is shown up close held by a pair of hands. (Kind of looks like an old palm pilot and if you're not old this will mean nothing to you) The beautiful LCARS user interface is displaying the text, "GO AWAY."
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we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
“He does what?”
“He likes to guess their shoe size and orders it for them.”
“And they don’t fit?”
“No, he’s comically wrong. Like, every time.”
“And they wear them anyway?”
“Yeah. See, that’s how you know how sycophantic they are. It’s symbolism.”
(beat)
“Eh. We can’t do that. It’s too on the nose.”
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy
An underrated reason the "AI" "revolution" is shit, is scraped "generative AI" is a *LOSSY* record of all human data.
An "LLM" model can recreate past images or sentences, but not in the form someone labored over and loved it— it can only preserve it by making it worse. Pirates should be archivists
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
All proceeds will go to the linois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR):
NEW: Kansas revoked 1,700 transgender drivers’ licenses. Some are leaving the state
I spoke to trans Kansans and the one Republican who voted against the law.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
When a franchise goes on long enough, it stops being inspired by other art and starts being made by people who are inspired by the franchise.
Andor was inspired by world war 2 history and spy thrillers, so it feels fresh again
New syllabus statement just dropped
EVERY trolley problem discourse I have read begins with some imaginary version of it. Hell, Foot and Jarvis Jackson weren’t even INTERESTED in resolving the problem: their interest was in meta-ethics and how we formulate general ethical principles. This is NOT how the problem is deployed.
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
morally wrong and didn’t work: a history of american bombing campaigns
[To the tune of Stacey's Mom]
🎵 Chekov's gun
🎵 Will have it going on
Like, yeah, we did a storyline about their evil renanimated corpse, then later changed our minds and retconned it so they were never in the coffin in the first place, so *whose fucking skeleton was that*?
Also, not for nothing... but a digitigrade or unguligrade leg *has* a human-like knee. The part that's different is from the ankle down.
A comic panel of Maximus Lobo captioned “they call me Maximus Lobo because I am the most wolf.”
He has the wolf power of corporate consolidation
"One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a paywall. If a war crime is subscription-only, does it make a sound? Is that sound a stifled scream?"
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...
New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"
The 3 genders
“Zaphod’s just this guy, you know?” somehow predicted the mess we are in on a spiritual level, I feel.
Holly, sitting on her phone reading something:"Hey do you remember the TTRPG debacle?"
Me:"Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?" She meant the neopets one but forgot to actually include the context. Wheezing at **THE** TTRPG debacle as if there isn't a new one every 30-45 minutes
Pointing to the sign again (gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
Art
sloppelganger
- Ingrid Burrington
Mint it
This guy thought he’d never have to answer for his actions. There’s a lot of that going around. We have to hold ALL of them accountable.
