losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

College is really expensive. (TOO expensive, IMO, but I don’t make the rules.)

If a student is going to insist on aggressively not learning a fucking thing in college by actively seeking out the cheat-on-everything machine, then that student just took on a ton of debt for nothing.

Happy 40th Anniversary to one of my favorite game series of all time ⚔️

I've made a lot of Zelda art over the years, here's a few of my favorites

"The Epstein files proved them right!"

No they fucking didn't. You can't describe a conspiracy whose major actors are a secret elite composed mostly of marginalized people that doesn't actually exist, then suddenly declare you were right because a completely different conspiracy was uncovered.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"

No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

Spinal Tap did a commentary track of "This is Spinal Tap" in character. I'd love to see the cast members who played the cannibalistic family in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie do the same.

The coverage on Trump's potential Iran invasion has been woefully inadequate.

And that's before you consider that none of them say, "Iran already agreed to a nuke deal, Trump ripped it up, causing the problem he's currently facing."

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

They're especially creepy and heinous when they include how someone who has since died might look today.

There was a trend a while back I liked: compilation videos of actors through the years, from their earliest roles to their most recent. We could see how they changed over the years.

I haven't seen one of those in a long time. They've been replaced with soulless, creepy then-and-now AI videos.

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

Just to underscore:

Trans people, we aren't "issues".

Me, I'm not an "ideology".

I'm a human, like anyone else.

The only "ideology" here is those bigots who use such rhetoric in their effort to dehumanize trans people — because they want us gone.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

Me to everyone "WAKING UP" to Trump's Racism

Years ago, a family member received golf clubs as a gift but never used them because golf is an "old-person sport" and he wasn't ready to admit he was old, even though he enjoys golf and wanted the clubs. Now, he gets winded walking too fast and faints if he pushes himself too hard.

Thank you

Play through an injury, perform poorly, get yelled at for "not trying hard enough." Rinse and repeat.

And some family members wonder I stopped playing sports after high school. Sure, there are other reasons, but constantly being in pain and being told to tough it out certainly ranks high.

The mainstream news media will never call Trump explicity racist. They'll always dodge the allegation. That's because the white people running the joints need to believe that there is a distinction between donig racist things and promoting racist polices, versus being *personally* racist.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Elon Musk @elonmusk Hitler was a far left socialist. His party was called the national socialists. HotSotin @HotSotin North Korea is a democracy. Its name is Democratic People's Republic. B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny urinal cakes are for eating, it has cake in the name

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

I've been leery of Aronofsky ever since he claimed Italian giallo films influenced Black Swan but apparently had no idea who Mario Bava was. Still, this news disappoints me.

What's the most important lesson Obi Wan Kenobi taught Luke Skywalker?

You can get far in life by promising to pay with other people's money.

Waiting for Guffman- Chinese Restaurant Scene YouTube video by Kat

RIP Catherine O'Hara, who managed to steal every scene she was in

Everything with him is a projection.

Every time I write a ghost story, the ghost or ghosts try to possess a living person as their ultimate goal. Not sure what that says about me.