When people ask me how long my books are I always answer in word counts, but they always ask about the page count, and then I'm like "Pages in the manuscript? Or pages in the paperback? Or pages in the hardback? WHAT DO YOU WANT"
the “borat tonite” meme but edited to say “writing about zembla tonite”
Kinbote texts
Kudos to the bird that managed to shit an image of itself onto this bloke's car.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Fox TV post: The US House of representatives passed a measure to automatically register men for the Selective Service, updating requirements for the first time in decades. Response: Funny how they can automatically sign you up to kill and be killed but can't automatically sign you up to vote. Very interesting.
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
That’s more than half the annual budget of the National Science Foundation.
Calvin and Hobbes panel: Calvin looks up at his dad, who is putting on a bike helmet and about to go on a ride Calvin's dad: "Sure! 'Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!'"
His plans are measured in centuries
If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job
This quiz determines whether you read more than one book per year.
The learning curve is steep, even for the notoriously crunchy and hard CRPG genre, but I'm learning from my failures and getting through combat encounters I thought were impossible the first time I ran into them. Very rewarding!
I've been really digging Banquet for Fools, which is an indie CRPG from a husband and wife team. The setting is mysterious and fae, a very unique, murky fantasy milieu. The combat is like if you combined OG Baldur's Gate with a physics engine and teamwork attacks. store.steampowered.com/app/3172700/
he's trying new things, seeing what works
If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.
People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.
all i wish to do is eat hot chip, paint spaceman and/or tree ghost, go on adventures in the computer, slap keyboard, and use squiggles on paper to hallucinate, and yet I am forced to labor in the child's brains mines.
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
In an analysis of nearly 150,000 patients, researchers found that people taking GLP-1 medications faced a significantly higher risk of skeletal disorders such as osteoporosis.
Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.
Watched the latest Good Work video on "Chinese Peptides" and I can't shake the morbid absurdity that the same people "critical" of vaccines now seem willing to inject literally whatever into themselves if they think it might give them a competitive edge or make them skinnier.
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
this made me cackle all the way through
Reporter: Did the US bomb an elementary school and kill 175 people? Trump: Based on what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran. Reporter: Is that true Mr. Hegseth? Hegseth: We’re investigating. Trump: It was done by Iran. They are very inaccurate with their munitions.
this is unspeakable
this is the most original thought I have ever had
the masculine urge to buy a bunch of Tau model kits and paint them in Evangelion color schemes
always great to watch some of the most talented creative people around be out here like pls let me know if there's any work I'll do whatever meanwhile some mediocre dipshit just got another 3 billion for his startup marketing piss in a jar as an energy drink
Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.
![you asked for an image
hello artificial intelligence. please draw me the space shuttle orbiter.
"ai" responded
[a crude drawing of the earth with a black dot in low earth orbit. the dot has an arrow pointing to it. the arrow has text that says “HERE” beside it to indicate the black dot is the shuttle orbiter]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:stu4unkwieyt5suhyfl6u5e4/bafkreib2wukrywck5jkicwjnrbaf4kow5pts7b6qv3kypavpx4zpritb4i)
you asked for an image hello artificial intelligence. please draw me the space shuttle orbiter. "ai" responded [a crude drawing of the earth with a black dot in low earth orbit. the dot has an arrow pointing to it. the arrow has text that says “HERE” beside it to indicate the black dot is the shuttle orbiter]
i tried one more time and got the funniest response it’s so good
