Vanessa Satone

Half of US broadcast network dramas are about cops Perhaps one reason why America’s national reckoning on police brutality took so long to arrive is because TV is conditioning its citizens to view cops as reliable heroes.

“Jews are overrepresented in the media.”

No, no, no, you’re thinking of cops. Cops are overrepresented in the media.

timeline cleanse

i don’t know exactly how to articulate it but like, we’re absolutely at war yet it doesn’t feel like it because the people leading it are so fucking stupid so the typical climate of seriousness is missing? if that makes sense?

Has anyone else gone from "actual human being" to "public domain cartoon character" as hard as Peter Lorre?

Yes, historical figures are depicted in animation, but as themselves. But 80% of all cartoons just... have Peter Lorre there as a fictional character and kids don't know he's a real guy.

Yeah, but we need like... food to live.

What's the point, I'm genuinely confused pro-AI guy!

I fucking love screentones

plenty of blame to go around but I always think about what a different world we'd be living in if mitch mcconnell hadn't blocked conviction and removal

I’m not that far into this yet, but I did enjoy the observation that our cartoon traditions come from different places—US cartoons come from vaudeville and Sunday strips, and Soviet ones are are strongly influenced by lubki.

The thing that may finally cause me to become a turnip farmer is my tv making me dismiss a notification to watch Ted, the show about the horny Seth MacFarlane teddy bear. I have to take an action, press a button, to tell my tv no before I am allowed to move on. This is not what the future should be.

Screencap from the opening of the anime Ganba in which Ganba the mouse poses with all of his mouse friends. The caption merrily reads "Ganba, Ganba, Ganba and his friends!"

The last shot from the ending theme to Ganba in which the villainous weasels darken the dusky sky and the caption reads "but the evening sun will bleach your skull and those of your friends."

A LOT can happen between an opening and ending theme.

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

torrents are undefeated:

www.404media.co/the-removed-...

sometimes people say it’s good that we know who the racists are but i have some degree of nostalgia for when more fucking racists hid under fucking rocks

Sheriffs across the country make it a point to publish booking photos of every person they arrest and they run them in the local paper.

A friend who grew up in the punk scene confirmed to me that Nazis can’t help outing themselves and you gotta turf them out right away or they bring friends next time and it really feels like we gotta learn to do that with every aspect of society.

All I'm saying is absolutely no one should have impostor syndrome about anything. Trump doesn't know what he's doing, but, worse yet is that other people believed he knew what he was doing. Why would anyone think that. Don't know who's a bigger fool here, but I think it's Jim lol

i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this

bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site

every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods

It’s basically criminology 101 that arrest quotas destroy civil liberties

Kosher and halal friends, what brand of cheese do you like? We've got 20,000 Muslims in this town and I only have a few cheese for them. I'd like to give them more selection, and I'd rather hear from people directly than trust Google.

List is still open! A few more will cross the goal line -- grab a sketch, tell a friend they can score a portrait! Put a new coat of paint on a fave OC with a *ref sheet!* Ask anything, today!

I'm not necessarily in a position to make SandwichNet canon, but someone reading this post definitely could.

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

💘 we need to stop unethical car breeding practices. SUVs are a danger to themselves and others. even the humble beast of burden, the pickup, has become far too large to be healthy. Buses are only healthy because they're crossbred with trains.

Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

a perfect liberal post: infantilizing the extremely adult agents of DOGE, acting like they weren’t knowingly inflicting harm in accordance with their own ideology to spare them of blame, and (of course) comparing all this to communism when it is obviously and historically consistent with fascism

Once again, it's really OK to call racist people racist and to call evil people evil.We came up with the words for a reason.

The notion that a bunch of committed racists didn't understand the racism they were doing when racism is the sole reason they were interested in doing it is wild to me