Greg Stolze

SUPERSTITION was a good'un if you like it cerebral. Great setup from the first paragraph and the expected Moreno-Garcia attention to details of time & place.

We've all done our time in something.

Oh damn, @silviamg.bsky.social on @pseudopod.org ??? The anticipation is gonna be hard to meet!

Wazzat 1 or 2?

I think?

HIM: So, you got a lot on the To Do list?
ME: About average, why?
HIM: Mm, was just gonna tell you SLAY THE SPIRE ][ was disappointing. Probably not worth your time.
ME: Whoa, really?
HIM: NO, NOT REALLY, IT’S FANTASTIC, I’M TRYING TO KEEP YOU FROM PISSING AWAY YOUR WHOLE DAY!

(indignantly) Ahem, I ALSO have been endorsing it???

it's literally just "we may brutalize and kill some of you, but also remember... the rest of you can also just get fucked."

this is far from the worst example, but love that we have to pay fucking taxes on pain of death to fund a government that's given up all pretext of doing fucking anything for its citizens

The world we live in is a world where wars are not fought for any strategic power competition reasons at all, but one where they are fought specifically to generate imagery of suffering for sadistic perverts to get off to without any more thought put into why than that

This phenomenon is not just American

After Russia’s attempt to kill Ukrainian democracy by 3 Days to Kyiv failed, the war in Ukraine became a Porn War, demonstrating to the Russian people that their country could still exert imperial will by means of massacre, and doesn’t that get it up for you

Venezuela was a Porn War, with both the haphazard bombing and the oil theft more meant to satisfy Trump et al.’s transgressive urges than to meet any strategic goal or profit from the ill-gotten but marginal gains of resource extraction as such

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

REE$E (@reesebepuffing) on twitter: "a beautiful chinese woman named Deer Xing is communicating with me through road signs"

Neil Renic @NC_Renic: Junior scholars: "l feel awkward citing myself" Senior scholars: "as I cleverly argued (1988; 1991), admirably reiterated (1993; 1995; 1996); and handsomely concluded (2001; 2004; 2007)..."

KATHLEEN JACQUES'S UZUMAKI

Don't tug that thread unless you're willing to follow it all the way to the Iowa Writer's Workshop.

Now David, the people need to know about college professors in their 50s finding out they're in love with their grad students. Not every book can be a crazy, unrealitic tale of robots shooting people, and global plagues, and sinister AI girlfriends making men commit suicide.

I HATE IT WHEN YOU FIGHT!

(runs from the room sobbing)

But the US idea of an interceptor drone is the Anvil by Anduril. Which is charging what amounts to $100k a copy! And not designing for numbers, but instead designing for rent seeking. Gotta make sure Palmer Lucky gets more money.

Got to the point in editing the TERMINATION SHOCK podcast where the GM tells Kimmy “this is the most pissed-off man you’ve ever seen in your life” and my immediate reaction is, “Wow, and that’s a high bar because Kimmy is ANNOYYYING.”

Never forget that the Bible is over two times more explicit and verbose on the topic “This is how you handle the kidney fat of animal sacrifices” than the topic “Queer is bad.”

Really? Damn. I tend to only search for dumb stuff. It at least knows what a “goat” is???

(covers the profit margin's ears) How DARE you!

The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night

Happy Friday! 👻

FREDDY & JASON VS HELL (Ronny Yu, 2005)

The Cenobites force a doomed polycule of bank robbers to intervene when an increasingly apocalyptic rivalry between two paranormal serial killers spills out of Hell. Starring Robert Englund, Doug Bradley, Eliza Dushku, Jonathan Tucker, and Adrianne Palicki.

CANDLE COVE (1971)

Multiversal+ is pleased to feature this infamous children’s marionette show, which ran for a single glorious season on WCLV-TV in the Huntington–Ashland Tri-State area. The series is charming and unsettling; guaranteed to evoke delicious nostalgia in grownup Gen-X latchkey kids.

this is also a thing Nazi U Boats were known for doing, guess Hegseth really is taking inspiration from his heroes

Meme: she believe she could... then someone said mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. ... and now she has no idea what she walked into the room for.

Mom.

Mom. MOOOOOOOOM! 🤦‍♀️

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