Joe Sodium

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

a “Space Force”, if you will

I demand you do not reveal the context

My wife’s still mad at me for the time I did this

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.

we need a department of kerning

For we are all killers, on land and on sea; Bonapartes and Sharks included.

Roger Deakins's new book is gloriously full of pictures and best of all smells like a new NES instruction manual used to smell

PLANET OF THE APES (1968)

Who in this blip of a lifetime, on this fragile earth, in this whisper of a dream of an existence, has ever assumed a continuity in the James Bond franchise

T-Rex: I am so pleased that "girl" has become an adjective. T-Rex: You can now turn a boss into a girlboss!

T-Rex: Plus, you can now turn a party into a girlparty, a car into a girlcar, and a secondary cancer lab report into a girlsecondarycancerlabreport. Dromiceiomimus: I'm not actually sure that you can. T-Rex: I am very girlsure that I just girldid!

Utahraptor: Sounds like you're turning English into German. T-Rex: Sounds like you're not for that?? Utahraptor: No, language evolves, and far be it for me to girltell girlpeople - T-Rex: Girlpeople! Utahraptor: - how to girllive their girllives. As long as girlnobody's girlhurting girlanyone I'm girldown with it.

T-Rex: ...Girlsemanticsatiation is girlreal. Off panel: Girlboy, is it ever!

girl we have some bad news on your girlsecondarycancerlabreport. i'm afraid i have some bad news for some very specific cancer girlies

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You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s hard to improve on a perfect name but I tried

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Vincent Price Appreciation Post:

I appreciate Vincent Price.

We can actually (barely) see the damn Northern Lights from our house here in Texas, first time I’ve seen them

I usually rename Lucca as Velma anyway so I decided to lean into it

Oh shit, BEAKMAN’S WORLD was the best, it was like a vaudevillian science show

And it had a guy in a rat costume playing a guy in a rat costume

If you have a newsletter I’d like to subscribe to it

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than I have ever done since

Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.

I hate having to wait a whole year for China Miéville’s new book, but I think it will be worth it.
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It's Saturday, post a cartoon series you love.

divergentcoachkelly on Threads * 2h ADHD is knowing exactly what you need to do then watching yourself not do it like you're a scientist observing a very dumb experiment

10/10 take. No notes.

Tweet from Ryan Moulton @moultano: Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

hmm