Reading Too Much Into Things

Healer Girl

Hinamatsuri

Ya Boy Konming!

I was gearing up for a whole jeremiad about modern seasonal anime watching, and what we've lost weighed against what we've gained vis-à-vis old otaku culture, but really I guess it boils down to never stop recommending those anime you felt were special.
Maybe one day somebody could really need it.

Well?

You gonna prove 'em wrong?

Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"

Opinion | Tulsi Gabbard can’t be trusted with investigating elections Philip Bump: The Director of National Intelligence is doing her part to reboot her boss’ false claims of election fraud in the 2020 election.

A look at what Gabbard is up to and why no reasonable person should assume she’s acting in good faith. With an amusing introductory anecdote about just how detached from reality her boss is.

UPDATE: lol the Times has rewritten the whole story

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"

No you don't.

If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

Anime: Yu Yu Hakusho/Ghost Fighter
Style: Opening
Track: Smile Bomb (Hohoemi no Bakudan)
Artist: Mawatari Matsuko
Year: 1992
Studio: Pierrot

#Anime #AnimeThemes #AnimeOpening #AnimeOP #YuYuHakusho #YuuYuuHakusho #YuYuHakushoGhostfiles #GhostFighter #PoltergeistReport

A depiction of the Hangman from "The Hangman" animation of 1964 made by Les Goldman and Paul Julian. A haunting but relevant piece.

Hangman

#art #digitalart

Morning Would

Gonna need a Richter scale reading on this booing. Thank u

Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame. As Nashville’s utility company struggled to recover from a catastrophic ice storm and its Democratic mayor ordered a review, some conservatives attacked diversity training.

1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs"

2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works

Post of Trump portraying the Obamas as apes Post of Trump admin barring calling Medgar Evers' killer a "racist"

Perfect combo here.

Found these text posts and my brain went “it him” #HazbinHotel #RadioApple

People who assign the label "slop" to the third similar game in a genre they see in a year would not survive the era of wii and ps2 shovelware

During my deep dive for Black History month I came across this gem...'hadar and needed to share. 🖖🏿

Husk and Niffty defending Alastor from the mess he started vs. Husk and Niffty locking tf in to protect their bfs

All this is really showing me with companies faking AI, is not only are they showing that AI is unreliable, but that remote work is perfectly sustainable

Trump shares a racist video that depicts the Obamas as primates President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Oba…

President Donald Trump used his social media account to share a video about election conspiracy theories that includes a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

If You Get This Amazon Product Recall Message, It’s An Attack Delete this message immediately — your Amazon account is under attack.

If You Get This Amazon Product Recall Message, It’s An Attack

Deleting it does not undo it.

Just gonna say since we're already talking about unionizing game writers: hey, maybe let us localizers in on those talks, too, because it's pretty fucking rough out there, even in AAA. I'd probably have three times as many credits if we were unionized and I'm one of the lucky ones with any at all.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Waymo is currently considered the autonomous driving gold standard, and even their "self-driving" isn't really self-driving.

As Musk pushes for his Optimus horseshit in the coming year, we're going to learn "autonomous" really means "poor people in telepresence gear."

free them all

This is why the 4th Amendment says “no person” — instead of “no citizen.”

If only citizens have rights, then no one has rights because all they have to do is say you’re not a citizen and then you have no right to prove otherwise.

Screenshot from the New York Times 1/2: Ross Douthat: No, sorry. I'm trying to basically sketch out what you might call a kind of ideal pro-life vision, before we descend to the realities of politics right now. So the last question on that is: In an ideal world, what kinds of exceptions around abortion are permissible from a pro-life perspective, if any? Lila Rose: So **when we're talking about direct and intentional taking of an innocent life, there's no exception that can be just.** This is highly controversial for some, because we've been trained to think that abortion is somehow medically necessary. And I'm not talking about the removal of an ectopic pregnancy. In that case, the child's growing in a hostile environment. The intention is not to take their life - you have to remove the child, anyway. It's not going to be able to survive there. The mother's life is threatened. Link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/opinion/pro-life-roe-v-wade-lila-rose.html

Screenshot from the New York Times 2/2: Rose: I'm also not talking about miscarriage care, where the baby's heart has already stopped beating. Removing that baby during a procedure is not the direct intentional taking of a life. But in any other case, if there's a medical scenario where there is some emergency situation, like the mother is having a health crisis, there's a whole world of medicine to support and care for both mother and baby and to advocate for both of those lives in a clinical setting. And in very rare cases, *in a life-threatening emergency, an early delivery may be necessary of that baby.* But in that case, you do everything you can to save, again, both lives.

Anti-abortion activist Lila Rose tries to dress up her comments in the language of compassion, but the violence her views would inflict on pregnant people is just under the surface.

Surgery for ectopics, not medication. C-sections or induced labor for doomed pregnancies, not abortion. Grotesque

An elderly man with a white moustache and brown coat clasps hands with a younger man with silver hair and red garb.

Illustration by Gen Kobayashi (Paranormasight The Mermaid's Curse) & Naoki Ikushima (The Adventures of Elliot The Millennium Tales) celebrating today's news:

New Paranormasight out Feb. 19:
novacrystallis.com/2026/02/para...

Adv. of Elliot gets Jun. 18 date:
novacrystallis.com/2026/02/the-...

checking out the mods for dragon quest 7

Good god, Schumer has to go. "No masks" is not hard. It's like having a "no pedophiles" rule. If you have to caveat it, you need to just quit and find a better use of your life, like watching paint dry.

fixed it