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Red pandas would never; that's panda slander. Slanpander, if you will

Of course England is in Europe, Doggerland only sunk like 15 minutes ago*

*in geologic time

the terror is the only book in recent memory that I have physically flung with great force (about 50 pages from the end)

it gives you a pretty good sense of who simmons is as a person but the reality is, in fact, worse

I feel like we don't talk enough about the right-wing shift in emphasis from "pro-capital punishment" to "more crimes should be capital" and "there should be fewer barriers (such as due process) to enacting capital punishment"

8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.

I've gone back and forth on whether to post about this -- part of me that is so, so tired of flaying open the details of our grief just to beg the world to care.

They killed my friend. They fucking killed him.

His wife is struggling immensely to feed their children. Anything you can donate helps.

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Feels so cheesy to say but I'm reminded of this scene every time. You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.

youtu.be/Xt0Fv0W-CSo?...

These guys act like they've never set foot on planet Earth and we should be making more fun of them for it.

Honestly all former and present members of the US military should probably ask themselves this more often. (PS. Sorry, not American, don't need to 'respect the troops')

Wait do my niche ethical stances all boil down to “the American worship of athletics is detrimental to public health, sanity, and quality of life”

Sillier perhaps, but I do believe it’s unjustifiable to shut down large swaths of a city where millions of people live, for a full day, so that some people can run a marathon.

End college football.

Team Grizzly Bear passes $20 to @ldurgavich.bsky.social and says "Make it look like an accident" ;-)

it's baby 🥹

The arc of the moral universe is a warped 2x4; sometimes you have to put your entire weight on it, maybe jump up and down a few times, to get it to bend towards justice

god i fucking hate to see all these piece of shit libs be like "Mr Hegseth SIR you are INSULTING the proud traditions of Our Men In Uniform and desecrating the memories of their many noble actions at such legendary locations as Bud Dajo, Hiroshima, My Lai, Haditha, so on, so forth"

Anyone remember that guy on twitter who was claiming that having empathy for any fictional monster/creature was weird and unnatural, and his example for something so inhuman that no civilized person could empathize with was the Brain Bug (which has the face of a sad, eight-eyed pug dog)

I'm convinced that "guys who get mad when told that Starship Troopers (1997) was a satire" are disproportionately responsible for bad takes, on any subject, on social media. This keeps bearing out time and time again

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November.

Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

@mammalssuck.bsky.social #2026MMM ?

Corporation: We want the Internet to be scrubbed clean of icky sex so that it’s easier to advertise
Government: We want all LGBT content censored because we’re christofascists
14yo on Twitter: I don’t really like sex scenes
Social media galaxy brains: Well I know who I’M blaming for all this

The idea that kids and teens are to blame for acts of fascism and censorship because the state or corporations say they’re doing it in the name of “child-friendliness” is so ass-backwards. You’re targeting the people with the least social power in this situation.

A wee dollop

The fossil

reconstruction hanging from a finger

A tiny Jurassic pterosaur, Bellubrunnus, wingspan, less than a foot (its head is the size of my fingernail)

Every time that woman’s name comes up it should be followed thusly: “Inna Vernikov, who once brought a gun on a college campus to intimidate students”

“you haven’t sufficiently participated in the US war machine to earn an opinion” is not an argument from the left, it’s an argument from some Verhoevenesque dystopia where only those who have served the fascist state get to have a say

There is no liberal or progressive way to criticize someone for dodging the draft, are you fucking serious
If your belief is “everyone should have obediently gone to fight in the Vietnam war”, that doesn’t just make you a conservative, that makes you a conservative by the standard of 50 years ago