Ambitious Spider

the grief is never ending but so is the love [Picture of a calico cat standing amongst some flowers]

I posted my daily meme for everyone to enjoy but this one is for me (and anyone else that is helped by it)

yea, fuck this guy

I feel like bats and rats should have solidarity, and not eat each other.

I don't know about getting off to it, but it's a fine mopey gothic.

Now Anne Radcliffe, she's where you go if you want the pure strain gothic right in your veins.

There was a whole Matthew McConaughey romcom about this

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage – Lao Tzu

denji from chainsaw man lamenting, "I touched boobs for the first time, but it wasn't that great."

started watching chainsaw man. Didn't know Denji was an ace icon. #chainsawman #ace #asexual

Fantastic.
Way more of this please.

Two of the best new to me flicks I've watched this season are Possession, and The Substance.

a cartoon character with gray hair and a red scarf Alt: An old woman (Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle) gets mad and hits a table

A curse upon everyone that makes me put my CV manually into their system while also asking me to attach my CV

A fundamental problem with left defenses of Platner is that he has not responded to the events of the last week in the way that someone with a rigorous and deeply held left ideology would.

Plz share

Class solidarity without racial solidarity is the path to ethnic cleansing under the guise of helping the working (white) man.

friendly reminder that the BDS microsoft boycott is still happening

Not a major movie, but I remember the mini series from Julian Fellowes being decent, but haven't seen it since it aired.

Well, I would have otherwise been interested in a Ti West Christmas Carol...

Contains no actual apology! But gets right to self-pity and persecution complex.

He’s a good performer and says what people (including me) would love to hear more of politically, but the more I see the more he just seems like a fuckin liar. And possibly worse. A mini-Fetterman in the making. 👎👎

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

American Movie
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

which are sort of two sides of the same coin. Both are about people who have incredible passion and drive for their craft, but only in one of them does the person have any talent

I’m sorry. You can’t call the other party the nazi party while defending your candidate with the nazi tattoo.

The Rise of Japan’s Female Trump: Why Takaichi Sanae Is the Worst Thing to Happen to Japanese Democracy Since Abe 2.0 Takaichi endorsed “Hitler’s Election Strategy” in the ‘90s, threatened TV networks as communications minister, claims foreigners abuse Nara’s deer without evidence and speaks to the Gods #InsaneSanae

🚨BROKEN! The new Prime Minister of Japan is Trump in a blue dress
Takaichi Sanae endorsed “Hitler’s Election Strategy” in the ‘90s, threatened TV networks as comms minister, claims foreigners are mostly criminals, wants to dismantle the constitution
#InsaneSanae
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NYT tweet: In @nytopinion The antidote to our polarized politics “is a creative, re-energized political center,” the Times editorial board writes. https://x.com/nytimes/status/1980486711332286887

The newspaper that mainstreamed Chris Rufo, Ben Shapiro, Bari Weiss, and Charlie Kirk renews its calls to meet fascists halfway:

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

I love that we’re all unanimously like “listen that building is not sacred to me and it has a bloody history and if it came down ethically I probably wouldn’t shed a tear, but watching this man smash a wrecking ball into the side of it from sheer selfish malice has unexpectedly fucked me up”

Awesome! congrats!

There's a saying I heard that conspiracy theories are either real things the CIA actually did, or just antisemitism.

Israel is slaughtering Palestinians again

The ceasefire means nothing to Netanyahu and his fellow genocidaires

If you're feeling rage like I am, try to channel some of it into compassion for my Gazan refugee friends, who could really use any spare change you might have:

I don’t use it, but Spotify is running ICE ads, so fuck Spotify.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”