Vehemency

Running out of time: Israel escalates Iran strikes as Trump weighs ‘elegant exit’ The Israeli military is pushing for more strikes on Iran before the window of opportunity closes, when US President Trump decides to end the war.

NEW: Israel has concluded in #Iran war
• Regime change not an option
• Protests didn’t mobilize
• Kurdish option is no more
Result: Escalation of strikes as Trump looks for “elegant exit” and wait for next round www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?

BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!

K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?

B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Oh, she tells people to use Claude! Well, Erin Servais, several of my novels were stolen by Anthropic to feed Claude, so you're making money from my work (amongst millions of others). I sincerely hope that your editing career founders and dies (I do not begrudge you a different, non-AI livelihood).

They’re calling at the most open strait in history folks, just unfettered commerce

Drawing in black ink. A red-crowned crane (a kind of self portrait), stands with one leg raised and its head tucked in its wing. A huge, swirling mass of storm clouds rises above it like an oppressive, malignant thought bubble.

I think I've made myself sick with stress. 😓

Older drawing from 2017.

fantastic digestible guide for anyone who is new to commissioning artists!

Black and red background. Heavily shadowed woman in foreground, just one eye visible with a band of red paint across it. Styled text in foreground: Vermillion Vespers by Rev Casey. Thought Punks.

The distinction between surface and depth is a lie told by people who have never owned a really good pair of boots.

A #vampire #TTRPG that loves vampires again. The prose runs purple. The mechanics run clean.

Vermillion Vespers is out. Come home. The night missed you.

www.drivethrurpg.com...

DROP THAT MEME AGAIN BABYY

a simple drawing of a round grey cat captioned "i've got great news: very soon will come a day where you don't have anything urgent to do."

#catcrumb

this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Okay i might be pathetic losercuck snuffbait abuse fodder made of a pile of bad meat at the very bottom of the ladder.

But also

mutt is lovely and everyone loves it and it is a good dog. 🙂‍↕️

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

concept sketch of my elven mage, iris; he has brown skin, reddish brown hair, and gold-brown eyes. light scars in a lightning pattern run up his right arm, circling around his shoulder and up his neck. he wears silver jewelry.

i miss my elf

instead of "better or worse" you get asked how many lights there are

Honestly, the sooner you can unlearn jealousy and envy as reactions to others’ success, the better off you’ll be.

There are better ways to motivate yourself to succeed than hoping that your peers don’t.

✏️

Round the Block

Bird with skull head, tucked in the jaw lives a little mouse, don't forget the snail climbing up the branches

Augur of circularity

doodle comic Screenshot of a fedex map “track your delivery on the map” Me sitting in the dark, watching the computer very seriously

me when fedex offers the live map for my package

I cannot emphasize enough that these people are being laid off for failing to do things that are literally impossible

A cream and white cat on the left and a black and white cat wearing a pink collar on the right. Both looking at the camera.

A black and white cat wearing a pink collar, looking at the camera

That smile… Uni is definitely planning something

Two hiker bunnies, with backpacks, are at a campsite with a wooden lean-to. One arrived earlier, and already is in a sleeping bag. The other one is just arriving as the sun goes down

Daily bunny no.3252 has room to spare

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

the weather is warming up so i want to share a nice resource for people in the US who want to get into gardening! there is a program called Free Heirloom Seeds aimed to promote sustainability that will mail you vegetable and flower seeds by request (5 packets w/o donation, more with donation)

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

probably normal