Aardvarkian Blues

Your irregular reminder that your local food banks can also always use the following: nappies, baby wipes, tin openers, kitchen roll, toilet roll, shampoo, shower gel/soap, deodorant, socks, tampons/pads, toothpaste, toothbrushes, laundry detergent, washing-up liquid, sanitizers, cooking oil.

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

He’s no man; he’s a coward and fraud hiding behind his family’s toxicity.

Are we all in agreement that 2025 is just a fuckass year?

tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect

That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread

A pound to a penny they’ve put spyware in her luggage. Greta would be better off destroying everything. The absolute fucking shame of the IDF and the Israeli state.

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

A veteran TV director compared Keri Russell’s casting on “The Americans” to that of James Gandolfini’s in “The Sopranos.” She had an “inner light, an inner soul” that made you feel for her character, even at her cruellest moments, he said.

'Peace deal' or not, Gaza remains the holocaust of our time Two years into Israel's war of extermination, there can be no peace without accountability for the industrial-scale killing or justice for Palestinians who continue to count their dead

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/peac...

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

It's a shame what Sally Jenkins did to Sally Jenkins.

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this: SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

Ideas seller to customer: WHERE WRITERS REALLY GET THEIR IDEAS I'M ALL OUT OF MIND-BLOWING CONCEPTS AND HEART-RENDING NARRATIVES, BUT I'VE GOT AN ACERBIC OBSERVATION, AN UNEXPECTED OUTCOME AND A COUPLE OF AMUSING NOTIONS DEAS TOM GAULD

Tom Gauld in The Guardian.

The Clock Is Ticking Trump and Putin face a reckoning

Tick-tock.

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018)
--- Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University. #antifa #England #flags

Thoughts and prayers for Donald J Trump

WHERE’S MY AWARD

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

Reading should never be a numbers game.

The Germans obviously have one.

22.600 of my followers have not followed our shop's account yet...Garfield is side-eyeing you

A glass bow full of delicious taco goodness.

It’s #TacoTuesday.

Did your prime minister resign because he stiffed a tenant for €3000?

Imagine you're at a writers' retreat with the lads and you're all showing off a draft after dinner and then your mate's girlfriend goes here is the novel Frankenstein which I just wrote

Aged well.

bart simpson is giving a speech at a podium while homer simpson is standing in the doorway Alt: Grandpa simpsons entering, hanging his hat then seeing Bart and leaving

Jim Gavin's presidential run:

I blame the Americans myself, confusing our Gavin to theirs today. They got him all conflustered.

Yeah, but did he win any All-Irelands for Dublin?

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A parody captcha with text, "Select all squares with pipes. If there are none, click skip." The pipe is Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

The Margrittest Captcha of all time.

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