Prankster Doesn't Take the Problemspace Seriously

As delivered by Gandolfini in In The Loop, "the thing about war, is that at he end, you want to have some soldiers left. Otherwise people tend to think you lost."

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

THE Nine Inch Nails???

We have been dealing with assholes who have been openly, gleefully evil for a while now, which has apparently turned us into rubes for the evil assholes who actually know how to say the right things and keep their evil on the down low

A grumpy looking camel with nice looking hair on its head and 2 humps

this mfer got 3 haircuts

Also wish me luck on a thing

It’s my birthday for four more minutes

Since this is a response to me, I’ll respond back: I don’t think I can sink Platner that way. I think he’s definitely going to be the Democratic nominee and likely the next Senator. And that means both parties no longer have taboos against candidates who associate with Nazis, and that scares me!

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller. First panel, Nancy talking to a logger sawing a tree and pointing to a carved piece of trunk. Nancy: Can I have that piece? My boy friend carved it. Logger: Sure. Second panel, Nancy is watching the log burn in the fire place. Nancy: I'm mad at him.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying

S4E95 -Chapter Ninety-Five: The Void Which Binds! On THE HYPERION CANTOS, by Dan Simmons

I'll have to relisten to the WMU?!? episode about Hyperion. I think we were probably too kind to Simmons, who I'm told got really weird and Islamophobic after 9/11, but I haven't read any of that stuff so I'm not comfortable commenting. what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/30c3...

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

Gentle reminder that you don't have to fully boycott Amazon, just stop making it your default. Need socks? Lots of places sell socks. Need printer paper? Need rye flour? Many other options.

"This startup only sells through Amazon!"

Okay, buy that but don't buy the sneakers and coffee beans.

Cool World (1992) art by Barry E Jackson
#mondaymotivation

When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.

We definitely shouldn’t kill people because their shitty leaders to whom they have arguable zero personal connection suck!

That's this earth. Everyone else's is 6 feet below ours

Senator Mullin that guy died in 1989

This is about Canada but it applies every single fucking time.

Columbia! Northwestern! THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY! EVERY SINGLE TIME someone rolls over for him he doubles down and it's worse.

Anyone stands up to him (Mamdani, Denmark, etc) and he immediately backs off.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

If this is happening because of the influence of foreign governments it is at least as likely to be the influence of the Gulf Arab states, the Saudis or the UAE or Qatar, as the influenceof Israel. The Trump regime is swimming in the grease of these plutocratic dictatorships all of which hate Iran.

comic; two characters have opposing views re: discussion of current affairs. panel 1: "Oh boy, let's talk about the latest news!!" "No" panel 2: "Noooo really, there's so much to talk about" "NO." panel 3: "🌸News💮" "no no no no no no" panel 4: "Neeeewwwwwwwws" "NO"

evergreen comic

Tokiatsu style monster of a rock star made of animals fronting a tide pool with a rusted anchor guitar

RockStar Joan Jetsome

Tokuatsu monster made of pastas

Fearachini Afraido

Angela Lansbery type holding some tea and a flaming skeleton sword

Murder she dealt

Another fake ad for @dottiedino.bsky.social

Politics has content as well as form. Marjorie Taylor Greene can *formally* issue a better denunciation of the attack on Iran than a lot of Democrats. In terms of the content of her politics, however, she remains a genocidally racist, antisemitic, homophobic, and transphobic christofascist bigot.

it feels weirdly appropriate to have been rewatching The Prisoner this week, a tale of a man locked in a mad simulation of ordinary life, in which the rules constantly change and the underlying objective is to break him

"It wouldn't work!" obviously not right NOW, but you gotta set the table for when it COULD work. Or are you not serious, my hypothetical powerful political friends?

If you ARE serious, hypotheticals, it's pretty low-effort to just keep banging that impeachment drum and attach it to every subject.