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"Thank you! Your friendship means a lot to me"

So was I! 😊

Whenever there's trouble, they're there on the double!

Two people wearing inflatable hippo costumes with a sign “Hippos for Democracy”

Historians are gonna have such a weird time talking about this moment in history

“There are no kings in America.
Only gilded men we can topple
Again and again”

#NoKingsinAmerica

Weirdest government shutdown ever

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

BREAKING: Disney+ is to replace the two-season run of Andor with a recut version that runs for only five minutes, and is just Mon Mothma apologising profusely to Darth Vader for any inconvenience, and letting him have whatever he wants.

Ok, so this was a good series, actually. I'll re-read it now and then. Louise Simonson world-building and elevating material that had no business being good (Marvel did a lot of that in the 1980s with toylines). And my sister and I loved these, especially the little ones, Nipper and Tinker.

BBC News headline: Frankenstein is monster success at Venice film festival

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

I paid for mine last year when my insurance waffled on it. Totally worth it, counting down the days til our pharmacies get them.

Important Reminder

Yay! I hope you show them off when they arrive. 😊

This internet stranger urges--nay, *insists*--that you treat yourself today. Get something utterly useless that you would like in your life. Joy doesn't always spark itself, and you deserve a bit of joy.

A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?

realistic Star Trek

A parody of the Cracker Barrel logo, but there’s a Kraken with the barrel

So. I wanted Brainstorm so much (because he was both SMART and powerful). I put him on layaway. At K-Mart. And got him. I still have 'im.

"what if....biscuits and gravy but you have to pay an annual subscription for them"

Photo of th Power of the Primes Abominus Transformers toy, posed on a wooden bookshelf next various other Transformers toys.

First and only combiner team as a kid. Got the Power of the Primes ones. Love them. I have a soft spot for Blot.

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Triumphant. Why aren't there more of these kind of routines and costumes in the Olympics? Why aren't ALL ice routines like this? (Yes, including speed skating and hockey.)

There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

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It wasn't evoking enough despair, so we asked AI to improve it.

What a beautiful guy you are!

Still from FIRST CONTACT of the Borg, shrouded in darkness, appear only with their head-mounted laser pointers shining any light

My god, the Borg would have driven cats nuts.

He's every face of Man-E-Faces. Crews, Crews, and Crews.

Hugs from a supportive stranger. Sunday nightmares suck.❤️

When you strip away humanity

Love Power Pack. This was one of the first comic books i actually owned. Hooked me totally. The first 26ish issues especially are just grand.