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We live on the frontier between the future and foolishness. Update: we have crossed the frontier

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"subtext is an anagram for butt sex"
-ancient fanfic writer's motto/my credo

22.10.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

I wonder if therapists ever discover a bunch of Nazi stuff and are like… β€œc’mon man, they didn’t teach me how to deal with this”

22.10.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

21.10.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6852    πŸ” 1656    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 158

Hang in there!

21.10.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who is in favour of bringing Roman numerals back into use?

I for one…

20.10.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 1

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

20.10.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3865    πŸ” 827    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 56
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

18.10.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 15529    πŸ” 4485    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

03.08.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 13071    πŸ” 3674    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 99
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Kids today don't understand what it's like to be traumatized by very elaborate puppets.

17.10.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

19th Century problems have 20th Century solutions.

If you were alive in the 20th Century, you know this is an incredibly ominous statement.

17.10.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod β€’ 22h β€’
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod β€’ 22h β€’ Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

15.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 35234    πŸ” 9885    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 564
Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

14.10.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7943    πŸ” 2618    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 48
Saruman

Saruman

A funny little Chihuahua

A funny little Chihuahua

Do you know how dogs first came into existence? They were wolves once

14.10.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 329    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
the Oreo cookie pattern

the Oreo cookie pattern

Full back tattoo but it’s just this

09.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Horrible Bingus would be an amazing band name

05.10.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

05.10.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 37929    πŸ” 17009    πŸ’¬ 812    πŸ“Œ 2389

The Sherlock Memorial Clinic for the Treatment of Constipation and Irregularity
has evaluated this information as:
OBVIOUS

04.10.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

jfc

04.10.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someday, we will have to explain to young people that it was not always… like this. The thought makes me sad.

04.10.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Man, I thought I had successfully forgotten about this

04.10.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My personal opinion? A specialized Fomori family is the best fit

03.10.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Art deco flower design in stained glass

Art deco flower design in stained glass

Stained glass panel portraying a cowboy on a horse

Stained glass panel portraying a cowboy on a horse

Some stained glass stuff my mom made

02.10.2025 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They can talk all coy about it but they'll come to terms with their Cuomosexuality

02.10.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

definitely the first place I would look for giant spider media

28.09.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re going to have to find another book with giant talking spiders to make it a streak

28.09.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a fluffy animal with a beard is sitting on the ground and looking at the camera . ALT: a fluffy animal with a beard is sitting on the ground and looking at the camera .

Age yourself with a film you saw at the cinema as a kid.
This is is part of how I got like I am.

28.09.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New fascist tactic just dropped:
Make multiple unrelated alienating business decisions so people can’t tell exactly why your customers left

27.09.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTheir rabbit put our sifu in the hospital and kicked down our school’s sign! It’s just too big!”

(Camera pans to the door, where the estranged star pupil has returned with a very large basket of alfalfa)

β€œWe shall see about that…”

26.09.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So do all those journalists and professors get their jobs back too or is it just the millionaire comedian whose cancellation ate into Disney's profits?

23.09.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 669    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 13
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