Sabrina Carpenter's The Thing

The cover of the Iain M. Banks novel "The Player of Games," showing the outline of a person against a starry background. A speech bubble has been added to make it look like the person is saying the word in post above

Scene from Futurama, showing Lrrr asking his wife, "Why do the district judges, the most numerous of the judiciary, not simply eat the others?"

Interpol doesn't make arrests. That only happens in movies. It coordinates information sharing among countries and offers technical assistance. Only US law enforcement or someone who is otherwise allowed to by US law can arrest someone here, either of which would violate the treaty

It's hard to tell what's going on in the quote. His response about using "pursuing every legal avenue" could be mean he will honor the warrant, or it could be to give him room to eventually say the treaty prohibits arrest. I'm not sure what you mean about not using NY cops. Arresting is impeding

It would be if American law enforcement makes the arrest

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

*impeding the travel of

The 1947 treaty between the US and the UN that established New York as its headquarters has a provision prohibiting US authorities from impeding representatives of member nations to and from the UN

Lmao brutal

Frank Fay no question

James Woods and Debbie Harry (on tv) chatting on the phone in a deleted scene from VIDEODROME (Cronenberg 1983)

"Wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?"

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(Naturally, Hegseth and other members of the administration would have extensive financial interests any companies and contractors receiving public funds to put on the event)

It's probably something bad, but since it's Hegseth, we're underestimating the possibility that it will end up being a glorified corporate team building retreat run by former SEALs-turned-motivational-speakers-cum-influencers so the military can regain "the warrior mindset" or something

APRIL - 1805
NAPOLEON IS MASTER OF EUROPE
ONLY THE BRITISH FLEET STANDS BEFORE HIM
THERE IS NOTHING IN NAVAL LAW STATING THAT A GOLDEN RETRIEVER CANNOT SERVE HIS MAJESTY AS CAPTAIN
OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Post from @swolecialism.bsky.social "[most viscerally personally unpleasant person you've ever met] i'm going to lead a mass movement of the workers"

*believed it was real

Many thought it failed since there were still witch hunts and murders, and it would be a very different situation under a regime solely interested in persecuting magic and with far greater state capacity, which is what you'd see with anti-Wiccan RICO prosecutions

... and give "good" sorcerers legal cover and protection (since it distinguished between and defined "innocent" and "forbidden" sorcery).

It was controversial (and eventually repealed) because many saw even that level of recognition as a contributing factor to vigilante violence against accused witches, but one of its justifications was to bring those disputes out of the private realm and into the courts ...

Papua New Guinea had a fascinating law for several decades called the Sorcery Act that was agnostic about the existence of magic, but explained that so many people believed it was that they needed a framework to deal with things like magic-related extortion and self-defense claims

The "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" PSA format that says "You Wouldn't Cow a Bunga'

The "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" PSA format that says "You Wouldn't Cow a Bunga'

The broader project is pretty obviously fash, but from one moment to the next the model is clearly running the whole country like an unusually insane HOA.

"If you compare him to an actual Autokrator, this is not that. He wasn't even born in the purple."

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means

Yeah, I left out "with AI," but it really feels like they think they can create a parallel AI social scene and opt out of most human interactions entirely

I've got to wonder if today's oligarchs have decided that the promise of replacing any uncooperative humans in their lives (employees, lovers, whatever) has freed them from the threat of social consequences that even the most greedy and ruthless robber barons of the past had to worry about

A picture of Yukio Mishima holding a microphone saying, "Left-wing or right, I'm pro-violence"

That's a great way to put it. Far-right affinity is part of the current very-online-nihilist cultural package, & the violence it inspires generally serves right-wing goals, but the nihilism & violence are themselves the goals in a way that confuses conventional understandings of political conflict