The Loar Axe

The Massacre of the Innocents, by François Joseph Navez, 1824, 📸 by @lindseywasson

personally it may be theologically unorthodox but I think Anglicanism should merge with Sikhism, taking a shared concern with social justice and the Commonwealth and adding to Anglicanism the important trifecta of beards, swords, and a hot meal at service.

Oh my God, imagine the Ed holodeck episodes. They'd have to spin it off for 10 seasons to keep the writer's room from going on strike.

<Maurice minnifield voice>
Welcome to the Bajoran Riviera.

It makes him SO mad, and they get into a "no no, I'm chill, it's cool" escalating competition to fix stuff, which Dr Bashir exploits to get them to build him a lavish spa in a room he thought O'Brien didn't need anyway.

Chris has an existential crisis in the holodeck.

Holling: now where did you get all this jewelry Shelley? This is solid gold!

Shelley, blowing bubblegum and watching Ferengi softcore: Oh nothing, just something Quark left as a tip when he forgot to bring cash.

Fleischman spends an entire episode trying to get the replicator to make bagels, without success, until he's able to explain Lox to O'Brien.

Holling and Quark are forced to run a bar together, and Quark thinks Holling is throwing money away, but after a blow-up, realizes that Holling knows exactly how to get space loggers to loyally pay their tabs after all. Quark keeps trying and failing to get Shelly to touch his ears.

In which Adam is toweringly insulted when Odo says he can't taste Adam's food, and Adam belligerently cooks Odo more and more elaborate and flavorful dishes, until Odo eats Sichuan peppercorns and has to recover in gel form for three days.

Adam vs Odo, an incredible two-parter.

The flesh taker

Herge, Dave Sim

Impressively, the AI has perfectly reproduced how Gerald Ford spelled his own name.

Happy Dave Matthews Band Chicago River Incident Anniversary to all who celebrate.

Sometimes I think when people say they want bipartisanship, what they actually want is popular sovereignty: that is, they want to be able to fire their elected officials if they don’t like them without the only alternative being someone who is fundamentally opposed to their values.

Family gathering playing "remember some guys" but instead "remember some tragedies."

Ya love to see it.

Didn't JFK famously not blow up the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis because he recently read The Guns of August?

Strong case to be made that effective altruists should be funneling all of their money into art programs to commission anti-nuclear proliferation artworks.

Look, we’re not gonna be able to rebuild this capability in the next democratic admin, this is basically a generational problem to fix now. But, ruining the lives of the people who did this, and everybody who hung onto it to be close to power?

Revenge is very much something that we can do.

KEN PHELPS IS IN THE BUILDING!!

Offset printing will be what breaks you.

RFK Jr can't learn a terminal lesson about water potability soon enough.

What I want to have happened: Big Balls hit with hammers by a bunch of organized toughs with a weird grudge.

What actually happened: Big Balls picked a fight with a passing teen on a Lime scooter.

Art is a rejection of the imperative to eat or reproduce. It is an affront to god (laudatory).

People ask "who is the Stephen Miller of the Left" when they should be asking "who will be the Robert Moses of brutally gerrymandering a thousand-year Blue Wall into being, and who then will be the Robert Caro who obsessively describes their reign?"

Imagine how cool it would be to share your prison cell with Bill Clinton.

Their wee little lungs were no match for corn-fed whooping cough.