The Lincolnshire Poster

Everything surrounding him seems so quaint these days. It's really funny that anyone ever acted as if the story of his laptop had the potential to swing the election

(When I Kiss You) I Hear Charlie Parker Playing
youtu.be/pKFiOCKhLfg

Lawn Gnome Sorceress is very diligent in updating its vocabulary, which is a crucial part of its magic

Irrespective of policy, use of the words "commonsense ICE reform" is predicated on the idea that voters both within and outside of the party base will reward a cautious approach to the issue, & boy is that not the assumption I would make

This is also a pillar of memecoins & the like. The asset justifies its existence with the possibility that enough people will be entertained by it that it will yield both wealth & community

You're damn right I raise awareness about capital (run an MLM scam)

I recently set Reddit to not email me, and I have not regretted this one bit

I have been on team "Consciousness is a bizarre anomaly with no obvious function in the process of intelligence" for quite some time, and boy have we been racking up the Ws in the past decade

Normie, un-Very Online liberal voters in '28: "I can't wait to vote for Kamala Harris! Yeah, I guess the other candidates are nice too, but I can only vote for one person, so Harris it is!"

Half of the people I know met their spouse through a social dance class, so every time dating discourse starts up here I wish I could just blare salsa music through the screen at you.

‘I’m dead.’ As Haitian temporary protected status ends tomorrow, it’s unknown how people will survive. - The Boston Globe TPS, a legal status reserved for those fleeing countries in upheaval, is slated to end for Haitians on Tuesday.

Every story I read about the revocation of TPS for Haitians makes me shake with rage. I am no longer surprised at the cruelty of this regime, but it is deeply shameful that our country is doing this. This is simply ethnic cleansing.

Most coders are bad at their craft to a degree that would be scandalous in most professions. This being so, AI very plausibly improves the quality of what they write, but they remain bunglers, & that should give us pause

Yeah. Bad code & enshitification are sadly nothing new. If AI-assisted coding does make the internet palpably worse, I suspect it will be by scaling up those problems, allowing the average coder to practice their ineptitude in ever more elaborate ways

jesus christ that's foreboding

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

To honor the passing of Sal Buscema, longtime comics legend, cbr.com’s The Line It Is Drawn artists tackle Sal’s trademarked “Sal Buscema punch!” Here’s an homage to a panel from an issue in his lengthy The Incredible Hulk run. RIP, Sal. #salbuscema #hulk #marvel #comics #thelineitisdrawn

Yeah, & I certainly don't think we should be complacent. Labour's downward trajectory on trans rights ought to stand as a warning to the Democratic party

I think that the current mintage of transphobia is essentially an extinction burst; transphobes have already lost in most ways which matter, trans people will be normalized, but in the meanwhile things are getting for trans people in some ways

Right, and you can see this in the way that transphobic tropes evolved circa 2013; it used to be they'd imply men were gay by joking that their GFs were secretly trans, but, once trans people attained a certain degree of visibility, transphobia became a lot more distinct from homophobia

Granted this doesn't explain TERFs, and you could plausibly argue that their existence is rather more contingent

The sociopolitical contingent most given to straightforward prejudice & rigid gender norms hating the very existence of trans people does not require a media campaign to be explicable

There's only one universe in which conservatives aren't massively transphobic, & it's the one where something like the Iranian "treatment" for homosexuality caught on in the 20th century

Ugo da Carpi (Italian, c. 1480-1535) or after Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540), Diogenes, A work made of chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks on ivory laid paper.

Diogenes, by Ugo da Carpi (Italian, c. 1480-1535)
or after Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540)
before 1527

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13502

stone face totem, wilmington, north carolina, 1985

stone face totem, wilmington, north carolina, 1985

YouTube video by GesaffelsteinChannel Gesaffelstein - PURSUIT (Official Video)

the thing about this video (from 2013) is that it predates video synthesis by ten years and if i told you that it was AI, you would absolutely believe me
youtu.be/oRSijEW_cDM?...

In 1886, Van Gogh painted Skull with a Burning Cigarette while studying in Antwerp. A student prank turned memento mori—mortality lit with a flicker of dark humor.

Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim

Girl before a Mirror
https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/1134495

A forest huge of spears; and
thronging helms
Appeared, and serried shields
in thick array
Of depth immeasurable. Anon
they move
In perfect phalanx to the
Dorian mood
Of flutes and soft
recorders--such as raised
To height of noblest temper
heroes old

I, 547-552

"Á Posteriori"
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