mk ultra

and the best part about all of this? the yankees don’t get to experience this feeling

The full quote: "I think the sublime confusion is from nineteen to twenty-nine. You think you are late for everything, you're a has been, nothing is happening, there's no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you're thirty. " "You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I'd say 'life has passed me and I did nothing.' But I'm here to tell you that's not true: you have a lot of fucking time."

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

I cannot emphasize this enough:

The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent.

They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so.

Doomers are not realists.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never.

Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.

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

Todaybor day is Labor day!!!

"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." Jack Kirby - King of Comics A picture of Jack Kirby with a cigar in his mouth

Happy birthday to Jack Kirby.

First they came for the plums
And I said nothing because the gyre was widening
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

back in my day if you wanted to make up extra Bible verses you translated them off gold plates you found in the woods like a REAL thought leader

Noodle Kidoodle building and interior

Old picture of zanyBrainy building

Storefront for K B Toys toy company

Store front for Discovery Zone Play Place

We used to be a proper country

With chatgpt and ozempic running rampant it is your moral duty to get smarter and fatter

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

An LGBTQ+ pride flag formatted in the layout of the SMPTE "color bars" test pattern used for broadcast television. The first set of columns use the colors of the gay pride flag, with the addition of the original SMPTE color on the final column. The second set of columns contains two pride flags - the pansexual flag horizontally, and the asexual flag flipped and horizontal. The final set of columns contains the three colors of the transgender flag and the two POC-inclusive colors, followed by the original bar gradient from the SMPTE ECR-1-1978 pattern.

since it's the last day of pride month I figured I'd at least make one thing for it...

i now unveil to you my greatest invention:
color bars pride flag

A Reddit screenshot that reads: Napoleonic Marshals Lannes and Murat risking their lives and bullshitting their way to capture a bridge held the Austrian army has always sounded to me like a movie plot. They were under orders to capture the bridge, the Austrians had order to blow it up if they couldn't hold it. Seeing the explosives already in place, Lannes and Murat told their men to adopt a slow parade walk. They themselves rode up alone to the bemused Austrians army, joking and smoking. They thanked them for holding up the bridge but now that the armistice was signed they would be taking over. Lannes sat on the barrel of explosives and reminded the officers that their own Emperor would be really displeased if they blew essential infrastructure for nothing. And they might even restart the war. They were so convincing that the officer in charge sent someone to HQ to confirm that an armistice had been signed. An sergeant saw right through the ruse and wanted to blow the bridge. "Do you allow your men to talk to their officers like that in the Austrian army?" asked Murat and the sergeant was told to shut up. Meanwhile, the French army was slowly crossing the bridge, still in parade formation. There was of course, no armistice signed, and the French captured the bridge as soon as they crossed it.

This is great. From a Reddit thread entitled “What's a real historical event that would 100% be rejected as 'too unrealistic' if it were in a movie?”

Happy national go skate day

OH IT IS AND APOLOGIZES IF YOU DO

As someone who read both books within a month of each other, it is very annoying and confusing of them

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

No AI version

Ah yes, the moon. Is there anything more romantic than a huge fucking rock

I have booped
the house
that was on
the shore

and which
you were probably
living
inside

Forgive me
I am an enormous
boat
HOOOOOOOOOONNNNKKK