I have sinned* again.

* bought an overdrive pedal I don't, practically speaking, need

I think a LOT about this for reasons I'll probably never be fully comfortable explaining but when "Spotlight" & "Finding Neverland" came out, all these people were like "Holy shit! How did I not know about this??" & I was like "well… because when they were happening, it all got diminished to jokes."

A picture if George Michael our lord and saviour, looking like a snack. He's all pensive, there's a shadow over his face. Cross earring is on. The works.

A very happy St George's Day, to all who celebrate.

Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

Silhouette of the soprano in the opera house ruin

Lee Miller
Irmgard Seefried sings an aria from ‘Madame Butterfly', 1945

A powerful photo that combines Miller's portrait work with her war documentation; this was taken at the bombed-out Vienna Opera House.

every trump nomination, regardless of position, should have been a unified "no" from the democrats

that is literally the bare minimum, and the party not only failed at that in the first few months -- THEY ARE STILL FAILING AT THAT NOW

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.

The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

propaganda works and democrats dont want to play

one of the most chaotic and least realistic—and therefore among the greatest—fighting games ever

one required, but sadly enormous, shift in the way americans view things: recovering an understanding that a democratic government is a collective enterprise that should deliver tangible services and benefits to people

For REAL. Probably a lot of "thank GOD we don't have an HR department at MY work" while their boss steals their wages.

There is a reason Watergate was broken by Woodward & Bernstein on the metro desk AND NOT by the White House press corps.

Izzy Stone was mocking White House reporters as useless back in the 1950s

I try not to judge appearances, but I hate his outfit so much. The colors are all wrong with each other. The shoes are ass.

an illustration of a winged lion nestled in a escher-like labyrinth covered in thick vines

the minotaur aka the winged lion

“You told me to show you something worth seeing. I show you yourself.”

The fact that Trump had appointed a totally unqualified donor to be Secretary of the Navy leading into what turned into the biggest crisis for the US Navy since World War 2 could be covered like the media covered Michael "Brownie" Brown during Hurricane Katrina.

They choose not to do this!

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Hey guys I think, perhaps, the editors at the NYT might have maybe phrased an article co-written by Hasan Piker as intentionally inflammatory as possible, just spitballing, seems like a thing that could be possible haha

It's *extremely* funny that HR exists basically just to give cover for the C suite/board (still predominantly men in nearly every industry) who actually make the decision to lay off workers, but these goons are too blinded by their misogyny to note the obvious.

You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

Yeah, I can't see it as anything but deep-seated insecurity projecting outward.

lol same here

While a step in the right direction, these proposals are inadequate. To create a system where every vote counts equally, the Constitution must be amended. To do this, Congress should pass legislation reducing the size of Washington, D.C., to an area encompassing only a few core federal buildings and then admit the rest of the District’s 127 neighborhoods15 as states. These states — which could be added with a simple congressional majority — would add enough votes in Congress to ratify four amendments: (1) a transfer of the Senate’s power to a body that represents citizens equally; (2) an expansion of the House so that all citizens are represented in equal-sized districts; (3) a replacement of the Electoral College with a popular vote; and (4) a modification of the Constitution’s amendment process that would ensure future amendments are ratified by states representing most Americans.

Seeing as how the Democrats will soon control both chambers of Congress, allow me to introduce you to the most based idea ever suggested in the Harvard Law Review:

"Congress should admit each Washington D.C. neighborhood as its own state."

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

There’s a reason we got gold stars in Kindergarten

It’s absolutely wild the extent to which “how would I feel if this happened to me” *never* crosses these ghouls’ minds.

Me, in the Doge’s Palace, observing the massive murals of antiquity: wow, I’m standing right where Rick Steves once stood