Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Born too late to do a striptease for an 80s action hero in his private suite silhouetted against the backdrop of a stormy night beyond the bay window while a sultry, forlorn saxophone wails on in the background

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning

American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV

french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts

British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

"What you made with Sora mattered" is one of the least true things that has ever been written

Huh. Glad to see NYT finally admitting to this.

Swag is so back in 2029

A kind reminder of my audience for this my Blue Sky

A poster depicting a bloodied soldier wearing a Nazi helmet, standing atop a pile of human skulls, clutching a bloodied dagger, reaching a menacing hand out towards an unimpressed-looking civilian dressed in white clothes.

"German, should HE get you again? Who votes for the right, votes for war! Vote for the republic - for peace!", anti-Nazi poster issued by the German Peace Society, the German League for Human Rights and the German Republican Association of the Reich; made by Willibald Krain (1886-1945), 1924

I always sort of shake my head in wonder at both the cis and trans people (including Joe Rogan) who insist that the GOP would never go so far as to put trans people in wellness centers or the like. They're openly admiring Hitler, and know full well about the Holocaust. Yes, it's on the table.

Not that you give a fuck but here He Is

hrscnk

Burn this shit into my retinas

my middle managers are suspiciously nondescript briefcase dudes named Yair and Raj

born too late to be an early 2000s back-office website tech on the outskirts of a mid-sized city

Brian Allen, an economic and geopolitical analyst, said Friday in an X post: "Howard Lutnick’s family firm reportedly bought tariff refund rights for 20–30 cents on the dollar after “Liberation Day” last year. Now the Supreme Court has struck the tariffs down. Translation: For every $100 invested, Lutnick’s sons may have just made 3–5x. Insiders knew. Regular Americans paid. Welcome to Corrupt America — where policy is a profit scheme." Ed Krassenstein, a longtime critic of Trump with over 1 million followers, said Friday on X: "After 'Liberation Day,' when tariffs were choking importers, Howard Lutnick’s family firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, reportedly bought up tariff refund rights at 20–30 cents on the dollar. Now the Supreme Court has invalidated the tariffs.

The nepo-grift was set up last summer. 😑

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software. Companies making machine learning and generative software aren’t just metaphorically ripping off books. In at least one case, they’re rather literally shredding millions of physical books to …

“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”

Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America? Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…

“This militarized occupation still feels like a test run for something that I’m not fully imagining.” A letter from Minnesota.

good thread

Burn Harry Burn: Reckoning With My Harry Potter Fandom as a Trans Person During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …

Grateful to @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this one, after all these years ... and with such care. I'm really proud of how the final turned out.

The link again:

lithub.com/burn-harry-b...

By the end of this term he'll be claiming that the US needs Canada for Lebensraum

WAIT A MINUTE IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE-
TIME TO POST ONE OF MY FAVOURITE IMAGES

THE BINCH

so insanely fucking real for this

I understand what she's going through

Bugs Bunny dresses up as a Goth Girl with thick mascara, black tank top, ankh necklace, mesh sleeves. She says "eh... time to evade murder by using gender tricks, Doc." She goes up to Elmer Fudd, who says "wow, you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen." Elmer then sheepishly asks "so... how big is it?" Bugs' ears go down and she looks horrified.

Literally just gambling. Everything is gambling now.

Same company that just partnered with CNN to include "prediction markets" in their global newsroom btw

We're the US social media gays and we're getting married. You must engage. You must love us. Now we're selling you our products on the timeline. Our evil twink will reach out to you with really rude sales tactics fueled by his rage at not achieving throuple status with us (we're stringing him along)

Dee Majestic Is Playing At My House

You're only nostalgic for 2016 brunch because it wasn't mandatory.

It's 2025. You WILL get the eggs benedict avocado toast, and you WILL pay 18 bucks for it.