"I'm good enough at what I do, I'm smart enough about how I do it, and doggone it, people like me!"

we all know I have no life, so:

I bet there are some very lively conversations happening in China right now, speculating just how deep we're gonna dig ourselves into this hole...

WHH is a fun read. Same ballpark as Lovecraft, but instead of being scared of immigrants and miscegenation, he's scared of saltwater and pigs.

Love to see it

From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 6: Mystery at Hidden River Panel 1: Pegleg Pete: And then I buys me a li'l farm an' settles down and goes straight thuh rest o' me life! Sylvester Shyster: Goin' straight, eh? What kind o' crops you figurin' on raisin'? Panel 2: Pete: Somethin' real prof'table, like marijuana.... maybe!

Happy 4/20 Day everybody!

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

And we're supposed to WORSHIP these assholes who have crowned themselves our fkn emperors

No! Just, no.

I think a huge part of the rancid vibes is "things just *keep getting worse and worse* because *no one important is receiving any accountability* and I am REALLY MAD ABOUT IT"

Are there other examples of this? Where the film clearly hates the text it's based on? I'm having trouble thinking of any off the top of my head.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Share a preacher, nun or priest

Also why I find some of the “I guess you can vote out fascism” re Magyar’s victory in Hungary chest-thumping a little concerning because it suggests the Trump-Biden-Trump sequence didn’t demonstrate you have to do more than that.

that's right vader, powerbomb america

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

It's just so baffling and frustrating that the supporters of an administration defined by its unwillingness to stand up to fascist pedophiles feel like they can lecture voters on how we should have fought harder against those fascist pedophiles.

An NYT headline reading: Homeland Security Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

My headline from April 15 reading: Water is wet, and DHS's 'deportation fleet' boondoggle expands under Markwayne

The hed and dek of my story from February reading: ICE FLIGHTS Noem's luxury 'deportation' jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem's DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. Gillian Brockell 26 Feb 2026 - 9 min read

Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week.

And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY.

You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

I wanna also say this is part of why "medieval stasis" in fantasy settings pisses me off so much, because people act like technology was essentially stagnant between the invention of agriculture and the industrial revolution and NO IT WASN'T, it was just slow!

The Romans didn't have windmills!

"rich reactionaries seeking to hoard power and gut democracy are souring on one possible mechanism to do so, and getting excited about a different one."

One year! This and Godzilla Minus One really got me feeling good about the state of cinema, despite everything else.

I'm not saying they should, but it would be funny if they did make the next season depict a fairly *uneventful* shift. Just to mix things up.

Most of my own motivation is "I love X, but I would love it just a tiny bit more if it had a smidge of Y", and that just isn't a strong enough emotional state to propel me through even a short story.

Tbh this just makes me wish I could get madder about fiction.

A manosphere dipshit waking up in Actual 480 BCE Sparta would be a pretty funny premise

my conspiracy theory is wall street is doing everything it can to keep everything from collapsing until dems take the house and senate so they can blame the implosion on them

In blue states, the most influential person making pollution worse isn't an oil lobbyist - it's your state DOT director

More kraft
Less werk

My main interest be Early Modern Historical(ish) settings, where it's probably worth having, but it's not gonna be very much like the average gamer imagines.

Gotta start somewhere!

Exactly. There are lots of things that can go wrong with a car, but if my buddy keeps telling me about the parts he built out of tin foil, then whenever he's late to something I'm probably going to assume it's one of those that's the issue.