several hundred years ago there was a schism in french unicycling over the merits of adding a second wheel, which eventually led to the creation of the tour de france.

electric cars were targeted for decades, but still came back and even the world’s worst and most annoying man can’t seem to kill them for good.

the inverse is also true: it’s basically impossible to kill a truly good tech idea.

the biggest industries in the world tried to kill solar power and failed. the entire US gov is trying to destroy mRNA vaccine research, but the best they can do is slow it down for a couple of years.

Revolution in technicolour: An interview with Tim Denee, creator of Blades ’68 - Spring A revolutionary setting for a revolutionary game Ten years ago, John Harper’s Blades in the Dark set a new precedent for tabletop role-playing games with a fresh system that emphasizes politics, puts ...

Had a lovely time interviewing the very sharp @olddog.games about his incredible sequel to Blades in the Dark for @springmagca.bsky.social. Blades ‘68 is both radical and extremely rad—it’s just what a work of art should be.

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Fortunately I have a recession-proof career (using my teeth to filter bits of bone from the river of shit flowing out of the Great Sluice)

Boots on the ground song of the summer

Holy shit I just realized I don’t know any judo what the fuck

I’m just glad she’s not a sphynx

you better believe she’s falling asleep like that

A tortoiseshell cat laying on her back across her owner’s legs. She’s lifting her head up to look at the camera, sort of a half-sit up position.

check this shit out mfs

Scene from Oliver stone’s jfk. Joe Pesci & Kevin bacon are dressed as king Louis and Marie Antoinette. Tommy, as Hermes, is nude & painted gold

Tommy Lee Jones should look like this in The Fugitive & No Country

it explains why many libertarians support illegal ICE raids or why many anti-abortion advocates hate public schools/affordable housing even though those ideas are in opposition to each other. it’s not about coherency, it’s about comfort.

many conservatives are secretly terrified that their fear and anger might be emotional overreactions that they need to be responsible for.

the solution is to project both the fear and the legitimization of the fear out onto the world. that’s why they cling to whatever ideology passes by.

their interest is only in mentally justifying their knee-jerk rage towards anything unfamiliar. they’ll use anything that legitimizes that rage and gives it political efficacy, even if it’s nonsensical.

when they adapt the philly arc into a prestige series, i want melanie lynskey to play the bird doctor who tells pinocchio he's doing medication wrong

Nardwuar hands me a polaroid of a closed coffin. "What is... is that me?" He's doing that face to the camera. "Is that me Nardwuar?"

(as a donkey walks by)

ah the noble donkey!

(donkey moves out of earshot)

foolish beast

follow it up with tracy getting even more flak after he appears on the news wearing a giant white mitre, but it's only because he's on his way to his weekly human-sized chess game.

arguing with the pope and then depicting yourself as jesus christ is a very tracy jordan thing to do, except people would call tracy on it and he would explain he was actually asking the pope to end the argument peacefully by dressing as st. francis of assisi, the patron saint of conflict resolution

170 - ACTION CRISIS WHITE: Part 2

// DOWN INTO THIS HELL PIT
// TO PITCH BLACK AND GREEN GLOW
// TO VICTORY OR RUIN

The conclusion to ACTION CRISIS WHITE; a fiery descent into the bowels of Bridewell Cald.

(puts hand on your shoulder) with fresh dill and pickles. (visibly tearing up) with fresh dill and pickles.

Protestant heaven is an all you can eat breakfast buffet in a church basement/gym and when jesus drops by they clear the tables, set up the hoops, and get a few games of 3-on-3 going.

He’s been hanging out with, get this, George Michael.

Martin Luther in Protestant heaven looking down and vigorously nodding right now, but he hasn’t been paying attention to politics for the past decade and admittedly doesn’t have much context

everyone knows you’re talking to yourself

I’d like dental care and to not have to wait in line for 36hrs to get a passport, but you do you. I guess.

Everybody knows Pierre Poilievre is Canada’s JD Vance. BUT, very few commentators understand Mark Carney is Canada’s Amy Klobuchar

Sometimes the nicest thing you can do is cut down 30 men with an ancestral blade

ME: AI Jesus, why does Mark, the oldest gospel, not describe the resurrection?

AI JESUS: that’s a great question. Let’s take it point by point.

1) despite what so-called ‘experts’ say, killing your entire family is actually a really great way to get closer to them—and God.

2) Start by buying a

Folks, it’s Good