we all know I have no life, so:

The first half of a comic, drawn in a monochrome cartoon style with heavy black hatching. In the first panel, an anthro rat man opens a heavy wooden door. The man is dressed in a ~1900s-era sack suit. He is surrounded by the light of the outside, but the inside of the manor is drenched in deep shadow. The door sits beneath an archway crowned with the emblem of a heraldic sheild and a baron's coronet. In the second panel, the man ascends a flight of stairs. He uses a mote of light he has conjured from his palm to illuminate his surroundings: peeling wallpaper, dusty old painting, cobwebs. He's in a grand old manor, but a very neglected one. In the shadows, below his line of sight, there is another figure hidden in the shadows. His silhouette is that of another rat man, though rather than walking up the stairs he crouches and crawls, more animalistic, the lens of his glasses flashing like a predator's eyes in the dark. One can barely make out the fire poker in his hand. In the final pinal, the first rat man has drawn back the curtain of a bed. His expression is one of horror; despite being indoors, his breath gives off a chilly fog. He stares down at the silhouette; it looks like the figure of a woman at rest. Behind him, the glasses of his pursuer glint in the pitch darkness. Text boxes wind their way through all the panels, saying: "He knew he was not welcome. I had rid the manor of vermin before. Overthrown as patriach, he crept back as a thief, here to seize his 'entitlement;' my birthright. If he had not been stopped, he would have had me declared me. He would have taken my home away from me. He would have taken HER away from me."

SINS OF THE SON (1/2)

There is an infestation of rats in Northcrest manor. Which is the vermin and which is the exterminator depends on each one's point of view.

A drawing on a whiteboard. A slice of pepperoni pizza on a paper plate. To the right, it reads, "this week's flavor—a slice to go."

Hits right. It's this week's flavor.

Oh definitely. I’ve also heard that long covid symptoms fade in and out and that stress may actually trigger or contribute to long covid symptom relapses. Everything making everything else worse lol

I’ve noticed this in myself and a lot of people around me, too. PTSD can affect people at a societal level, as can anxiety and stress. I think part of it is that shit is just so bad right now that it’s making everybody’s cognitive functions worse.

Boycott Target because their AI might randomly and falsely accuse you of theft and then have you arrested and upend your life.

The song ‘Thursday’ by Morphine put them on my radar, at which point I listens to the associated album and was like ‘Ok this is pretty cool’ and forgot about it

Then I found the Like Swimming album on a road trip and listened to it on the road like nine times in a row, and became obsessed.

Oh this is so good. What a fucking incredible website.

"Why don't Americans ________?"

For the same reason the Russians don't. Or people from any other country where a corrupt government routinely murders citizens.

Marah's really anxious about her health and her pregnancy. ❤️‍🩹🙏

Magnitude 4.9 earthquake! Whole lotta shakin’ going on! How’s that for a gut yontif on this fine Passover evening

LRP: I like to say, ‘be careful you don’t mistake being at the back of the line for being part of the crowd’. Well, they’re getting to the back of the line now.

WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU

(my fellow melanin-deprived Yidden)

THAT ALIGNING WITH WHITE SUPREMACY WAS NEVER GOING TO KEEP YOU SAFE

AND THAT SOLIDARITY IS THE ONLY WAY HOME

AND

Oh wait

look here we are

huh

That makes sense! I can see how the myth could get started from that basis. Thanks for taking the time!

Ok, so the myth is that there was an expectation (or even a setup!) for changing your name right there at the point of entry? And in reality that just wasn’t something that happened much or at all? Or that it’s more about the dynamic evoked by ‘THEY changed OUR name’?

I’d love to know more about this, if you’ve got the time and inclination. From a layperson’s perspective it seems like social/political pressure could make a name change feel like a coercion or necessity — but I agree that it takes two to do the Assimilation Tango, so what’s the piece I don’t have?

Dana Carvey as Garth from Waynes world saying "he does this every Friday."

He does this every Friday.

quick post of the MisterBaseball image collection if anyone's missing pieces here

digital painting of a deer creature. it has an innocent looking face with youthful blue eyes. It's head sits upon a long neck covered in bloody worms. blood drops from its mouth.

A sweet, innocent, harmless, leaf-eating, doe-eyed little deer.

Now I axe ya: Would you give a fuck what kinda pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing??

Aesop Rock - 100 Feet Tall (Official Audio) YouTube video by Rhymesayers Entertainment

LRP everybody listen to 1000 Feet Tall right now

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CjJ6...

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

Comic based off a tumblr text post about a guardian angel. The angel's dialogue is as follows: "it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it!"

Continuation of the comic, the angel says: "🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people," with an art style change from cartoonish to devious anime girl when she claims to be killing people.

I love this text post so I drew it

This one isemperessive

How it feels to join a regular bot helldive after two weeks of... whatever that was.

Some conservatives here think that secular young Iranians would be happy if America would come and liberate them. What would you say to them? Democracy, contrary to what they try to tell us, it’s not a paper that you hang on the wall and then you have a democracy. Democracy is a social evolution. It is something cultural. Iranians, they have become much more secular, and they are ready for democracy, but they have to fight themselves for democracy, and the only thing that other countries can do is to understand their fight and help them in their fight. They [America] talk about the human rights in Iran … how is it that the United States makes the biggest deals with China, and China is far from respecting human rights? What about Saudi Arabia? If you want to talk about an inquisition, the Iranian regime is far from being an inquisition. We have almost a free press, people leave, women have the right to study, they drive, they work. Saudi Arabia, they don’t have anything like that! Talk about human rights in Saudi Arabia! Why doesn’t anyone go and put a bomb in Saudi Arabia and kill the king?

Do you think it’s ironic that, in the face of American threats, you almost find yourself defending the Iranian regime? Absolutely, but if we want a democracy, the Iranian people have to do it themselves. The Americans say they want a democracy in Iran, and at the same time, when the Iranians wanted to become democratic in 1953 with [Mohammad] Mosaddeq and to nationalize our oil, the CIA came and made a coup d’état in my country. Why do you want me to believe that they want to come and make a democracy? We have to make our democracy! There are many things that I wish for in my country — I want my country to be free, I want my country to be democratic, I don’t want any journalists to go to jail because of an article they wrote in my country. But if the United States of America attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the United States.

Do you see similarities between the Christian fundamentalists in our government and the mullahs in Iran? They’re the same! George Bush and the mullahs of Iran, they use the same words! The mullahs of Iran say we have God on our side; he has God on his side, too. Both of them are convinced that they are going to eradicate evil in the world. But when these words come out of the mouth of a mullah, it’s normal. It’s a shame that the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world talks with the same words as the mullahs. It’s extremely scary.

Do you have any advice for secular Americans who are faced with living in a country that’s increasingly governed by religious fundamentalists? If I have any advice, it’s that every day that you wake up, don’t say, “This is normal.” Every day, wake up with this idea that you have to defend your freedom. Nobody has the right to take from women the right to abortion, nobody has the right to take from homosexuals the right to be homosexual, nobody has the right to stop people laughing, to stop people thinking, to stop people talking. If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

The full 2005 interview it's from is well worth a read btw. Sadly just as relevant today as it was 20+ years ago—moreso, in fact. www.salon.com/2005/04/24/s...

"There are many things I wish for my country . . . But if the USA attacked my country, no matter what, I would be against the US."

Idk from scientific but I would GUESS it’s got to do with the body having higher hydration needs at night

If you see this, post a monster! These two are such a package deal that it feels wrong to post only one…

If you see this post a monster