One of my pet peeves about DS9 is using "changeling" to mean "shapeshifter." That's not what it is. This makes it really complicated when I have to explain to people about how the fae folk swapped out my son

honestly just realized that with "rumors that the heir apparent is secretly a changeling boost the succession chances of a prince living in foreign lands" we're speed running the glorious revolution, let's goooooooo

wise

personally i'm over here stanning sophie the duchess of edinburgh and countess of wessex. she's one of the obscure ones, kind of indie, you might not have heard of her

i guess trying to parse the initial text, MAGA hates meghan for racism reasons so the libs hate kate? you have to pick one

new comics curmudgeon post! joshreads.com/2026/0... yikes

See, tne only people who have time to do that go to the airport too early

also got someone doing a linkedin cadence "let me explain" thread about why barro is right, but that's a lot less interesting imo

an extremely crazy photomontage proving that "traitor" princess kate was never pregnant and never had cancer. there's a lot of intense closeups on william and kate's eyes as well as those of their kids. don't worry about it

EXCITING UPDATE: have reached the stage of "going viral" where people are posting banapants british royal family conspiracy slop in my replies

If I was PM of a G7 country, I think the part of the job I'd enjoy most would be pretending that the bilateral partnership with Luxembourg is very important

Headline: "The power of verbs (and why you should never use an adverb)", but I've crossed out the adverb "never"

Well OK, if you insist

someone who is good at news please help, my brain is dying

Minions without glasses taking the glasses-wearing minions to the killing fields

peace and reconciliation committee for the minions where they apologize to nelson mandela in minionspeak while looking contrite

In my new film THE MINION CANNOT HEAR THE FALCONER, we'll explore the way in which the emergence of 20th century ideologies fractured the once-cohesively evil Minion society into competing fascist and communist blocs that soon come to blows over which form of totalitarianism will shape their future.

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

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don draper pitching the Archons on the market research showing that the 18-25 demographic is returning to the Monad at rates not seen for centuries

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

Did you know that therapy takes more than one appointment? Just found out and i am LIVID

anyway a weird contingent thing about the USSR's breakup is that yeltsin simultaneously worked to take over the central gov't but also devolve power to the republics bc that helped him in the short term as a republican leader, with disastrous results

a crackpot theory of mine is that russian, ukrainian, and belarusan leaders probably saw the CIS as a potentially closer confederation or at least trade area than it ended up being but the other republics almost all signed on which had the effect of kind of diluting what it could be

i actually do think the divorce of russia and ukraine in particular was genuinely economically devastating when it happened for probably no good reason, not that that's any reason to try to reverse it in 2022 (or 2014 or whatever)

The conservative intelligentsia is just wildly, cartoonistly racist, and the fact that this gets less elite pushback from the prestige media/commentariat than "woke" does is such a damning indictment of our whole society.

The rise of John Apple

thankfully you don’t wear a dumb hat in your profile pic

posting the bad airport opinions of notorious twitter centrist asshole josh barro on the bsky dot app website but shaking my head so people know i disagree

it doesn't help if you and the bad opinion guy are both named josh

everyone knows that going viral on this app (like going viral on any app) sucks. but did you know it especially sucks when you're posting in a reply that you expect nobody to see about an opinion that you disagree with, and then it goes viral and everyone yells as if it's your opinion