the penne opticon

A page from a Bible book for children captioned “The sower sows his seeds” but damn it is disturbingly camp and sexy. Full shiny thighs on show, arm flinging seeds everywhere with casual insouciance, serious manscaping in evidence and one hand thrust into a seed bag hanging exactly at crotch level.

🎵I’m too sexy for my seeds, too sexy for my seeds…🎶

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

What’s going to happen is, it’s going to get *worse*, and there’s sure to be an uptick in those spurious dismissals, esp. those of the “if you’re at all bi, or can ever suffer yourself to sleep with the opposite sex for any reason, you don’t deserve asylum” variety.

Yes, but/and they *already do this* to queer asylum seekers! People have to provide extensive info on their sex lives, sometimes including videos. People are sometimes declared “not really gay” for ludicrous, spurious reasons, like not being 100% “gold star” or not knowing much abt Anglo gay culture

there's a lesson somewhere in this about science education. dinosaurs had a huge cultural moment thanks to jurassic park and then archaeologists had to go ehh actually they were kind of like big mean turkeys. and people let it go instead of getting really weird about cucked velociraptors or whatever

they finally made this into a film, thank god

I only like the cute fat t. rex from Prehistoric Planet and am devastated that none of the little t. rex models available for sale appear to use this reconstruction.

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.

But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

a medieval drawing of two knights embracing

close friends, france, 15th century

[galaxy brain picture] The parallel to Orban losing to Peter Magyar would surely be Trump losing to a guy called Dick Yank.

Stanley: jeez, you've explained this to me seven times and I still don't get it, but sure I'll humour you if you INSIST

“Stanley, you’ll never believe this! You know that rectangular aperture on the front of our house?! Yeah, the skinny one. Well, I just realized—“

Briar and I are losing our entire minds over this "tip". I'm glad your wife explained to you how doors work?? Even though you seem to regard 'using the door' as a weird little quirk of hers???

it's the same in Britain except for the British sense of 'big pants'.

Frantic nurse: We're losing him!

Doctor who thinks irritating pessimism is savvy: You're a fool to think we ever had him

My Bathroom (The Bathrooms Are Coming!, 1969) YouTube video by American Standard - Topic

Okay so second number in avant-garde drag king OIL's repertoire, this one is all about the things you can do in your bathroom. I think it really hits its stride round about the 1:45 mark.
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Which... I'm pretty sure I personally know several sickos who would go insane over said book, so I'm sure the audience in fact exists

He also says in the afterword that they wanted to publish a book that was just a close study of the experience trying to bring RP to print, as an account of the intricacies of Soviet censorship, but that he now felt it was too late for anyone to care about it at that level of granularity

oh they HATED the corrections to Roadside Picnic, Boris Strugatsky said that he still couldn't read the corrected version decades later because it was so butchered, even though they felt like they'd 'won' when they managed to get it printed at all

okay but the last thing is just Hannibal Lecter trying to get me to go down on him

i will BECOME this drag king if necessary. this is the funniest thing i've ever heard, and i can't believe "industrial musicals" were real

Up Came Oil (The Spirit of Achievement, 1976) YouTube video by Exxon Corp. - Topic

Avant-garde drag king called OIL who does a burlesque routine to this song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cWl...

text reading: “It didn’t even cross our minds that the issue had nothing to do with ideology. They, those quintessential “bloody fools,” actually did think this way: that language must be as colorless, smooth, and glossy as possible and certainly shouldn’t be at all coarse; that science fiction necessarily has to be fantastic and on no account should have anything to do with crude, observable, and brutal reality; that the reader must in general be protected from reality—let him live by daydreams, reveries, and beautiful incorporeal ideas. The heroes of a novel shouldn’t “walk,” they should “advance”; not talk but “utter”; on no account “yell” but only “exclaim.” This was a certain peculiar aesthetic, a reasonably self-contained notion of literature in general and of science fiction in particular—a peculiar worldview, if you like. One that’s rather widespread, by the way, and relatively harmless, but only under the condition that the holder of this worldview isn’t given the chance to influence the literary process.”

Was reading the afterword to Roadside Picnic, which details their struggles getting it published, and discovered that the official censors of the USSR would have fit right in on Goodreads.

Sometimes transition means you learn new things about yourself & this changes your preferred gender presentation and your goals. For example, since going on T I have discovered that I look fucking ridiculous with a moustache but measurably at least 15-20% hotter with a beard.

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

Alan Moore on now.

she's beautiful and there's nothing wrong with her

I hate that they're even called apps in Windows and macOS. They're programs. Grow the fuck up. Apps are chicken tenders.