This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.

3 sentence horror story

Oh god

Congratulations!

This is...shockingly accurate.

a plate of ribs and french fries on a checkered tablecloth . ALT: a plate of ribs and french fries on a checkered tablecloth .

Mmmmmm...

Obligatory Discourse Update: I am *extremely* anti-AI. If you use it professionally or even recreationally, I think less of you.
If you want to block me over that, I welcome your disdain. Begone.

Add food to a movie

"The Shawshank Reduction"

bane from the dark knight rises is wearing a mask and holding his fist up . Alt: bane from the dark knight rises is wearing a mask and holding his fist up saying "You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it."

Me when my university makes me do a training teaching me about online scams:

This is where it's at. This is the kind of person who will fix shit:
A woman who knows how shit works and is going to make it happen.

See also: Warren, AOC

DC statehood yesterday

obviously I don't normally support gerrymandering. but nothing about America right now is normal and following the normal rules will not do anything against an administration seemingly not bound by any law or rule themselves

HP Lovecraft: what if a mushroom came from space
Caitlin Kiernan: what if a mushroom came from space and made zombies
William Hope Hodgeson: what if you hated the sea and everything in it and also there was a mushroom

one of the best days on social media was in 2021 when trump was banned from every single network. you saw him repeatedly trying to make alts before each one got banned too, like a poster trying to escape a game forum permaban

Practicing on some mechs (getting better)

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?"

IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

Congratulations! Well deserved!

Congratulations!

Hugo noms! Two of my editors were nominated! Congrats to Jaymee Goh and Scott H. Andrews! May the Worldcon voters recognize your obviously superior taste and wisdom!

www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve

WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question

WARSH: I believe this body certified the election

WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

LAcon V Announces 2026 Hugo Awards Finalists LAcon V, the 84th World Science Fiction Convention, announced the finalists for the 2026 Hugo Awards, the most prestigious honors for excellence in science fiction and fantasy, on April 21. First p…

Congratulations to all the Hugo finalists!

Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.

Martian leader shortly before the events of War Of The Worlds:

Me, trying to be normal:

If your documentary about Michael Jackson is not about a man being tortured into madness by absurd fame, then what are you even doing?

share a GIF from a western you love
('cause I couldn't find one for El Dorado)

"...on they came at a precipitous rate, stunted jaundiced horrors cyclopean and half-clothed, dull mouths agape, crying "pip, pip" and "hello buddies" in their grotesque subhuman voices. I crouched in my hiding place. "Poopay," they gibbered. "POOPAY!" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Banana on the Threshold"

I'd write a hell of a last season for Colony

Share an 80s movie you will always love!

Labyrinth (1986)