how about chinese mike tyson? i think it might go a little something like this--(a sudden wave of melancholy washes over me as i recall avenues in my life that i regret not exploring further) nevermind.

yes, and i feel like they do it by moving the role of "normal, default, reasonable actor" from america to russia. it's so easy to do when you're socialized to see white christian people as the default, but don't really want to reject/deconstruct this idea everywhere.

We come on the sloop John B My grandfather John B Around John B town we did roam John B all night John B in a fight Well, I feel so John B I wanna John B

Grazing in Peace by Eyvind Earle, 1970

CITY PLANNER: Wow… and if all the traffic lights in the city turn green at the same time… MAYOR: … then EVERY car will be moving at once! It will be a perfect ballet!!

Israel is using drones bought from the Chinese company Autel to ethnically cleanse Gazans. The Chinese drones themselves use parts made in the US. Supply chains often tell a more complicated story than the official political stances of each of the 3 countries towards each other.

so sad Elvis died before he could see the lego movie he woulda been like mama those blocks are movin and shakin

for linguists, visiting Azerbaijan is a kind of pilgrimage, to see the ancient and ancestral homeland of the schwa

some of you who pride yourselves on detecting AI writing need to admit that a lot of human writing is also formulaic, cliche-ridden, and reliant on tripartite structure—and some of it even uses em-dashes

the creatures give melania a hat

i wake up. something’s wrong with the clock on the wall. the numbers are jumbled. my hands aren’t right. i tell my wife. she responds: “that’s not just an observation—it’s a powerful insight.” i scream.

When an unstoppable force (environmental review) meets an immovable object (also environmental review):

Stig Eklund, b. 1978, Where the river narrows, 2023.

🚨BREAKING🚨 Zohran Mamdani has allegedly not paid for WinRar, despite his free trial expiring in 2008

my god

"Just make school interesting" along with "school should teach things you'll need in real life" are dumb platitudes that appeal to idiots who would mentally check out of school even if they were hand fed grapes by a team of servants the entire time

during various medieval wars the mercenaries of both sides would occasionally take off all their armour and lay down their arms and cuddle a bit in the woods, for Christ