Wow a early modern state used religion as part of its legitimation

Once again vindicated in my belief that California Dems are just conservatives who find evangelicalism gauche

evergreen

"Hate Trump, love war on Iran" gotta be an ideological combo held by no more than 1% of the general population and yet it's like 90% of liberal pundits and at least half of liberal politicians

"riding in a golf cart fatly" is poetry

Dylan Williams

If you were to watch David Byrne dance without the sound on you'd be sure he was mentally ill but once you hear the music you realize it's the only rational way to move

they should take another hour every night until there’s no more time. let’s wrap things up

“the cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

If anyone has the mental fortitude to endure a sharp and sudden decline in living standards in exchange for unspecified benefits at an unspecified time, it is the American consumer

Worf: Am I MAGA? Or am I… woke Picard: Now is not the time Worf Data: *spins around* Captain, if I may? The two options may not be mutually exclusive Wesley: Impact in fifteen seconds

Good. The US should've never been allowed to have veto power in the first place.

the first journalist that lets loose with a neutrally-toned “what the fuck are you talking about” is going to be a folk hero

It was so depraved and evil that even the BBC managed to get the headline right.

congrats to PTA but this is clearly a make-up win for Boogie Nights and Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood and The Master and Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread and Licorice Pizza and probably also some of those Haim videos too why not

PTA shouting out Barry Lyndon in his Oscar acceptance speech

Everyone in the crowd must’ve instantly been like: “Woah!! It’s Misty Copeland, American ballet dancer!!”

Dune: messiah (2026)

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

Reading God Emperor of Dune in public and scratching my head periodically to make sure people know I am unsure whether I agree with Leto II’s decisions or not