For a long time, I was really into the Simpsons. Then I discovered that I was bored with the basic joke. All the stuff the was good about it—the writing, the voice acting, the animation—was still good. I was just bored with it. That was around season 15.
We're now on season 40.😱
It makes perfect sense if you equate dissent with sedition.
When foreign leaders and diplomats deal with the Trump administration, the effort to not roll their eyes at everything they hear must be exhausting.
Only the Wayback Machine can defeat INGSOC.
I'm not going to repost it here, but The Trillionaire just posted the most absurd non sequitur of all time.
Everybody else complains about how he too rich, too racist, too queerphobic, too eugenicist, too powerful, too feckless. But me, I can't get over how fucking *clueless* he is.
Happy Summer solstice.
This is a pinhole camera 6 month exposure photo I took from Winter solstice 2024 (bottom line of the photo) to Summer solstice 2025 (top line of the photo).
The lines are the Sun as it appears to move across the sky and gets higher and higher until we get to Summer solstice.
If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"
Very soon it will achieve sentience and run for President. Pundits will try to point out that it's unqualified for the job, but voters will shrug and say, "It can't be any worse than current gang of bozos."