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Just make a really small terminator and have him hide in John Connor’s oatmeal

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

To me, Jurassic Park is less about playing god and more about the expectation that industry can casually conquer anything, even nature, and while we’ve not yet arrived at the first point, the second one has remained annoyingly relevant. It’s also about a dinosaur hunter in knee socks.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It turns out the real cautionary tale of Jurassic Park was “don’t put tech bros in charge of efficiency”

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

This is an oft-cited MAGA conspiracy theory that happened in A) The Simpsons, B) the Chris Farley vehicle Black Sheep, and C) nowhere else ever in the history of America.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Many women make themselves smaller on a daily basis because they're very aware of this

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

As I said before, the eighth amendment to the US constitution doesn't seem to apply to us trans people.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 3 days ago • 289 comments

don’t meet your heros. i finally saw the critters from redwall irl and they don’t even talk. they’re just pissing and shitting everywhere.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

You can tell this is a product that's in high demand because they keep hiding the ways to turn it off

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I understand the sentiment but the two aren’t equivalent. Everyone had an opinion about the Iraq war: it’s a war, it started 2 years after 9/11, and it was sold as revenge for 9/11. People had very strong, public opinions! Conversely, Elon was introduced to most Americans in an Iron Man 2 cameo.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

It would be really easy for the Ninja Turtles to frame each other for murder

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

They’re all still expecting us to pay taxes, btw

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

“He heads a movement that believes the IRS is a secret military for democrats, but I decided I had to trust his decades of experience with bankruptcy, tax evasion, and discrimination lawsuits.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I know infinitely more hurtful things are being done, I’m harping on the salute because that used to be what we would satirically say about anti-alarmists - “does Elon need to do a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration for you to accept he is a white supremacist?”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It blows my mind that’s we live in a time wherein the richest man alive with a documented history of white supremacy can turn the inauguration of the American president into a televised Nazi rally and there was absolutely no consequence for anyone involved

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

“Mitch McConnell is observing the time-honored tradition of completely fucking over the country then taking his money and going home.”

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This is appropriate because Jeff Bezos was the villain in Tomorrow Never Dies

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE is a criminal enterprise to destroy the government to empower and enrich oligarchs. Any news org that uses the term "cost cutting" to describe DOGE is complicit and should be shunned.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

One way or the other, they are never winning another election

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

this is not universal but it is distressingly common among legacy media people. the idea that they have any duty to society or responsibility beyond getting clicks and clout is abhorrent to a sizable number of people at the top of this industry

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

Okay, here's a list of things the Democrats could be doing right now: 1) Voting no on literally every appointee until this is resolved. Voting yes on supposedly "qualified" nominees is just legitimizing this whole situation and making voters believe this is business-as-usual; it's not.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

COVID ignorance frustrates me too but the government ceased all communication about the virus years ago. I try to stay informed and still manage to miss updates and new vaccines. The only reason we’re current is because our pharmacy texts us when there’s a new one.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Happy Holiday I guess

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Now more than ever we need Kendall Jenner to heal the nation’s wounds with a Pepsi

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I agree with the analogy but America has been run like a business for 400 years.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

We can't shame our politicians or media into a place of courage and non-appeasement. The only thing that will make them change course is when the great damage being inflicted by this fascist coup comes home to roost for them, and it will. Take action yourself, great or small, public or private.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

“Gentlemen, we will now be incorrect on purpose, for racists!” huge round of applause as the Great Lakes spontaneously evaporate

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment