Disney's Up, but Carl transitioned

It's interesting how much the Toriyama illustration looks like a male earwig, an insect that Europeans misattributed illness to (they absolutely, 100% do not crawl in your ear to lay their eggs in your brain, lmao).

Japan has earwigs, though they have different urban legends about them. Again: lmao

Googling Bal-kan-i-zation, hating what you find 🎵

That's interesting. I don't trust the US to take meaningful actions, because of how deeply invested the oligarch class is in AI. But it's not clear that other countries who *don't* expect to win the AI race are going to put up with their laws being broken.

Genuinely wonder if this is psychosexual. Now that he has a taste for it, he can't get off without ordering another mass murder.

Looks like it's linked to pea protein, which is why the dairy- and beef-based protein come out so much better by comparison.

Pleasantly surprised, in this era of horrors, that the most newsworthy contents of these 187k images was 'robot porn'.

I'm 100% sure the right-wing grifters of the manosphere will be totally normal about this one.

There are two possibilities:
A) Trump and his team played no meaningful part in the place deal, or
B) the secret ingredient to the deal was massive corruption and other crimes.

Either way, we don't need these useless fucks sucking Trump's dick over this.

Oooooh, okay. The Japanese picture-book seemed to be 'nice lesbians in the woods and their anti-gnome guard-bear' and then the last page was just the two of them marrying a pair of princes. It was as jarring as the bear/gnome fight, lol

Adolescence Apocalypse, aka Adolescence of Utena, aka Utena: The Movie, is the best kind of symbolist art. The real kind. Where they're symbols, not signs. Also, the Devil is always dead, love is true, and it's a mistake to believe you're the only girl who can turn into a car.

Is it really? lmao
I had never heard of the story before; I didn't realize there was an 'original version'.

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

I encountered a Japanese version of this story recently; I couldn't read a word, but it seemed like Snow White and Rose Red called upon a grizzly bear to come fight off this gnome man?

With the holidays upon us, don't give to Salvation Army. Not even change. It's a scumbag "charity" run by anti-gay zealots.

Habitat for Humanity is great. Your local Food Bank is great.

So many "charities" are for-profit scams. Use Charity Navigator to vet them. www.charitynavigator.org

There are people responsible for this -- real, specific, flesh-and-blood human beings -- and their names are on paperwork and in computer systems.

When we get our country back, they *must* be prosecuted.

"In Revelations, Jesus uses Gear 5."
That's great, Pete. Have you considered writing fanfiction instead of pursuing Christofascism?

Okay, new rule: you can either be a billionaire "philosopher" with a mile-long Wikipedia page about your political actions *OR* you can post about shonen characters as Jesus allegories. It's one or the other.

Going to the bar to meet my buddy's comics-and-manga-fan friend, and shooting myself in the head when it's Peter Thiel.

The Salvation Army (which is a religion) weaponizes its market share of charity work to push bigoted policy and circumvent normal democracy.

They'll take your money, crowd out real charities, then threaten to close up shop if they don't get their way.

Don't donate to them.

I have been very firm for many years about not demonizing Baron Trump, the child, for anything his father has done.

Baron Trump, adult man getting in on the corruption, is an entirely different story. It's a shame no one in his life will save him from the path of crime he's going to take.

I think Giger would approve, provided she remains as lethal and slimy as the original.

As true as this is, it would be very funny if she made a complete 180. "I'm so sorry, and I'm going to work to make up for everything. I won't make excuses, but I will offer an explanation: there really was black mold in my brain."

Musk throwing up his hands and going "Aw shucks, I guess I failed to reign in Big Government" was a major PR win. Media people talk about DOGE as a failure, but it was very effective at committing a ton of corrupt acts and hurting people they want to make suffer.