Felonious Monk

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I’m not happy about any of this, but thank you for asking

Gustave Doré's illustration of the Ninth and lowest circle of hell, where Virgil is showing Dante the devil himself, who sulking massively in his frozen lair. It's cold down here, super cold. The sheet of ice beneath them is a sea of heads, frozen up to their necks for the gravest of sins; treachery, betrayal and treason.
bluesky being bluesky on a day that ends with y
split screen view above and below the surface of the reflecting pool. The surface is green with algae, beneath the surface, Mario navigates an equally green swamp level dressed in a frog suit, swimming toward coins. Three eight-bit fish, also green, look alarmed. It's pretty gross down there.
An outcome from the AI Compass quiz which names Matt Yglesias the patron saint for people with views most similar to mine. What the fuck.
Search result reading no results found for "lump of cope fallacy".
Low angle view of front end of a looming white pickup parked on a quiet suburban street at night, directly in front of a marked crosswalk. Stark street lighting from directly overhead gives the vehicle a menacing look, as though it were the rolling version of Jason Voorhees.
Post to X.com from @theweatherchannel "UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage. While the venue's massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event.
Post to X.com from @theweatherchannel "UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage. While the venue's massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event.
Post to x.com by the weather channel: “UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather situation on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind-gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal DC humidity is driving a triple digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitoes and gnats the fighters will have to battle inside the cage. While the venue’s massive 92 foot overhang will keep the octagon dry a single lightning strike within 8 miles will trigger an automatic 30 minute. freeze to the entire event.”
Toledo, by El Greco
The Tintin and Captain Haddock panel where the captain, trashed, is exclaiming what a week, and Tintin is saying GRMFF because this is the version where everything is falling apart in a horrible melting mess. Snowie looks dead.
Seating chart for MSG showing price of various seats on the secondary market ranging from just shy of $5k in the rafters up to $41,000 center-court
The iconic National Center for Atmospheric Research building, the late-spring tall grass in the foreground is turning from green to gold, high wispy clouds criss-cross the blue sky behind. GO Knicks.
Frame grab of the OP in a reader's time line immediatly followed by a post from the Rural Indexing Project bot with a happy pride message and a photo of the Gayville railroad stop in Gayville, SD.
A post by the two-timing president of the United States, denigrating his first predecessor with an AI-generated image of an overstuffed garbage can the size of a hotel, as seen from across a parking lot in the evening light. It is captioned "The Obama Presidential Library"
A rifle scope attached to a bayonet
Album cover for NWA's Straight Outta Compton
The Project Cybersyn control room, the epitome of early 1970's sci-fi inflected modernism.
Carter J. Burke, executive corporate weasel for Weyland-Yutani. He looks remarkably like Sam Altman.
Pope Chicago with a black baseball bat. His face is smiling. His fist isn't.
Donald Trump announcing the construction of a victory arch in Washington DC without specifying the victory.
Album cover for the Ad Astra OST score by Max Richer, with additional music by Lorne Balfe and Nils Frahm
Gas station pump showing 15.44 gallons selling for $100.38
Gas station sign showing premium at $6.88, and diesel at $7.89
A group of five ducklings swimming, attended to by their parents. They are stupidly cute.
Cover of the Economist magazine from the week of Oct. 19-25, 2025. It shows a fat roll of $100 bills being powered by a mass of rocket engines as it lifts off from a launch pad. The title reads The Envy of the World, America's Economy: A Special Report
a smol green car with just one seat
the rear end of a ridiculous red sports car with a chrome badge that reads Le Awesomist
Logo removed from a whiteboard. It says master of boards, and shows the silhouette of a professorial male talking and writing
A jacked up Dodge Ram pickup truck, black, grill festooned with an absurd amount of chrome, belching black smoke as it drives towards the viewer on a depressing country road
Gas station sign showing premium at $6.59
animation showing the vertical strips representing days in a standard weekly planner calendar view curling into loops as they map to the nested helices of a three dimensional calendar
photo of a CA Chevron station showing premium at $6.59
Chevron station in CA showing premium at $6.59
A very bad cat, black with red eyes, dressed in a flowing black cape, it it threatening America.
Le morte di Cesare (1805) Vincenzo Camuccini
Union 76 gas station prices showing premium at $5.79 a gallon (it's California, but still)
Gas station sign showing gas at $5.79 for premium (it's California)
Two brightly lit apartment buildings, built side by side, provide a sharp contrast to the blacked sky behind them
A fuel sheet showing 13.52 gallons of gas a $5.109 per gal adding up to $69.08
Edmund Halley's 1730 map of the world, which introduced isogonic lines to cartography. Before they were used to show elevation, Halley used them to chart magnetic variations from true north.
Screenshot of timeline serendipity showing the OP followed by a photo of Marco Rubio having a happy chat with the leader of the Proud Boys, who is hanging out with the Trump administration in Florida, and not doing time in federal in prison for sedition.
Excerpt from an FP article about Iran's drone strikes on AWS facilities in the UAE, saying "the strikes mark what is believed to the the world's first military attack against US "hyperscalers" that dominate the global cloud computing market.
A map of South America, showing which countries lean left, and which countries lean right. The left leaning countries are on the right side of the map and the right leaning countries are those on the left
Post from the White House saying they’re working on plans to evacuate Americans through the Middle East.
Senator Tillis (R-NC) castigating Kristi Noem. The subtitle reads "...disaster. Under your leadership, Miss Gnome, a disaster. What we've..."
Results from a recent gallop pole showing a major turnaround among Americans in which the Palestinian cause is now seen more favorably than the Israeli’s.
Excerpt from a Financial Times article about the Trump administration’s attack on Iran. It reads “In his Truth Social post, Trump said “heavy and pinpoint bombing“ of Iran would “continue uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST”.
high angle on a rotating stool with a low, curved backrest. it's the image used the generate the 3D model referenced in the link
Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, celebrating a live wedding with people of all ages dancing. A Band with marimbas and trombones plays in the background. It is 1,000% more wholesome than whatever Kid Rock was doing (celebrating getting drunk and going to strip clubs, I gather)
map showing states with populations smaller than LA county (all of them except TX, IL, OH, PA, NY, and FL)
Anti-CBP protest sign that reads when you’re too scared to join the army and too dumb to be a cop. The accompanying photo shows one federal agent with a AR-15who looks borderline homeless.