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Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]

A tumblr sexy man wiki with a warning not to sexualise the character (scar) because it would be problematic, in this case because scar is too close to a real animal.
Matt Walsh tweets: Nolan's obsessions with the non-linear storytelling gimmick really hurts this film. It jumps around so much, and spends so little time on any one particular moment or scene, that you never really feel like Odysseus is on an epic journey spanning many years. When he makes it home, you never feel like he's been gone for 20 years. The film does not capture the grandeur and scope of the original epic. That's why it feels rushed and too long simultaneously. The movie comes off like a rough draft. Nolan was searching for the actual story but never quite found it.
@topherlorence in 2021 tweets "back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale"
Stupid fucking AI picture of snoopy uttering a bunch of platitudes
Nolan's Odyssey getting good reviews from critics and audiences per Rotten Tomatoes.
40k fanfic idea I would do myself if I was capable of focusing on anything at the moment: following the travails of a Tau administrator of a recently conquered hive world, in charge of improving some concrete facet of life (say, water distribution infrastructure) for people in the underhive. - tumblr post by me!
R/AskHistorians has a thread entitled "Why are Mãoris considered indigenous but Falklands aren't?"
John Rentoul shares an article headlined "After the killing of Ann Widdecombe, Count Binface is suddenly a lot less funny" published in the Independent.
Leagues of Votann Thragg meme
"What's the matter vagueboy, afraid you might say something?" Says a hobgoblin
Del Boy looking cheerful with a speech bubble to suggest he'd uttered the above post
Someone on reddit says that they hate ork players speaking like orks and post a picture of a dreadnaught from the game 40k captioned "Even in death I still cringe". Someone replies "she gorkin on my mork til I wagh". To which OP replies "kill yourself"
Dune part 3 poster, just an intense lens flare more or less
Trazyn smiling in a wedding dress holding a bouquet while Orikan looks grumpy next to him in a tux, signed art by Syber.
An image of someone surveying lots of World Cup trophies, labelled "African nations if the World Cup only lasted 80 minutes."
Picture of a terrified looking chap from Squid Games
Personally - That first video chat I mentioned above opened with Mills taking a look at me and saying "Ah, so I see you're one of those lightskin brothers like me, eh?" He said it with a sparkle in his eye and a cheeky smile. His point was to disarm and somewhat shock, but without doing anything to be off putting, put me at ease by a humorous display of over familiarity. It worked. You would deeply misunderstand Mills if you got the impression of him above as a sort of pious sage figure, dispensing kindly advice with his face always turned towards righteousness. That captures something of him, but it misses out on the irreverent earthy humour of the man. His deeply underrated essay Do Black Men Have a Duty to Marry Black Women? contains one of the few lines of analytic philosophy that genuinely made me laugh out loud when I first encountered it: "Many pornography catalogs have a speciality section of black-on-white videos where "big black studs meet blonde sluts" (How do I know this? you casually inquire:; a friend of a friend, I quickly reply)" And to understand Mills you have to get that aspect of him too. The topic is a serious one, the context is the cultural disrespect and visceral disgust (intermixed with eroticised fascination) black people's sexuality can evoke. If you read the essay it's clear that Mills understands those stakes, and indeed the whole essay is an exercise in taking seriously and reasoning through something that can deeply matter to people's every day lives yet which is often ignored by the professional mainstream. But for all that, Mills would combine it with self-deprecating joking asides, a none-too-pious ability to see the absurdity of the whole situation and our place in it. To laugh rather than cry in the face of the slings and arrows of outrageous historical fortune.
Kaius fought alongside Marneus Calgar and Chaplain Cassius when all three were neophytes, and at the dawn of the Era Indomitus, he was tutoring battle‑brothers in bladework on Macragge. In the wake of his near‑fatal duel against Abaddon the Despoiler, Calgar summoned his old comrade to serve as his champion.
Lumumba smiling
"As Applied by Someone Who Half Understood and Doesn't Really Care" by Liam Kofi Bright
Three panel comic. In the first panel is a child pointing at a map being asked where is Brazil and identifying it. The second the same thing but for France. Then in the third he is asked "Where is Cabo Verde?" and places his hand over his heart as he says "here".
Is there anything more pathetic than a Bluesky user? Telegraph article headline in a piece by Stephen Pollard
Dante the fanfic author, Dante from Devil May Cry, and Dante from WH40k all lined up and posing. It is labelled "Pick your Dante".
MLK Jnr smiles looking down from heaven as a black guy whips some white guys picking cotton.
An obviously AI generated image of an American air conditioner keeping North America cool and blowing the hot air on to Europe
Meme of the matriarch in Arrested Development saying "good for her"
The Self-Assertion of the German University, by Martin Heidegger (1933)
What’s more, I thi— oh, what’s this, I just got a text, hold on. G: What does it say? Ɔ: Huh. Well, it seems the Prominent Right Wing Politician got wind of our treasured colleague’s OpEd wherein they gave the scientific case against Despised Minority Group receiving Christmas presents. So now, far from attacking us, the Prominent Right Wing Politician is holding us up as one of the last defenders of free speech, objectivity, and Western Civilisation in the academy! The Vice-Dean-Chancellor-Provost has totally reversed their position; our funding is to be doubled! G: oh thank God. Welp, back to work then! Ɔ: indeed!
A red bus an advert for Nolan's Odyssey on the side. The advert shows Odysseus squaring up to giants twice his size.
A sister of battle is apparently pictured as saying "duuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah its fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber."
(There is even a far more sympathetic and even more vindicatory narrative available. The woke crowd claimed there were a bunch of authoritarian bigot-fanatics waiting in the wings unless we suppress them through various fairly soft means, largely social pressure and ostracism at harshest. The reactionary centre spent ages saying they were ridiculous, and in alliance with the right basically won in the cultural sphere meaning we did not suppress those forces. Then American political life was in fact taken over by authoritarian bigots who proceeded to defund USAID because aid goes to too many dark skinned people and give the president power to review college syllabi. How were the woke not just right? Maybe their flaw was that their methods of suppression were not sufficiently harsh! Whether or not you think this is fair, for what its worth I think it oversimplifies too, I think it's obvious that this telling of events will clearly be tempting to plenty of people. Certainly in the near future, and who knows maybe for future generations too.)
Twi reddit posts from around the same time, one saying "One in four graduates worse off for going to university, government report says" and the other days "Three in four graduates will gain financially from going to university, IFS estimates."
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Liam Bright @lastpositivist · Jan 26, 2020 If I were the Federation I would simply issue the Space Edict of Space Fraternity and embark on an eternal war to spread the Light of Space Communism to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.
Philippe Lemoine responded an article on BBC about the world's biggest condom maker being set to raise prices due to the Iran War with an imagined dialogue: Me - there is no 4D chess, Trump is just a moron Trump, throwing a glass at a chart showing the collapse of TFR all over the world - oh yeah?
A wojack makes a delighted face while wearing power armour labelled "tedious". It's captioned "there's no limit to the larp".
Loserish old man looking at a screen showing he's got two retweets and 3 likes on a post. He's thinking to himself "oh man... this doin' numbers"
Four-panel “Scroll of Truth” meme comic. In the first panel, an adventurer labelled “ME” finds a treasure chest in a cave and says, “I’ve finally found it… after 15 years.” In the second panel, they pull out “The Scroll of Truth.” In the third panel, the scroll reads: “Red Vienna is never happening again mate, that was a one time thing.” In the final panel, the adventurer recoils in disgust, shouting “NYEHHH,” and throws the scroll away.
The Labour Party threw everything at that election. He didn’t win it on his own. Reform threw nothing at it because they wanted Burnham to win. They want Starmer gone because he’s dangerous to them and their Trillionaire backers.
BBC alert saying "Andy Burnham wins with nearly 25,000 votes published at 03:13 03:13 Andy Burnham has won with 24,927 votes, beating Reform's Robert Kenyon by more than 9,000 votes." With a graph showing as much. The graph also slows that Restore only got 3111 votes.
r/MarksAndSpencer • 2d ago bigalittleo How strict is a ban from M&S ? Question Just out of sheer curiosity. When they say you’re banned, how heavily is that actually enforced? Especially in shops outside of the location someone was banned from .
Diplomatic Emergency LastPositivist Summary: In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war. And quite right too, say the pious Khornites of the Sanguinary Utnapishtim, the small Empire in which our tales take place. In order to perpetuate this blesséd state of affairs, and see that war involves maximally - and they mean maximally - many skulls taken, they have created the Office for Ceremonial Calculation. In this series of shorts we follow their misadventures, as this vast bureaucracy of pious Khorne worshipers works hard to ensure we get effective misanthropy, and that the Sanguinary Utnapishtim truly produces the greatest rage for the greatest number. In today's misadventure, we explore a new part of our little setting. Alone in Imperium Nihilus, the new planetary polities of this region are having to make do without the Imperium to, if not keep the peace, then at least manage the hostilities. To that end they have established the cleared out Space Hulk, Tintirki Cinq, as a neutral ground on which the regional powers can negotiate with one another. Our story today is set on that ship, as matters of interstellar import are decided upon. We follow the Khornate diplomatic corp as it attempts to stave off disaster for the Empire...
Michael Caine in Austin Powers: Goldmember.
An extremely tall Eldar leans over a human woman. The atmosphere is sensual, pink the dominant colour tone. It is the cover of a comic book. It is titled "Interstellar With You".
A two panel comic. In the first Angron looks incredulous as he says "You lived your entire life for battle! Are you really going to die for some mortal!?" The word "mortal" is accentuated by showing he clearly has Yarrick's skull hanging around his neck. In the second panel Ghazgul simply responds "somwone iz." The comic is credited as "drawn by @cme_t and is said to be based on a meme shared by @momao92
Image from Pacific Rim of the scientist pointing at a blackboard
Advert for Dawn of War 4 with the tagline "We came for knowledge. We found truth. Now the Machine will claim it."
Man in a crowd holding up a sign saying "racism is weird, have you tried hobbies?"
The companion cube from portal
An aeldari farseer holding a gun with a speech bubble coming from them to suggest they're saying the quoted text
The mayor said he would use new licensing powers to be granted to him by the government to help "protect venues" and "extend London's late-night offer".
Post title: Marrying Kharn There is an image of a Khornite skull wearer. This image is credited to Goonhammer. ``Dear Aunt Agony, Two questions. First, is it permissible to marry Kharn? Second, how can I go about marrying Kharn? Picture attached for reference. [an image is here attached of Kharn looking hunky, topless at a beach] It is titled Kharn the Faithful by Frost Llamzon. Answer requested urgently. B4tBG, Skull Full of Dreams.''
A wolf knight holding a giant hammer labelled "logic". It has libertarian colour scheme and flag on its armour. Its creator, the Filthy Heretic, has told us this is "the last sight of many a commie".
Zaid Jilani saying that someone saying Platner seemed mediocre to them was a "perfect comment for how elitist and HR Lady the modern Democratic Party is. I could find him at Walmart, therefore he shouldn't serve in Congress. We're a democracy, dweeb."
World Eater Thragg Meme
A translucent Shinzo Abe appears against a sunset in Japan. He's smiling and the text suggest he's saying "Have sex". In the bottom right corner it says "See you Space Cowboy..."
Lionel Hutz imagines a world without lawyers and its all the people dancing together in peace and joy in a peaceful valley
A mechanicus tech priest (Toastus from If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device!) with a speech bubble emerging to suggest he uttered the quoted post
I posted: "Honestly this little anecdote is for me just emblematic of something I really believe: the British public are genuinely much nicer and more decent than either our political or media class are themselves, or would have you believe." I am quote tweeting a reporter Jessica Elgot noting that Labour MPs were finding people on the doorstep remonstrating with them about letting Reform in.