Best read with a British accent, naturally:

There was a young girl from Nic’ragua
Who smiled as she rode on a jaguar
They returned from the ride
With the young girl inside
And the smile on the face of the jaguar

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

It’s brutal, isn’t it? 7 minutes of pure distilled existential terror

Cartoon GI Joe or live action GI Joe? I’m inclined to cut cartoons in general a lot of slack in terms of physics abuse

Some English brats got there 40 years earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

Everyone’s ragging on the Christmas retail ambience songs, but at least you can mitigate the risks of hearing those ones by staying the fuck out of shopping malls. My top three:

• Cotton Eye Joe
• Whatever that song is that’s basically just “tonight’s gonna be a good night” over and over
• Danza Kuduro

You can get that good, scurvy-busting vitamin C from meat just fine, all you have to do is eat it raw

Wicked Game in my ass

https://http.cat/status/504

Reverse image search says yes

Is that specifically what it is? I thought it was just a news alert

Help me out here, I’m having trouble picturing this. Like… a pair of complete, full-size gazelles? Just fastened to the woman’s torso? If not, which parts?

Shush you, Venice is magnificent. Wouldn’t want to live there but it’s an extraordinary place absolutely worth experiencing. Ancient, labyrinthine, palaces and churches everywhere, it’s like stepping into the Renaissance.

Sssssshhh, there there, it’s ok. They’re feature phones

Woof, thought I was having déjà vu for a minute. Nope, just republicans being republicans, yet again.

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-axing-water-breaks-texas-heat-wave-anger-1807538

Quoth Wikipedia, “Even when at peak magnitude of 2.5, this recurrent nova is dimmer than about 120 stars in the night sky.”

The fact that “recurrent nova” is a thing caught me by surprise though, Reminded me of the on/off star from A Deepness in The Sky

Definitely XCOM in my case

Kinda hot that she can lick her own eyeball like that

The ordinance is enforceable through the private enforcement mechanism which has proven its success in both the Lubbock City Ordinance and the Texas Heartbeat Act. This is how the ordinance is enforced,

So: snitching.

Pretty much this. I’m quite content with losing some of my net worth if it means other people don’t have to struggle as much to have their own place to live.