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In the United States you can legally* buy from a website spores to grow your own psychedelic mushrooms. (*currently not available in Idaho, Georgia and California)

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

I love the website for the late film critic Roger Ebert because you're reading an old review with a line like "the dead Ginny had made friends with a “giant” she called 'The Wizard.'" And when you click the hyperlink for The Wizard it takes you to his 1989 review of the Fred Savage Nintendo flick.

Folks, don't make the tired joke about Godzilla going full frontal nude. That's NC-17. Rated R is Godzilla doing Heroin and saying the N-word.

Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co

'Godzilla Minus Zero' is officially Rated R First Godzilla film to ever receive an R rating

Yeah, go ahead and laugh. My guess is the FBI wants to make it legal to start doing this here. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

aljazeera.comShackled, bleeding, raped: Palestinians describe abuse in Israel’s prisonsFormer detainees tell Al Jazeera they were routinely sexually abused, starved and attacked by dogs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."

Rod Serling would've done this as a Twilight Zone episode about a town gripped with fear/greed of the imminent invention of a god machine named Aycee they believe will make unlimited gold. They drive themselves insane and riot and then it comes..and it's an Air Conditioner that makes things cold.

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Especially stupid move because Christopher Nolan's movies always have conservative subtext. If the right wing waited they could've used The Odyssey to screech about 'low-trust societies' and welfare frauds. But, as always, he's a Tory and not racist enough for them to see an ally.

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This week at a museum I learned the Roman Empire had challenge coins. This is a bronze medallion of Commodus (177 - 192 AD), dressed as Hercules, that he gave as collectible gifts to friends and government lackeys.

All newly-arrived white South Africans are required to conform to our cultural understanding of them, the sole textbook on this being the movie Lethal Weapon 2.

Zeeshan Aleem@zeeshanaleem.bsky.social

I wrote about Trump’s white nationalist goodie bags for incoming white South African refugees, which include android tablets, American flags, and a bunch of literature that criticizes Mandela and says the U.S. civil rights movement was misguided. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

I've had conversations with 70+ year-olds where they've complained about my generation and I've told them the decades I've worked, the house I won't own, the family I won't raise and my expected future and seen in their eyes a flash of incriminating sympathy. But it's only a flash, and they recover.

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Always sad the day they emerge from the pokeball and realize they're sliding down the factory chute.

Cheap Ass Gamer@cheapassgamer.com

Campbell’s Condensed Kids Soup, Pokémon Flavor, 10.5 oz Can (12 Pack) $14.38 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). #ad https://ow.ly/wweH50Zg5pC

Not true. We are doing all of that in exchange for the same nuclear statement and Iran graciously allowing Israel to not deplete its remaining stockpile of functionally irreplaceable aircraft and missile interceptors.

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Hot Take: It's beautifully lit but this movie is pure cheese. The story is a cartoon, the characters are lazily conceived and Walken's ethnically diverse Burger King Kids Club of a gang is stupid. It's an edgy gangster movie from the mind of George Lucas.

Siskel and Ebert Bot@siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.social

King of New York (1990) Director: Abel Ferrara Cast: Steve Buscemi, Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes, Laurence Fishburne, John Turturro Watch Review wp / wd

Charlie Kirk was a human Twilight Zone episode: a man who used sophistry to annoy and irritate his way to meme stardom who then suffers the ultimate grotesque murder and then his name and likeness are stripped of context (like how he used to argue) and he's turned into an immortal meme goblin.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com

In times of immense division, people are metabolizing violence through memes—pushing the A.I.-slop frontier from Charlie Kirk’s assassination to the ongoing war in Iran. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Meanwhile, far from the attention-seeking headlines of the White House Correspondents Dinner, the starving sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln begin to plan what future historians would call 'the death spasm of the American Empire'.

This account is occasionally like a Woot alert for cool toys so long as you don't eat them or stick them in your eye.

#Warning: CPSC Warns Consumers to Stop Using LRIGYEH Magnetic Stick Figure Toy Sets Immediately Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Magnet Ingestion; Violate Mandatory Standard for Toys Learn more: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

This is also the reason Macy's itself is dying. Consumer spending is down because all of our money is spent paying bills.

SEIU_ORG@seiu.org

About 17% of a typical household’s income went to rent in 1980, versus 30-40% or more in many areas today.

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In history today, the Great March of Return, a peaceful march for Palestinians right of return, began and was met by extreme violence by Israel in 2018. The noir of the day is 1953's JEOPARDY, directed by John Sturges for M-G-M and starring Ralph Meeter, Barbara Stanwyck, and Barry Sullivan.

Every day of this war has seen some kind of anecdote that a historian would spend three paragraphs writing about in their history of the fall of an empire.

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There is no way any major media outlet *favorably* compares Oysters Rockefeller here to one of their progressive foes unless the editors got an instructive phone call from the boss.

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Saying something "violates the mandatory standard" sounds like the coldest insult you can give.

#Recall: About 110,000 AirClub Convertible Bassinets; The recalled convertible bassinets violate the mandatory standard, posing a deadly fall hazard to infants. Get replacement attachment mechanism. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

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many people might not know this, but in iran, unlike america, it's considered extremely impolite to murder a bunch of innocent school children.

Micah@rincewind.run

Trump: “okay can you guys just say I won and we go back to status quo, no harm no foul” IRGC: “lol, and furthermore lmao”

Worstalgia: n. The desire to relive the most humiliating era of your life. Ex: A VICE / Wonkette style blog article while pursuing a quagmire middle eastern war in 2026.

Tom Ley@toley.bsky.social

It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website: