itzliquauhtli

physics undergrad student, aro ace, whatever pronouns yall got lyin around, im not picky

[penny-anna]

okay, for those interested, here is a full timeline of how we got to Count Binface:

1977: Star Wars is released, featuring, of course, Darth Vader

(Pictured: Darth Vader)

1984: Director Todd Durham releases his Star Wars parody movie, Hyperspace, featuring Darth Vader inspired villain Lord Buckethead.

(Pictured: Hyperspace poster featuring two Jawa-esque aliens flying through space in a shopping trolley.)

1987: Hyperspace is released on video in the UK, under the new title Gremloids.

(Pictured: Gremloids cover in the style of the original Star Wars poster, featuring Lord Buckethead.)

To promote the film, Mike Lee, the owner of the distributing company, ran for parliament as Lord Buckethead. He ran in Margaret Thatcher's constituency, Finchley, in order to get on TV. Lord Buckethead was representing the Gremloids party.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with Margaret Thatcher.)

1992: Gremloids is re-released. Lord Buckethead rides again, this time against prime minister John Major in Huntingdon. (Here's a fun fact about Huntingdon: I was born there! :D) 87/92 Buckethead seems to have leaned pretty hard into the space supervillain thing, with campaign promises including 'demolish Birmingham to build a spaceport'.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead on TV with John Major. Other notable candidates include Screaming Lord Sutch of the Monster Raving Loony Party.)

2017: comedian Jon Harvey, having recently watched Gremloids and learned of Lord Buckethead's candidacy for parliament, decides it's a great bit. He runs against Theresa May in Maidenhead. 2017 Buckethead seems to have a wackier and also more political approach, with campaign promises ranging from nonsense like 'nationalise Adele' to gesturing at actually sensible policies with stuff like 'lower the voting age to 16 and restrict voting after age 80'.

He also made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. As with his previous incarnation, he was a member of the Gremloids party.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead dabbing on stage with Theresa May.)

2018: Director Todd Durham asserts his legal ownership of Lord Buckethead. Jon Harvey opted not to go to court over Buckethead and handed over the reins. Todd Durham extended an invitation to anyone who wanted to be the 'authorised' Lord Buckethead.

(Pictured: the new Lord Buckethead.)

2019: Lord Buckethead, now played by journalist David Hughes, stood against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. He ran for the Monster Raving Loony Party, the UK's pre-existing gag candidate party. He ran with a similarly silly manifesto as the 2017 incarnation, but with a bit less of a political edge. His promises included 'All doorways to be increased by 1 foot (30 cm) in height' and 'Nigel Farage to be sold for parts'.

(Pictured: Lord Buckethead and Count Binface square up.)

Meanwhile, Jon Harvey in his new persona Count Binface, also ran against Boris Johnson. Buckethead and Binface face off! Binface ran as an independent with a manifesto once again blending silly and semi-serious promises such as 'nationalising model railways' and 'giving £1 trillion a week to the NHS'. This was also I believe the debut of his promise to 'move the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a more sensible position'.

(Pictured: Count Binface presenting the offending hand dryer, inconveniently close to both the sink and the urinals.)

He has a point.

2021: Count Binface runs for the position of Mayor of London for the first time, with promises such as 'London to join the European Union'. He notably finished ahead of far right party UKIP.

2023: Count Binface runs in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election following Boris Johnson's resignation. He once again gets more votes than UKIP.

May 2024: Count Binface once again runs to be Mayor of London, debuting his now iconic 'build at least one affordable house' promise. Notably, he finished ahead of far right party Britain First.

(Pictured: Count Binface with Rishi Sunak. Also pictured: Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Sir Archibald Stanton with a ventriloquist's dummy.)

July 2024: Count Binface stands in the general election, running in Richmond and Northallerton against prime minister Rishi Sunak. He debuts his promise to cap the price of 99p flakes at 99p. This is his most successful election to date with 308 votes.

(Pictured: Count Binface with Andy Burnham. Also pictured: independent candidate Robert Pownell, dressed as a fox for his own reasons.)

June 2026: Count Binface stands in the Makerfield by-election against Andy Burnham, (recently) former Mayor of Manchester running for parliament with the intention of standing in the Labour Party leadership contest.

(Pictured: Count Binface on BBC's Newsnight.)

July 2026 (this week): Count Binface announces his intention to run against Nigel Farage in the upcoming Clacton by-election. He is briefly the only other candidate in the race and by the time other candidates announce themselves the narrative of 'Nigel Farage vs Count Binface' has already bedded in. And then it was now, and then I don't know what happened.

[imaveryevilgirl]

Lawful: Birds can be a person's favorite dinosaur as they are descended from them

Neutral: Birds can't be a person's favorite dinosaur because the culturally accepted meaning of dinosaur does not include any modern animals, only certain species that lived between a set time frame millions of years ago

Chaotic: Birds can be a person's favorite fish because all tetrapods are descended from lobe finned fishes

[shinytarountula]

Discord Server Rules:

1. Don’t sexualize other user’s dads. Moms are fine. You can fuck their mums.

2. If someone falls asleep in the group call you just quietly lower their volume and look after your new sleep buddy. Maybe rename them or the VC to let everyone know but don’t get weird with it. Maybe a little somno is okay.

3. Use personal mute to pee, not server mute. You’ll only make this mistake once and it’s a “mistake” every time afterwards.

4. There should be a channel for posting pictures of animals that various users identify with, tagging them and ideally attaching a thematic emoji. Bonus points if multiple people jump in at once. This channel should have the most exclamation marks.

5. You don’t need to make a thread for that but you should make a thread for that.

6. Don’t forget to raise the sleepy person’s volume again. You forgot didn’t you?

7. It doesn’t matter if people are sexting in the selfie channel, you can get over that. Sexting in #vent is only bad because #vent shouldn’t exist, we have enough places to mute those struggling in real life. Maybe grandma dying adds to the ambiance.

8. At some point you’re going to be asked to play a game you’ve never heard of and you should absolutely say yes. Don’t play games you’ve heard of, that’s a common pitfall.

9. Give it like. A five second gap between joining an ongoing call and talking. This one’s gold trust me.

10. Lower your soundboard volume please. Yeah yeah no the funny mp3s are funny they’re just - yeah, yeah quite jarring. Yeah you’ve been able to adjust the volume they send at and preview them for a while. Yeah, that was news to me too.

[brightlotusmoon]

[ancientson]

I know this is meant to be funny but it actually makes such a good point about how ADHD and executive dysfunction can impact people in really major ways, including financially

[gemfeathers]

[deadgravity]

You don't have to grieve alone.

[victusinveritas]

[renegadeer]

[flareonfloof]

if you want to piss off a man just call him an "average he/him user" it's got a 3/3 success rate for me

[spades-gameing]

this also works wonders

[ihatepissvortex]

[catboybiologist]

HOLD FOR CONFIRMATION

[catboybiologist]

So just to clarify.

He's basically confirmed brain dead.

They're keeping him on a ventilator to try and make it such that a replacement will not be on the ballot in November, and will be appointed instead (from what I know).

Mitch McConnell the man is dead.

Mitch McConnell, the political influence, is not.

I will celebrate if and when the last thing happens.

[catboybiologist]

It is stupidly on brand for the last action of this fuckhead to be an act of obstructing democratic process to perpetuate a fascist regime.

[laurawful]

important to note that in Kentucky, the state McConnell represents, the law requires a special election when a senator dies in office. So no matter when he actually kicks it, his replacement will be elected by the people of Kentucky.

Also if Kentucky did do things like most (34) other states, and the governor appointed a replacement, it would be governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat who will remain in office until his term ends in 2027 (when he becomes ineligible to run again for four years, having already served two consecutive terms).

[catboybiologist]

Good to note!

[mewvore]

*shaking head* lets stop pretending okay. none of you really understand her like I do. *starts drawing her nine months pregnant*

[mewvore]

[mollyjames]

Instant (Financial) Loss

[mollyjames]

I'm learning not as many people know what findom is as I thought. So you're welcome for that

[zoctopode]

can you imagine being a parent in the pokemon world and your kid comes home with one of those straight up basically human pokemon. i know those motherfuckers can talk.

its morning. i see my childs Throh getting some oj from the fridge. 'morning', i say. he doesnt catch himself in time and says 'morning' back. he freezes and we both stare at each other knowingly. 'throh,' he says, but its too fucking late

[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just enjoy cola generally why do people want me to choose a brand

[vixen-flame]

you already did choose a brand, calling it cola 🙄

[what-even-is-thiss]

And which brand is that? RC cola? Shasta cola? Jones cola? Red rock cola?

[vixen-flame]

We both know cola is Coca-Cola. Stop being facetious

[what-even-is-thiss]

Your view of cola is extremely narrow and I do not agree with it or accept it

[another-silly-birb]

Coke is coca-cola,

Pepsi is pepsi-cola

Cola is generic cola

Hi i work in a bar and these are terms i have to legally use!

[the-haiku-bot]

Hi i work in a

bar and these are terms i have

to legally use!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[persbaderse]

before my egg cracked, i had noticed that trans people were often pro-accessibility and up-to-date on the needs of disabled people, but i hadn’t seen any inherent connection between the two (other than the obvious minority-looking-out-for-other-minority thing). but now that i’m trans and medically transitioning, and i have to constantly repeat myself while talking to doctors and nurses, and explain things about my own anatomy to medical staff who should already know this, and having every single problem i might have blamed on my “condition” so nothing i say is taken seriously, all of the sudden i have a little sneak peak into the life of someone who has to deal with this all the time. like shit bro, being disabled probably sucks ass, someone should do something about this

[persbaderse]

happy disability pride month, we all deserve autonomy and respect and access to medication