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In honor of Star Trek and World Dracula Day, phrases from Dracula as Star Trek episode titles:
I thought at least one of these had to have actually been an episode title but the closest I found on a quick look is that the first draft title of the episode The Cloud Minders was Castles in the Sky. It’s, uh, easy to guess why.
It's Jeff! Meets Daredevil #1 (2026)
written by Kelly Thompson art by Gurihiru
Happy Intergalactic Towel Day!
No matter what the politics, eggs hatch, and milk sours.
Lords come and go, but dust accumulates.
Lilac was common in the city. It was vigorous and hard to kill, and had to be.
An oldie, but a favourite.
Happy Glorious 25th of May.
"Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn't want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart."
It has come to my attention that it’s not a common “belief” in most countries that the weather on your birthday is indicative of how good or bad you’ve been all year.
When I say belief I don’t actually mean that people in Denmark truly believe it. It’s more like a funny thing you can say like “The sun is shining so I’ve been good” or “Its not my fault its raining. Must be all the other people who have their birthday today”
As someone who was born in December I’ve apparently never been good a day in my life according to the weather while people who were born in late summer are apparently angels walking the earth.
Heh, the weather on the day you were born says nothing about you in this context because it’s supposed to be indicative of your behavior since your last birthday. You haven’t had a chance to be good or bad yet on the day you’re born.
Unfortunately your personal weather preferences don’t count. It goes like this:
Downpour/snowstorm/storm: very bad
Rain/snow: bad
Cloudy: neutral
Sun with clouds: mostly good
Clear skies: good
Heatwave with cruel sunshine: people will beg you to commit a crime next year to save us all
You can however request that a person behave a certain way to get your desired weather on their birthday. My grandmother used to say she had been deliberately bad so her garden would get rain.
The responses below are exactly the spirit of this “belief”, silly and fun banter for all.
I am also a cloudy/rainy days are best sort of person but I do love where this idea wraps back around. Like, a day where it is violently bright and hot so much so people decide there’s such a thing as ‘too good’ and tell you to please jaywalk or something so that the sun doesn’t crash into the earth next year. :D
Reform UK in Wales, Day 5
It's important to keep an eye on our elected officials, but to be honest, I'm only really doing this to see how long it takes for Reform to start in-fighting. If today is the 5th day of this new Senedd, on what day do you think we'll see the first sign of in-fighting? Can they make it to day 100? Can they make it into double digits?
Well, the correct answer is, they started today. Hehehe.
Francesca O'Brien
Small item to start. Francesca O'Brien won one of two seats for Reform in Gwyr Abertawe. She was congratulated by Voice of Wales, an anti-migrant, anti-Muslim hate group. They posted Francesca's photo on Facebook. And Francesca replied to thank them for their support.
This is bad. The group's run by a known fraudster, and a failed candidate for rightwing anti-EU party UKIP. Both are associates of anti-Islam criminal and terrorist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage had urged party members to distance themselves from Voice of Wales, who proudly embrace the labels "bigot", "far-right" and "racist".
It's an interesting rift. Voice of Wales used to support Reform, but they've now called for Farage to embrace them, or they'll switch their support to rival far-right group Restore, whose leader is Rupert Lowe. So Reform have some competition in the populist far-right space.
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Meanwhile, Reform's new chief of staff is Torfaen Councillor David Thomas. Three fun facts about David Thomas. Vote for your favourite!
What's the best fact about David Thomas, Reform UK's new chief of staff in Wales?
He published misogynistic music under the name DJ Dowster!
He faked a photo of himself cutting a ribbon to open a new Lidl supermarket!
His window cleaning company Dr Squeegees stole signs from rival companies!
And he's not happy about the appointment of the Senedd's two new referees - Presiding Officer Huw Irranca-Davies of Labour, with Kerry Ferguson of Plaid as deputy.
A troll account on obscure far-right social media platform X called this a "Plaid-Labour stitch up", and David Thomas shared and endorsed the post.
Except ... Irranca-Davies secured 85 votes out of 96 MSes. Which means at least 23 votes in favour came from Reform themselves.
If Reform wanted a rightwing MS in the position, they could have endorsed Tory MS Paul Davies. None of them did.
Failing that, they could have nominated one of their own MSes for the position. None of them did.
And here's the sweetest bit: an anonymous Reform insider told Nation.Cymru that there are concerns within the party about David Thomas's new role. Fight!! It's day 5 and they're fighting!
I don't normally quote Reform on here, because I have no desperate desire to signal boost their communications. But I'll make an exception when they're turning on each other:
"Thomas is already clowning around and is not able to realise his own MSs voted for this. It just shows he can't tell the difference between his left and right shoes. He will destroy the Reform group in the Senedd as Chief of Staff."
I am wearing my sickos shirt and saying YES!
Here's the fake Lidl photo. Lidl have confirmed there was no official opening for the new supermarket.
David Thomas just ... presumably brought his own ribbon and scissors??
I personally believe he had to set up a timer on his camera and lean it against a bollard because he needed his two (2) friends to be in the photo with him to sell the bit
The ribbon was tied to some trolleys out of shot
Okay, so I assumed the photo would be some ai generated nonsense. Finding out this was one of several photos he shared and the others had staff in them, meaning he went to that store and, presumably, lied to the staff about there being a photo op ribbon cutting makes this so much wilder.
Like, his original post was taken down after concerns about using staff images without consent were raised. Also, he’s claiming Lidl is lying and that he was invited by a council member to this totally real event. Which means there are four possibilities for who’s lying here. Lidl, though that seems unlikely that they’d arrange the ribbon cutting only to pretend they hadn’t (also the other ribbon cuttings for their stores I saw while looking up details here were very corporate politically neutral - the mayor cutting the ribbon or schoolchildren having a day of it); Thomas himself, feels likely though it means his defense is throwing a random council member under the bus as well as lying about the company; the unnamed (as far as I can tell) council member; or, wild card option, a store manager not checking with corporate, whose politics align with Reform and who didn’t think doing a little self-motivated photo op would get this much attention. In any event, a more interesting tidbit than I’d first thought when I’d guessed it would be a wholly digital fake.
it is very instructive to play both silent hill and resident evil videogames because they are very similar except for how silent hill is good and resident evil is stupid. it helps you figure out what is stupid in a video game and what is good
for example, in silent hill games, you are confronted with many weird baroque puzzles you have to solve to proceed, because that is the dark and creepy and confrontational nature of the world you are in. in resident evil games, you are confronted with weird baroque puzzles you have to solve because apparently, separate from and unrelated to the ongoing zombie apocalypse, the raccoon city designers designed the subway station map so that if you insert a red jewel into the correct diamond shaped recess, a drawer opens that contains a live hand grenade
See, for me, the silly puzzles in RE games are part of the charm. The fact that they were doing that with the subway system early on and they’ve consistently stayed committed to goofy puzzles (and will lampshade the ridiculousness of them - in RE7 you can find an invoice for someone hiring a guy to make the illusion puzzles in the Baker house) - is part of what gives them a delightful touch of camp as far as I’m concerned. Is it incredibly unlikely and weird that these puzzles exist? Yes, but it posits a somewhat whimsical world where every construction company must have a puzzle guy on staff and I like that bit of silliness to lighten the mood from being chased by horrifying sci-fi monsters.
over the garden wall is so atmospherically delicious but its plot is such a nothingburger. they should have cut the sarah subplot and just had wirt be actively suicidal from the start.
pip and I have determined that the flashback episode should have established wirt as an actual social outcast with actual problems and shown him sneaking off to kill himself by (for example) jumping off a bridge, not realizing that greg had followed him and then they accidentally fall together. wirt’s character growth could have come from fully internalizing the horror of how much he’d hurt his loved ones if he killed himself. their release from death would be a result of wirt ultimately deciding to live.
tbh it feels like this was closer to what may have been the original vision for the story because even the lyrics to ‘old black train’ suggest child suicide to me.
No joke, this would’ve been better. I remember watching Over the Garden Wall for the first time. It was charming and offbeat and then there was the reveal of the world the boys came from and Wirt’s embarrassment about talking to A Girl and it just felt jarringly anticlimactic.
The Monument to the laboratory mouse is a sculpture that commemorates the sacrifice of the mice in genetic research used to understand biological and physiological mechanisms for developing new drugs and curing of diseases.
Happy 100th Birthday David Attenborough [b: 8th May 1926]
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
(I have made quite a lot of gifsets of this man over the years)
love that he keeps doing this. genuinely my favorite fucking bit
he has had like ten “final movies” and everytime i get sad about it. and then he makes another one. fucking love this guy
Comic strip by Boulet. You can find him on instagram.
This is made even better by the booklet with the special edition dvd of The Boy and the Heron where he talks about how pathetic it was for him to announce retirement and then renege. We don’t have to judge him for it, he already has. :D
When I was a freshman in college, a group of us did a bunch of sidewalk chalk graffiti around campus. One of my friends did giant letters saying Just Say Maybe on the sidewalk. Similar vibes.
falling in love with her art all over again...
Starfall by Anastasia Trusova, Acrylic on canvas
Where the Light Breaks Through ✨
Which one is your favourite? 😊
