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The USPS has gotten on board with the pop cryptid trend, announcing a new stamp set for 2027. The set is called “mythical creatures” and features Mothman, Jackalope, Squonk, Sasquatch and Champ. This follows WVA issuing Cryptid license plates 2027. @CryptozooMuseum @CryptoLoren
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This is a masterclass in gaslighting up to and including the claim that wanting men out of women’s sport is “authoritarian”. It is authoritarian for the state to force everyone to accept a blatant lie at the expense of our rights.
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On October 12, 1976, in Dunn (Hartnett), North Carolina, at 17:00, Tonnlie Barefoot, (8 years old), playing in a cornfield, ran to his mother to tell her that he had just seen a little man not much bigger than a coke bottle, she paid little attention and sent him back,
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The Colour Out of Space by Ron Miller
"It was a scene from a vision of Fuseli, and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well"
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Je suis toujours précautionneux avec Bukele (la difficulté avec l'autoritarisme, c'est d'en sortir une fois qu'on a "résolu" les problèmes que la démocratie échouait à résoudre, sinon sur le long terme on troque la violence arbitraire des gangs contre la violence arbitraire de l'état), mais dans le cadre Haïtien le simple fait d'avoir fait peur à des enculés de chef de gang que l'occident aurait dû bombarder depuis longtemps me range largement de son côté. Il faut arrêter de faire croire qu'on va respecter les peuples en les laissant en proie a tous leurs malades locaux. Ça leur fait une belle jambe d'être respectés. Bref. J'espère qu'un jour Haïti ressemblera a un vrai pays, avec une criminalité raisonnable, des élections et même un peu de croissance.
> Haiti gangs snatch 4 Salvadorans
> they think they just bought themselves a negotiation
> Bukele goes public saying bring them back or you're done
> they try to hand him 4 random bodies and say it was them
> he calls out their bs
> sends 2,000 troops into Haiti
> tells the leader to gather their gangs so he can fight them
> gangs run to the UN for a deal
> refuses all deals
> ignores the UN mandate
> pushes into gang territory and starts cleaning them
> does more in two weeks than the UN did in 13 years
Bukele might be the greatest leader of the 21st century
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“Among gang leaders like General Barbecue there is a real concern about Bukele's no-nonsense approach to gang leaders like General Barbecue"
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Bill Hader asks what kind of editing is done to make Pennywise's eyes look in different directions, unaware that Bill Skarsgård could do it himself.
Skarsgård responded by saying, "Oh, you mean this?", causing Hader to freak out.
The whole scene was caught on camera.
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This phenomenon was noted in Japanese prison camps as well, and was documented in Gavan Dawes's "Prisoners of the Japanese." Among the incarcerated nationalities--British, Australian, and Dutch--only the Americans killed each other in captivity.
It's a shameful part of our history that no one discusses. Under duress and in prison camps, the British relied on their discipline and class system. The Australians formed their little socialistic communes. The Dutch laid low and played dumb. But only the Americans fought each other.
Our hyper-individualistic culture, our elevation of greed and materialism, created the conditions for this to happen.
But self-reflection and humility are not usually American strong points.
In German POW camps in WWII (where Vonnegut himself was held), Americans were the dirtiest and most demoralized. They stopped brushing their teeth and washing, developed running sores and diseases that prisoners from other nations largely avoided, and “became totally demoralized.”
His explanation: Americans “cannot stand to lose.” Their upbringing (especially mothers telling them “you can do it,” “go out there and win,” and dismissing doubts) creates a win-or-quit mindset.
They make good soldiers while winning, but “something in them collapses” in defeat. Losing feels like they can’t go home again.
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A decade ago, @douthat60 famously sd, "If you don't like the Religious Right, wait till you see the Post-Religious Right."
Tonight on this @60Minutes clip, you see that Trump is at his core post-Christian. Ross's question revealed it! Behold, the Post-Religious Right President.
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A PhD is a paid holiday with a deliverable at the end. You get paid to read books for 5-7 years. Aristocrats and kings never had it this good. The only other vocation that offers a comparable level of leisure is the clergy. These Harvard protesters are completely tone deaf. Billions of people would kill for 50k a year to pursue the intellectual life.
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In an abandoned Japanese elementary school, artist Yuka Numata resurrects the ghosts of childhood through bead sculptures.
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Weird Tales artist Matt Fox was born Nov 8, 1906, and never gave an interview. He painted 11 of our covers from Nov 1944 to July 1950 in a stiff style that looks like a woodcut.
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As the world emerges from the chaos wrought by the trans movement, the monstrous incongruity between what well-meaning people thought they were supporting and the reality of what has occurred is becoming clear.
Every day, more people wake up to the fact that trans rights was never an ordinary civil rights cause. It was never about equal rights or an end to the discrimination of a long-marginalized group.
It was a total rewrite of reality—a movement intent on bending the world around the false belief held by a tiny number of people who didn’t recognise themselves as mentally ill.
What was sold as medically necessary, life-saving care has turned out to be an atrocious medical crime committed by true believers blind to the brutality of the procedures they perform.
And what the unsuspecting masses thought was a progressive quest for equal rights has instead resulted in the obliteration of women’s rights, the suppression of scientific scrutiny, the erosion of free speech, and the dismantling of child safeguarding.
Read my latest essay in @genspect’s REPATH series on the madness of how we got here.
