This is such a fucking scam, Jesus Christ. No wonder my immediate response to this news was “That was a lot sooner than I expected!” — no, it’s still gonna be a long time yet before the Brits and Seps will actually concede their rule of Diego Garcia in any meaningful way. This agreement is as good as toilet paper.

I wonder when Lalit is gonna make a statement about this agreement.

It isn’t like American elections are in any way real or the government of the United States gives a fuck about the people who live there.

Pfft! Obviously elections in the USA are legitimate. After all, every single US state and electoral district is situated entirely on land that the USA legally annexed, right?

Yim Yum!

My mental MP3 player in response to this image decided to put on “Blumenkranz” from the Kill la Kill soundtrack

And when everyone’s female… Muahahahahaha, no one will be.

Once again we see what I call the Seppo-Usonian-American tripartite division: the “Israeli” “Americans” or other “Americans” in “Israel”, these are really Seppos through-and-through, they have sold their chance at dignity for a “guarantee” of protection by The Empire, making their own interests align with those of The Empire; the Palestinian Americans, and the solidary Americans in the West Bank generally, these are the true Americans, because for as much as their lives may or may not have been shaped by Americana or by living in the USA, their interests do not align with those of the USA, so these Americans in fact feel very acutely how little their lives actually matter to a USA that despite all evidence insists the contrary.

I genuinely feel like the word “American”, as most people use it, is a sort of Janus word or contronym, it’s a word with multiple contradictory meanings. I have already reflected on this in my own country in Northern Europe, that just because I happen to share a first language and a blue passport with the NATO ghouls, that this alone does not make me and them belong to the same nation, our nations are in fact not only distinct but in an antagonistic relationship with one another! And the “Israeli” “Americans” I would say have far more in common with those Seppo soldiers in Norway, and the Palestinian Americans far more in common with myself, than the opposite or either group with the other.

So this is not a dynamic that’s unique to the (“)Americans(”) in “Israel”/Palestine, this is a dynamic that is omnipresent throughout the entirety of what people presently understand as the “American diaspora” — it just happens to be that in Palestine, the contradictions are much more plainly visible and felt and much more openly discussed… Except even in the case of Palestine, it’s phrased as “Israeli Americans” and “Palestinian Americans”, as if these groups somehow share a common “American-ness” that the US government is simply hypocritical about, as if it’s “brother against brother”. But call a Seppo a Seppo, and all the apparent hypocrisy of the US government towards its overseas citizens disappears in an instant.

Honestly I thought the dementors were squid ink before I read the label

I learned this yesterday from the same video. Dr Geoff Lindsey is great.

♫ Everything I used to love has turned to shit ♫

Hell yeah

K-On!

Well, it is now 3 years since that article was published back in 2017, and I’m proud to say that my memories have not been altered in any way that I can tell.

On an unrelated note, I’ve been hooked on this sparkling water called “Dr. Breen’s Private Reserve”

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Jimmy Neutron “sodium chloride” ass reply, “everything is edible at least once” is a common joke that works precisely because words’ definitions are not rigid

Edit: I think it’s best to leave this comment up as I originally wrote it, but I’m also going to go on the record to say that I could’ve and should’ve phrased this a lot more cordially.

Washington Post is @washingtonpost.com, so evidently not.

Edit: Bluesky has this about page which is relevant.

The long awaited sequel to Tako Luka Maguro Fever

Amanita bisporigera, or the aptly named eastern North American destroying angel, if anyone’s wondering.

From Wikipedia:

The principal amatoxin, α-amanitin, is readily absorbed across the intestine, and 60% of the absorbed toxin is excreted into bile and undergoes enterohepatic circulation; the kidneys clear the remaining 40%. The toxin inhibits the enzyme RNA polymerase II, thereby interfering with DNA transcription, which suppresses RNA production and protein synthesis. This causes cellular necrosis, especially in cells which are initially exposed and have rapid rates of protein synthesis. This process results in severe acute liver dysfunction and, ultimately, liver failure.

I could not confirm that it causes liquefactive necrosis of the liver specifically, however. I wouldn’t doubt it, but I couldn’t confirm it.

Edit: I should clarify, I got this from the original thread on Bluesky, not my own identification.

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc² in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that’s literally all I remember about that talk. I don’t remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

You could say.

…No?