#DING DING DING DING DING

[witchofanguish]

was just following random links from fanlore articles and

[evil-forest-creature]

[joelscruff]

yeah i’ll take 5 frankie morales circle jerks let’s just ring it up

[theautumnaldemon]

Headcanon that human Neb wears the alien antennae headphones

THEY DO

[anonymocha]

FISHAREGLORIOUS R99 POSTING HOURS 🔔

[cowboyhorsegirl]

Dean Winchester 🤝 Tony Stark

enjoys wearing lingerie

[mickidona]

For the character opinion bingo!! How about Jason Todd?

WE HAVE A BINGO

Ask Meme

[thecollectibles]

Desert folks by Ying Ding

[kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon]

German trailer for The Thing (1982).

[snoozmu]

Boy you want some hawt dawgs :3

[amethystsoda]

so the thing is

[dduane]

Just-broken news: apparently the current version of KOSA is dead!

…That was sudden!

Via Punchbowl News: the Republicans (for reasons either strategic or spiteful) appear to have spiked their own bill—the one that passed in the Senate just now.

“Breaking news: The House Republican leadership won’t bring up the children’s online safety bill that the Senate passed with 91 votes on Tuesday.

“A House GOP leadership aide told us this about KOSA: “We’ve heard concerns across our Conference and the Senate bill cannot be brought up in its current form.”

“This is a big blow to the effort, which is spearheaded by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). And it comes just a week after Speaker Mike Johnson told us he’d ‘like to get [KOSA] done.’”

…This is not going to be a permanent respite, as there are congressmen who want to pass a House version of the thing. So it’s time for some more phone calls to your representatives, whichever side of the aisle they’re on.

Meanwhile, I can’t think of a piece of US legislation I’ve been happier to suddenly see fall over dead on the floor. :)))))))

ETA: for those having trouble with the Punchbowl News’s page format, please look under this break for three sequential screengrabs showing the KOSA article at the bottom.

Also: I want to remind people not used to following the way US political news cycles run that a straightforward discussion in MSM of what happened here may be some while coming. The Republicans are hardly going to come out and say “We spiked our own theoretically-kid-protecting bill, gotcha!” in the clear. Discussion will doubtless take some days to emerge, and is almost certainly going to be couched (mmf…) in the most anodyne, nothing-to-see-here, bureaucracy-ridden language you can imagine. …Just so you know.

[alicearmageddon]

HAPPY ELEVEN YEARS

[hamable]

I’m thinking about Mahito’s great great uncle maintaining and preserving a peaceful and beautiful thing in a way that to an outside observer looks tedious and unimportant, hoping to pass the duty off to a successor but ultimately he cannot find one and dies with it.

I’m thinking about the specificity of the blocks being made and handled with care, not with malice or ill intent.

I’m thinking about Hayao Miyazaki, a bastion of beautiful 2d hand drawn animation who refuses to retire.

I’m thinking about a world where animation is so rarely made with love over profit and efficiency.

I’m thinking about how, though the old man didn’t see it, the next generation still hangs onto a piece of that beautiful, tedious thing and takes it with them because it feels important.

I’m thinking about Mahito being told he should forget, but no. He shouldn’t.

[mighty-ant]

monkie kid is either the most beautiful, spellbinding animation you've ever seen or a shitpost brought to life, this is peak television

[luoiae]

fun things happen in skirmishes sometimes.