This is my surprised face.

Spoiler: it’s plastic explosive

My cat loves to lick plastic, but not actually bite it.

Not sure about the others, but DC doesn’t have the option of going it alone, so it’s become a state, and get representatives in Congress, or remain a special case as it is now. Given its large minority population, the Republicans won’t have it as a state any time soon.

Hopefully “vibe coding” will be next.

As they say, if you talk to God, that’s praying, but if God talks to you, that’s schizophrenia.

Displacing minorities is a feature. Otherwise Those People might build up generational wealth, and eventually start considering themselves white people’s equals. POSIWID.

The law is harsh, but it is the law

Only 4 weeks? In much of Europe, 5-6 weeks is the norm.

and ducks evolved opposable thumbs

Those new Xiaomi phone cameras are something else

Apparently seating on aircraft is allocated similarly.

There was a list floating around (before Trump) of songs that, with sufficiently motivated reasoning, could be claimed for conservatism. I don’t remember the entirety of it, but I recall The Beatles’ “Taxman”, and the reasoning that taxes are bad, being a representative example.

New tattoo design just dropped

Look at Stars ‘n Stripes Shrek there. Isn’t he just the happiest guy ever?

Looks like someone emptied a bag of cats

Apparently the lights in the letters L, M and A in the Islamabad Airport sign once went out, treating new arrivals to the news that it IS A BAD AIRPORT.

You own a handful of shares, the dividends of which would cover 0.1% of a very modest lifestyle → you’re a millicapitalist.

OTOH, look at all the Stormtrooper cosplayers, who actually have formal legions and get into character about defending the Empire the way Good Germans would about the Third Reich.

One problem with Star Wars is that it makes fascism look cool to enough of the public that the next generation of real-world Nazis approvingly quotes it. (Compare this with Doctor Who, whose in-universe fascists, the Daleks, are kind of pathetic and not something anyone would emulate.)

Also, he had, by all accounts, a crush on a noblewoman named Beatrice, whom he made into the embodiment of beauty and goodness in his books.