Mortal, quick question: since the only possible Brexit will be a hard one, what do you think the likelihood is that Ireland reunites and Scotland leaves the UK?

It’s definitely a really good long-term strategy to frame the 2020 election as frivolous bullshit where nothing is of any consequence and it’s all just a game.

You guys, the movie is really good, but this critique kinda makes some good points, and now I’m … fraught:

A footnote in Chapter 37 of Edward Gibbon’s superb History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, written around the 1780s:

It took me two weeks, but I finally remembered the other weird B/W film about a lighthouse, Guy Maddin’s 2006 arthouse silent film, Brand Upon The Brain!

It strikes me that there is something deeply rotten about a system in which powerful people, confronted by multiple allegations and corroborated by lots of peripheral evidence, decide that the best strategy is to smear their accusers with a bunch of petty social-media drama.

Bette Midler gets mad props for this tweet:

It is, but it’s sooooo worth it. I spent the second half of the show just staring at the screen with my mouth hanging open. I just couldn’t react, it was so staggering. 

right? It’s just bonkers. The funniest people I watch are, like, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Hannah Gadsby, etc.

No forgiveness, no redemption tours for these monsters. Let them never wash the stench of it off them.

Spoiler: Spinel’s origin story is a dark take on the lyrics to Everything Stays.

Happy Fun Times for Vice President* Pence and his gay-hating ass:

The problem with that argument, though, is that we have, overall, vastly more laborers than we have jobs that can make them a living. People didn’t decide to work full-time for shit wages and eat all the costs of business because they really liked it; they took on sub-minimum-wage employment (which is what working for…

As the saying goes, a woman (or, I suppose a man, but we’re talking about Melon in this case) who marries for money will earn every penny.

The one redeeming feature of that video is that That Asshole is slurring noticeably more.

ohshit. You guys, Better was great and the video was fantastic, her cameo on Tempo was great, I cannot wait for this. This woman has been blowing my mind for over 20 years, it’s unreal.

Somebody explain to me how “we’re not going to abide by a court oder to which we previously agreed” is somehow a “plan” or a “policy” that won’t get them on the losing end of a judge’s wrath.

Or you could read Yr Wonket’s coverage of Warren’s policy proposal, which notes that this is a monster policy document that addresses nearly every aspect of US policy towards Native Americans (in an environment where the other Democratic hopefuls, at best, serve up some mushy lip-service about addressing racism that…

Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg is traveling across the Atlantic in a sailboat to avoid this very criticism, and she’s getting loads of shit for being a special snowflake.

replying to dudebra (but I can’t do it directly because Kinja just reloads the page when I click “reply”): those won’t be the only ways available much longer. By 2050 or so, 70% of the country will reside in 15 states, represented by 30 senators. While Democrats might manage an overwhelming majority in the House, they…