Neither are celebrity tabloids or brunch bars (or pop music or fashion boutiques or bike lanes or football leagues or a lot of other things), but people in the west look at these things as signifiers of modernity and familiarity. The Russians are just like us because they also pay for car insurance and play Clash Of Clans on their phones.

No, he hopes that she divorces him so that he can marry Leatherpants Fashmilf.

“slop” seems to be the 4chan inanimate-substance suffix, in the same way that “fag” is the suffix for any person

3…2…1…

On one hand, yes. OTOH, if there’s one thing the Russian state has proven itself capable of doing is shambling on zombie-fashion when people in functioning countries and economies would expect it to have collapsed. It’s as if the things we take for granted as the underpinnings of a state/economy/society have only ever been Potemkin-village-style decoration in Russia (“see, we have parliaments and stock markets and safety standards and celebrity tabloids and brunch bars with fashionable decor, just like you!”), while the real load-bearing elements buried beneath them are something far older and grimmer.

Looks more like an Adonis to me

youth “crime”

A rare orange void

Clive Barker got the inspiration from the gay kink scene. It was a case of literally “you know, you could probably make a cool horror story from this”

That’s my emotional support Saddam Hussein

If the US bans vaccines, Americans wanting to visit Europe can fly to Colombia, get vaccinated for free at the airport, and then fly to Europe.

Give them enough of a reason, and they may respect you as a fellow asshole.

Thatcher may be dead, but TINA lives on in the Labour Party that was her self-professed greatest work.

I scrolled down to the “Our sponsors” section on their page. A wretched hive of scum and villainy, full of gambling and essay-writing services. The fact that they put these on their front page is a red flag in itself.

Your Party are the Hyperloop to the Greens’ high-speed train: a cockamamie pie-in-the-sky alternative that won’t actually work, except for diverting attention from the real thing that actually exists.

If they had had computers back then, this guy would have had a blog about design patterns in Typescript or something.

Any idea where this photo was taken?

“takes a massive hit of ketamine and says”

I think Aldi/Lidl do that in Germany as well.

Bring it on!