Doc Benway

Taking a social media break for Lent. See you all after Easter.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

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Many such cases

John, my vision will come true

The reason for secrecy is so stupid too. “Well if muggles knew about magic they’d never stop asking us to do things for them!” Yeah, it’s called having a valuable and marketable skill you absolute rubes

okay yes.

Kind of has The First Law vibes. Magic is real, but rare, even more rarely worth the trouble, and anyone who really bothers getting good at it is kind of crazy and a bastard. But when you actually get cooking with it you can do some pretty wild stuff.

“What if phenomenal cosmic powers were real and also kind of pointless” is a great angle that tmk nobody else has really explored with Star Wars because everyone likes the phenomenal cosmic powers stuff too much.

everyone in that room is old enough to know that jedi once commanded entire armies, that the force isn't just some wacko superstition. but they also saw how, with order 66, none of that mattered whatsoever. the force? let's see if you can jedi mind trick away a million clone blaster bolts

The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.

I liked Fourth Wing well enough, not enough to keep going with the series, but it definitely has the ACOTAR formula down

Jesus Christ these people are monsters.

My favorite part of vampire mythology is how they are simultaneously an avatar of pestilence and rot, and if aristocracy.

This is legitimately shocking censorship by state media

Zeppelins in general need to come back. Trans-Atlantic air-cruises. Cross-country sight-seeing. Etc.

This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

Right, he’s a drunk and a fool and mildly abusive, which puts him in maybe the 80th percentile.

Dunk is a large lad. Maybe he’s six in those scenes

There are a few northern knights but they keep the seven. The castellan of winterfell is a knight but Jory, the head of Ned’s guard, makes a point to say he isn’t

That kinda did nothing for me but I like that they are fleshing out Ser Arlan as kind of a piece of shit

Beginning to end just some of the best actors you’ve ever seen COOKING

Zodiac, Hot Fuzz, Bug, Knocked Up, Once, Sunshine, Superbad, Walk Hard. Huge variety of genres doing gangbusters either critically or commercially or both

She hasn’t even announced and the rat fucking begins

how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?

I really don’t get the faux concern around undocumented people voting. I was a (documented) immigrant to the USA. At no point did I ever say “maybe I should put all of this at risk and vote illegally”. Why would anyone think anyone would do that?

The Sinaloa Cartel is a more successful polity than Sparta

Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp: "You need a higher purpose, and I think you often need a lower purpose. @andrewrsorkin: "What's your lower purpose?" Karp: "I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on analysts that tried to screw us."

Dude is quickly climbing the ranks of Most Dangerous Man Alive

Leftists don’t want AOC either. She’s a centrist shill of the military-industrial-zionist complex

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

People are all “restore your cultural traditions” and “embrace ancestral practices” and “return to pre-Christian rituals” until I’m kidnapping Britons in my coracle to take back home and throw in a bog.