Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Something missing from this headline is that the police chief appears to be a personal friend of the victim's husband and seemingly was able to easily intervene with just some phone calls. So if anything, this is just a reminder that the cops do have some power to help us, they just don't want to

You've heard of "measure twice cut once" but may I interest you in "measure 10 times cut 3 times and ooh fuck it still looks bad"

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Border Patrol shot someone south of Tucson this morning. Three gunshot wounds. No other details atm.

I would assert that socialists generally have a good understanding of liberalism, while liberals generally have a poor understanding of socialism, and you can tell that this is the case because it's never the socialists claiming that we agree 95% of the time

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card of mom pods

When I first saw Applebee's advertisement for the O-M-Cheeseburger, I was terrified. I trembled. I cowered. Then I opened my heart to it. Here is what it revealed to me. johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/god-cheese...

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Good thing everyone only owns two electronic devices; otherwise adobe's device limit would be really fucking stupid and annoying

i like his funky little hat

i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.

i have to quote this because i need you to experience it without context

My scheming vizier when I start to cough after taking a swig of wine from my goblet

just learned termites are cockroaches

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

This exists and it's called Myrtillocactus geometrizans 'Fukurokuryuzinboku'

The fell for it again award also applies to anyone who thinks most Democrats don't support imperial adventurism This is a 50+ year national goal. It checkmates Cuba and OPEC and weakens Russia/China while strengthening the US position for WW3 It won't be meaningfully opposed. They all want this

we put this rock on the other rock to hold the moss while it anchors itself in place, but now I view him as a little guy and feel conflicted about removing the top rock (decapitating him)

Before/after I politely explained to her why she should not jump up on the fish tank

Before/after I politely explained to her why she should not jump up on the fish tank

wanna see a little handsome little guy

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

Nah man I'm talking about you GAINING other services that would be cheaper in the long run and less stressful. Imagine not getting stuck in gridlock traffic ever again, imagine not having to pay for insurance and upkeep, imagine a nice train where you can kick back and look out the window.

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

basil got decapitated :/

Mississippi river

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bit cloudy

Please enjoy silly pelican

Buddha's hand failed to vacate him

All packed up for my christmas trip

Buddha's hand failed to vacate him

All packed up for my christmas trip

Instead of engaging in avatar discourse, you could simply read The Word For World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin. It's a pretty short novella - I read it in one day - and the reason I recommend it in the context of avatar should be obvious if you read the intro

she likes to watch

throwback thursday to when sox was the same size as matter

distressing the whole squad with inexplicable childhood party artifcats

Cats discovering the new fish tank

two of them

AAAAHHHHHHHHHH

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

back at it again

favorite cafe just permanently closed im not okay rn

Check the replies if you'd like to see a bunch of liberals posting conservative propaganda about big vs small cars lol

three of them

this little guy seems friendly and I've met him a few times in this spot and he seems to want to approach me but i don't think he knows how to hop the fence. heartbreaking.