Mitch McConnell is just out of frame also having the time of his life

They all "had great talks," say "Mitch showed up just after midnight, wearing the chains he forged in life which he made, link by link" and that he "spoke about Iran and NATO" and also how "you will be haunted by Three Spirits, without whose visits you cannot hope to shun the path I tread."

Mmmmaybe?

Have one Dakota week and we can include Guam as well.

Last week I flew to Sacramento to interview William T. Vollmann about his terminal illness, his new 3,096-page novel, and what he plans to do with the time he has left. bigreaderbadgrades.substack.com/p/we-always-...

dr who season 3 and 4 have aged poorly bc harald saxon wouldve ranked as one of the UKs better recent PMs

"The foreign government hospital ship was in US territorial waters making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me."

Hey guys what if Canada or Mexico set up a carnival right on the border and they had a Tilt-a-Whirl that extended juuuuust over the border and all the pregnant women were allowed to ride it what then

Bart: You love Moleman! Lisa: No, you do! You’re GAY for Moleman! Bart: You’re gay for Moleman! Hans Moleman:

The most obvious one:

Foodify a Doctor Who title. Pies of the Cybermen

Foodify a Doctor Who title. Let’s Grill Hitler

Go to bed; tired is stupid.

You've cashed your last Johnny

You've nailed your last nine inches

You've surfed your last butthole

You've chumba'd your last wamba.

With Democrats in Wisconsin within reach of a trifecta, we have the opportunity to cement women's right to healthcare access for good.

It’s the 400th anniversary of a book being discovered in a Cambridge market, which would be unremarkable except it was found in the belly of a fish (which had been caught off King’s Lynn and gutted that morning), and consisted of three essays by a Protestant martyr (and was republished. Obviously) 🧵

English Language edition of #Tolkien #Hobbit illustrated by Tove Jansson coming out later this year. More details here www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newb...

Octavia E. Butler - BOTD

Hell, I drive a little Kia Soul, and the A-pillar blind spot on *that* is annoying enough.

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...

I pored over this book multiple times in middle and high school, but for some reason it never occurred to me to actually read any of the books they came from.

A Muppet Midsummer Night’s Dream

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image.

A VERY MUPPET ILIAD Lupita Nyong'o is Helen of Troy

MUPPET ADO ABOUT NOTHING Miss Piggy is Beatrice, naturally, opposite a very human Benedick played by _____?

‘Please avoid chugging your ranch’: TSA forced to issue warning as foreign World Cup fans fall in love with American condiment

A fully digitised collection of inland printer. Featuring some great Illustrations by Augustus Jansson. The ads were run from about 1903 to 1908. library.si.edu/digital-libr...

Yes, please.

Oompa Loompa doompa-de-do I’ve a specific warning for you Oompa Loompa doompa-de-dog Exercise caution when cranking your hog What do you get when you’re horny and rash And your self-pleasure setup is sadly slapdash? You may be found in embarrassing state All ‘cos you thought knot safety could wait

Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-mop We found a mess that made us all stop Oompa, Loompa, doompa-dee-sigh What a peculiar way to die What do you get when you chase a cheap thrill? Ignoring sense and your own living will What do you leave for a cleanup crew? A scene that has bleach and a hazmat crew

someone died of autoerotic asphyxiation in willy wonka’s chocolate factory and the oompa loompas sort of looked at each other like “which one of you want to take this one”

Felt cute, might euthanize some children later.

Chessception. A massive chessboard with people standing in as pieces, BUT each square also contains a normal-sized chessboard and all attempts to capture your opponent’s piece on the ur-board must first be played out in a separate, smaller game. It’ll last for months. Players will die, probably.

This isn’t Joe Rogan, this is Alex Jones wearing a Joe Rogan mask in the direct-to-streaming Face/Off reboot nobody asked for.

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

GRR Martin: hey jirt did you hear JRR Tolkien: what? Martin: you got quoted by the pope Tolkien: i got quoted by the pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: THE pope? Martin: yeah Tolkien: the pope in rome?? the holy pontiff??? god's ambassador on earth????? THAT pope??????? Martin: yeah

Pope Leo: now second of all Pope Leo: i gots some words about all this here AI Pope Leo: in fact it reminds me of a quote by da smartest guy i've ever known Blatty: ah yes yes Blatty: you speak of Jesus Christ of course Pope Leo: nope Pope Leo: i'm talkin' gandalf Blatty:

Went camping and kayaking last weekend in northern Wisconsin. Got a bit too close to a protective mother loon, found a lovely wolf spider on my tent (and fortunately not in it), and helped save an abandoned baby squirrel.

The richest part of this is that Trump was famously goaded into running by Obama’s WHCA speech which imagined a garish Trump-branded White House with a bunch of tacky additions, and that’s exactly what he did.

I want every moment of his damnatio memoriae to be like this.