My theory is he felt the glass whizz by his ear and then it was slightly damaged in the fall somehow. I'm also unaware of any regime in history that tried to fake an assassination for public goodwill. Especially in an dictatorship, getting shot at makes you look weak not strong.

Being raised in a Mainline Prot church with Evangelical sensibilities, I could never figure out if people meant God LITERALLY told them what decision to make or they meant it metaphorically. Cause usually in the Bible it's a big fucking deal when God speaks to humans directly

Ooh, spicy today, I like it

Looks like viewers at the time noticed this but I can't find confirmation from a writer www.backofthecerealbox.com/2007/02/nami...

Went to the silent book club with a oral history of WWII by Studs Terkel. I mostly picked it up because of his goofy ass Bobson Dognutt ass name. It's good. Quite brutal at points. One guy's gf gets killed at Pearl Harbor because some idiot was firing 5in shells and hit her house by accident

Other teams, they call smell it in the air, they see dogs and chickens fleeing to higher ground. The Hurricane is coming, 8-0 in the Playoffs so far, air raids are sounding. Go Canes!

I am learning just now from watching trailers at the pub that Marty Supreme is set in the 40's. I don't know why I assumed it was set in the present day

Oof, sour mood in the Canes pub rn. Having to tell the little girl that only adults can say "skullfuck"

Went to look up Oberlin college's tuition and noticed something odd. The meal plan costs more than housing? Do they eat wagyu steaks every day, I spend about $2,500 a year on food shouldn't students benefit from the cafeteria economy of scale?????

Ugh, graduation week. Loud annoying drunk youths and their families a every brewery.

I've stuck with the show this far so I might as well finish The Boys S5 now. Much has been said about Garth's much worse humor and edginess in the comics but there's something about the way they're structured I miss. In the comic each arc was episodic, The Boys have a plot 1/

I think if you were a bison and you tried to convince the other bison we shouldn't bother defending against wolves for this reason, they'd kick you out of the herd and then the wolves eat you.

I detect a hint of gender in this

*Reads to the last paragraph "Yeah see if you really think about it, JD Vance's mom OD'ing on fent she willingly purchased is basically the same thing as a Marine dying in Iraq from blood loss after an IED hit their vehicle"

I like the part where NBC assumes we all know what Project Freedom is exactly and doesn't have to bother telling us what precisely it means for the US to be guaranteeing safe passage through the strait.

Costume design for a woman in a recent Uruguayan horror movie. Another win for American cultural soft power

Looking in the library for the next month's Book Club book and seeing it's in the YA section

Alderaan used to be an imperial power so they have some off-planet territories on nearby moons and asteroids. Kind of like the Falkland Islands.

As a fan of the Time Cube guy I have to say this is great, check it out!

"Hey John, got a couple notes from the network. They want you to explain why the stewardesses keep looking at that little boy with fuck-me eyes and also you forgot to put in a conflict" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyM...

I'm generally a Nolan optimist but I am a bit worried about how he's going to handle the "Odysseus slaughters the suitors" part at the end. Historically speaking fight scenes have uh, not been Nolan's strong suit *Spoilers for a 2,500 year old poem.

Oh hey cool, the thinking machine has perfected it's Internet Stalker voice.

I noticed when watching an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger after Chuck's death that there was a weird strain of reverence/mythologizing about Native Americans in 90's conservative media. Now I wonder how much of that was directly due to Ted Turner's influence.

Saw someone on a completely unrelated note say they were reading Hard to be a God and noticed that just like in the book, we also live in a world where ignorance is King and expertise is chastised and persecuted; thinking about this is going to ruin my day

idk, anyone else think the depiction of Troy looks weirdly cheap? The wall is like ten feet tall and the tower collapsing on itself looked weirdly anachronistic (even though as an American I obviously know towers can actually collapse like that)

The artist apparently only had one photo of Mark facing forward to use as a reference and had to just kind of guess how he'd look in profile

Marc talks to his computer like Homer wishing for a turkey sandwich and gets similar results

As a reader I'm struggling a bit with "300,000 e-books a month are published on Amazon". Even the pre-LLM standard of 100,000 feels like too much????

Stand around, wait for Poison Ivy to attack, same as all galas.

Hey Schiff, thanks for posting a link to the bill or a news article about the bill so I can actually read what it says and I don't have to just make the most uncharitable assumption possible about what this means

Thread 'o Star Wars thoughts. The explanation of the Parsec line being that Han was trying to dupe Kenobi and Luke makes zero sense even if that's what the script says. The EU retcon about avoiding black holes is more sensible.

Oh look, the 10,000th example of why AT-ATs make no sense as a military weapon

*Utters a weary sigh and once again points to the stage direction in the original script

Laura Jane Grace show was great. Lung was one of the openers and I got to chat with their drummer in the smoking area. The secret sauce to their sound is Kate plays a children's cello. Apparently it distorts better when modded than a regular electric cello

Hold on a second here, starts? The reconstruction of Gaza hasn't started yet????? Hasn't the war been "over" for six months? What's Jared and Elon dicking around for?

You know, compare to other accounts I've read from POWs, Seymour Skinner was eating pretty good in that Vietnamese camp. A stew with four kinds of rice AND prawns??? He must have been at the good camp the Red Cross got to visit.

*Trump in 2023 casually reading some Lenin before bed "Hmmm, colonies serve as markets for overproduction in the Imperial Core? That's a fantastic idea, we should be doing that!"

Anthropic trying to convince people Claude is sentient is like if someone selling an automated octopus carving machine and working to make it work faster told it's user octopodes were sentient. I dunno man, if you really thought that wouldn't you be in a different line of work?

Tim's done the Alex Jones voice before for his role in People's Joker but man, it sounds like it hurts to do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exu1...

I realized why this drug addiction memoir felt so strange. It recalls events that happened in the 40's and was published in the 60's, they hadn't invented the idea of using therapy for drug addiction yet. That's why the author isn't psychoanalyzing her childhood or relationships

Oh, comedian Eric Andre has a music album out today? "Film Scores for Films that Don't Exist". Okay, weird name, wonder what it could be. Oh that's literally what it is. Wonder what led him down this path, last I saw he was doing a prank show for Fox?

It's strange reading an addiction memoir and thinking the narrator comes off as extremely unsympathetic. Her entire adult life is a series of very poor decisions long before her first taste of Demerol. Girl, don't leave your husband for a fuckboi who tells you to your face "Yeah, I'm a fuckboi"

The second story in this article is Mr. Beanie Hat criticizing the new Animal Farm movie for not being anti-Marxist which, lol lmao.

*Andy Serkis, after finishing the audition for his role on Andor "Oh you know Tony, I'm actually working on a movie about an authoritarian system too. Let me know if you want any help in the writer's room"

Oh no, not LIV dying without Saudi money! That was my favorite sports tournament spelled entirely with Roman Numerals!

Post a meme made by you.

In a conference call for some paint dispersions made by someone else that we test. All our products are six digit number combinations like 11B748 so this meeting is like listening to a numbers station.

Mel Gibson movies but he only continues his streak from the 90's of people fighting the British. It's a bit of a stretch but what if a very light-skinned Portuguese sailor somehow became a general in Shaka Zulu's army at Isandlwana?

Ah, I love reading Wikipedia articles for tech companies, always a great source of the most insane single sentences ever written "Block received angel investments from Marissa Mayer, Kevin Rose, Biz Stone, Dennis Crowley, Shawn Fanning, MC Hammer, and Esther Dyson."

Receiving breaking news from a local subreddit that a DJ at a "2010's" themed night both did not play actual 2010's music and played the We Are Charlie Kirg song as a gag.