They suddenly realized they could be branded as the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

Worse than Amarcord's Grandpa lost in the fog 🤣 youtu.be/G2swhdj9H9Q

They need to add targeting ornament on the bonnet ;)

R.I.P. Irony

"Cause it's all you need" ;))

At some point (*) Americans may have to choose between either waiting for few remaining institutions to mitigate things or deciding that only mass protests are left "working". (*) Hopefully if latter is ever chosen, it will not produce some Pulitzer wining coverage like Tiananmen or Trang Bang.

This old Radio Yerevan joke aged really, really poorly ;) Q: What is the difference between the Constitutions of the USA and USSR? Both guarantee freedom of speech. A: Yes, and the US Constitution also guarantees freedom after speech.

Vegas, Baby! And it ends with One More Casino Trump Drove Into Ground.

Zigackly!

The guy sure knows his Reichstag Fire history ..permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and to suppress publications. It also gave the central government the authority to.. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

The Tall Guy, Emma, Jeff, Mr. Bean and Madness! Still probably have the 35 years old pirated VHS tape somewhere 😎 Btw, though I'm not sure you got the full experience - not only has US version replaced much of British slang, cut portions, but there's no Suggs from Madness in It's Only Love scene

Trump will be gifting Golden Calf, Putin, Golden Shower.

Voting Rights, Shmoting Rights! We don't need no stinkin Voting Rights, we have ultimate Clear View Voting Boxes!

Jasper Murdock, Rupert Murdoch, it's easy to confuse these two ;) bsky.app/profile/lary...

After Elon bought TW I stopped updating it and stayed there till it stopped working for old versions. As BS after 2 years still have no intention in releasing native tablet version, I see no reason to continue updating even if this "verification" can be skipped by just changing Country in settings

Here comes SCOTUS To Save The Day youtu.be/EJi6nyW6faA?...

There's full author's photo

The joke will soon be relevant in US, only with Trump's Central Committee instead of "Central Committee of the USSR"

Elon is a direct descendant of that Soviet army sergeant teaching basic science to recruits - Water boils at 90 degrees - Comrade sergeant, water boils at 100, interrupts recruit, a student - Shut up! Next class: - The student was right, water boils at 100, the Right Angle boils at 90 degrees.

A distinction without a difference, as very soon they will be one and the same (CIA|KGB) entity, with same Big Boss and same goals. And same Gulags to populate with "enemies".

Boob jobs and Oscar ceremony affections does not trump (no pun intended ;) original class & talent 😎 youtu.be/nfDAoSDsAS4?...

How soon before Fürer Musk demands, and Co-Führer Trump issues EO, ordering that all federal workers must wear armband identifying them as such?

Not all, Putin will have first picks ;)

It's just a generic "of course" if there's no accompanying info of Trump/Kushner's big property deals with wobbling Serbian government (well, wobbling Serbian Strongman in power ;) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Ministry of Enlightenment & Propaganda

We're ready, now! youtu.be/xqmHIdL1h_k?...

Ha! Brisbane WTA/ATP has ingenious solution for towels - instead of players having to walk to the towel box or ball "attendants" having to bring them and collect sweaty towels, they opted for - bringing the towel in the basket to the players 👍😄

If Bluesky has not glitched (or maybe intentionally ;) and limited @davetroy.com from posting, there may be an interesting answer from him - though, one he's been repeating for few years now ;)

When Morn leaves, it's all over - Rule of Acquisition #286 by Quark Deep Space Nine s03e03 - House of Quark youtu.be/zl9g68j_ktI?...

Mark Romanek's Static (1986) - Widely regarded as one of the most underrated movies of the 80s youtu.be/WmdJNC3627c?...

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Or, one cover and one page every day, for the next 300 days :)

Victor Klemperer The Language of the Third Reich inference-review.com/article/the-...

Don't wake a sleeping bear ;) youtu.be/B2wgF7-GWBA?...

Found this while Googling "within past hour" switch, about any info on ongoing Bluesky Server Error - it was just posted on CT by @drmoore.bsky.social 😎👍 www.christianitytoday.com/newsletter/a...

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - Broadway Melody of 1940, the second half of the "Begin the Beguine" number. youtu.be/37XhIuqsWVk?...

@emollick.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Jaron Freeman-Fox and The Opposite of Everything at the LulaWORLD Festival in Toronto. youtu.be/YsVZgrCVdBQ?...

A Touch of Glass youtu.be/xqmHIdL1h_k?...

To Split the World in Two: A Closing Argument davetroy.medium.com/to-split-the...

Manès Sperber (1905 - 1984) Excessive lying and fantasizing in politics first creates an "appearance of reality" - initially very suitable for manipulations, scumbags and thieves - which, if not prevented, ultimately ends up as "reality of an appearance", i.e. as the terror of the simulacrum.