If you hear a "polf pilf" sound, it's just me moonwalking in my flip flops

We’re back! And a lot has happened since we’ve been away. This week’s main story concerns unrest in Minnesota, murders committed by ICE and CBP agents, and the massive entity overseeing it all: the Department of Homeland Security. Plus, some stuff about Business Shrek – sorry, “Tom Homan.”

My kidnapped hostage situation ransom photo. Holding up that week's copy of the Beano.

I'd like to know who the first restaurant customer was who said "Well that sounds delicious but I think I'd rather just have its foam."

2.5 words: Daniel Day-Lewis

Great ad. Though ironically BBC output would be 1000% better if they commissioned all of these. But please send this to all present day BBC execs as a reminder of what their job is.

“Kid Rock” is just another name for Epstein’s Island

Flipping pancakes today! With bloody sugar and bastard lemon juice.

People are just getting walloped in the balls left and right here. Steve-O levels of KOs to the cajones. First guy gets six or seven sticks right to the sack.

Left it pretty late to do a Pancake Day joke and now all that’s left is this crêpe one which will probably fall flat and make me feel like a flipping tosser.

Who up wutherin they heights

Another Grok investigation, as Ireland’s data protection regulator launches a GDPR probe into its “undressing” use

The Iranian regime takes brutality to a whole new level. It will commit any atrocity to maintain its hold on power. The citizens confronting it are among the bravest in the world.

Karen Hao thread shows AI/AGI part of Epstein's plot: "for the AGI parasite to overcome regular-human-economy host (so it can grow to be more than a parasite and eventually gain its own superhuman autonomy) it first needs to suck off the resources of the host" …Epstein sends Goertzel another 50k…

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

My phone is a TCL. The Chinese Listening.

Access from the A4042 traffic will enrage you on your way to Newport Twinned with Guangxi in China there's no province finer Josie d'Arby's from Newport We didn't know either thank you Wikipedia Let's say some more Newports… Everybody say…Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

You could hear the hoof beats pound as they raced across the ground And the clatter of the wheels as they spun 'round and 'round And he galloped into Market Street, his badge upon his chest His name was Ernie, and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west

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never send to know for whom the party rocks, it rocks for thee

I'm trying a twist on the traditional lemon and sugar pancakes. I'm keeping the lemon but substituting the sugar for tonic water and the pancakes for gin.

I come from a long line of people who push in front of queues.

Some pancake films: Layer Pancake Ferris Bueller's Tuesday Off Eat, Pray, Shrove My Big Fat Tuesday Greek Wedding The Shroveshank Redemption Double Crêpeardy Mix Days, Heaven Nights Reservoir Eggs Flips, Flips, Hooray! Horrible Tosses

Woody Harrelson's hair was not available.

Me: You should never be afraid of showing people that you’re a man. Judge: This is not your first offence, is it?

Bought the cheapest possible Mercedes today because I needed to use the bathroom at the dealership

imagine killing a whole mammoth and ur crush is like sorry im only into gatherers

You know who else was pinned at the top in front of his followers?

AYN RAND: it is Rational and in fact Noble to care only for one's self because who knows if anyone else is even Real with an inner life like you, plus you're the Main Guy so your happiness is like the whole world is happy NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system

Cop: Can you describe the man who stabbed you? Me: He kept going like this [stabbing motion]

owl: hoo me: mee owl: shut up, you know what i meant

#WhenThereAreNoBiscuits No jokes Well, except for this one

I just want America to turn back to a simpler time, but strictly in the sense that exercise should consist of strapping into a giant cloth belt contraption around my waist that shakes a bunch while I drink a martini.

Announcer: This program is intended for mature audiences only Me: HELL YEAH LET'S SEE THE TITS

Bought the “party” cupcake liners, but I respect that one of them was like, “Eh, I’ll go to your party, but I don’t feel like getting all gussied up.”

Former @washingtonpost editor Marty Baron tells it like it is about his former boss Jeff Bezos.

Conspiring to overthrow a UK Prime Minister might be called a coup. To do so for payment from and the interests of a foreign state like the US, contrary to UK interests? Treason. For the benefit of an enemy state like Russia? Traitors. For which the highest penalties are reserved. Which is it?

Can anyone read this in any other way than that Epstein was using cryptocurrency to fund Bannon's antics with Farage, Johnson, Salvini and Le Pen?

“If Mastercard and Visa were turned off, it would send us back to the 1950s,” before cards dominated the UK economy, and businesses wholly relied on cash, one executive familiar with the project told the Guardian. “Of course, we need a sovereign payments system.”

As I wrote back in 2020, "A society that ignores or downplays a technological threat so long as it is used to 'only' sexually exploit women will be woefully unprepared to respond when that technology is weaponized against other people and for other causes." www.bostonglobe.com/2020/10/12/o...

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear. *See next post.

Can’t believe it’s pancake day tomorrow…. It’s really creped up on me…..

Just a short line of words, but says so much. Odd, rare feeling of positive from it too. First time I can think of when many of the worlds very richest can all be toppled in one moment. If not now, then never. For the sake of the world, let's take the opportunity. There will never be a better one.

It doesn't matter whether it's the Wagner Group doing it, it's still Russia attacking NATO countries. Either NATO and Europe act, or boil like proverbial frogs and Russian attacks will in time become normalised and another pathetic shrug of acceptance.

Here’s last night’s story about the Department of Homeland Security, how it’s emboldening ICE, and why it is – for some ungodly reason – allowing Kristi Noem to constantly cosplay as a law enforcement agent. We don’t care what they say, she does not need coast guard fatigues!

Interjecting a moment of sweetness and light that I normally try to start the day off with. 🧁

I’m teaching myself Morris code... bell-stick bell-bell-bell bell / stick-bell-bell bell-bell-bell stick-bell-stick bell stick-stick-stick-stick / stick-stick bell

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