dad: so whats the deal with the war me: *speaks for 5 min* dad: wow that is an impressive analysis me: thanks I took it from a person I follow online who is a subject matter expert dad: oh whats their name me: They are a cartoon dog wearing underwear as a face mask called Piss Prevail On Earth

The self-censoring nature of many of the most important facts about Trump's presidencies is a load-bearing necessity for his career. The median voter cannot and will not believe that he is as bad as he actually is. They invent a less bad version of him that they can then be persuaded to support.

this thread is an excellent summation & explainer of the recent meeting between a representative of the Holy See and the tradcath apparatchik who, incredibly, tried to bully him

Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

That’s basically Daughter of the Bear King by Eleanor Arnason. Middle aged suburban Twin Cities mom turns out to have been bred to be a hero, sent to our world as a baby for safe keeping, then isekaied to the fantasy world of her origin to her considerable surprise. A good read if you can find it.

Today I learned that the laurel leaves worn in wreaths by Roman emperors and victorious athletes etc. are the same thing as bay leaves. I guess they wanted to be ready to make soup at a moment’s notice.

Plumber’s van. The rabbit holds a torch and wears a laurel crown and an Ancient Greek garment I guess is called an exomis. My understanding is that Olympic athletes originally competed naked, but if the rabbit were naked it would be unclear if it was due to authenticity or because it’s a rabbit.

This week’s adventure involved throwing in the towel on a plumbing issue and and calling a professional, which resulted in a new hole in the bathroom wall and the laying bare of plumbing sins committed during the Eisenhower administration. I’m now poorer but feeling justified in not having DIYed it.

“Weiner Takes All” is a cute play on words to put on your dachshund shirt, but the item description reverses the words and refers to it as a “Takes All Weiner” shirt, which feels like a different message entirely.

Sure yeah, Truman had some terrible ideas about building dams, but I’m having a hard time focusing on anything but that boom mike.

As a reminder — the world got Semaglutide (Ozempic, Rybelsus, Wegovy) and Tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound, Tirzetta) in large part out of research "isn't it funny how you feel when lizard bites you"

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

The early renderings of Trump’s presidential library are pretty much what you’d expect.

Had a dream where I was spending time at a strip club in a run down industrial area. It was a sleazy, grimy, and depressing place, but for some reason they had a working 1980 Atari Battlezone arcade cabinet so yeah, decent chance that would get me in the door.

Kid (shouting from the other room): “Dad, guess which mob in Minecraft is found in every biome.” Me: “Uhh I don’t know, dogs?” Dogs: “Dogs? That’s us! He must have food or something!” *come running expectantly*

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This sounds like one of the worst decisions this regime has made and that is really saying something.

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

Ignoring the joke, I can’t get past the fact that this transaction would involve touching the floor of a 7-Eleven with your hands.

"I loved the books as a child, and I’d say their message of friendship, courage, and imagination is more relevant than ever—please treat this as my official stance and disregard any contradictory statements I’ve made on social media, at least until my accounts are deleted."

“So what’s the demographic you want to target with the new campaign?” “Basically we just want people who are unnerved by eye contact to stay the fuck out of the store” youtu.be/KkpStKiIOr0?...

Australian supermarket chain Woolworths (no relation) offered a Lego-adjacent brick toy set of Australian wildlife. Theres a quokka, wallaby, brush Turkey… and what I assume should be one of the Aussie possums but is clearly a North American Virginia Opossum. I like to think it’s just really lost.

Okay, we just trimmed the cats’ nails two days ago, why do I hear a cat’s nails tapping on the laminate as he’s walking around? Besides insomnia, I mean.

Today I learned that Gene Shalit is alive, 100 years old, and has become Dr. Wily.

At chili’s

“Got any plans for after work?” “Oh, you know. The usual.” youtu.be/wiifCAd3_uk?...

Also available: a Bluey police car. You can decide which Bluey character makes the most sense riding in the back of a police car. Feels like a Muffin thing to me.

There’s now a Bluey toy ferry boat styled and named for Brisbane’s City Cat water taxis. I think it’s interesting and cool that there’ll be kids around the world playing with these things who might visit Brisbane years from now and wonder why aspects of the transit system seem kind of familiar.

You can get gummy versions of Tina and Milo, the mascots for the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. In case you’d like to eat some stoats.

I was just thinking about how I miss car convoys to cons and such when someone in each car would have an FRS radio to coordinate stops but mostly to chat.

“But what if I get another Handspring? Better keep this, I wouldn’t want to want to leave its hypothetical screen unprotected.”

Wife just told me this one: What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam? Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

Yeah, I read all about it in Almost Magazine.

According to the listing this is a queen size air mattress, so those have to be some seriously small people.

Yep! I sure did!

The wolf is on their way to pick up a chicken and wild rice pizza from Sven & Ole’s.

Today I learned that Barbra Streisand has a little replica shopping mall in the basement of her Malibu home. Which is just mind boggling— I mean who has a basement in California?

So I guess it’ll be a rematch of the 2022 IL governor’s race between JB Pritzker and Darren Bailey. Bailey is seen here in a tweet he himself voluntarily posted, having a very normal New Year’s Eve.

I voted. No line, but it was early so it’s hard to tell if that says anything about turnout. If you live in Illinois & are eligible please vote— we’ve got a retiring senator and a bunch of retiring reps, so now’s your chance to help choose who’ll be disappointing you for the next 2-6 years.

I called my mom yesterday & it went to voicemail, followed by a text saying “I’m watching Heathcliff”. I figured out she was watching the Wuthering Heights movie, but I had this image of her not wanting to be disturbed because she was watching the ‘80s cartoon about an orange cat not named Garfield.

When you mop the floor and the room is noticeably brighter because the floor is now reflecting that much more light…

If I was Barack Obama I would regularly call Donald Trump and say the craziest shit I could think of and then forcefully deny ever having spoken to him

“Remember Preston”, a 1980s British ad for bullion cubes in which a mother tries to strong arm her family into eating a goddamn vegetable for once. To get her husband on board she invokes the memory of Preston, presumably a friend who contracted scurvy from his diet of salt pork and ship’s biscuits.

Bag of Disney branded dog treats seen at the store. I feel like one of these beloved Disney dogs was an odd choice as he definitely doesn’t eat any treats. They could have gone with Nana, Dodger, or so many others. Personally I would have put Goofy in one of the lower corners just to raise questions

I picked up a toy dragon for Giant Dog at Costco yesterday. Sadly not as durable as the llamas they sometimes carry, as she’d extracted the first squeaker in less than a half hour.

Good morning from the dog park.

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

Lately it’s hard to find TV that holds both our and the Kid’s interest, but we all seem to be enjoying Aggretsuko so far. In one episode another character tells Retsuko she looks like a Sanrio character, so I guess that answers my question of whether it’s part of the Hello Kitty Cinematic Universe.

This week’s Worst Best Sellers podcast reviewed the 1976 Governor General's Award winning novel Bear, which… you may have heard of. Right out of the gate they called it “a shifter romance without the shifting” & their guest “a Canadian author who likes bears a normal amount” and I snerked.