My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

I don't want to lambast a guy for the crimes of his son, but how many times do we have to hear about another church pedophile. It's not porn's fault you're a sexual abuser. Maybe if people spent time dealing with actual ISSUES rather than blaming everything on a imaginary demon...

DeHaas said he founded Covenant Eyes to keep his kids from accessing porn on the internet. The app blocks porn sites as well as screenshots images from your device and sends them to your "accountability partner" His son used the app Hush to lure a 14 year old for sex, asking for her to send pics.

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child. Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

When God closes a door He opens a window. This drives me NUTS. Terrible roommate. The electric bill is outrageous. There's a bird's nest in the bathroom

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

Turns out All Stick No Carrot comes for the people who have gotten all carrot for years most of all

now I understand why they pushed ads for this into every Tesla, the official car of cheering for Skynet

I need to think on this for like 20 hours straight to process it

Undead Neil Postman, after a couple cigarettes to steady himself, would look at a smartphone and a video app, let out a loud guffaw, and say “my god, they let some Californians enslave the world, did they?”

1. Social media is now 5% following friends and 95% watching videos made by strangers. 2. Every podcast is turning into a YouTube show. 3. AI companies can't stop building TikTok clones. Everything is becoming television. I wrote about why that matters. www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Just finished up work on the next run! Gonna start listing, so I figured: why not start with the beloved Portland Frogs? Rolled poster, foam board poster, plastic sign, vinyl decal, and, yes, even apparel. All in that halftone WW2 propaganda poster style 🫡 👁 wideawakes.army 👁

This guy’s laziness pisses me off. Just going “oh uhhh you know who wants me to make less money, the devil,” that oughtta hold the little SOBs

man if there isn't actual real shit in the epstein files the house republicans are doing a great job of acting like there are

Go tell that long tongue liar Go and tell that midnight rider Tell the rambler, the gambler, the back biter Tell 'em that Frog's gonna cut 'em down Tell 'em that Frog's gonna cut 'em down

Making sure all my enemies know that there's a big rally about how much I suck coming up, & also that it really bothers me

it's not FOR us

As a ton of people have already said, they also deescalate the situation with silliness and highlight the absurdity of the situation rather than the scariness. It emphasizes their impotence and incompetence and dishonesty rather than complementing the spectacle the regime is trying to create.

The costumes are so oversized that they literally block the shock troops from the camera. To the extent that you see them, they stop looking agentive and start looking captive, passive, and lost.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create. So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

What do YOU care about? -privacy violations -working conditions -environmental pollution -regulatory evasion -funding fascism -vaporware scams -unsolicited push ads -union busting -bad diner food whatever it is, Tesla is doing something that should make you never want to own one!

Oh those NYC buses crammed to the gills with Rockefellers, their diamond stickpins poking one another, their monocles tangled

[JK Simmons as the CIA director in Burn After Reading voice] A Qatari air base?

I keep thinking about this stuff about monitoring heart rate and breathing and so forth, and how this is supposed to put your more in touch with what your body is doing, and really it's sort of doing the opposite, right?

Lefitsm as a way to get moral armor for posting

I'm not sure that most of you really care about anything more than the ability to heckle from the absolute moral high ground and it's really gross

Whatever happens, we have got The Froggy Suit, and they have not.

evergreen epigram

Nothing bad can happen, it can only frog happen

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

i mean

gang, there are going to be between 20k-40k people at the portland NO KINGS rally, and at least half are going to be wearing inflatable costumes, i want you to think about how funny that looks for a minute

frog semiotics redemption arc 2025

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE BECOME WHIMSICAL BECOME FROGGE

Increasingly hard to ignore the fact that a significant number of people on this site think that the US should be some penitent/martyr-state kept in a permanent immiseration by the priest-theorist class for its corrupt original sin.

I saw people dunking on ICE for posting that they found one single supporter in Portland, but she is also missing an arm and apparently standing in front of the letters AI

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG is fucking incredible

Christ people have lost their whole goddamn minds.

@gluesenkampperez.house.gov supports the tariffs that are devastating our trade with other nations and making us all poorer Doesn't sound like fighting for ports to me

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding? why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

We investigated the witness list from Illinois' homeschool bill and identified at least nine registered child sex offenders submitted testimony against it

"very happy about passing the MOCA" should itself be considered to have failed a risk screening

i also don't remotely trust any of this. like. if you're stephen miller or someone and you know he might fail his MOCA, you send him a bent doctor to tell him he passed his MOCA and then memory hole the results