Hot Take: #StarWars made more sense when only a translator like C-3PO or a text interface like the one in Luke's X-wing allowed humans to understand the bleeps and bloops of an astromech droid. Understanding unaided would be akin to being able to decode the whine of a fax machine or dial-up modem.

AMERICANS: It is horrific an unacceptable that guns continue to be the leading cause of death for American children. We need serious change! RFK JR.: I’m bringing back deadly childhood diseases! AMERICANS: No not like that

@kenwhite.bsky.social in your expert opinion does the Rule of Goats apply to Governor Newsom’s current antics?

When the United States ripped off a British army recruiting poster for WWI, they replaced the illustration of Lord Kitchener, Secretary of war with the now-famous character Uncle Sam because the artist Montgomery Flagg knew that Americans swear fealty to ideals, not individuals. Not so for MAGAs.

Just went with the fam to a protest today and some passing motorist got really angry at my wife's sign which just read "Good guys don't protect pedophiles." He screamed something about Biden and then sped off through a red light. As the saying goes, "a hit dog will holler." #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Wait… is *this* the "subway crime" that conservatives are always going on about when they talk about the dangers of big cities?

When a person joins the National Guard, they swear an oath to “support and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.” They do NOT swear an oath to “common sense” and DEFINITELY not an oath of loyalty to the President.

Oh man this totally could have been one of those “I am Spartacus!” moments where a hundred different people step up simultaneously claiming that they were the one who threw the sandwich.

FUN FACT: one of the key distinctions between a “shelter” and a “prison” is whether or not you have a choice to be there. If you take away that choice it’s just more prisons.

If billionaires need to be coddled, prodded and begged to do the right thing with their enormous wealth and power then clearly we shouldn’t have policies that allow them to accrue so much wealth and power in the first place. It’s like saying “You want the king to help you? Build a fancier palace.”

Once again: the world’s most infamous rapist pedophile sex trafficker was publicly scandalized by his association with Donald Trump.

Have you ever been out on a nice quiet walk or having fun at the park or relaxing at the beach and experience the annoying, high-pitched sound of a hobby drone ruining your experience? That annoyance is about to become about 1000 worse and these dweebs are toting it as progress because capitalism.

One of the fun throwaway jokes in the new Fantastic Four movie is when Mr. Fantastic is leading a science lesson teaching kids about multiverse theory and everyone is bored out of their minds because ENOUGH WITH ALL THE MULTIVERSE PLOTS in superhero movies already.

This is why you never let the “Beer Hall Putsch” guys off with a slap on the wrist.

one thing grok didnt say when they trained it to be antisemitic was "free palestine"

It goes without saying that if speaking out against a sitting President was grounds for stripping a native-born American of their citizenship then Trump would have been kicked out of the country back in 2009.

Once I was at the dog beach and Adam Savage's dog sniffed my dog's butthole and it was the highlight of my whole week.

Mexicans? In El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula*, of all places?? (*Fun fact: L.A. is the most abbreviated city name in the world)

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When recently appointed administration member Dr. Oz announced that it is Americans’ “Patriotic Duty” to be healthy, people who live with chronic illness or disability recognized the danger. Fascism has a long history of marginalizing and dehumanizing anyone who doesn’t match their physical ideals.

Call me a silly goose but if the conspiracy nuts somehow turn out to have been right all along about the origins of COVID-19, I will STILL hope the government supports vaccination efforts to reduce the number of people who get sick and/or die from the virus.

So I can’t be the only one who thinks K-2SO’s offhand comment about being in a big military parade to honor the Emperor was yet another subtle dig at the current administration, right? #Andor

To state the obvious, no President should have any business dealings AT ALL while in office. If you aren’t willing to divest yourself from your private business interests—even temporarily—then you shouldn’t be in a government leadership position.

MAGA weirdos are literally reacting with shock and disappointment that the new Pope puts God before Trump. www.bbc.com/news/article...

For some reason I'm kind of tickled by the idea of the Pope having a couple older brothers who were caught off guard by the news. When they heard the news did they exchange a look and say "I guess that means we can't give him noogies anymore?" www.dailyherald.com/20250508/new...

Remove a letter, ruin a movie. Mr. Holland’s Pus

This is some of the worst kerning I’ve ever seen and I used to teach graphic design to middle-schoolers. www.fastcompany.com/91324550/ker...

Still thinking about how one of the first thinks Pope Francis did after getting the job was to do a “reverse Mar-a-Lago” on the Vatican throne room. The guy had class! #RIPpopeFrancis

Just made a new sign for today’s protests. #50501 #HandsOff

Throwing a military parade for one's own birthday is the despot's version of buying oneself a "World's Best Boss" mug at Spencer's. If other people aren't taking it upon themselves to do it for you then it doesn't make you look cool or tough to do it for yourself.

The only people this ghoul EVER says nice things about are straight-up monsters.

#HandsOff rally in Sacramento today! Crowds in every direction.

I never understood the media's fascination with achieving a "beach body" look as we head toward summer. Every time I've found a body on the beach it's been bloated with decomposition and pecked by seabirds.

VISITOR: “So how did the National Cemetery come to be in Arlington, Virginia anyway?” FEDERAL EMPLOYEE: “Sir I must ask you to leave the premises immediately for asking those kinds of questions.”

The State Department just authorized $400 Million to be spent on those ridiculous Cybertrucks but idiots think Elon Musk is actually a straight-shooter working to save them money because he’s been slashing programs to fund AIDS prevention, cancer research and feeding starving children.