In memory of June Lockhart here is a clip of her and Reverend Troy Perry defending gay rights on the Virginia Graham show www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm2q...

The moral of A Tale of Two Cities is that men would rather die than let a woman have a win

We fly too close to the sun not because it is easy but because it is hard

News: this lady got winning lottery numbers from AI Wife: YOU SHOULD GET LOTTERY NUMBERS FROM AI Me: yes, dear Me (internally:) how many people got losing lottery numbers from AI?

The obvious solution is for George Strait and Bad Bunny to do a joint performance

Planning out my journey from level 70 to level 80 in Pokémon Go. The long pole by far is the "Earn 50 platinum medals" task to go from level 79 to level 80. The good news is I have 46 already. I estimate I will reach 50 some time in 2027

Stop electing Christian nationalists

Nothin else for it

Who robbed the Louvre? Correct answers only

Taking some time off work this morning to go for a nice little walk. It's a good day for it. #NoKings

Be proud

Women don't like the vehicle

Impeach

I hate cutting my fingernails, but I like having short fingernails

Verne: It's called "Around the World in Four-Twenty Days" Hetzel: What's the main character's name Verne: Fogg Hetzel: Blaze it

Kudos to President Trump for his role in negotiating the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

Without downloading anything where are you mentally rn?

Ways to resist fascism

for/else is the weirdest thing about Python I've found so far. The "else" statement is executed if the "for" loop runs to completion (as opposed to being interrupted by "break") for item in my_list: ___ if meets_some_condition(item): _______ # found it! _______ break else: ___ # didn't find any

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Bollocks

Impeach www.fox32chicago.com/news/trump-f...

It's Saturday! 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love

Vacation by Vitamin C

Happy St. Francis day to those who celebrate. Do something nice for an animal

In the spirit of compromise I have decided that Lily Potter (née Evans) is transgender. Petunia embraces her sister's gender identity wholeheartedly, her prejudice is limited exclusively to her magical abilities

Republicans doubling down on copaganda is a bold move when Harris lost 2024 precisely because she was a cop

Today is the first Latter-Day Saints General Conference in history to be held without a Prophet

Impeach

At a Hackathon and bumped into two people dressed as waffles. Struck up a conversation with them and they happen to work with my daughter

New blog post: Pokémon Go friend codes and violence rates by gender identity matthewvaneerde.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/p...

When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail

I loved Dick Tracy, an excellent example of pre-Dragnet copaganda

Watching hockey be like

*Me in front of every high-ranking officer in the U.S. military, all of whom I've summoned to an emergency meeting in D.C.* When Juliet inquires "wherefore art thou Romeo" she is not asking for a 20. Instead she is making a deep observation on the nature of identity

Share your favorite black and white movie

May you have an easy fast to those who observe

Monopoly question: if there are only a few houses left, and multiple players want to buy them, who gets the houses?

Impeach

Snobs: I like classical music because it is elegant and sophisticated Schikaneder: so the guy dressed as a bird and the Black guy run into each other, and each one assumes the other is the devil, so they sing a little duet and run away scared Mozart: (nods)

The genius of blaming a disease on a brand name is that now President Trump can blackmail every other brand with the threat of being the next cause

Time Person of the Year, 2006: You Time Person of the Year, 2025: Your Mom

Watching some VeggieTales to detox from all the "Christian" Nationalism

what movie do you consider “perfect”?

Translation: put a little grease on Secretary Noem's wheels, and you can save your tech company $100k per H-1B employee. It's always about the grift with this guy www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Exodus 32

After watching a lot of these movies I am seeing a pattern: the missions are merely very difficult

Christmas record: Up on the housetop, reindeer pause- Me, an intellectual: you can't fool me, reindeer have hooves

The song Bella Ciao - the lyrics of which were inscribed on an unfired casing at the Charlie Kirk scene - was an antifascist anthem in WWII Italy. This suggests a motive