hot DANG! howdy howdy pow pow pow!

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.” Things only got more bizarre from there…

This man IS sesame street incarnate

a few column inches apart yet again, 'if this were a movie, you'd say that's too on the nose' et cetera

When all you’ve got is scissors, everything starts to look like a nail

Is there a human being alive who would read that quote, then click to unmute so they could hear it in his voice?

“Although once a living man, his shattered body can no longer support life, and remains intact only by a combination of ancient technology and the sheer force of his will, itself sustained by the soul-sacrifice of countless millions.”

Madonna No. 2 (1970) by Vicente Manansala

*I* did No LUTE SOLO so hard to pick a favorite

Move slow and fix things

Art of the ancient Americas may not be your thing, but you have to love this earthenware crab vessel. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules. 🦀 This is going into our imaginary museum replica store, pronto. #LACMA Colombia, Calima style, Ilama period, ca. 1500 BCE-100 CE. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

me and my wife, when we are attentive to the gods

Come to think of it, has anybody ever seen the country of Texas and Poland at the same time? 🤔

The red square coordinates I’m crying

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Morning. Tempted to say something rude about those areas that have dominated English politics for over ten years still being unhappy despite their agenda largely being followed. A vicious democratic cycle that we see also in other countries.

little snail ridin’ big snail

This is hilarious. Everyone in America knows they could beat the president's ass in a fight, except self-identifying Republicans who would bravely let him win

ripping my heart out of my chest to pet and soothe her

Zelenskyy reported that Hungary has returned the stolen funds and Oschadbank valuables seized by Hungarian special services in March of this year.

These elections are LOCAL. The General Election is FAR AWAY.

Sitting here thinking about the structural, stylistic, thematic, and action-based parallels between The Odyssey and Pootie Tang.

Celebrating #NationalCartoonistDay with George Herriman, Charles Addams, Marjorie Henderson Buell, and Walt Kelly.

In just over a month, the duration of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will match that of the entire World War I. And the entire might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, as well as of the Kremlin's corrupt useful morons in the West, still can't defeat Ukraine.

Crow friend

god bless get your war on

Trump telling that stupid scorpion & frog story over and over again would be the most clumsy bit of signaling imaginable if it happened in a film or TV show. He is clearly the fucking scorpion! He kept telling his voters this! & now theyre like "wow I cant believe he's doing things he said he'd do"

Brad spends all day, every day, around cows, and yet he has no ability to detect bullshit.

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

lettuce is trying to take my balls

Russians standing by the monument to the Wagner, with Perm burning in the background. A brilliant photo.

One of my favorite Superman stories is that he once led a greedy, corner-cutting mine owner and his party guests into a mine, then caused a cave-in to trap them. Facing death, the mine owner recognized the hardship and danger that his miners dealt with every day and changed his ways.

This trio of juvenile green herons continue to expand their territory and learn how to be adults! I saw this adult try to urge the juveniles to move and extend their necks as they ready to hunt on their own ZOOP TRAINING! What a gorgeous morning to observe this family 📷🌿🪶

life is a lot like monopoly in that my beauty contest winnings are not enough to pay my rent

the giant mutated squid actually being a real thing was critical to Ozymandias’ plan

SCOTUS needs one ordinary dude who, when the other eight have finished explaining intricate abstractions in Latin, can say, "But that doesn't make any sense and isn't fair." The ordinary dude's vote will count as five votes.

Happy "Hitler Killed Himself in a Bunker Day" to those who celebrate.

The Two Trumps

what the actual

Megatron, hunter of minnows, destroyer of food pellets, absolute drama queen, is 144 grams today. 42 days until she is released back to her native waters in the Chesapeake Bay.

we are told that it’s Europe that has a problem with free speech

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

"So Andrew says to Donald, can you change a ten for two fives?"

the Fourth of July this year is going to be an unspeakable civic obscenity

Thin White Duke Thicc White Dude

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a ballroom

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

Reagan actually got shot at the same hotel and never asked for a ballroom