Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins, two guys who said they would rather die than get the COVID vaccine, are the two most prominent NFL players to blow their Achilles over the past five years. Back to the drawing board!

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

the severed heads of Santas displayed as a warning to others who would spread yultide cheer

When Dan Marino ruptured his Achilles in 1993? That's right: COVID vaccine.

"Are you impressed by Richard Hanania?" has become a good litmus test. Value debate over substance? Influenced by X? Have trouble with bad faith? Taken in by fancier words? Think showing you're open to toxic ideas makes you better than people who aren't? Matt Yglesias, Jared Polis — any others?

Similarly, Horseshoe Theory always seems to go in one direction. Woo-woo antivax lefties jumped the horseshoe gap to become "MAHA." Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard rode Putin and Assad apologetics to the Trump administration. Does it ever go the other way? Remarkable asymmetry.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Whoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.

For reasons completely unrelated to any opinions about regulatory policy, a Day 1 executive order here in the US should be ending every government agency account on X. Just delete them all, plain as that. For the same reason the US government need not have accounts on Stormfront or 4chan.

Not so funny when it happens to you, is it Marge?

The president who watched Jan. 6 violence on TV and responded to Kevin McCarthy's desperate call from inside the Capitol with "well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you" doesn't think death threats against anyone even a little in his way is a bad thing? Huh.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

People who think "actual thinking" means “insipid contrarianism that substitutes banal edgelordery for any meaning or principle" almost only go right. Never socialists or super-woke or whatever, always variations on "this bigot is making arguments and you're close-minded if you're not open to them."

And even if we were at war, (allegedly) smuggling cocaine is not a belligerent act. Especially since most of the relatively small slice of South American cocaine that passes through Venezuela goes to Europe.

“Kill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possess” isn’t a strategy, it’s just a killing spree

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

“Franklin refuses to get vaccinated (because he’s a fucking idiot).”

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

You have to be fucking kidding me with this shit! “Americans don’t realize how good they have it.” ~ Scott Bessent on affordability

We are about to discover the far right equivalent of "everyone at the leftist commune wants to design the ideal society and no one wants to do laundry"

Who has made this 🤣

Anyone with an internationally adopted kid or gave birth while serving the USG abroad has got to see this and be really nervous about their kid's safety "Where were you born" can be a very complicated story and doesn't have as much to do with citizenship status as it's implied. wapo.st/48WU4RW

while i am always looking for a charitable take on a bad situation, as i believe strongly in hanlon's razor, there's another principle at play: actions indistinguishable from malice in their effects are indistinguishable from malice in their morality.

I guess has big shoes to fill. Eh? Eh? I’ll let myself out.

Currently brushing up on my German, still very much a work in progress. In the meantime, here’s what I got from Google Translate: Wenn Sie immer noch auf Elon Musks X aktiv sind, ermöglichen Sie den reichsten Nazi der Welt

Demokratische Stimmen, demokratische Institutionen, demokratische Parteien - warum seid ihr noch dort? X ist eine Nazikneipe. #eXit

7 December 1907 | A French Jew, Leon Offenthal, was born in Paris. He worked in Morocco as a leather tanner and trader. In #Auschwitz from June 1942. No. 42388 He perished in the camp on 10 August 1942. --- Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs

Matthew Lillard is a national god damned treasure, not only as an enjoyable as fuck actor, but as a D&D ambassador and co-owner with his friends of Beadle & Grimm's (makers of the best D&D accessories on the market.) The only person who looks worse for Quentin shitting on him is fucking Quentin.

You know, if Lillard, or Wilson, or Dano sucked as people, I could see someone of prominence trashing them publicly, like “this guy’s a giant asshole and he isn’t even a very good actor!” But I’ve heard nothing negative about any of these guys, which makes Tarantino out to be the asshole here.

Fucking Roxy Music, man. One of the greatest bands to ever exist.

Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government. Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.

People who couldn't handle the mild inconvenience of social distancing are somehow going to endure the far more immense disruption of getting randomly shot by their neighbors? Sure, ok 👍👍

how it feels to try something on in a store you have no right to try on

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

The fact that Elon’s house of cards hasn’t tumbled yet, despite his very serious efforts to show us just what a vile little man he really is, never ceases to astound me.

Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations

elon musk wants to scapegoat immigrants and inflame racial animus because there is a very real threat to both economic opportunity and political sovereignty haunting our times, and it's him

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

I cannot imagine how thrilled the IOC, FIFA, and UEFA are that the US is now currently as corrupt as all the other countries that they normally work with and their playbook will work.

There's also just the fact that they don't feel like they won because they're psychopaths completely divorced from reality. People are still getting abortions, the TV shows still have people of color, gay people haven't disappeared.

They're mad about not personally receiving the respect (deference) they think they are owed Which they don't get, because they're assholes bsky.app/profile/skyl...

Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58

In South Minneapolis, Minnesota, nearly two dozen neighbors confronted and surrounded ICE goons after rapid-response alerts were issued. The goons were questioning an East African man when the situation escalated, and they eventually left the area without making any arrests.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

I'm just going to post this song as often as possible until it's sweeping the nation. I want to hear this playing in supermarkets.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

Someone who once worked for this guy told me he was at a party where everyone was in one way or another, economically dependent upon him. Under those circumstances you don't get much pushback for dumb statements. When they do encounter that pushback, they think its wokeness that must be destroyed.