Even if this obvious lie were true, that would mean he was depicting himself as a doctor/member of the Red Cross, which is coming real close to a number of actual crimes. If, you know, Trump doing crimes mattered to anyone.

Gun Safety Tips with Burt! Missing alt-text Burt says: “Not all men” = “Not all guns are loaded.” But how you handle every gun you come in contact with? You treat it like it’s loaded until you are absolutely sure it is safe.

At least 15 years ago, on a trip to London, my wife and I heard a small kid on the Underground ask why they were going to a particular stop, and she shrugged and said, "Could be bad, could be good, it's an adventure!" And we still use it to justify trying something out of our comfort zones.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

I missed Dragon Ball as a kid, and decided to finally check it out from the start of the OG series. One thing I never fully understood from fans of the show: Yo, Goku dumb as hell.

Bitterly sat through a work training session today, wondering if the world would end, and the trainer told us about the business concept of a "death march" by saying "you've probably heard that term before, this is where it originated." It took all my willpower to not ask, "ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT?"

Nothing like being required to do my normal daily capitalism routine through the potential final hours of civilization as we know it.

Watching the Artemis II feed is an emotional rollercoaster as the crew shares some of the most profoundly, beautiful, human experiences anyone has ever known, and then CAPCOM cuts in to inform them that they've reached the threshold where toilet is now unusable.

i can think of exactly one reason for which i would not blame someone for attending the WHCD

it also has this one

Would be great if Manfred instituted this rule in MLB: only dogs can be bat boys.

Antiques Roadshow used to be a fun, casual watch for me. Now, every episode I watch, I want some culture's equivalent to Killmonger to bust into the venue and reclaim the stolen artifact they're discussing.

A toilet failing on the Space Shuttle would have meant immediately returning to Earth. So, of course, the first toilet to leave Earth orbit fails almost immediately.

[john wick escapes from a gunfight into a room where, unexpectedly, the queen of england is] JOHN WICK: ello guvnah THE QUEEN: cheerio, john [he pets one of the corgis]

Heard a YouTuber describe a massage he got as feeling like a thumb pressed through his muscles, and he couldn't walk right for 2 days. And god, that sounds incredible. I want a masseuse to just absolutely wreck me. If I can verbally answer the question "is that too much?" then it's not.

God, what if it happens tomorrow and no one knows if it's real? What a nightmare.

Once again thinking of when I was packing to move and decided, rather than have to carry them, to throw all of my Harry Potter books, in two different languages, in the trash. Could have donated them, but didn't to contribute to some kid's future disappointment.

This goddamn rules.

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

Walking through my yard, past a spot that was very recently covered in snow, I found a Western Union telegram from 1947. It was sent to someone in a hospital, hoping they feel better. This feels like the first hint of the vengeful spirit who will be terrorizing the house later in the movie.

wow, a rare depiction of the coolest guy who ever lived.

This week I guested on Secretly Incredibly Fascinating with @alexschmidty.bsky.social to talk about one of my favorite topics ever. How off the wall crazy Jim Thorpe’s life was! Listen to it wherever you find your podcasts and if you want more cool Thorpe facts, pre order my book! It’s full of ‘em!

Of all the cartoony nonsense in Into the Spider-Verse, there's only one thing I can't accept. That a teen, in a world where Spider-Man is a real dude, gets bitten by a neon spider and isn't immediately thinking about the possibility of waking up as a Spider-Man.

"We only imagined 8."

I didn't grow up with any Native American traditions beyond a knowledge of Penobscot and Mi'kmaq ancestry. But some Native stories, like the latest Secretly Incredibly Fascinating about Jim Thorpe, with @alexschmidty.bsky.social and @joeytainment.bsky.social, hit in a nostalgic way I can't explain.

A great thing about having esoteric interests is, people I care about don't get big enough to end up in the Epstein files. It's all capitalist shitbags, not niche celebrities like Jack Horner. This is a thing that is obviously true, and which I do not need to read the news to confirm in any way.

Put an empty space in this question for the holiday and the answer is always [vaguely holiday-shaped Reese's whatever]. Egg? Pumpkin? Bat? Tree? It doesn't matter, it's a Holiday Turd, and it's better than a normal Reese's peanut butter cup or any other candy.

There's a lot going on right now that I don't feel like I can significantly contribute to. But Slay the Spire 2 comes out this week, with chip co-op mode. So one thing I can do is reach out to my friends at the base of the spire and tell them to come with me if they want to live.

This legit kinda fucked me up.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Had to work all weekend because of a big project, then at 10PM yesterday, the project manager "found time in everyone's calendar" for a meeting today at 7AM. This is problem with people who are parents. Babies have tortured them into believing that the morning is a time when you can do stuff.

The strongest sign that I have grown as a person is the fact that I can walk into a store that sells Ring Dings, and I *usually* won't already have one in my mouth by the time I get to the car.

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

My favorite exchange on Twitter in the history of the site

Time to look up the score of the Super Bowl to know in what way tomorrow's 9AM Teams meeting is going to be annoying.

This cartoon has been rejected so much by so many magazines

This second snowstorm clearly damaged something in my brain. I started designing a large solar oven with a hose leading to a storm drain. You put it on the curb and fill it with snow each day, which melts away, until the snowbanks are all gone.

Mystery solved

While driving for Lyft in Boston, the worst rating I ever got was because I missed a single turn in Dorchester and the ETA immediately jumped from 10 minutes to 25.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

The Winter Olympics are superior because nothing brings people together like our collective temporary love of curling.

It took me 9 days after the last storm to widen the snowbanks at the end of my driveway enough to turn in and out of it without hitting them. I was able to enjoy that incredible luxury exactly once before more snow fell. I'm so tired, y'all.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Me, on a normal work call: "I am very happy to support our bottom line." Me at a work event, to a coworker who I've never met, after a single drink: "NO. If a cop asks, 'do you know why I pulled you over?' your answer is no. Everything they say is a trick, and every day is Shut the Fuck Up Friday."

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

An obvious tell that you should disregard everything a person says is when they get a name right and then change it like they maybe don't know what it is. My dude, that just tells me you know him better than I do. When most of us aren't thinking about Bad Bunny, he's setting up shop in your brain.

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”