Wow did you guys know the same guy who invented the Jeef Beef also invented the twohorse dumpwagon?

I'm so enraged I didn't post this

I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

Brits are like “Look who’s boiling vegetables now.”

Just a masterpiece sitting in front of his own masterpieces. 👑 #Cat #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX

It's amazing how this combination of words either means absolutely nothing to you or makes you stand up and run around the room

"I think supreme court justices should be tazed after four years, and then two, and then one, cutting it in half over and over again until you're basically just frying them" "We meant, like, about the food" "Oh, then it was lovely thank you"

over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that

this is. incredibly fucking hot? what an incredibly fucking elegant way to say “he died a long time ago, his body finally just caught up” but sound incredibly classy doing it. i aspire to this white-hot grace

There’s a fascinating Bond anthology called Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond, and you can’t read it. See, 11 years ago Ian Fleming’s creation briefly fell into public domain in Canada, and an enterprising publisher seized the moment to produce a collection of 007 stories.

Okay fine but I'd like to see how the Belgians would do against us in one of OUR sports. Like beer pong. Or lawn mower racing. Or hot dog eating.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

the cat ref

I’m descended from men and women that fought and died for the Continental Army during the American Revolution, but my country’s ugly regression vaporized my patriotism. But I will celebrate the good stuff we’ve managed in 250 years, like Larry David, the movie Xanadu, and Steely Dan. 🇺🇲 Free essay:

Just here to say ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good as she was driving away. Sue me.

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

Tolkien tried at one point to rewrite The Hobbit to make it fit with Lord of the Rings, but gave up on it when he couldn’t work out all the phases of the moon in a way that matched up with the dates given in the text.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Someone just called the reflecting pool the "strait of warm ooze" and now my friends, I am dead.

This anniversary wouldn't be complete without Aamer Rahman's all-timer standup bit on why it's okay to punch fascists.

Amazing. At age 20, Lionel Messi did a UNICEF Barcelona photo shoot for a calendar, of him giving a baby a bath. That baby was Lamine Yamal. It’s his first World Cup, and Messi’s last. They’ll play against each other. What a crazy story.

No, a short Father's Day Superman story made *you* cry a little.

Happy Father's Day! Celebrate Chuck Jones' directorial pinnacle for the occasion

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

"...but first they must catch you."

I love this. Unmute.

I've never had an RPG get a song stuck in my head like this before, and this one hasn't even kickstarted yet.

I keep coming back to this James Baldwin quote: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."

oh hey, happy pride month 👋 🏳️‍🌈

fuck this, I read a Nathaniel Hawthorne book today, and now I’m thinking in “the sybaritic and sprightly poetry of her youth positively warmed the frost-chilled cockles of the antique house’s heart” and shit

The world may be filled with The Horrors, but all in all it is still a very lovely place to be, and there's nothing they can do about that.

The annual "tug off war" in the village of Henstead, Suffolk, remains one of rural Britain's most controversial festivals.

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

We're so desperate for It To Happen we're out here rawdogging scaffolding

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

“Fucking blockade trade war, amirite?”

The beast at Tanagra. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAhm...

An important thread regarding Significant Toad News:

Obviously, we all love the strange and funny posts plucked from the skies, but this project is also about showing the humanity behind the scenes. Moments like this happen often—and they’re a reminder to always be kind to the people doing the work. There are still a lot of good people out there.

Europeans: When you first saw America, were you blinded by its majesty? Its unending gallons of milk and honey on tap in the streets? Did you slink down to your knees upon the delayed realization you were in God's country? There is, underfoot, providence on Earth. The movies are real. It's all true.

MOTHERFUCKER

🌊 Fascinating… Deepest and most extensive whale graveyard discovered in Indian Ocean …a vast whale necropolis, 5.3 million years old www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sure inflation generally is way up, but the price of screwworms has fallen dramatically as we’ve ramped up domestic production.

Hot Water Summer

Down at the Grebe Factory interviewing the new apprentices for the Western Grebe Taxi Service, I'll thread in stills/video as I process them As a primer, here's THE BEST WESTERN GREBE MATING RITUAL FOOTAGE OF MY LIFE Warning on this thread: too cute for doom Skip to :41 for just rushing. 🪶 🐣

Mercury stands above Grand Central, looking toward Wall Street, so I am not surprised to see that he has outposts in the other boroughs