second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

Watching a lot of horror movies this season and I think, for me, the worst part about being brutally murdered by a supernatural entity is that I wouldn't get to be all smug about being right to the friends/family/cops who didn't believe me.

I've lived in 3 and have spent at least a weekend in all 20 with most being higher than that.

The Last Temptation of Christ. Scorsese, 1988.

Why isn’t bell hooks’s writing around men and love not seen as a progressive text on how men can get laid, i.e., form healthy romantic relationships with people in their lives?

For a future Democratic administration

this report from media matters is fucking wild. fox news has aired 424 segments about trans athletes since feb 5. the week democrats vetoed the GOP trans sports ban bill, they aired 59 segments. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Bullshit Jobs is truly one of the worst books ever written, not just for the abominable influence it’s had on the world (the worst since The Population Bomb in this respect) but because of how incredibly poorly written it is

This thread is amazing.

It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.

It's remarkable to me though how many still can't see, even if they acknowledge this in reflective moments, they essentially organise their political life so much around resisting the smug moralists they are de facto agents aiding the political project of the authoritarian right. Bad centrist habit.

I'm currently watching the new season of Invincible and have been pretty good about figuring out who the voices belonged to so far in the series. I don't know what was wrong but it just hit me at the end of episode 4 that the narrator was @pftompkins.bsky.social. Yet another reason to watch.

The US airplane saunters up to the mic during Karaoke Night at the Golden Palm, a mischievous gleam in its eye. A familiar opening melody starts to play over the speakers. The US airplane belts out, "Tell me if you think it'd be alright..." The rest of the line is drowned out as the crowd goes wild.

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

roses are red violets are blue some don't believe that we landed on you

For so many reasons. (Reposting with alt text.)

Being a kid is raging against the injustice committed against Dr. Frankenfurter by Riffraff. Being an adult is recognizing that they committed several crimes including murder. Being a grown up is realizing ACAB and if you don't kill the cop in your head you just love watching beauty die.

wasting my one ride on the time machine by going to la Grande Jatte circa 1885 and yelling "hey Seurat! get to the...POINT!"

My "Not involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

ME: *Trying to explain to my beagle, Darwin, that his tail is a wrecking ball that has broken 5 of my Venetian blinds (only 2 of which were repairable)*: Hey buddy, maybe step away from the door real quick. DARWIN: *wags tail ferociously, another blind goes down* ME: I love you so much, buddy.

"Fuck it, we ball," he says out loud to his dog, looking for validation, as he slightly alters his strategy on the mobile phone game he's currently obsessed with.

The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵

An older picture b/c gf was sleeping but there was a loud thunderstorm last night. My buddy *hates* thunderstorms. He would not settle. I tried holding him, I tried the weighted blanket (which usually works) and nothing. I finally let him sleep like this at 2:30AM & he fell right asleep. #skydogs

His name at the kill shelter was Jacob, the foster tried to change his name to Snoopy, but no one knew what his name was 3 weeks before I got him so I went my own way. He's a beagle, so he's named after the guy on the boat of the same name.

Post a banger that's not in English. youtu.be/viMEhOWcxd0?...

hmm Sting is blue, Goblins are near.

Richard Lynn’s racist national IQ data sets and papers that use them should be retracted. New piece in Stat News from @dsamorod.bsky.social, @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social, @jedidiahcarlson.com, James Lingford, @rebeccasear.bsky.social, Cathryn Townsend, and me

He's terrified of thunder and we had a wee bit of a thunderstorm last night so he slept like this most of the night. Which wouldn't be so bad if he didn't snore like an actual chainsaw. When I'm on speakerphone people think I'm talking sometimes but it's just him snoring in the background.

Uh, are you okay, California DMV?

absolutely fuckin losing it lol this AI yearbook page.

So I was watching X-Men '97 and my dog was cuddling next to me. All of a sudden he stood up, walked between my pillows, and laid his head down right next to mine on my pillow. It's his pillow now I guess.

Had to dig this one out of my Big File o' Saved Pictures.

The transcript is actually dramatically *better* for Biden than I anticipated. Biden is an attorney and he's being interviewed in a criminal investigation by prosecutors trying to trip him up and so he's being careful about dates, there's no senility at all

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I keep seeing people who I assumed I was following but then I realized that they just show up on What's Mid a lot (complimentary).

I'll be absolutely fine.

Bonkers that I, a person who was born and spent most of their life in a desert, do not lose my mind at the prospect of a little snow like apparently every other person in the Chicagoland area. At Costco people are shopping like they're going to be shut in for weeks over less than a foot of snow.

My Giants? They might be...

I can't believe no one seems to have done this before.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay “They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.”

When the skeets align...

My $2 bill story: I was getting mugged by 2 guys, one with a knife to my throat. They got about $150 and when the guy saw my $2 bill he asked for that, too. I told him no because I won it by finding the afikomen at my friend Jon's during Seder and he clearly thought I had lost it. Still have the $2!

I'm going to contrast this with how I've seen you handle issues (good) and how I've seen BlueSky handle them (um... opportunities for improvement! Growth mindset! 😀) But first, some important background on why I think things are so misunderstood and seemingly getting worse...

Uh, I have some bad news for this guy if he hasn't seen the movie Nope.