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I'm obviously not a fan of Kash Patel but I do appreciate how bad J Edgar Hoover must be rolling in his grave watching his FBI be led by a drunk blabbermouth who's so desperate for approval that he makes purged State Dept officials look macho.

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

i didnt read your post first and thought this was conan obriens website and it still felt reasonable

i've seen "it would really stick it to the devs if we left bsky" posts & no it wouldn't. they want this web site to be boring crypto idiots who cool their phones off in pools chatting with AI reply bots. instead they have to put up with us and that's deeply funny

Anyone who mocks Ocasio-Cortez for being a bartender - rather than seeing those skills are a significant part of her arsenal - is the sort of person who's never in their life gotten a free drink.

AHHHH

On the bright side, Beast Industries is such a house of cards on already shaking foundation that Ms Mavromatis may have the honor of sinking Mr Beast. The estimated value obscures just how vulnerable their "make giant scope videos > ??? > profit" business model is.

PSA to my fellow immigrants: white people are easy, you can control them with cheese

Is planning a casino heist the cure for male loneliness

I hope somebody out there is studying Trans Fascists the way I study Gay Nazis cause wow there is SO much to unpack here and I am sure it is just as perversely fascinating as the Roy Cohn types. I don't have the stomach to research it but I would definitely read that thesis paper.

There’s something comforting in knowing that no matter how much I dislike Brianna Wu, I will never be able to dislike her more than she dislikes herself

bad news for me, the guy who uses the world's biggest condom

It’s an honor to be blocked by the technical advisor who dipped their phone in a pool when it was overheating in order to cool it off and was surprised when it stopped working

You’d think!! But nope, the technical advisor for Bluesky dipped their phone into the pool to cool it off and then was surprised when it stopped working

Please help this family survive!

It's just fascinating to me how the Bluesky team keeps taking active steps to look bad. They don't just randomly step on rakes. They go into the shed, lift the rake off where it's hanging on the wall, carefully place it on the grass, and then step full force on that motherfucker.

I think we're due for a Legally Blonde reboot where Elle is targeted by the state for her integrity and spends the whole movie outsmarting cops. Call it "Illegally Blonde."

“Are you the branch manager?” “Yes I am, how can I help you?” “I would like two branches, please.” “How would you like that?” “Two big sticks, four little sticks.”

Me_irl

kinda fascinated by how the real big sea change with Claude etc is you can ask it a question how you would a person and then somehow you stop treating it like a person because I know y'all aint believing half of this shit if a person said it

RFK Jr. is a guy who was meant to commit a series of themed animal crimes in Gotham City with the ultimate goal to “eat the Bat” before being subdued and returned to Arkham.

I do get an odd kick whenever I hear about a Right Wing fervor saying people *have* to buy a product I would never consider buying regardless. I participate in so many boycotts simply by not buying very many things. It's beautiful.

Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/

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i'm not crashing out. i'm crashing in.

The advent of Vibe Coding offers a whole new set of opportunities for hacker orgs to take credit when tech companies shoot themselves in the foot.

Great news boss, this Mandelson stuff isn’t cutting through on the doorstep because they already think you’re a cunt

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

The RFK Assassination was an inside job. The evidence is circumstantial, but look at everything else Daryl Gates did and tell me that the LAPD deserves the benefit of the doubt.

It will surprise approximately 0 of my followers to know that the earlier Trans!Hunter S Thompson Doonesburyposting caused a multi-hour meltdown about my ex. The post will stay in the Doonesbury thread, tho. It's too weird to not note.

[Walking down an escalator, extra elevated mood cause I had a shockingly good doctor's appointment] Guy on the other down escalator: you're pretty Me, quiet and meek: thanks Guy: maybe we have sex sometime? High noon on a Monday. This is why women don't smile more.

This was a half joke when I posted it and in the month since its evolved into a fully unironic aversion. Gonna keep my eyes open for a bronze crucifix to compliment the gold tones, but the thought of wearing a gold cross feels like trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle.

Garry doesn't seem to have known much abt China when he sent Duke there but he compensates with that by holding a mirror up to America and it's kinda fantastic. I don't think Mao's gonna go anywhere, just another "New Dylan" hype cycle like Gordon Lightfoot or Rufus Wainwright.

I miss when wiretaps were physical devices that you could find on a lamp and then use to get your case thrown out instead of them just being included with the pocket computer that you have to use for everything from banking to chatting with friends to reading restaurant menus.

*cranky aging gen x hipster voice* kids today need a lot less shonen jump and a lot more shonen knife

Anyway, if you're having a shitty time of it, just do the mad thing. Maybe don't fly to Florida now Trump's in, but do the thing that seems like a stupid idea. It might just fix you.

"Pharisee Press" is one of those phrases that's so blatantly anti-semitic that it shouldn't even qualify as a dogwhistle. The New Testament gives us plenty of phrases for "false shephard who advances war, famine, and pestilence," but Pharisees is not one of them.

The problem is that the actual IRL Pharisees were the Jews whose religious observance focused on prayer/study/rabbis as opposed to priests and Temple sacrifice e.g. the only surviving Jewish religious tradition. It doesn’t matter what negative traits the Christian Bible uses Pharisees as a symbol of

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

If I was a website where people buy music from used record stores they've never been to with varying qualities of sellers, I would not make my logo a broken CD.

This is clearly a Janus Pacman, not a record.

I am also immensely pleased to learn that Thudpucker was signed to Windsong Records which was founded and run by Uncle Duke's archnemesis John Denver

Jay Graydon's Wikipedia page says he's the inspiration for Jimmy Thudpucker's "Fretman Sam," a claim that I suspect is only the case within Doonesbury canon. For your listening pleasure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHE9...

NGL '78 was a dip in quality for Dbury but '79 hits hard. This is such a brutally real portrait of the anti-social distrust of neighbors and conditional sympathy that would culminate in Stranger Danger during the next decade. Mike's cruelty to this desperate boy is both needless and painfully common

My politics: you should be able to take frequent & fast accessible public transit to your free abortion appointment My art takes: everyone should be required to take cultural studies so that they understand that all art is bad, and may thus be liberated from the tyranny of taste

The "it's okay, I don't mind" moment Mamdani refers to is the top Trump quote that the center should be leaning on heavily but isn't, followed closely by my personal favorite "I don't think there's any way I'm getting into Heaven."