"Give me back my tablet" is the #1 nephew phrase which was probably also hollered four thousand years ago by a babylonian merchant

It's almost as if the Enlightenment figures who founded the US had learned the lessons of Europe's wars of religion and created a secular state that would both protect worshippers from political interference, AND protect the polity from becoming dominated by religious sectarians.

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

cool, cool cool

Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.

Extremely Borgesian

Appreciate this letter from MN State Sen Jim Abler (R-Anoka) to POTUS

Is it possible his hand has already fallen off and that’s just a rubber hand from like a Halloween store?

Looking out the kitchen window, the Portland Frogs are golfing in the rain.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

WERNER HERZOG: naeow.... zhe.... jingle-haupe.... has begaune

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Current mood 🙀 Via @loveyoustepan (IG)

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot. Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

As someone who lives in Portland and is out and about quite a bit, I have yet to see any National Guard. Fox News is promoting a fiction of the city as a war zone, but it just isn’t the case. There isn’t anything for the guard to do but rake wet leaves from the gutters (which would help).

Looks like a classic ‘Battle of Stalingrad’ situation shaping up.

Slurp Juice energy

lol she got his ass and he knows it

The killing of IRS Direct File is frustrating.

Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

This is bonkers.

shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now

Voted in PDX. Not much on the ballot this year but it feels good to keep in the habit.

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

I work the night shift and it does make a lot of normal daytime activities difficult. This is considerate indeed.

Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Will someone more technically savvy than me tell me if this is real? “Fed pisses pants while shooting a protester in the face, with dinosaur-suit lady casually walking behind”. Somehow it just seems like too much. Ugh.

TIL that Todd Field, the director of Tár, was one of the co-creators of “Big League Chew” in 1980. They ran sheets of bubble gum through an office paper shredder to make it like chewing tobacco.

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass? me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

The only acceptable Super Bowl halftime show replacement for Bad Bunny would be Weird Al Yankovic performing in the style of Bad Bunny.

Portland No Kings was very chill and peaceful. The guys in the fried egg sandwich cart at Pioneer Square were not phased by the massive crowd. Lots of fun costumes and signs. Unpresidented Band ruled as usual. Nice to hear from my city councilor as well. Tons of kids and boomers.

#portland Cathedral Park Report: there appears to be some kind of Burning-Man-Adjacent dance party getting started. DJ is playing a mix of dub-techno and acid house. This is a little more activity than we usually see in the park, but I think we’re below the National Guard deployment threshold.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Cathedral Park #Portland dispatch. Very quiet out there on this overcast Saturday. A couple of people walking dogs. Light traffic on the bridge. Once again: no fires, no unrest. All of the shops in our little St Johns neighborhood downtown are open and it’s a normal weekend day.

#Portland on Friday night. Not burning down (at all).

Date night in Downtown #Portland part 2. Pho at Luc Lac. This restaurant is right across from the Federal Building. Zero unrest. Nothing on fire.

Date night in Downtown Portland. Larry Owens was amazing in “Primary Trust” at the Armory Theater. Buildings are made of normal stuff, nothing is on fire. Lots of people were out getting dinner. No signs of unrest.

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Every time I see a new AI feature that I didn’t ask for and will never use, I often think, “why can’t we use all of this technology to make a proper 80’s-style bucket brigade chip reproduction? That’s what I want.” Looks like someone did it! cdm.link/ssi2100-bbd-...

I’m surprised the WSJ printed this. Police reports indicate that most days, there are less than 50 protesters at the ICE facility in Portland. The max was around 200 a week or so ago. Not exactly Shays’ Rebellion. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I just drove to 45th and Hawthorne from the river. That is 45 blocks of mixed-use retail and residential properties. People were out shopping and getting dinner. No plywood on any windows. Plenty of stores and restaurants open. Events happening, theaters showing movies. Show at the Moda Center

Cathedral Park Portland unrest update: there is no unrest. The park is mostly empty except for a few dogs and their owners at the off leash area further down towards the river. #Portland