bought a $110 wood chipper and spent my weekend cutting down privet. gotta say it beats the hell out of doom scrolling. 6 lawn bags full of chips so far, plus another pile to finish tomorrow morning. never thought i’d be the proud owner of a PWC (personal wood chipper) but here we are

silver lining of drought is that i can sit on my porch without being mauled by mosquitoes. going to enjoy it while it lasts.

okay this is blatantly obvious now.

wait the pitt writers named a guy who drunkenly shot himself in the head elbridge gerry? and he came into the hospital singing dirty versions of patriotic songs? i fucking love this show

whoops, we accidentally blamed the king instead of the viziers. can’t do that.

"But I like them, they can't be doing crimes" I have terrible news about how scams work

my kid just pointed at a tesla and screamed “THAT CAR IS MISSING A MOUTH!”

the square cube law of parenting: for every unit of time your child sleeps in the car, they will stay awake past their bedtime at least the square*cube of that unit.

Depluralize a movie: One Battle

Depluralize a movie: Samurus

Look at this video of NYC in 1975, see how peaceful it was? Look at how everybody seems to be enjoying their afternoon

backdoor pilot alert? (the Pitt: night shift)

in case you’re wondering where the electorate is, even my mom who is the most normie dem boomer ever (and a former goldwater girl) just said non sequitur “i hate to say it, but they need to pack the supreme court if they have the votes”

if the initial story was propaganda whoever came up with it is a genius. though they might actually be *that* stupid...

look if this were your dad/grandpa, you'd look back on this video and say "damn, we really were in denial about how bad he was." he could drop dead tomorrow and nobody would be shocked. he could live another few years and nobody would be shocked. I will be shocked if he makes it to 90.

"I should have been an astronaut," I think to myself as I limp around the house holding my back and groaning after an 8 hour road trip.

HE SAID KEYTAR

duke suks

you can’t “second screen” high culture.

“keeping its options open”, “flailing wildly with no one clearly in control”, what’s the difference? and how many times was this headline edited? “it has drafted … and ordering …”

ah yes, rick bayless, known for that most popular of mid century cuisines, authentic mexican food. i doubt my grandparents knew the difference between tacos and burritos, let alone what al pastor or mole is.

not that either option is great, but i’m very glad we decided to drive instead of fly for our easter trip to grandma’s house. can’t imagine spending hours in a TSA line with an (almost) 4 year old.

there’s a food truck here called “bare baked”. do you think they knew what they were doing?

supporting a rape apologist with a nazi tattoo is a bad opening move for a group i’m inclined to agree with on the issues.

I do not think that a Democratic Congress or administration would be trying to cut Medicaid to pay for an illegal and pointless war in Iran, this is one reason I voted for Kamala Harris

my kid would be like “how much does that one cost !!!”

my favorite lunch spot for gyros got replaced by a mediterranean slop bowl place. god dammit.

“what if we didn’t suck?” is not a positive vision.

love it when apaches fly over my house at 1,200 ft. at 11:30pm, awesome stuff.

its always so weird to me that the biggest single story on the planet earth in 2024 was the idea that Biden was in serious decline and totally unable to be President and yet, every public event he does since the end of his term is covered only by local press...

“it was just a bad opinion, he never acted on it” is not the defense you think it is. the opinions of politicians matter. they are asking you to give them the power to turn their opinions into law. if implying that some women deserve to be raped is not a red line, you are blinded by partisanship.

“Trump has grown accustomed to doing what he wants and then quickly improvising if things go south” & we have grown accustomed to it working. but a president occasionally finds himself in jams that aren’t so easy to wriggle out of, even with elite society greasing him up & yanking.

can finally put the biggest mistake of life in the past. 20 years.

proposal for clearing the strait of hormuz: enlist the docents of the marshall space flight center to reactivate all the saturn v rockets displayed in museums. blast the oil to the US. (side note: the S-V could lift 300 thousand lbs. to LEO. an supertanker can carry hundreds of millions of pounds)

pedro pascal is not wearing a jacket so millennial men can see how pants are supposed to fit.

bro why are you wearing my prom outfit

am I spending all my free time reading a Web 1.0 site about the history of u.s. manned rocket propulsion? yes. is my wife happy about this? no comment.

openly telling the world you treat your workers like shit is certainly a choice… especially for an ice cream place.

i hate that i recognize the names of federal appellate judges now.

okay 13 episodes in, we just got a “youse”, i’ll take it.

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me to kid: “do you want to go the grocery store with me? we need to get food for [pet]?” threenager: “uuuugghhhhh… i don’t want to do ANYTHING!”

my child had two upsetting moments today. she let go of a helium balloon, and she realized she’s going to die someday.