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I named my fists Schrödinger's Cat and Schrödinger's Cat because I like to keep folks guessing

@profanity.accountant what's the verdict?

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Fillmore East version)—Allman Brothers China Cat Sunflower/I Knoe You Rider (Europe ‘72 version)—Grateful Dead On a Carousel—The Hollies Hot Burrito #2 (Last of the Red Hot Burritos version)—The Flying Burrot Brothers Penny Lane—The Beatles

there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions.

what perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

A browser extension that autoscrolls past any video content with JD Vance talking.

I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill. #art #ink #scribbleau #verymuchnotAI

Ack! President Johnson?

REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

Mamdani is going to implement Corea law. Everyone will have to listen to Latin-infused jazz piano music.

"Nowhere to go but up," huh? I don't think we've bottomed out yet. But I'm a carpenter who majored in history, and therefore not able to wield the sophisticated analytical tools of an expert like Scott Bessent...

"John Rocker will be mercilessly mocked by the relatively small number of people who don't ignore him entirely"

Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.

Sexy Ham and Kale Biscuits

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Sign of the times.

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Abnormal is the new normal.

So exhausting..

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Inside you are two wolves

In fact, given the stakes, it is INCUMBENT upon them to do that.

What I don't get is why Trump doesn't end every one of his outlandish assertions with "Thank you for your inattention to this matter!" Because that's how we frogs found ourselves in the boiling water.

Defund the government.

kind of hilarious to see Nate Silver using the phrase "circle jerk"

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky

Ruin a song by adding the word "literally" to the title. Literally Tangled Up In Blue I Am Literally The Walrus Who Are You, Literally?

oof

I'm a carpenter who does some normal stuff and some less normal stuff. I really enjoy solving one-of-a-kind engineering problems.

Age verification

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy.P

Oh, man. Many was the summer day that I read a book or two in a single library visit. (It didn't hurt that the library was air conditioned; our house wasn't.)

Booing Santa

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness

[cat training class] INSTRUCTOR: open your textbooks to chapter 3 and then slowly push the book off the desk

Um, um, um, George Sand! 🏆 <—self-awarded

Happy Caturday… 🐱 #caturday #bluesky

haha the art of the burn

Slightly diminish a band: The Below-Average White Band

I put three quarters into a vending machine in a DC laundromat and didn’t get the miniature package of Fritos, so forgive me if I think crime is up.

Don't look now, but I think we're being preceded.

Back at the old place, meanwhile, they're watching the end of the sentence get run out of town on an em dash.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Carpenter: Well, this was in the winter. The humidity was low. The job I was leaving and the job I was moving to both shrank.