So if I'm remembering correctly, this is the second time now where Trump's "primetime address to the nation" has been an inconsequential dud. Are these just Jonestown-style White Night drills to desensitize us or is he just up past his bedtime?

One of the best parts about the Vanity Fair photo shoot is how many stickers I'm getting from them to just drop in the group chat at opportune moments

Thinking about the show Psych, and how Gus was a pharmaceutical rep during the height of the Oxycodone crisis.

working on my ThD, except it's just matching up each of the 150 psalms with a Gen I pokemon

I drank hot chocolate too fast and could feel it in my nose. I have newfound empathy for Augustus Gloop.

Do you think Jesus ever just licked Mary's chin for no reason or is that ultimately a sinful impulse on my son's part

When it comes to Pittsburghese, some of the words are stinkers but others are real gems. Big fan of "dippy eggs." How do you want them? Dippy! Because I'm gonna dip something in 'em! It's so descriptive and works so well 10/10

When it comes to describing small towns, I get "one stoplight" as a descriptor but "one-horse town"?? Most towns and cities are all zero-horse towns these days

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Truly, I hope my daughter has a daughter JUST LIKE HER one day (/blessing)

I've seen this billboard from a law firm several times now and, like, what actually is the legality behind Santa's many B&Es? If he is hurt as a trespasser because my floors are cluttered, who is at fault?

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

King Solomon, sweating profusely and near tears: cu- cut Him in hal- I'm sorry, I don't know. I don't know, I can't-

hot take among the hobbitcore aesthetic girlies: Hobbits (as described by Tolkien) are actually very extroverted and sociable, and Bilbo is seen as being weird for being a semi-reclusive introvert

I wonder if I could run with that as a campaign talking point. "Vote for me, I just want a pension, I have no interest in being a career politician so I'll represent you well for 6 years (I'll stay three full terms) and then I'll bounce."

The valvoline mechanic presents the dipstick for my inspection. I swirl it around my mouth, savoring the notes of petroleum and crude oil. Yes, a very good vintage.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

In what world would he declare a teenage maid the madam of the house and not his own daughter (whom she was there to serve)?

I'm several months late to the party but more people should be complaining about how terrible the naming convention is to have "Wicked: Part 1" and "Wicked: For Good". What??? We don't have to accept this. Rename one of them, idk.

I've never seen a cleaner brownie batter bowl (which, to be fair, is largely due to my 5yo)

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

I've obviously never been a vampire, but I think the closest I'll ever get to experiencing that primal bloodlust is licking clean the brownie batter bowl with wanton abandon

All television show dialogue is actually just a spectrum with Aaron Sorkin on one end and Mike Flanagan on the other

my 5yo ran up to me, so eager to show me that she's been practicing her writing!

does anyone really believe that Donald J. Trump has gone down on ANYONE, man or woman?

Remember to listen to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 29 times today, once for each man

Hang on someone pooped in the bathtub

I've been seeing that TikTok "social experiment" going around where the woman pretended to have a crying baby and called churches asking for formula. I'm frustrated by this "experiment" and the reaction to it on two counts. One, almost no organization hands out cash willy-nilly to anyone who cold

One of the worst parts about this headline is how dirty it does David French. French is definitely still conservative, but he's critiquing someone else's opinion and not offering it up himself—but this headline sure doesn't make that one clear

"America is going to be under the Vatican's authority!" - this guy in 1960, probably

Why is "public safety" always a shorthand for being tough on crime and never a shorthand for infrastructure repair?

New awareness campaign

real question for attorneys: would Harris have standing to sue over this? (If not her, would anyone?)

JD Vance 🤝 KPop Demon Hunters Couch couch COUCH

I switched from Spotify to Apple Music on the same weekend that my kids and I finally got around to watching K-Pop Demon Hunters and I fear my music algorithm will never reflect my actual music interests now. I might have to lean into it and become a K-Pop girlie or something

I always wondered what it would have looked like if United 93 had hit its target

I admit that I definitely laughed at the joke but I wonder if @colbertlateshow.bsky.social remembers that Sailor Moon is 14 at the start of the show and I think only 16 by the end

my extremely mild take: I can believe that someone would drunkenly get a tattoo of a symbol that looks cool and not know it was a more obscure Nazi symbol. I didn't know it was a Nazi symbol until the other day. That doesn't make him a Nazi necessarily, but it DOES make him not Senate material.

young white men usually have a World War II phase, most men do not have a "Nazi" phase!

"It's satire!" -people who don't know what satire is 90% of the time

Teddy Roosevelt breathlessly busts the wall down Koolaid Man-style clutching the Sherman Anti-Trust Act like it's the glasses case that saved his life: "OH NO!"

AWS is down, post hog

in his morning preliminary remarks, pope francis explained his controversial decision to command games workshop to burn most of its warhammer 40,000 novels and only hire "cozy scifi" writers for the license going forward. the studio has said it "didnt know he could do that" but has agreed to comply

It's so easy to mock the "stomp, clap, hey" music of the 2010s but as far as I'm concerned every year around mid-September to October, albums by Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers still descend with the falling leaves, nestled in scarves and accompanied by apple pies and pumpkin spice lattes

"Mom, is Taylor Swift still famous now that she's your age?" A) she's a year older than me, she's ALWAYS BEEN a year older than me 🥲 and B) how old do you think I am?? 👵

Rich people who hate you have tricked you into hating poor people

CNN interview with Johann Teztel, he just froze up after saying the Pope has plenary indulgences

Listen, you rich people, weep & wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, & moths have eaten your clothes. The corrosion of your gold & silver will testify against you & eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. ~James (Jesus’s brother)

you can just call it Dept of Defense, its name hasn't been changed