lol lmao

July 14th 2026, 8:42am PT: saw a BMW use a turn signal

It's bias informed by my age cohort - early Gen X - but in jr high I watched the Iran regime destroy Carter's presidency, without regard for consequences. This mess has looked familiar since Hormuz was closed. I believe they will slowly choke Trump through January, 2029, just because they can.

some shit definitely went down in this place

Get rid of your imposter syndrome (which tends to afflict smart people more than dumb people anyway). NO ONE is a "real expert." You have every right to be there. And you can make an enormous difference if you're in the room at the right time. Get involved. Participate. You can matter.

Go fucking off Sen Ossoff (D-GA) ‘Trump was humiliated and furious as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat in 2020.’ No lies detected. This man is Presidential material. Damn💥🔥💥

Companies fear looking sluggish, no matter the wisdom of the craze: offshoring, cloud, "revolutionary" methodologies, fashionable layoffs... Ruthless, heedless adherence. Ai, if it fails, can fuck things up irreversibly. No remotely affordable return path - a potentially existential threat.

In Italia seicento e quaranta In Lamagna duecento e trent’una Cento in Francia, in Turchia novant’una Ma in Ispagna son già mille e tre.

"Interesting" how cancelling the EV tax incentive hurt Tesla, but hurt rivals like Lucid and Rivian enough to probably put them out of business

I’m reading the Metamorphoses, have you heard ovid.

There. Will. Be. Scenery. Chewing. Some of the most obnoxious overacting ever.

BREAKING: Trump Just Paid E. Jean Carroll $5,625,005.48 For Sexual Abuse-Defamation Case open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Every elderly Republican senator's wiki bio is like: Famed for bipartisanship, he co-sponsored the Expand Education (1977) and Anti-Radio Monopoly (1986) acts. His later career was more controversal, with the Legalize Puppy Murder (2021) and Sex Island Tax Relief (2023) acts drawing some criticism

For instance, it is absurd that every blue state has not legalized direct to consumer auto sales given that this is what car dealers' political giving looks like.

How about dinner? I know this little out-of-the-way place that serves great Viking food.

Make the stupid stop.

I've seen enough and believe the national average price of gasoline will again reach $4/gal in the next 7-10 days, if not sooner. oil now up nearly 10%- I'd expect price increases of 15-45c/gal (depending on price cycling state or not) in the next week or so.

Whenever I hear the term "God fearing Christian," I imagine God cowering behind a chair, terrified of running into Kirk Cameron.

Well, Sam Neill filled in the 3rd slot [boooo] so It won't happen on this round.

Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.

forever

and not to belabor this because i've come to learn that caring about this is seen as a crank belief that seemingly no one else cares about, but we lost this for essentially nothing. most light pollution is totally pointless — shit like car dealerships covering their lots in undirected floodlights

functionally every single person on earth was seeing a night sky with brighter and clearer stars than basically anyone on earth can see today, until about 150 years ago, due to light pollution.

Magnificent:

Why not a Bluesky museum of dunking? Have tags, each specific to a particular fire hydrant in this dog pound: Ygl*sias, Gree*nwald, Pe*erson, Andy Ng*, Ian M*les Ch*ong (OMG he actually lives in Malaysia?!) - all the favorites.

If people would use alt text, this wouldn't be an issue. Alt text is parsed by the mute words filter so please use it.

when I was a kid I got hit by a drunk driver (dad slapped me)

lol

i bet the reason nobody ever asks me out is my impeccable grace and poise

only people who look at all good from this shitshow are the og platner haters, who--let's be clear--did in fact have this guy's number from the jump

This is exactly the tyranny of the majority that the Founding Fathers sought to prevent when they designed a system that gave a veto to every megachurch pastor, every exurban car dealer and every rural dentist that superposts on Stormfront.

Now I was getting ready to question him about drugs and attempted murder on his own docks.

“'Good guys' do not advocate for evil, for the destruction of U.S. institutions, for stripping away the rights of Americans, for the most corrupt government in U.S. history, for allies of our enemies. You can’t be a 'good guy' and enable Trump as he brings our democracy to its knees..."

Oh FFS. Men, I have bad news for you: sudden #cardiac events for completely natural causes are extremely common for men in 70s. I’ve seen men die of sudden cardiac arrest at 48 and 51 (both #medical #doctors). And sounds like Graham’s father also died of #cardiac disease in late 60s.

You know what dads hate in 90 degree weather? Drinking water. Just the suggestion makes them furious

Okay starting to believe that there may have been some ancient god asleep at the wheel for millenia who woke up and went "oh shit gotta course correct hard, no time for subtle" and is working its way through things

get your war on 40 - #7

I can't speak to them, was never in the epstein files

“Don’t you want to fight about Israel?” No. I do not.

Man, nothing makes the state of politics more apparent than when a warmongering monster who actively made life worse for millions of people dies and the supposed resistance party stalwarts come out of the woodwork to talk about how they’re going to miss their friend they had so much fun with.

Remembering Lindsey Graham's signature role:

the fact that our elites cannot, ever, just call a thing what it is will be the death of this society. he was a vicious, antisocial scumbag. his crimes are literally legion. if the opposition can't vocalize that what good are they? and werent they trying to jail this loser? grow a pair

We should make British “people” do this until they admit that they’re not too good for air conditioning

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

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No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

hi

A man of small virtue and little accomplishments who shall soon be forgotten