Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
His recurring part on The Red Green Show, of all things, may stick with me the most.
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His recurring part on The Red Green Show, of all things, may stick with me the most.
Cake or Death (@johngcole.bsky.social) reposted
And while I am yelling about shit will you motherfucking auto designers get rid of all the god damned tactile free buttons and touch screens and go back to knobs and switches you can operate without looking at them. It's horribly unsafe.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Cannot be real. Has to be leftover footage from a Sandler movie, or something.
ITYSL memes 💦🥩 (@ityslmemes.com) reposted
Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
This does a good job ad links to it. But basically, a pretty convincing case for all the weirdness adding up to stroke. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
I remember exactly where and when I first saw it.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
His Dracula is the Dracula in my mind, forever.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
They are . . . pretty good!
Mel Buer (@melbuer.bsky.social) reposted
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
It has been a real bright spot.
Respect MO Voters (@respectmovoters.org) reposted
"In a surprise move, Kehoe’s special session call will also include efforts to make it much harder for constitutional amendments to pass." It's more important than ever that we pass the Respect Missouri Voters amendment in November of 2026. We start collecting signatures on September 10! Join us!
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Coined by the great Jim Hightower
Wonderella (@wonderella.bsky.social) reposted
Cmonnnnnnn
Jen Sorensen (@jensorensen.bsky.social) reposted
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
As someone who has seen it probably thirty times, I have to say you guys did a fine (if demented) job, shee?
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Those ears are Blaine's Dana's Doctor Zaius suit.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Dayenu.
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
We've speculated about the many ways the Trump era could end, but I'm not sure "Jonestown style mass suicide of cult leader and his Cabinet" has gotten enough attention. I think these spineless weasels will do whatever he says.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
My invitation to him is shorter
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social)
Monday morning reading on the Horrors: freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...
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Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Diabolical.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
Nathan Goldwag (@goldwagnathan.bsky.social) reposted
Conservatives are assumed to have no principles, which the writers of OpEds disprove of, but also secretly admire, while liberals have principles that they often fail to live up to, which the writers have contempt for.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
BRB, picking up six carboys of sulphuric acid
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, it's definitely his *character* who's getting weirder.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
At this point I'm ashamed to admit being American even to other Americans
David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted
NEW: 50 years ago this month, Bruce Springsteen released “Born To Run,” at a time when American cynicism and unease was on the rise, and this album launched the Springsteen Generation. What’s the Springsteen generation? I explain in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/41160...
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
I always think, someone has to clean that garbage. But then that's a big part of it, isn't it?
Ryan Sproull (@ryansproull.bsky.social) reposted
It's difficult to effectively recommend a paywalled podcast, but the monthly Hey Randy! episodes make CBB World subscriptions worth the price alone. www.comedybangbangworld.com
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Good to know that if something happens to me, there's someone who could slot right in.
Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith.com) reposted
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said “some guy just threw a sandwich at me” they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
Ale (@alepresser.com) reposted
I just answered this. Please do, if you agree that Patreon is supposed to be a place where people support creators to create, not laundry money to people who don't know what creativity means.
captain bleach (@blainecapatch.bsky.social) reposted
Jeffrey Entertainment Pstein
Cats of Yore (@catsofyore.bsky.social) reposted
If just a tiny percent of my followers could chip in $5, my friends could have their quarantine barn paid for. Small donations add up! Please help if you can!
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Infuriating.
Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
captain bleach (@blainecapatch.bsky.social) reposted
poor country mouse
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh no, I remember this.
Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted
đź§µ Just learned that Frances Plante Scott died last month. She was the widow of Donald Scott. Donald Scott was shot and killed in his own home by L.A. sheriff's deputies in 1992 because they wanted to seize his Malibu ranch. They claimed he ran a huge pot operation. They found nothing of the kind.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Get they ass.
Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) reposted
Antivaxxers love accusing scientists of censorship but in reality they are the ones trying censor science. RFK just tried bullying a scientific journal into retracting a major study of 1.2 M kids that found that aluminum in vaccines do not increase the risk of autism or asthma. The journal refused.
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
This is an **1,800-word story**. Number of times it mentions January 6? Zero.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social)
Read this thread and please, cancel your subscriptions.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Even more Pitt-coded, I'm sure you'll ag . . . ooh, sorry.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
There's one on my street, and that's all I can ever think when I see it.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Some great stuff has been written that way, but I will never understand the urge to make things that much harder for a reader.
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell.bsky.social) reposted
My thoughts on Marc Maron’s soon to be legendary podcast run in the wake of his latest HBO comedy special, Panicked. He’s cleaning out stand-up comedy’s house. And he started with Trumpmedian Theo Von. open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
"Give those nymphs some hooters!"
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Does anyone else feel as though this is possible rage bait? Leaving aside the epochal wrongheadedness of, well, everything, "RIGHT-WING RELIGIOUS Psalms" feels disingenuous.
Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) reposted
Ghislaine Maxwell has been barred from participating in service dog training while in prison because of her crimes. I feel like if prison officials don't trust you around dogs, you shouldn't be eligible for a pardon under any circumstances.
Amanda Marcotte (@amandamarcotte.bsky.social) reposted
It is gross but telling that Republicans used a Sydney Sweeney ad to level false accusations liberals oppose straight male sexuality right at the moment we’re discussing Trump being in the Epstein files. Not sure how conscious it is, but they are implicitly equating the two.
Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) reposted
Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.
Kashana (@kashana.bsky.social) reposted
The raw milk people are hilarious. All you have to do is meet one (1) cow and smell the situation in which they are producing that rawness and you will pasteurize everything you own for a week
Marcella Arguello (@marcellacomedy.bsky.social) reposted
I’m not great at photoshopping two images together with the free app i have but i certainly try
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I was wondering if that would come up . . .
the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) reposted
FOR THE UNION MAKES US STRONG
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Will just throw this back up any time bats come up in case the right person happens to be scrolling, why not
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
The bigger problem here is the utterly childlike credulity of the reporters and producers of this segment.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social)
Anything that says there are specific rules about being a man gets my immediate scorn.
Ken Plume (@kenplume.bsky.social) reposted
For no particular reason, here's the end of the very first episode of Sesame Street, aired on November 10, 1969...
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Imagine believing and casually repeating as truth Donald Trump saying "I will pay for something" in the year of our lord 2025
David Neiwert (@davidneiwert.bsky.social) reposted
Here’s the full background on Kent. A straight-up associate and sympathizer of far-right street thugs with a shady background of dubious financial support. open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
So great. You couldn't get the smile off my face with a pipe wrench.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank goodness
Alex Shephard (@alexshephard.bsky.social) reposted
this is the basic timeline
Alex Shephard (@alexshephard.bsky.social) reposted
Epstein hired a teenaged Giuffre out from under Trump in 2000. Trump didn't kick him out of Mar-a-Lago until 2007—a year after the FBI started investigating him for sex trafficking.
emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) reposted
The short timeline is: Summer 2000: Epstein "steals" Virginia Giuffre and turns her into a sex slave October 2002: Trump tells New York, "t is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side." 1/2
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
I see what you d-[gunshot]
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted
Genuinely curious
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Cozycorn
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
My story on the initial USPSTF attack a little while ago, and the overall assault on expert and advisory boards
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted
Kinda feels like the word "distraction" has joined others like "research" in the "more or less lost its original meaning" category
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Meant for fetishhole
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Those cheekbones should be registered as lethal weapons
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Dammit, it must be mine.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
🚨🚨🚨 Jeffrey Epstein during a 2010 deposition: Q. Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18? A: Though l'd like to answer that question, at least today l'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Ow, my eye sockets
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Fraught Authorman!
Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) reposted
the Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) reposted
The Tesla diner menu lists its bacon as “Epic bacon,” in case you got confused about whether these guys were giant losers
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Terrible.
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
A lesson I relearn every five or six months.
gg (@ggold328.bsky.social) reposted
i can see this one is going to get a lot of use
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted
The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing. Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.
🌲SpruceGoose🌲 (@sprucegoose12.bsky.social) reposted
The elephant in the room is why are they now being transparent about his health. Remember this is the person who is “in the best shape of any President and weighs 230lbs, could live to 120 years old” 🙄
Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger.bsky.social) reposted
When you're SO on the Epstein list that you're forced to share an honest medical report for the first time ever because maybe it will distract, but nah.
Ken Jennings (@kenjennings.bsky.social) reposted
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted
look the caveat is right there in the headline, okay
Joe Beck (@calicodad.bsky.social) reply parent
Feet, why must you fail me now?