hahahahah i specified motorcycle for a reason!
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hahahahah i specified motorcycle for a reason!
the climax was so fucking good
update i went for a jaunt and saw several motorcyclists all wearing the proper gear and helmets, so A+ Minneapolis bikers!
Obsessed with the absolute shade of referring to Giuliani as “Former Masked Singer contestant”
it's gorgeous out. I might go for a little jaunt around the lakes
i thought it was jsut some dude!
oh my god????
oh and I found the account of the original video which is a DC meme account that claims it was submitted anonymously and the video was posted 20 hours ago, so yesterday afternoon.
what
also uhhhhh you're not supposed to open the windows at the white house, ever, because of the sightlines from, y'know, places like this bar. I believe the window glass is bulletproof for this very reason.
this is the paint all over again (which I still haven't gotten an answer on btw)
So what's the source on the video?
i'm fixated now!
ahhahahahah
100% from the VUE DC bar on the 11th floor of the Hotel Washington.
it's the VUE Rooftop bar on the 11th floor of the Hotel Washington.
Except the VUE DC on the 11th floor of the Hotel Washington is much taller than the treasury building and has that unobstructed view.
From the angle, it's 100% filmed in the hotel across the way.
The Lincoln bedroom is actually a suite, and there's a sitting room, and a bathroom in those two windows there. So the stuff is coming from the bathroom. If it was construction, they would have a trash chute.
you can see the curve of the oval rooms when the video gets wider, which puts it on the East Side of the building.
Oh i counted windows wrong. That's the lincoln bathroom???
Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any sourcing or dating on it, so I'm going to keep digging. It could be that this is from an entirely different day or something else.
Yeah I'm questioning the veracity too, but it doesn't have the markers of AI - no glitches, no weird markings. It looks like it's probably from inside the Treasury Building next door, or the Occidental hotel.
No way. They have maid carts and stuff like that for just this kind of thing and such events would be handled discreetly by any staff. Also the diplomat entrance is below, so there's no way staff would risk shit hitting someone or something important.
Source for image: www.archisyllogy.com/the-white-ho... I'm so confused
so that's the residence - specifically a hallway outside a bedroom on the third floor:
Is this for real? I legit can’t quite tell.
What
yeah this doc is done way too soon after the events. That kid needs to grow up so more, spend time away from her mom, and develop her own sense of self outside of her mom. Like, they are codependent and badly so.
so i'm watching the netflxi doc "Unknown Number" and the perpetrator's explanation is ... unhinged.
THE FIRST VERSE IS LITERALLY ABOUT FINDING THE CLIT
that would be amazing, ngl
i would tooooo wtf
oh god yeah i live in the basement so anything they flush up there impacts me first. It sucks.
Update: I'm getting a cheap stool off marketplace and my friend is gonna help me bolt the bowl to the stool (I have a pretty nice fabric covered bowl, which is why I was upset when it was stolen).
That's how it is here too! I have had zero problems with my neighbors who have been here longer than i have (I've been here four years, so this will be my fifth halloween in this building). But the candy thief stuff only started in the past two years.
I typically keep it on a stool but you know what, maybe I can get a cheap table and just glue the bowl to it.
omg yay!!! to go along with the kitchen-themed other cats: Pepper.
MINE DID TOO WHEN I GOT IT.
It was so...mean-spirited??? Like, I spend my own money to try to give my neighbors a fun little treat in October because people enjoy it and this guy just...took it. Maybe I'll set out a web cam this year to try and catch them.
They then returned it two weeks later with a sassy note about how they'd like different types of candy next time, so I'm inclined to ...not do that.
Some of my neighbors struggle with living in communal environments and it really, really shows. Also since it's September now, I have to think about whether or not I'm putting out my candy bowl this year because last year a neighbor stole it. The whole thing.
Doing laundry again and reminded (because it happened again!) of when I put up a note in the building reminding people to change their laundry out because wet laundry sitting in the machines creates a mold problem *for everyone* and one of my neighbors ripped it down and crumpled it on the ground.
Yes, to be clear, I'm fully aware of this! But that's not the complaint Schatz is referencing and the way he just accepts "schools were closed" is honestly pretty telling of where he's at on that.
like i guess what I'm trying to say is that we've allowed a lot of conservative voices to drive the narrative of what we all lived through and it feels like I'm being gaslit when people talk about what was open versus what was closed.
Indeed, and that was a real problem! My brother worked in a nursing home and couldn't go remote, so my SIL had to get my nieces through remote school (which did happen in SD for those two months from March to mid-May). But at no point was it "closed."
Yeah people assume it was the same everywhere within the US too. South Dakota never closed down and the meat processing plant there even offered a bonus if you had good attendance (eg, incentivizing coming to work sick).
It depended on the state! Some did close down for much longer. *Lots more* were open again in the fall.
it depends on the state. South Dakota *never* closed.
Like do you just hate your kids?
I'm extremely tired of the "schools were closed!" The physical building, yeah, but people were still working and trying to teach your kids. You just had to deal with it more directly for like, two months.
My friends who are teachers didn't like, get a vacation. People are upset that they had to keep their kids at home. That's what this is. Schools didn't close. They pivoted to online, and then the summer started.
so hey uhhhhhhh bars stayed open because the government wanted to keep them in business and not piss off conservatives. Schools *also* stayed open in that *they were functioning* and switched to online. At no point did schools just stop teaching, to be clear.
you and travis really are perfect for each other, lololol
it cracks me up how often people who encounter all of 1 post from me often assume a lot of shit about my politics
sometimes the lists i get put on are just wild (I am also on a list labeling me a tankie and another calling me a shitlib, so figure that out)
this is incredible especially since i have two loaves of the regular white sliced bread in my bread box right now and no one is making you buy or make sourdough?
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
i've decided that while i mostly want to find out about famous deaths from the news or whatever, i'd be okay with finding out about His from a meme
tonks the cat alerted to something outside the window above my head that i can't see so that's fun
Water is wet the sky is blue
it's rated PG! PG!!! (PG-13 was introduced 2 years after this came out)
COACH
craig t nelson is in this?????
tonight's movie night with friends: poltergeist (the original!)
@thattravl.bsky.social: "How's everyone's memorial day weekend going?" me: "it's labor day." trav: "oh maybe the edible has kicked in."
Ok so the woman was in the car that hit him and we are supposed to believe this
Rudy Giuliani just set a world record in the field of Statement That Invites More Questions Than It Answers.
I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further
I cannot imagine how hard it must be to see people invoking a day of trauma like that for political gain over the past decades.
oh you're getting close to the end!
What a smart girl!!
the spokesperson for him said "The mayor is a beast. He survived 9/11." I mean, by those standards, so did I because I wasn't in the towers and neither was he.
look at how naturally she took to that!!
yes. i remember a few awkward elbow touches
Sounds just perfect to me, and I'm lactose intolerant.
alternate name for Labyrinth starring David Bowie
@songbird.bsky.social needs to see this and yell about it
I think the weird white buldge is just the flap from his glove and trump's weird fist bump/positioning is just ... him offering a fist bump and the other guy reading a handshake. It's an awkward moment but not AI.
i wasn't even here for pointergate but i know what it is!
no such thing
Thank you!!!
"I was brainwashed by the left until i was saved by online nazis now I'm disillusioned and believe in nothing and just want to die" Media: thus we see the failure of woke ideology
shooter: im not trans the left brainwashed me into thinking i was news outlet: the transgender shooter, who identified as transgender, most trans-ly
Yeah! I'm going to take him thrifting so if you v3nmo me @ dexanderson, or send an amazon gift card to dexeanderson @ gmail, I can transfer it to him.
remember when Obama fist-bumped Michelle and Fox News called it a Terrorist Fist Jab?
Thank YOU to all the people who had extras sitting around that they handed off to me today! I'll get them to him this week and we'll assess what other needs he has (he gets the keys to his place tomorrow).
Well that feels ...eugenics-adjacent.
I am saying this not as a bystander, but as someone who genuinely spent years studying Lewis, specifically taking classes on him in college (at Oxford!) and doing an independent study on his work. He is a bad theologian.
Lewis is a bad theologian. Mere Christianity is a bad book. He's decent at translating some complex topics into layman's understanding, but he also cannot and should not substitute for actual exegetical work, and it is a mistake that we have allowed his work to be used this way.
So I'm reading Rigney's The Sin of Empathy to get a better perspective on what is driving evangelicals now, and of course, he spends a fuckton of time with CS Lewis. It is a problem of evangelicalism that Lewis is viewed as some giant of theology when he was a new convert obsessed with apologetics.
Well that's cool (also ugh gay men demeaning women, of course)
Which is one of the major frustrations I have with foundation giving. The need doesn't end. We have bodies that need care and that is ongoing. Do you also get the "we only want to fund NEW things" requirements?
lol yeah gotta wait a couple weeks
I would go with services per patient because it demonstrates the need - people are looking to you as primary care, essentially, rather than a one-off, which is deeply important for donors to understand.
i wish i could go but my tattoo is still in that "feels like a sunburn" stage.
Mayor Frey said some nice words that reflected our grief and looked like leadership this week, but please look to his actual record on gun violence. He has not been a leader on it.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
I will check!