not a single fucking beanie baby ever wore a beanie i'm fucken OUTRAGED
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not a single fucking beanie baby ever wore a beanie i'm fucken OUTRAGED
I know that's not relevant, I just never get a chance to bring that up.
A while back I wrote an article about the proximity of Beanie Baby corporate offices to strip clubs, speculating as to where they got the name. All of the offices I found had a strip club less than five miles away.
There is a bus driver shortage in many areas, but it's self inflicted in a lot of the cases I've seen. People don't want to pay the drivers, who need CDLs, what they're worth. People with CDLs are in HEAVY demand.
Yeah, we're very much in a 60s Hollywood mode here.
Right now there’s a lot of articles about how 2025 US total box office so far proves movies are in decline. It’s mostly bullshit. The real story of 2025 is original movies audiences want to see are doing individually far better than anyone expected, and studios seem to not know, or what people want…
I know people need them, and there's no good way to talk about pee shields, but lately I have been seeing a lot of ads for men's pee shields that are just...weirdly off-putting? Like they're trying to destigmatize it, which is good, but going about it in the most annoying way possible.
Yeah especially not at 2pm on a Tuesday. But God it would be funny if it ended on a wet fart like that.
1) Some stupid voter ID thing 2) attack on Venezuela 3) sending NG to Chicago or some other blue city .....
There’s no way he’s resigning tomorrow. Let’s calibrate expectations here.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
I actually wrote a piece of interactive theatre for a small con I'm doing next year, where an aggressive AI advocate has to be removed by security and they end up smashing his booth — but then this dingus went and did it in real life
Literally all these comedians both stunned both by the incongruity of it and also that a respected actor and national hero is screaming "fuck" at them repeatedly. And then he just leaves! It's just so goddamn funny.
I think my personal favorite Graham Greene moment was when he appeared in Last One Laughing Canada, which was literally him just walking on set in street clothes and going on a hilariously profane rant. Literally an entire room of comedians desperate not to break and he nearly ruins them all.
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
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this is a GOP poll lol
I mean that's kind of the thing. He's been doing what he wants to do for decades and isn't making some fuss about it.
This is why Isaac Chotiner gets treated like Socrates for asking basic follow-up questions
Look at this in an article on biggest fumble of 2025, Sony licensing K-pop Demon Hunters wholesale to Netflix, which could’ve been a giant lifeline to theaters and Sony and despite insane demand for it, won’t because of Netflix’s current strategy to end theatrical. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
The newly formed political group “Shalom Somerville” writes that their mission is “building an inclusive, respectful, and civil community,” but it really gives the game away when one of their top candidates refers to people like me as terrorists (for calling for a ceasefire.)
Thanks, Ben. That comment in particular was really troubling for me as well. Attempting to draw a direct line from Hamas to our neighbors and friends is not just sloppy, disingenuous thinking, it’s truly dangerous.
One of the many ways in which Graham Greene stood out was through his endless adaptability—he could easily transition from serious moments to lighter comic tones, not just within 1 film or a show, but within one *scene*. He made it look incredibly easy. He dependably made everything he was in better
I think we don't consider often enough that using the car for things like this is performative. These people are all trying to show each other how affluent they are.
I saw what I thought was a traffic jam for months on my train ride, and it was the drop-off line for a local school. Probably an entire line of people who love posting to FB about how in THEIR day THEY drank from the HOSE.
Josh Kraft earned $6.3 million working for Kraft Group last year, — a family-owned dynasty valued at $12 billion. Exactly what did Josh Kraft do to improve corporate culture for the benefit of Kraft Group employees? The data speaks for itself. 👇
I'd love it if somebody made a website where you could type in the appetizers for a given restaurant and see a) which supplier they're probably getting them from frozen, and b) other restaurants that carry the same thing, so you know if you liked the weird Sysco cheesesteak egg rolls or whatever.
Finally made a trail connection I've been hunting for a while, and it's the perfect addition to the cider donut ride route. I love biking as a means of exploration, especially because I have to work hard to discover things like this. I did a 2.5 hour ride for a 15-minute section of trail. Worth it.
one thing i will say about this driver is that they innately understand how to heighten a comedy bit as it proceeds
Wise advice from the dude with other smart opinions bsky.app/profile/numb...
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
This week, Oversight Committee Dems are meeting with many of the victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. We will listen to their stories and continue our work to seek justice against anyone responsible for these horrific crimes.
It is genuinely wild to me that like maybe a million people use this site and yet apparently the scorn of this peanut gallery is more than the likes of Silver can handle.
Like Chicago, Boston needs to bust some ICE nuts 💪💪
I'd say on horseback, but no horse has ever pissed me off enough to wish that on them
Batman ages from the mid-20s to the mid-30s, stops there for years, and then jumps to his late 50s. It’s very strange, but no one around him notices.
On a similar note, back before I was a pro we used to say that there was JLA-Batman and Gotham-Batman and they had two different sensibilities. JLA-Batman goes to other planets and works with aliens and reanimated spirits of godly punishment. Gotham-Batman fights grotesque criminals.
I read a bunch of Spider-man comics, which got me thinking about the flexibility of characters in superhero fiction while also having your own aesthetic preference of where you most respond to them. I realise that, for me, Spider-man works best if he's adjacent to Daredevil rather than the Avengers.
You gotta compress it first.
Larry Sabato says that crime is the Dems' Achilles heel and they need to talk about prices. The Dems can "complain" but too many hate crime and cities and don't care about democracy. I guess we have to let the police state happen while we drone on about eggs. Can't walk and chew gum apparently.
That stretch of Ashland could use more housing. It's wild Andre Vasquez has to consider the opinions of opponents. Buildings like this should be automatically allowed
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
The implosion happened when I was in my mid-teens and getting into expanding my comic book reading. Post-implosion, I was able to get two of the new series, Firestorm and Steel, from a quarter cents bin and wanted more! I had no idea what had happened at the time.
What this really is, is that there are a subset of parents who can't stand their kids, and the pandemic forced them to admit they need an entire network of underpaid public servants to not lose their shit completely.
I'll keep you posted.
That’s the part that interests me - the late 70s and 80s are when I was alive but before I was actively following comics, so I kinda saw the characters developing in my peripheral vision, and I love getting into history like that. But if the story is “things fall apart” it might be a tough read.
Honestly, it's weird anybody is still banging on about this, not least because... what was the alternative, exactly? A lot of parents would have been very upset at an attitude of "Who cares if some of your weiner kids die, we can't have parents blaming us for learning loss!"
California and Florida are on opposite ends of the school-closure spectrum and the differences in test scores are a wash. Some individual schools and districts definitely stayed closed too long but it just isn’t the case that this is some huge, obvious, foreseeable blunder.
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
When nation-states stop publishing statistical tables.
Listen. I think that’s where we start to get the really uncomfortable bits about gender and whiteness and the status of being a soccer mom type. Some of the answer is that parents want it this way because they want to be the family with a mom who drives kids to school.
the lack of any big spikes this year suggests Elon has been smart enough not to trigger any other mass abandonment of twitter or it doesn’t matter what happens over there anymore because anyone who didn’t leave because of mechahitler is all in
I'm increasingly of the opinion Bluesky's advantages (like lists, nuclear block, etc.) are going to make comparing it to other sites less useful.
Eyeballing it, it looks like we’re ~3-4x YoY for this metric. Probably not a bad place to be! And there were exogenous events that juiced it in between, but crucially, a bunch of those users have stuck around!
Man, like I said. Starting that graph at January 2025 is more or less the same as lying.
I think what a lot of people don’t realize is when making vaccine recommendations they ALREADY run the pharmacoeconomic analysis for whether it saves money to vaccinate everyone or only high risk groups. That’s why shingles and HPV have age limits.
Alvin, Theodosius, and Simon the Stylite.
🚸 Back to School = Back to Slowing Down! As schools reopen on Sep. 2, more kids will be walking, biking, & taking the bus. That means drivers need to be extra careful. ✔️ Yield to pedestrians ✔️ Obey school zone speed limits ✔️ Never pass a stopped school bus
It looks like their total circulation, print and digital, is 40k as of 2023. So if they're profitable at all it's because they're smuggling heroin or something.
Every few months the "good lab hands" thing comes up and it misses a key point: you can learn to have good hands. Training matters. Good hands aren't some magic gift from the PCR gods, you have to develop them through directed repetitive practice, like any other skill
To be fair that's true of every text-based site.
I remember being in Grade 5 and they decided to vaccinate all of us for Hep B (idk if it had just come out?) so the school nurse explained that bloodborne illnesses could be spread by sharing toothbrushes and we were all like “who tf would share a toothbrush” and then we all got vaccinated
People act like vaccinating kids requires you to sit down and explain how to self-inject heroin with a used needle first and. Idk. I think you can give kids informed consent AND keep things age-appropriate.
Similarly when the HPV vaccine first came out I was RIGHT at that age and my mom was like “well yeah obviously YOU’RE not going to have sex until marriage but you could marry someone who joined the church as an adult and already had sex” so little Mormon me got the HPV series.
LISTEN 2 THE AMBIENT SOUNDS OF 10000 PPL MOVING @ 1NCE W/IN BOSTON
Yeah, we all remember that time when Michelle took away our vaccines and told us to swim in poop water.
Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
it makes me mad that riot has as good of a music department as they do. it's fucked up that pentakill goes as hard as it does. that should be illegal
this is like the thing in pregnancy groups where people keep saying you can do A1c testing instead of the oral glucose tolerance test like beloveds I promise if a nurse taking 5 minutes to do a point of care fingerstick test was an option they’d already be doing it that way
to be clear, you can explain this stuff to little kids without getting into Rayleigh scattering and internal reflection. AND you can explain the existence of queer couples without talking about the mechanics of sex.
i wish brands would include more technical information in their product descriptions. i don't need to know this was inspired by timeless italian men summering in nantucket who could dress up or down. i want to know the fabric weight, leather tanning method, seam construction, etc.
to be fair they managed to register complaints from over 100% of subscribers.
Short-form social media is not the best place for this discussion, alas. Too many people are painting with too broad a brush and--frequently (especially when dealing with east coast vs west coast) talking from two entirely different driving situations.
Here's the main page for the book if it helps: twomorrows.com/index.php?ma...
I know I have friends who were in their 20s or older during the 1980s / peak Satanic Panic years. Help a fellow creator out!
At some point within the next five years we're going to have a fairly abrupt transition from the politicians we've all known and loved or hated for decades to a whole bunch of angry Millennials who want to hunt Josh Hawley for sport, and I don't think anybody's ready for it.
We dumped a president for being too old only to elect one who immediately died. You can't say that's not funny
reviewer 1: excellent work reviewer 2: burn it all down reviewer 3: why does this exist the editor: minor revisions i stared at the wall for forty minutes then changed "utilized" to "used" in seventeen places
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
one thing i think neoliberals don’t realize when they squawk about trans people not voting for newsom: if we did, the political apparatus would use that fact against us to say that we approve of & consent to his transphobic policies.
Seriously, at least three of his current X-Office writers were found to have their works stolen by Meta to feed their LibGen LLM...
I have to keep looking at these maps to remind myself that my position, as an adult trans person in Massachusetts, is by far the most stable situation for a trans person in the entire country. The threat to trans people is not future or speculative. It is here, ongoing, spreading, and worsening.
Our younger kid used to announce that she’s taking a shower by adopting a pompous demon voice and saying IT IS TIME FOR ME TO CLEANSE!! and that has become standard in this household. We’re makin’ memories over here.
bluesky is dying and there's only one way to save it: by putting on a community theater production of The Black Parade
Part of me wants to read it, part of me thinks I would find it too depressing.
Got it last year. I learned a lot!
TBH I'm roughly 25 pages in (reading it inbetween cleaning chores) and so far it's pretty fascinating just in a "This is what was happening in DC and the broader industry in the 1970s" kind of way.
Will pick that one up next. I'm in the middle of like five books right now.
The TwoMorrows Kirby/Lee book, STUF SAID, is the same kind of oral history and is also excellent.
I’d buy them.
Yeah, I know, you have the good faith side of the discussion, I'm dealing with the bad faith side. Trying to keep the two from blending, if I can, I think it's a bit of a problem in the wider EV discussion.
It's also a good reminder that Jenette Kahn and Gerry Conway deserve their own Fantagraphics-prestige-hardback style biographies.
I got the book about the DC Implosion from @twomorrows.bsky.social and my God this anecdote alone was worth the $11. Thank you to @kurtbusiek.bsky.social for recommending this.
Refashioned Hippie has cornered this market. Also making fun of Balenciaga. She's a hilarious follow.
actually the time was during his first administration when his unserious state doctor pretended that the orange menace was in perfect health. Then again during the election when he could not make coherent sentences, but that would require journalism
In five years this guy will be playing the Poughkeepsie Comedy Closet to 25% capacity and wondering why nobody goes to his shows anymore.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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