Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
I doubt it violates anything in the DoT's MUTCD, but I only say that because I am not a complete a-hole who would look through the hundreds of pages to prove a hateful point.
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I doubt it violates anything in the DoT's MUTCD, but I only say that because I am not a complete a-hole who would look through the hundreds of pages to prove a hateful point.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Uncle Rico!
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
With the Epstein victims having a press conference on the 3rd and Trump being so absent, what is the over/under he comes out on the 3rd with a walker like Weinstein and Cosby at their trials?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
On the 3rd, we are going to find out that Trump is sick or in the hospital, and Fox will spin it as, "This was very insensitive of them to do. Trump is the real victim here."
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Does anyone else get a tiny thrill from being like #666? "And with my upvote of a cervid in velvet in a forest... I am now evil incarnate!" *click*
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
It is telling that to show that Trump is alive and well, the WH is posting golfing pictures. And we're just supposed to go, "Ah, cool. He's just been golfing for a few days" as if that is completely normal for a president.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Any time my dog starts getting uppity with me, I make him sit. Then I make him listen to the evolution of why I have a collar bone and he doesn't. Works every time.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Everybody, please celebrate with me... I just got a new software update on my phone that has dramatically reduced the functionality. 🖕 Every time, I have a moment where I think, "I guess I am done with a smartphone. I will never be able to remember all my passwords."
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
The whining from the MAGAts will be cacophanous. I love it.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
My first thought was Benny Hill music, but this is a far superior suggestion.
TheFullerReport (@thefullerreport.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Going with the Phil Collins drum solo.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Journalistic ethics question: Say Trump tumbles down the stairs getting off AF1, and it's a grotesque mess that results in his death. Blood, leaky diaper, protruding crumbles of bone all exposed. Do you share the video with the public? Then, what music do you put it to?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
He looks like he has been pissed off forever at the cute lesbian girl who turned him down in high school when he said he could change her.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Socialize the losses and privatize the profits... that's the "free market," right?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
This guy is a special type of LinkedIn Lunatic. If you have already done all of this, then why would I want to mentor you? Oh, did you say you'd put my name on some papers? Academia needs to get its shit together before we go dodo.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
"Vax Quack Lacks Facts" I can say the title of this piece neither in my head nor aloud without it sounding like a 1930s carnival barker. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Fantastic point. ... Are we civilized or barbaric? ... Your response to how this is phrased should tell you a lot.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Sam Coffey is great. I absolutely would have said, "Why did you sign my baby?" ... I could have just asked to do so. Same question.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in Illinois where a third of the state says they want to secede to Indiana. Sure. I am sure Indiana would be happy to take the poorest third of the state into theirs so they can deny even more Medicaid claims
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Though I cannot confirm... this sounds true to form.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
There are so many things that point to the only way to become rich is to 1) be born into it, and/or 2) stomp on all else's head to elevate yourself, and/or 3) don't follow the rules but whine when some else skirts the rules. Actually, the best recipe is all three. I am working on it. Stand by.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Beautiful.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
I hope you named it Shortcake ... but I've not met her, so what do I know?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
No science background of any kind. Environmental law is not the same as environmental science.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Where are the Joan Osborne discs?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
And 'roids. Don't forget the 'roids... they likely gave him the lawnmower in his throat.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
".... but a lot of experts are saying." Stop. Start over. Learn to read more.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
I lost 50 pounds in two months with this one simple trick! I haven't. I am just practicing how to hide, as a scientist, when RFK, Jr and Stephen Miller get actual science outlawed.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank you for the reminder. By my updated calculations, I have another 6 weeks to procrastinate. Good luck and have fun with yours.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
What is going to happen to all my Spirit miles? Will that transfer to some other place I can choose a beverage from a list of Buzz Balls?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Their scientific method: "The big yellow one's the sun!"
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Cops are gonna be cops.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Crapper Barrel changes logo: "This is insane! That's our frickin heritage!" Kids get shot at school: "What'cha gonna do? We need more of the tool that was used to kill them." What happens when old people get shot at a Cracker Barrel with the old logo?
xbigdunkx.bsky.social (@xbigdunkx.bsky.social) reposted
These two men have proven one thing without a doubt. If you are born wealthy in America no amount of stupidity, lies, or fraud will limit your opportunities. You can fail upwards to the very highest levels of power as long as you have no shame.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
You know the old rhyme: If "ifs" and "buts" were Candy and dance, Donald Trump would Still shit his pants.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
It sounds so close that we really do not know how many people we know think "don don" is just the way it is. We just look up from a text and around the room when someone we know texts it to the group.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Bravo.... This does not mean a person should change who they are, but they damn well sure can change their behavior.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
This looks like a potential tragediegh.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
RFK, Jr steroid-destroyed voice: "If we get rid of the disease center, there won't be diseases." Trump: "There will be less COVID if we quit testing."
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Beautiful letter. Ugly circumstances.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
The only Confederate flag I will accept is the white flag of surrender. The rest are just... how'd Engvall put it? "Here's yer sign."
🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) reposted
In another instalment of: “Didn’t Age Well” This video was deleted from Twitter. So you know what to do. 😏
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
I hope this malapropism can bring you random giggles the way it has for me for years.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Great news! Wish I could be there.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
"It's for everybody's safety." Mm-hm.
Dave (DABS) (@plutobro.bsky.social) reposted
Need a Job? Join ICE today! We're looking for a few good clowns. $50,000 signing bonus 🤡💩🤡
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Since I am not a PLHCP, I do not give medical advice. I believe that claiming authority on any medical matter and dispensing medical advice is certainly grounds for civil action, if not criminal. But, if I am dumb enough, then it could be a res ipsa loquitor scenario. Unless they make me HHS sec.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Roundabouts are fantastic. I once saw a Corvette not mind the roundabout. In fact, it was in Carmel, IN in 2012. He flew over the mound of brick pavers like he was doing a Dukes of Hazzard jump.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
"We're bringing back coal jobs!"
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
He has a really weird obsession with other people's genitals... while he calls people who read to children "groomers."
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
It's always the "smart businessman" that ruins shit. Look what "business decisions" over doctors' advice have done to healthcare. Just ask Boing how it is going when MBAs took over the decisions of engineers.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Antonin Scalia said that all people deserve due process, no matter their citizenship.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you ever finished a book? Or, do you just do it until the fascists are winning?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Turns out the trope "every accusation is an admission" started some time ago. I remember hearing the same about Obama. Remember the "Obama Death Panels"?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Uh-oh. I think we know one more thing that they will say causes autism... That is the level of quality of research they perform.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
I thought mediocre food and dust falling from knick-knacks on the wall was their thing. It's not?
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Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
What the hell them squirrels gonna eat?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know. I keep telling people I am not attractive, thinking the same thing, and they all seem to agree with me. Emphatically, in fact.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Holy sh!t. I knew he was dumb, but I have to ask... does he not know what a river is? And, is he pissed off at a fish because it needs water? I am going to have to call in sick to try to unpack all of this clip.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted
Trump: "We send hundreds of millions of gallons of water a day to the Pacific Ocean. They turn a valve and the valve heads out. And we turned the valve back. I actually had to do it using force. We turned the valve back and now they have water."
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
That is a weird fŭckin thing to say.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
How great would it be if someone were able to troll Trump with a fake Nobel award? It would only have to be passable for long enough thay he announced it on social media. Two minutes tops. And, honestly, if he thinks that hair passes for, well, hair, then there is a chance.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Does anyone else see someone exercising and then get hit with the notion of how ridiculous it is that Trump, of all people, brought back the Presidential fitness test? Really, of all people fit to be president... right?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
I am pleased to see that a braconid wasp is in the neighborhood attacking the hornworms on my tomatoes even though I lament one less hawk moth buzzing around like a nocturnal hummingbird.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Watching SNL from 2016-17... it is surreal to watch the jokes that seemed ridiculous then because of checks and balances. If... *long sigh* ... if only.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Welcome to the party! All the best!
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Beautiful.... we know someone's bible definitely "sold out" to a bunch of horse sh!t.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
The US machines raise the prices after an earthquake.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
I live near a tiny town (~250), and I have to go to Chicago frequently. It seems to me that the real reason rural people do not like Chicago, at least the ones who have been there, is this: to a country boy, it seems that every driver in Chicago is driving like they are about to crap their pants.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Next, he'll be taking questions from the voices in his head. "That's a great question, I've always liked this guy. You have any daughters?"
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Is there any way to stop Trump?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Very true. Every time, I think, "I didn't eat it with your mouth. Why TF do you care?"
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Based on pseudoscience BS, much like eugenics -- another thing he seems to be a big fan of.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Trump thinks painting our side black will make us look thinner. ... Obesity problem solved!
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Everybody who has been on an 8th grade field trip is confused as hell.
Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted
Political parties have control over the terms of primary elections. The DNC has the power to ban Super PAC spending. If Democrats really want to become the party of working people and fight the forces that brought us Trump, they must disavow Big Money.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
How long until Dean Cain or Kevin Sorbo is in some direct-to-VHS movie as a bounty hunter driving one of these?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
It was great. Slamming my phone down now has cost me thousands.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
I am not sure I understand the "alpha male" culture. Are they afraid of the pot of gold at the end or their own repressed homosexuality?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Because, as far as Trump is concerned, if you don't cheat then you aren't winning. This is predicated, of course, on everyone else following the rules. President Trump demands Roger Clemens be enshrined in Hall of Fame ‘now’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd like to ignore the heroin-addicted eugenicist's decisions, but I take your point... in the way I want to take it. I can be my own version of Pluto.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
The summer bill from Ameren if f-9ng ridiculous. We are keeping it hot as sh!t in our house to keep it under $450.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
I have a new pair of reading glasses I like, but they keep falling off my face. Amyway, I jave alot of impoortent thing too tell you'll about.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
The overturning of heat management rules in perpetually hot states makes it even more perplexing why so many people in those states still voted for the party that attempted to take their protections away. It sounds like a great argument for having safety managers.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
Beautiful spider I saw earlier... except my close-up is going. So, maybe it was only as beautiful as my camera's focus.
Ethan Nichtern (@ethannichtern.com) reposted
I want to see the Venn diagram of people who swear by ChatGPT and people who think the bartender is in love with them.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
One and the same... they are difficult people to work with, for sure.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
True stuff! There was once a guy who ruined the name Adolf for everybody forever, and that was just a first name.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Is that a video of the birthplace of all screensavers?
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
I look at the way the Regime is handling NIH, NSF, and NASA, and I wonder, "If I never get my cholesterol checked, it will then be OK, right?" I am only joking. I do not think that way because I am only rarely a complete and utter dumbass.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
They are using that term "run" pretty loosely. Especially if I can look at it and think, "oh, I could definitely beat that."
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Bondi is what happens if 10-cent ramen noodle soup vomit came to life and started yelling irrelevant things at congresspeople.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social)
For all of you who were harassed in school by football players, keep in mind that they were coached by geniuses who realized, only after a heat stroke death, "I guess they need water and stuff."
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
This reminds me of the "Kid Fights" video from the Bluth family.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
Glitter bombers should be careful... that is tantamount to throwing a cold cut combo at them.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
... and you're antisemitic if you disagree.
Xylophile (@islaven.bsky.social) reply parent
My hands are big enough, ask my tiny... what was the question?