I'm gonna start calling logging out "avoiding blueskyism"
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I'm gonna start calling logging out "avoiding blueskyism"
How is he going to get them to wear capes?
Won't someone stop the monsignors?
This is absolutely it. School closures united right wing wackos who always hated teachers with centrist pundits who couldn't stand being trapped in their tiny NYC apartments with their kids.
There are like 30 countries on 4 continents that speak French. Since we know France has no history of colonialism I can only assume they all just wanted to read Molière in the original.
WWE ladder match where the winner has to get to the top to claim his urn
TinyTask
A striking thing here is their sealed information environment. Cracker Barrel, its logo, and maga's freakout all occurred without input from anyone to the left of Mitt Romney. If we all vanish tomorrow in a lib/left rapture, they'll be picking enemies from their own ranks and calling each other woke
A striking thing here is their sealed information environment. Cracker Barrel, its logo, and maga's freakout all occurred without input from anyone to the left of Mitt Romney. If we all vanish tomorrow in a lib/left rapture, they'll be picking enemies from their own ranks and calling each other woke
Yeah it's not exactly subtle what's going on here
USG operating like Freddie Krueger - waiting for this judge to fall asleep so it can pull some shit.
The whole idea of "transplant" is weird to me. Americans can move to different cities. That's just a thing we can do. Making a thing of it just makes you sound like a blue-haired southern gothic character in her crumbling antebellum mansion complaining how the "new people have no Background"
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Fojol Brothers with muzzle loaders?
You can tell by the hands. No real person would have hands that small
part of the growing chasm between the supreme court and the lower and intermediate courts is that the supreme court has not punished the government for its overwhelming disrespect of the bench
Yet more evidence that "woke," which right-wing loons first adopted as one more in their long string of alternatives to the n word, now just means anything they don't like that feels new and scary.
*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
I was not kidding
They've had her in the garage freezer for 5 years?
This is evil -- the kind of evil you read about in history books, the kind of evil you would never mistake for a single second if you saw it in another country. When you ask, of historical evils, "how could they let that happen?" That's us. We're letting this happen.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Yeah, and researchers playing the game of digging for clear meaning is sort of the entire point. It's a significant part of why they do what they do instead of just committing suicide. It's the attention.
Basically, there is an online subculture of squalid degenerates obsessed with the worship of mass shooters as a form of fandom and that, more than anything clearly ideological, is their primary motivation. Which is also why they are a prime recruitment base for more ideological actors.
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For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
Oh no
TIRED: prosecutors can indict a ham sandwich WIRED: prosecutors can't indict a ham sandwich INSPIRED: it was turkey
Some enterprising denomination is going to build a giant needle and let rich folks ride a camel though its eye as a fundraiser
Also koaly
A tennis court is traditional, I think
I'll admit I've been confused about *why* Trump's goons want to destroy the US but I think it's just this: American society is a public pool, and they'd rather fill it with concrete than integrate it.
Bipartisan = "we know you love pastrami, so this sandwich has one slice of pastrami and two slices of feces. This is the best sandwich we could possibly make. Now take a big bite."
You're trolling right?
He's whatever the opposite of a polymath is; the guy's completely full of shit in an astounding variety of disciplines.
It's a trivial thing to some degree but also an asshole move, so on brand for the new Kennedy Center.
Its weird and cool that people do something as fundamental as "thinking" in all sorts of different ways. Like, I can't imagine what it's like to not have an internal monologue. Come to think of it, that may be literally true because I've always had one and that's just what thinking *is* for me.
Joke’s on us: we were waiting for what Republicans would make our version of the Enabling Act of 1933, and it turns out our enabling acts have been embedded bit by bit in our laws over decades, and formalized almost fifty years ago, as “emergency powers.”
Oh man, that Noah Pinion guy is going to be absolutely insufferable about this isn't he
Of course AIs can suffer, otherwise what was the point of torturing that gonk droid?
I wonder if going from "in charge of ruining the US relationship with Germany" to "in charge of ruining the Kennedy Center" considered a promotion or a demotion in magaland.
I honestly did not anticipate them trying to bring back fighting words.
LOL, he blocked me, which is a shitty strategy to kill posts that alert people that you are posting disinformation. He is doing this systematically to others also. Folks, if you don't like being lied to, block: @thomaspayne.bsky.social
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
* kitchen table issues
A neat aspect of America's asymmetric media is that Democrats are responsible for anything any non-republican says online, but no Republicans is held responsible for even the things he himself has said.
Also he has the same kind of chips bag at the beginning
Was this prompted by Zohran running a scavenger hunt while simultaneously trolling Eric Adams, or was that just a synchronicity in my timeline?
So the "obstacle course" literally simulates sneaking over someone's fence, climbing through their window and kidnapping them?
All the backpedalling has given people a false impression of crying wolf. For months he'd announce a terrible thing, everyone would say "that's really bad," and he'd chicken out. If you weren't paying attention it was easy to miss the backing down so it just looked like announcement→freakout→nothing
"Shit guys the cracker barrel stuff isn't working go back to the denim girl quick!"
Maybe it wasn't a good idea to set up a system where a president gets to claim all kinds of extra powers if he's just willing to lie about some emergency existing.
great 🧵 on how batshit that Third Way "words Dems should stop saying" list is 👇
"And you can hold the trophy too"
Maybe it's time to start taking our own side in a fight.
"Time for go to sleep!" Which (I believe) Tor Johnson doesn't say in Plan 9, but the Rifftrax guys do.
LOL
This is cracker-barrel-sign level discourse. No "Democrats" are saying any of this, people just made things up to be mad about.
I love that we have a press that's like "John Bolton in classified documents case" instead of "John Bolton, obviously being targeted by the administration for bullshit, as is happening across multiple branches of the regime"
Maryland
You can tell yourself we are not living under a personalist authoritarian regime or you can listen to the spokesperson for that regime
This is a pretty self-evident point that everyone will get very mad about.
"I gave my life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot" is the new "I once got busy in a Burger King bathroom"
It's just Different. And Different means scary and woke
Yeah, I used to wonder if being middle aged always feels like the end of the world. But I *think* this is legit really bad?
It is wild how they just assume whatever they don't like is something a Liberal/Woke/Minority wanted. I could be wrong, but I honestly don't think anyone but them cares about Cracker Barrel's branding.
Sell raffle tickets for a chance to drive the bulldozer
I want to get a passport card too but apparently getting one when not renewing requires sending in your valid passport book and being without it for as long as it takes to process. If we're going to be a "papers-please" society, a couple months of processing time seems untenable.
Bluesky is pretty good, but when are we going to get Televisiontunedtoadeadchannelsky?
Gonna get one of these and then have a long argument with all my bros about the actual date that it burns out.
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Dressing as Sauron for an event that depends on someone accepting your ring.
Hey, did you know that the NLRB has operated in violation of the Constitution for 90 years? It's right there in this original Constitution we found in 2025.
Even on its own terms this is a BS argument. It's like saying "I HAD to burgle my neighbor's house last night because I heard they were getting a security system tomorrow." It wouldn't matter unless you were always planning to rob them at some point.
Without going too deeply into what trumpy's feel, the central mindset of people who'd describe themselves as "conservative," is an aggrieved "We're the real, normal Americans, the ones who matter; so why can't ~they~ leave us alone?" "Weird" etc. challenges that in a way that "dangerous" does not.
"Tronc TV"
But deliver us from shelob
So fuckin weird that somehow between the time I logged off on Friday and I checked the site on Saturday, Newsome became the nominee and we all have to line up behind him even if we don't like him very much
Thank you commodore!
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
That's an adorable hedgehog though
They're running the COVID playbook again. "Like, what if some kids die *with* crimes against humanity and not *of* crimes against humanity?"
Suspect is charged with abolition, emancipation
Pretty telling that he's back on this bullshit after his meeting with Putin
If this was happening in any other country, it would be covered as “pedophile warlord sends troops into national capital for no reason”
Newsome will go whichever way be thinks the wind is blowing. Can't depend on someone like that
A post from the official Facebook page of the Cambria County, PA GOP. It’s hard to see why some people compare MAGA to a cult.
Exactly. People need to remember that as fierce as Gail may look, she's more scared of you than you are of her. That's also why it's important to wear a bell or other noisemaker at comic cons to alert her to your presence and be sure to never get between Gail and a salmon
The alleged optimism for AI as a product that actually does anything is entirely distinct from the optimism for AI as the latest shiny object to make line go up
Democratic Base: "Democratic leadership is all ancient, I wish they'd make way for some younger talent" [Hakeem Jeffries appears]
Both things can be true: the problems are complicated, sometimes the solutions are too, but the goals should be simple and articulable.
It never occured to me to try if before, but I just dug out the converters that came with the Majohn A2 and the Jinhao 10 and stuck them in a Pilot as an experiment. I didn't ink the pen, but it seemed like both fit well. The Majohn converter has noticeably better build quality than the Jinhao
And now it looks happy too
Schwalb could announce that effective immediately he's fired Pam Bondi and replaced her with the ghost of Marion Berry. It would carry precisely as much legal weight as her "order."
JFC I just clocked that this was something they posted themselves because they thought it was a *good* look for them
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