jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
With little a attack on greenland, as a treat.
Former IT drudge. He/him Cis-het white dude. Or, as the philosoper once said: "lowest possible difficulty setting" (h/t John Scalzi)
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With little a attack on greenland, as a treat.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Any bones from any source! Store-bought rotisserie chickens are a godsend. And the gelatin at the bottom of the container is gold.
Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted
there is an entire strategist industrial complex whose main goal is to catapult the strategists themselves to national prominence and not to actually help Dems win elections and more elected Dems should realize that and ignore these people
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Maxwell pardon Running for 3rd term Biden and/or Obama prosecution(s)
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
TIL... I love finding little tidbits of internet lore. Thank you for this!
Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 (@princejvstin.com) reposted
A thread about a much discussed piece of art I did not understand when it came out and took me years to really comprehend. Ursula lays it all out, here.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
That was a Mighty Chomp right there!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Was he at least enjoying the book before you disturbed him?
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe you should get your *own* bed, instead of trying to get into the dog's???
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Damnit! I've got $2 on Bluekiy in the fifth at Santa Anita...
🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 (@blackamazon.bsky.social) reposted
This is the trail of tears again .
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Rentals of "Weekend at Bernie's" are up like 97 billion percent...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
damnit!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social)
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary Four Garys and a Gary
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
You seem distraught. You should do something nice for yourself to ease the pain. I know! Maybe have a cookie?
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a "getting eaten" joke in there somewhere... I'm just not clever enough to put it together.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Buahahhhahahhah
Yardyspice (@yardyspice.bsky.social) reposted
China has taken its place as the new super power. Glad egg prices have plummeted. What? Oh…
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Maybe you could learn from this experience. Alt Text helps to include folks who might not otherwise be able to participate in the conversation. It's a way of making things nicer. Do you like nice things?
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
The frozen TV dinners, with the unidentifiable lump of fried chicken still haunts my nightmares. I honestly think it was breaded tail...
Ami Berger (@amiberger.bsky.social) reposted
Four Seasons Total That Story About Helping The Woman On The Side Of The Highway Before The Accident Is Complete Bullshit
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
That would explain a lot 🤔
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
No, no. There's no reason to interview bartenders anywhere in the vicinity, Rudy totally was busy as a good Samaritan on the highway. As he does. Look over there! 9/11!!!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Because the guy at the bar getting hammered before the crash was a guy that *looked* like Rudy. It certainly wasn't Rudy, who was busy rendering aid at the time...
beccadagoo (@silly.bsky.social) reposted
Vaxxed?
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Who Goosed the Moose? My Goldfish Stole a Bently
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd begun to ponder if this was satire. A cursory Google search of the OP's background showed me how mistaken that thought was. By all the ghods, she's an abysmal person...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
"doesn't toast properly"??? Doesn't toast? Sourdough? That's a lot of wrong in three words...
LOLGOP (@thefarce.org) reposted
As honest as I can get: Gavin's platform hijacking stuff is very good; redistricting is excellent. But the podcast/transphobia stuff is obviously designed to get attacked from the left to impress "the middle" because HE THINKS IT HELPS HIS AMBITION. It's our job to prove he's wrong about that.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
🎶the things that pass for incest I can't understand. Are you reelin' in the grift? Stowin' away the criiii-iimes🎶
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Would
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Who now? I thought JD Vance was President...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
AAAAAAAHHHHH
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
This dog understands you are celebrating, but wonders if you maybe could lower the volume on your record player just a bit. He'd like to get a nap in, and the "music" you kids listen to these days... Oy!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Same, Roxi, same...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Andreesen. Thiel would be his first choice, but ineligible.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
You had a good run, though
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Magnificent
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Oooooofffff. May everything go smoothly!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
If I had to guess? A subcontractor of The Trump Organization, LLC But don't worry about it, he knew nothing about the contract because he turned management of TTO, LLC over to an independent company* *his kids
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, that's about enough internet for today. 🛌🏻
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
*headdesk* Why is biology?
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
I wore myself down, damnit!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Hmmmm....I think they all (mostly) come from organic, vegetative matter. So herbs are dried leaves, spices are seeds (cracked, or ground)? Uh.... Except... a peppercorn is a fruit. Cinnamon is bark. Salt is a mineral. Sodium Hydroxide is used to make bagels. Hunh. IOW, I have no idea. Crap.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
See? Now I want to throw edge cases at you, to see how long you'll last until I wear you down. (team Big Spice)
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
"mom mom mom mummy mummy mom mom Amy mom mom!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
As well she should have. Good that you listened, though!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social)
"He cannot be our candidate"
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Panicked man holding up a just-translated book and shouting at people boarding a space ship: "It's a sex manual!"
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Cool. So when Trump sends shock troops into Boston to, I dunno, "oversee elections" or whatever, they'll have fully functional equipment! Wouldn't want their machine guns to jam while they are shooting civilians!!! Thanks Senator Bipartisanship!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
I've now seen this character twice in the same night in two completely unrelated threads. I believe I've had entirely too much Internet for one day!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social)
🧵!!!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
I hesitated to be more direct with you, but yes that was the approximate thought I had...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Seriously. You're all cozy in a nice warm spot, then they make you deal with *gestures broadly* The kid is reacting quite reasonably, considering...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
My great-grands will be so excited to see what's being tucked away at Mar a Lago and Bedminster!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Holy fuck
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social)
Bonus with natural fiber clothing: cotton (eg) is more comfortable than polyester in hot weather. In the unlikely event we all experience warmer weather in the future...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Nonsense! There's a hot side *and* a cold side. However could you keep them that way?
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Nobody wants to hear a cracker whine...😁
Malaclypse the Middle (@malaclypse.bsky.social) reposted
Butlerian Jihad now.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
"that must amount to four pounds of meat!"
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
"some parts are edible!"
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
dog appears: "heenh-heenh-heenh"
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
I rolled my eyes so hard at "snidely" that I about gave myself... ... ...whiplash
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
...UNLESS: the retraction was part of the campaign all along! WallWithRedYarn.gif
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Contrarian: Kids these days are surviving as best they can in the world we made for them. I don't begrudge them having the good weed. We coughed our lungs out on shake, so they could run with premium stash. ...or something. i'm not a damn philosopher.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social)
"Watergate, but stupid" has to have "Nixon, but stupid"
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Age dependent maybe? (Signed, I still think they're doobies)
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Tom Lehrer would've loved recording it, tho...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social)
Ya' Damn Skippy...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
"take care of"? Hunh, I seem to remember a secondary interpretation of that phrase...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
*snortlaugh*
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Happy Birthday!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
S-tier characterizing! Keep at it though, you've got potential... Happiest of Anniversaries to you!
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, but the linear distance upon which to stagger is much shorter this go around. And appears to be 100% indoors. Well done! (also, happy anniversary!)
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Decades-ago experience of being backstage watching theater tech crew changing scenery. In the dark. Quietly. Yeah, I believe it as well.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Gravity gets really weird around 420 or shortly thereafter... 🪴🪴🪴
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Warning: Deep pools of human urine may cause soil to shift unexpectedly over this gravesite
Roy Edroso (@edroso.bsky.social) reposted
I like @thebaltimorebanner.com but let's be clear: she didn't say she "wants" this, she ruled the feds MUST do this.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Please let us know if he claims that "the lurkers support him in e-mail" wouldja?
Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone) reposted
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jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
"and that was prey that you brought into the HOUSE. Checkmate, primate"
The Midnight Society (@midnightpals.bsky.social) reposted
Edgar Allan Poe: ok guys so kind of a thing tonight Poe: GRR Martin is coming over to talk Poe: and i need you all to NOT ask him about finishing game of thrones Poe: i'm looking at you clive Barker: yeah i'm just gonna ask him Poe: don't deny it clive, i know you're thinking- Poe: oh
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (@crockett.house.gov) reposted
Let’s be clear: deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda makes no sense—it’s not his home country. Nothing about this process has been fair. ICE is targeting him with cruelty. This is the weaponization of government, not justice.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
They're talking about "being tough on crime", so I expect Trump is giving himself a little treat under the desk..
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) reposted
i hate this fucking pageantry of lies with an intensity that could independently power the north american continent for months at a time
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Why, though?
Łink. (@spacelawshitpost.me) reposted
I hate conservatives because why is Riley Gaines posting clips about how she’s stronger and more athletic than Zohran when her whole fucking deal is how men are magically biologically superior to women when it comes to sports.
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
No! Do not romance Americans! (That's how you wind up with more Americans...)
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
...don't threaten me with a good time...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
There isn't enough bandwidth on Bluesky to cover the number of NathonFillionConfused gifs my brane served up after reading that... suffice it to say: whuh?
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Peace be upon you both, and upon you peace
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Order before midnight, and you get the secret history: "...anna two pairs o' plans"
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social)
Oh FFS...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
*snerk!*
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
nightmare fuel
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Ducks? I thought we were talking about historians...
jon "🎶couldn't hurt to try it once or twice🎶" schuster (@jschuster.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you tried looking for them in the past?
Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) reposted
Not sure if people have realized yet on just how many levels the #zcavengerhunt is working. Not only is it activating a bunch of people, not only is it getting people out and about in NYC, not only is it highlighting public transits, not only is it highlighting NYC history... it's also:
Chantal James (@chantalalive.bsky.social) reposted
New York looking downright wholesome playing scavenger games with their hopeful future mayor. We down here under Trump’s iron fist in DC. Lordt I have seen what you have done for others & I want that for me.