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Great, now I have to play Just Cause 2 again
Anyway, how’s your sex life?
The race is on to get a photo of ICE standing next to a Freedom Trail marker
The optics of doing troop occupation in *Boston*
Give him some Granny Flo’s alphabet soup and that’ll sort him out
The unseen stove is the hottest
Imagine trying to Community Notes this one
Need to add “polymath” to your bio
I’ve been using “Charisn’tma” more and more
Russia is taking about as many casualties as the U.S. did in the entire Vietnam War every two months.
I think the answer you usually get to this is “strip clubs”
Just own up to being the Globetrotters. People like the Globetrotters!
would not be the first time
“…just so’s I can say I’ve had one?”
KPDH really did change the game
Grizzly bears can’t make fists, so they lose by default
Even the lizardmen don’t want to touch this one
absolutely the best punchline in serialized television to, three years later, have it turn out that he means "huffing aviation gasoline" by this
We deserve it
People really just need to laugh in their faces when they say nonsense like this.
Also I don’t particularly care about the historical origins of a practice when we’re talking about how it should look in the present
Your clients are responsible for waking up me up at 2:36 AM is not the best position to be advocating from
I think it’s so awesome this has broken containment
You could make a lot of money by placing an enormous amount of Domino’s pizza orders to the one that’s right by the Pentagon and exploiting the resulting market panic
Didn’t need anything after “nothing”
So were the guys who shot Ahmaud Arbery
we should probably talk about that more yeah bsky.app/profile/jame...
Indoor plumbing is a very recent invention in human history
No bacon sandwiches. Ed Milliband orders an egg and cheese, and we’re not in this disaster today
Duffel Blog still knows how to land a round www.duffelblog.com/pentagon-fin...
the press: sir, living under perpetual martial law does reduce crime. do you not agree? would it not make us all feel a little safer if the jackboots could shoot hooligans on sight? should we not abolish the third amendment and quarter these men in our homes? questions to you governor pritzker: …
The Asian Dawn did nothing wrong!
The thing about nonsense takes like this is that what they're really saying, while failing to realize it, is that *they've* become more comfortable with blatantly evil acts as time has gone by. Literally all they need is some lip service from the villain that they're doing it for the right reasons.
These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.
as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel
Are they seasonally adjusted?
Bandit and Chilli are way too permissive!
He’s just left-handed!
I know exactly what you mean—one of my boys has long legs that always look so delicate. I have a twin bed in my office where they can lounge out of any danger.
The lady who has a sponsorship from a company that markets smartphones to kids thinks your kid needs 24/7 access to a smartphone to fight the Jews
It may be that Europeans just don’t have a reference point for “severe wind/rain storm” due to geography
Three Little Pigs was Europropaganda
We’re not going let you leave the stove until you touch every burner, young man
Negatively polarized into declaring these folks based
It’s autumn. Taylor is a reverse Discworld troll—if she gets too cold, she can’t think.
The numbers bros would go apeshit for a candidate with +/- in his actual name
In many many places it’s heat for your garage that you want
Dead Dove Do Not Eat
Some SMU corner tries to return an interception and gets slide-tackled into next week
He got it from Haiti
That’s just DAVE
Dead? Downgrade? No offense? Folks that sounds like the Texas Longhorns
I think I’m ready for their movies to stop being titled with one past-participle verb
I was completely unable to figure out which side the screenshotted quote was supposed to be on
The same voters gave them no power last election now they demand that power be used, somehow.
Back-to-school reminder: The market rewards education Average earnings: High school dropout | ### ($35k) High school grad | ##### ($47k) College degree | ######### ($87k) Masters degree | ########### ($106k) Professional degree | ##################($184k)
In the event any of this is tried and doesn’t work, they will loudly condemn Democrats for fucking it up
I hope out there somewhere there's a Brezhnev-era Kremlinologist enjoying a late-breaking second career.
He was also six inches taller than Frost, which helped
trump calling into Fox and Friends with a long rambling speech about how he's worried he's not jellicle enough to make it to the Heaviside Layer.
Welcome to celeb book clubs 101 lol
Considering this isn’t about Hillary, they’re really branching out
A lot going on here, but please use the metric “hedon” to quantify joy. It’s so difficult to convert iotas to utils
Doing pushups to help RFK Jr learn what a full rep looks like
Theres really no point to scrolling your phone waiting to hear about the day it happens, if you are a Real American and live in a decent sized city you'll know from horns honking, fireworks, people spontaneously hollering, passing out drinks, etc
Big Dorothy “the power was with you the whole time” vibes
Electing Trump probably spiked the number of global warming casualties this century by like a million people
Linda thinks it’s a work
It’s an ant farm
Some days I don’t want to better myself
I really wanted to like that book, but it was all too convenient. It would make the plot difficult if the BJP and the caste system existed? Okay, they both went away in one election cycle. How many people went to prison for orchestrating Crash Day? Zero.
We would still have to cut atmospheric carbon to deal with ocean acidification though, yes?
I’m thinking now about a woman who posted a 100-question thread she claimed you had to answer before you could give an opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In retrospect Gollum had plenty of timeouts left and probably should have burned one on this
Look once the next snap happens you can’t go back to use your challenge flag. Everyone knows that
It’s like the multiple endings to the Clue movie
In general, if Joe Biden wanted to win re-election he shouldn’t have done such a good job. Rookie mistake.
It still blows my mind that there was a deadly disease that killed 1 million people in this country alone and the people who get to air their opinions about it most are those who think we did too much and were too careful.
An interesting trend: Pixar’s protagonists have been getting younger as their stories have become increasingly insistent about being adult-relevant. Bob Parr is in his 40s. Marlin is a father. Carl Fredricksen is a retiree. Remy/WALL-E/Joy are in the middle. Then there’s Luca/Mei Lee/Elio.
The question is how that squares with the fact KPDH is *also* a generational-trauma, your-mother-figure-is-wrong movie
We cannot allow a Nookie Gap
The stove calls
A very specific “us”
I think Jeremy Irons’ character is dumbed down a little from who you’d expect to be running a megabank, but that’s largely so he can be an audience surrogate
There’s the dumbass grad student who gets stuck on the east side of the Berlin Wall in “Bridge of Spies”, but he’s an economist, I think
They’re freelancers, they recruit for them on the internet
There are certain employment opportunities that will forever be unavailable to this guy, and others where they will hire him the instant they Google his name and ask if they can high five him and get a selfie
Everything is a joke except actual jokes, which are violence