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So is that page I linked to that says "all individuals working on a solar installation must work on behalf of an individual or business with an electrical contractor license. This applies to both residential and commercial installations" just out of date?
That is the bathroom off the Lincoln Bedroom.
fact check: this isn't the banner, this is his disembodied spirit floating around DC a la enter the void
It's also illegal here in Portland. www.oregon.gov/bcd/Document...
Virtually every speaker the OR GOP has brought to the state for one of their events since 2022 has been, first and foremost, an election denier. Lying about elections is now basically a requirement for being a Republican in good standing.
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
On average, someone is shot in a road rage incident every 18 hours in the US, with about 1 in 4 being fatal. But big right wing Twitter accounts like Libs of TikTok are making a huge deal out of this particular incident. I bet you can guess why.
This bitch clearly does not have cats.
I do this with the soiled pee pads & bedding for my foster kittens so I can carry them around the house to the exterior laundry room door, instead of through the kitchen.
I was briefly interested too, like many other people majoring in behavioral science in the 1990s. (I Have Opinions about how bogus profiling is.) Moot point, as I don't think the FBI has EVER accepted a Reed graduate, although the CIA has no problem with us, lol.
When you find out that Kafka had to write dry, matter-of-fact insurance reports about the most gruesome deaths imaginable, his style makes so much sense.
What’s funny about takes like this is that when democrats do something like this (see, Biden dismantling the drone program) the same people making this point either don’t give them credit for doing it, lie and say it’s still on going or fetishize process.
I'm sorry but this is insane www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
I'd be utterly delighted to get to 150, which made me think I was fat when I was 21, which makes me want to slap my former self. Oh, cool, I just checked for the first time in months, it's only 96 to get to that now.
My lowest ever was 128, but I’m a muscular 5’9” so that was hard to maintain, even as a bike messenger. I couldn’t eat enough to do my job, which wasn’t worth it to try to get more modeling jobs.
The Business Elite never forgave FDR for lifting millions out of poverty and they vowed to spend the next century destroying the country for it.
Griffin’s definition of fascism as palingenetic ultranationalism—specifically a reactionary nostalgia for a lost history of the nation that never existed—remains undefeated. A nostalgia for a type of bread that is ubiquitous, created in the 20th century, and rage towards bread as old as civilisation
Fantastic work, bebe! That's about what I'd need to lose to weigh what I did at 21.
Taylor Lorenz is getting defended for boosting a Nazi by an awful lot of covid conscious accounts, so yeah, looks like she's become the entry point for introducing that crowd into the fash pipeline.
It's not like the US is about 16 times as big as Ukraine or anything.
1912 - it’s there in black & white! But 110 YEARS LATER governments subsidised the fossil fuel industry to the tune of $7 TRILLION! Billions of people will die not because climate collapse is unavoidable, but because elites decided our lives are less important than fossil fuel profits.
Hospice nurses also talk about the surge of energy & lucidity that happens right at the end. Your body stops wasting energy trying to keep itself alive, which gives your brain more than it's had in a while. So if he suddenly seems better than he has in ages, put the champagne in the fridge.
Just as "neoliberal" means "any older politician I don't like, based purely on vibes, since I don't actually pay attention to policy." The number of fauxgressives calling Biden a neoliberal, when his administration was quite literally the opposite of that....smdh.
The only moron here is the one who tells people they're stupid for not taking trains that don't actually exist.
Like many performative leftists, their "operational definition" of a "shitlib" seems to be "person who reminds me of my mom."
Lol, you are a pathetic, ignorant, dipshit.
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
It was just an ordinary house and an ordinary door. She stepped into what she thought was a closet, but it was a stone staircase to the cellar.
If I owned it, you damn well better believe I would be giving the fire department all the info.
During a recent heat wave, I just grabbed my hair in two handfuls and cut it off over the trashcan. I still don't know what it looks like, because I took the bathroom mirror down for sanding/painting weeks ago. Don't care. It's more comfortable now.
I wouldn't put it past him to post an AI version of a 911 call. He is totally stupid enough to ask a minion to create one.
noem: [monologue of lies with inflammatory claims, all of which are easily and obviously rebuked by, amongst other things, reality] bitchass host: i’m sorry, could you repeat your most ridiculous claim?
Sure, we should not vote for Gavin Newsom in the primary. But if Governor Haircut actually won the nomination, anyone who refuses to vote for him on "moral" grounds is a performative poser with no actual morals at all.
Lol, the only one inserting themselves into the equation is the idiot who has 300 followers and reading comprehension issues.
When I was at 82nd & Flavel, I sometimes went to the Winco that was a short bus ride south & sometimes to the one that was a short bus ride north In the absence of any other identifying info, I would have known which parking lot I was walking through just from the cars. The difference was striking
Happy birthday to both of you!
The 3 best landlords I've ever had were two dudes named Eric, one of whom I rented from in 1993, the other in 2005, & my current, who let me paint his house bright colors & foster kittens, while my corporate landlord evicted me to get ahead of a new rent control law. Still agree with you, lol
The media decided they wanted Trump to win from the jump. It's very well-documented that he's been a fucking crook his entire life, and they just ignored it.
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
I had a couple dozen baby food jars until recently, because of a sick cat, which I couldn't make myself recycle for the longest time. No one else wanted them, and I didn't need THAT many. I still have some of the ones my own baby food came in over 50 years ago, because my dad saved stuff in them.
Sigh
Been meaning to learn all the diacritical marks and the phonetic alphabet my entire adult life to correct that, but I never got around to it, lol.
That's a pretty widely held opinion, tbh. I can remember reading various pieces about the growth of the underground music scene and/or independent filmmakers that saw it through that lens.
Ok is she too careless to realize that the blanked out word here is ”Jews” or is she fully over the edge?
also by the numbers, the United States has only had twenty-four free and fair legislative elections. they began in 1966 and ended in 2012.
It was a tiny little shop, with a wall of labeled herbs & roots you could access yourself, & a set of unlabeled drawers behind the counter like a library card catalog, full of things you had to ask for, which I knew nothing about. I used to get 7-day candles there; they were hard to find back then.
Ever since I left DC, I have occasionally wondered how long the voodoo supplies shop that used to be at 14th & Euclid lasted once the Green line finally opened, which happened right before I moved to Portland.
They didn’t have enough energy to have bad habits, except for the one that tended to bite and the one that tended to kick.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
This is the one you had when I first saw you, but it was the handle that referenced Hen Wen that caught my attention, as I'd recently posted about how much I identified with the character in Taran Wanderer who made most of what he needed from random stuff he salvaged.
I had to wade through protesters to see Last Temptation of Christ.
I got transvestigated for the first time a couple days ago. Those people are utterly unhinged. bsky.app/profile/rain...
Lol, "low rent" perfectly describes the horses at the little riding school I went to as a kid, after my parents moved us further away from DC, to suburbs so new there were still pockets of farmland & pastures. I was stunned the first time I rode a good, well-trained horse.
I can
I don't like alcohol in general, but there was a ginger wine that I liked years ago. Alas, only one grocery store in Portland had it, & I am nowhere near there now. I didn't drink until I was in my 30s, when Mike's became a thing. I just don't like the taste unless it's basically a dessert treat.
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Imagine watching this from a state that isn't getting the help they need to recover from a natural disaster
Watching Eating Raoul while tripping was an experience. When I watched it again years later, I was like, "oh hey, it wasn't just that I was tripping, it's actually like that."
Man, that picture makes speculation that they were playing his favorite music at high volume because he was non-responsive seem less silly.
It’s so funny
I dunno when my dad was unresponsive they told us to play his favorite music
Lol, the Pentagon Pizza Index predates the Web.
If Trump did die, all the journalists who were like "my biggest regret is not talking even more about Biden's health" should be buried with him.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
fuck Morrissey, but
"Weekend at Bernie's" takes place during the Labor Day weekend.
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
If you don't know what voter suppression looks like, this is it.
I have never seen it in all these years, but I'm beginning to think that I should.
Also the more people that wildly speculate, the greater the odds of him actually hearing about how much people were looking forward to his demise.
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
This reminds me of getting my tonsils out when I was 5 years old. I can smell the ether again.
I hope that when RFK Jr dies someday, someone has been hired and trained to capture whatever crawls out of the body, so that it doesn't find a new host
I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
A lot people are saying they don’t want to go to sleep tonight just in case they miss they announcement that Trump is dead but can you just imagine waking up in the morning to all news alerts and the timeline buzzing. It would be like Christmas morning on crack.
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
The one consolation if we're wrong is that he might hear about how eagerly people were anticipating his demise.
That he hasn't already decamped for one of his golf courses on a holiday weekend is rather unusual.
i can predict with 100% accuracy that Trump will die on a holiday (because the day on which he dies will immediately become a holiday)
Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.
Lack of organizational ability.
Recently met a HS grad whose Americorps job suddenly disappeared when the entire program was axed in April. 2025 budget for it was $1.3 billion. When he got the news, he was on his way to Texas to paint low income houses. He'd been helping people living in poverty to prepare tax returns before that.
Periodic reminder that Obama tried in his administration to build a network of solar and wind energy projects that would have been enough to curb emissions. If the US and China had both been compliant with the clean energy goals the world would literally be a better place.
There's some in their replies. Not the entire org, but agencies within it.
"Fuck the UN" has been a Republican position for a long time, & they finally got their wish.
That is easily solved with a wig and a MAGA hat
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
That's because evangelicals are the ones that are actually running the government now, and they think accelerating famine, flood, fire, pestilence, and war will bring Jesus back in their lifetime.
You motherfucker
If he dies before I finish this 12-pack of spiked limeade, I will no longer regret having bought it. (Trying to get no more than one a month until my weight and blood pressure go down.)
Esquire lets you subscribe to just his column for a few bucks a year, so I did that finally.
RFK Jr. taps his top deputy, Jim O’Neill, to be the new CDC director. Both men appear to wear skinny ties from Otaa. Otaa's ties are made in China from microfiber, a kind of plastic that, under the right conditions, can migrate to your balls.
That Treadwell survived as many summers as he did is a testament to how much the bears would rather not. It was only when he stayed later than usual and resources were getting scarce that they finally ate him. I wouldn't feel bad about it at all if not for his poor girlfriend.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
every discussion about whether we should prioritize urban wellbeing over rural wellbeing has to start with an acknowledgment that the primary reason we are having the discussion at all is because the representatives of rural americans are forcing us to
