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::ascends soapbox:: "Calvinball is an honorable collaborative game played between equals who won through their ability to create new rules that favor them. What SCOTUS is doing is neither honorable or collaborative and is more akin to simple authoritarianism." ::descends soapbox::
It’s really more Thunderdome than Calvinball
Skill issue
Yeah don’t get me started on that
Seeing such accomplishments would be such a positive feedback loop
“Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants!” (Not sealing the floor)
Since the Missouri legislature and Governor decided last year to wrest control of the St. Louis police department from STL city, who is now in charge of STLPD??? www.firstalert4.com/2025/09/03/g...
Baseball fights are the silliest and at the same time the most American part of America’s pastime
September 2, the taint day of the year
Guy looks like he’s been licking boot for his entire adult life
I don't make the rules, I just follow them youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...
This past Sunday the Trump administration attempted to deport unaccompanied minors back to Guatemala. But a federal judge in DC intervened, blocking the administration from deporting the children. I was there when they got off the plane here in El Paso. Here is my story - tinyurl.com/yc89fa9d
is this theory "phrenology, but with more sexual harassment?"
If there is an ethics office to deal with questions from these JAGs who are temporarily IJs, would it be the DOJ ethics office? How soon before they get questions or requests for ethics advice about competence?
Let's remember some relievers!
in retrospect maybe we should have saved the Matches Malone episode...
Brave & The Bold is how my older kid got into Etrigan and Jonah Hex, we had a lot of fun watching it together. There are a few moments where the double entendres are . . . kind of eye-opening though.
This is called “Guys It Was Fun to Hear Jerry Remy Say in a Boston Accent.” 8 Red Sox and one bonus non-Red Sox.
He loves to argue and always engages, it’s kind of his entire thing! If he hates it here, there must be some hefty degree of unrecognized self-loathing. But that’s for him to reckon with, and no amount of engagement is going to help him figure it out.
They also conveniently omit that the “open schools” movement was in place as early as spring 2020 (they were sending open letters to school administrators in March), and people rightfully called them out as ghouls then.
We were incredibly fortunate that COVID didn’t have the same mortality rate among children, which is something the “schools were closed too long” people forget - it was the safe and rational thing to do given we knew nothing about how it affected kids…
It's alive!!! I think this review of FRANKENSTEIN 📽️ #Venezia82 is the strongest rave I have ever written movieswetextedabout.com/frankenstein...
we’re dealing with a variety of incoherent and possibly contradictory policies. The resulting chaos would still be terrible, in potential ways we can’t even imagine yet. Plus no one knows who emerges from that vicious morass of racists and thieves.
What a terrible take. A Vance Presidency would involve a short period of him doing all the grifty and weird things Peter Thiel wants, until the infighting among Trump cronies and sycophants rises to some level where instead of one bad set of policies…
Potentially big in VA-1 if she does end up running Shannon Taylor came up short in VA AG Dem primary She is current top prosecutor in Henrico county in Richmond suburbs Would give Dems a strong candidate against incumbent Rep. Rob Wittman Dems looking to target VA-1 in 2026
Congratulations to new NFFE units at NPS-Yosemite and NPS-Sequoia & Kings Canyon! nffe.org/press-releas...
I burst out laughing at this ad yesterday. Yeah, on Labor Day I wanna subscribe to the Wall Street Fuckn Journal
Also, the only people going to this are techbros, if the price points for tickets going $700/$3000/$9000 is any indication (and the last, highest level is named "protagonist" which is pretty icky, imo).
They . . . kind of admit to it "What genders are welcome? All genders and gender identities are welcome! This event leans heteronormative in that many of the sessions focus on classic, ancient problems between men and women, however anyone is welcome to attend."
I think it's similar to people who buy Powerball tickets after the jackpot exceeds $600 million or whatever. At the end of the day it's fine, and I even think there's utility in spending a few bucks to get the feel of "maybe!" but no one should expect to win.
This is a terrible fuckin’ non-answer
“Always two Garys, there are. No more. No less. A Master Gary and an apprentice Gary.”
Last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Ty ty. It looks like a bunch people beat me to this though. Still, this is fun
Third Prize is you’re still Gary, but you’re also fired
Second Prize is you’re still Gary
First Prize is you’re Gary
Ruin a movie by making it about Gary. Glengarry Glen Gary
Not doing phrasing anymore are we
I blocked them immediately.
It feels like a Top Gear or Grand Tour bit, like “today, James May tries to parallel park a smart car blindfolded, as Richard and Jeremy instruct him.”
I was thinking some Mr. Bean shit too.
they're definitely not beating the "weird" allegations!
it's the Tom Holland Umbrella Lip Sync of social media, you don't make the rules, you see it, you reskeet it
and you know what, I hate that I would probably really enjoy watching youngun's reaction video to Rice Truck
maybe some kid made a reaction video?
We’ll make time for birds (is that a good slogan? That feels like a slogan)
Hell yeah
Thanks to my union siblings at AFSCME, and AFGE and NFFE and NATCA and NWSEO and POPA and IAFF and all the other federal sector unions out there fighting every day. Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Wouldn’t be a Labor Day without the best union public service announcement ever made (parody or real) youtu.be/_3mw49mk_x0
But…then again that money should be transferred somehow so who am I to judge
AI simulacra are the worst, but not too far behind it are reaction videos encouraging parasocial attachment between generations instead of like…real attachment.
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
Look I have no idea when it's gonna happen. But I do know if it happens tomorrow and you're not at one of the big Labor Day protests when it does, you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life.
Classic action movie trope, I can dig it
(I don't know what to do with the fact that Ana De Armas has done Wick and Bond movies, someone can figure it out)
The Bond mythology is too dated at this point (Brosnan and Craig movies were constantly riffing, only sometimes successfully, on the mythology, and Craig's straight up retcon a bunch of stuff), so they should just pay for the John Wick IP and make a Grand Unified Spies and Assassins universe.
Probably my favorite Bond movie period
I don't know if I would go that far, but it's definitely a guilty pleasure bsky.app/profile/will...
If it weren't for a writer's strike, License to Kill would be a Top 5 Bond movie. Even as messy as it is, it's still very good
There are legitimate ways to argue for voting for someone whose platform includes dealbreaker issues, but arguing that a minority group said candidate does not support is in fact expendable is not one of them.
While doing a charity walk to stop breast cancer, or perhaps another, worse one, I saw a deer with a broken leg and stopped to help, splinting the wound and donating $1000 to a charity for environment. Hours later I was punched very hard by someone. This is the only statement I will be making.
The contrast between Shire lawkeeping before and during Saruman’s influence is pretty stark isn’t it? Lotho centralizes power as Chief Shirriff and under him it becomes much more of an armed police force.
There’s only one way to eat a brace of coneys
It has to be American exceptionalism-style fascism I guess
It’s not Rudy if there isn’t a noun, a verb, and 911 somewhere in there!
(I associate this Hemingway quote with Nolan’s Batman movies)
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
Lucius Fox tries to be good. Isn’t Rachel being good kind of explicitly why she doesn’t make it?
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
I just wanted to chime in and say that I also appreciate a Prydain reference in the username!
Failing the will save results in a level of exhaustion each time, but there’s always an Intellect Devourer who you’re told will get rid of all your levels of exhaustion if you just stop and listen to it.
I’m envisioning something like a Grima/Theoden situation for Vance/Trump where they prop Trump up behind the Resolute Desk for as long as they can…which I guess makes Peter Thiel then Saruman
Not even close. It’s more likely a chatbot wrote this than a real WH staffer
This is the kind of situation where, if the shoe were on the other foot, Republicans would be clamoring for the President to give a press conference, no pre-cleared questions, with no WH staff to assist, in front of reporters who aren’t from biased outlets.
One of the first times I ever converted my father (silent gen!) on a policy position was when he complained about this exact thing, and I said the government would waste less money by cutting everyone over 65 a flat check. Means testing is a huge money sink!
Just as long as it’s not like the surprise final boss from FFIX that came out of nowhere
I’m at the Pizza Hut, I’m at the Pentagon, I’m at the combination Pizza Hut and Pentagon
“For the love of God, furniture!”
There’s a point when the rational choice is to play
15 BBY: Watto gets a BBL
I was cracking up at this, and then I sent it to some friends, because of course I needed to, then one said “who is this?!” and I responded “some junk dealer” and now I’m cracking up again.
I was cracking up at this, and then I sent it to some friends, because of course I needed to, then one said “who is this?!” and I responded “some junk dealer” and now I’m cracking up again.
Thanks to you I actually see it now!
When he goes it’ll just be Ave Maria on repeat
What is it though, actually? It’s kind of hard (lol) to see anything else
overcursed
*and owned a media conglomerate
If I were as rich as Bloomberg or Bezos and media conglomerate, rather than make the newsroom reflect my politics, I would drop a few million a year on this, like…why the hell not
The alt text that I had to change said he was holding a laptop but you know what I think it would be fun to train people to stand on a corner in a city and call out the news
I kinda want to hear it from the Rome guy
standing on our balcony yelling down to each boy and asking him “what news”
Bush was pretty good when I saw them in 2002, but Garbage was better (I think this was Music Midtown in Atlanta)
I love the creative use of subtitles early in this movie
It’s ridiculous how talented he is
Seeing Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks live was like a bucket list item for me, it’s a quasi-religious experience
I don’t know if he’s alive or dead but I saw a band I’ve always wanted to see tonight from like ten feet away (thanks to my wife). I highly recommend some live music, it’s a real tonic for what ails you.
