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We need more Judge Sparkles.
If I post on social media, I'll be having FUN!
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We need more Judge Sparkles.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the longest thread @annabower.bsky.social has posted (?) but a great read. Thank you
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
The best course of action for the next President is to watch what Trump does and do the opposite.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing people Donald Trump was a good businessman.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
If the tariffs are deemed illegal, what about the money already paid? Will it be rebated? And will wholesalers/retailers lower prices?
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
God is not listening to JD Vance. God only hears the anguish of the parents and the crying of the children, not the mewling of feckless politicians.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Underground like a raw potato.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Everyone in the Trump administration has these weird twisted revenge fantasies and now get to act on them.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
"One nation was so enraged by this evil wind that they declared war on it and marched out in full battle array, only to be rapidly and completely interred.” --- Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient)
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Cave paintings indicate a rather primitive understanding of the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Well that got dark quick.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey Mr. Hat, Esquire, Bolton called his book "The Room Where It Happened". Can Lin-Manuel Miranda sue him for the RICO?
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
"It's a revolution in morning television."
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I was rather astonished to hear and see Ben report breaking news (via YouTube) this morning and chat about it with @timmiller.bsky.social about halfway thru. The big Q is how Ben just happened to be in the neighborhood when the raid went down.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
As I understand it (big ?), the shares are in "exchange" for grants (already given as well as pending) awarded to Intel under the CHIPS and Science Act.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
It's not like it's the Supreme Court's job to say what's right or wrong.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social)
"Pray with a raised fist." - @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
There is certainly not enough material (by several orders of magnitude) in the solar system to build a true Dyson Sphere. But you could build a giant Dyson Vacuum Cleaner and suck up the energy that way.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Our propaganda is much more effective when we don't have to compete against facts.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Just because Lizard People only see humans as warm bodies in which to implant their eggs so the hatchlings can have something to eat as they burrow from the inside out doesn't mean we can't all get along.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Guns don't kill people. Guns kill dogs.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't know about you, but I'm ready to storm the Bastille.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Excelsior!
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, Trump looks really old in that photo.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
If some like this happened during Biden, there'd be continuous Congressional hearing and investigations to rival the Benghazi hearings.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
"Did it print?" "No." "Print it again." "Oh, now it printed." ... gets printout, walks away ... printer prints 2nd copy.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Highlight of my week!
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, gorgeous indeed. There is a nice write-up about the World Building on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yor...
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
"Readings will include works by legal positivists ..." Oh, my, what a surprise!
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Finally, the nation will learn how UFOs cause autism.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Wherein we replace the birds and the bees with the best birds and the best bees.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
THEY got to go to the island, but not me. I'm the REAL victim here!
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Let me answer a question nobody asked and give an answer that proves my brain is Swiss cheese.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I see that the pony express has yet to deliver a copy of the First Amendment to Oklahoma.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Mandate pronouns: Chinese doesn't have gendered pronouns and our Chinese tech always said he for she and she for he. We had 2 students named Yang in the lab and always called the male Yang she and vice versa. And yet they are still walking free today!
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Arrest Schiff now for trespassing for squatting in Comer's brain.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Who holds a cup that way?
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
The world of 2001 predicted by Clarke and Kubrick in 1968.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Seat belts and other so-called safety devices like air bags and smoke detectors kill far more people than they save. Thanks, Obama.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
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Some of my best friends are asphalt-type persons.
Mike Sington (@mikesington.bsky.social) reposted
South Park releases brutal new Kristi Noem ICE Barbie clip.
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MaddowBlog (@maddowblog.msnbc.com) reposted
Dr. Michael Osterholm cuts to the chase on why cutting mRNA research funding is such a dangerous idea.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
It's all that hippity-hoppity music the kids listen to nowadays.
Nick Ulivieri (@nuphoto.com) reposted
If you look up Dutch Angle on Google, the screen literally tilts a bit and most definitely creates a disorienting, unsettling effect.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
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Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Ironic, since COBOL was "designed" (is that the right word?) to be clear and understandable to anyone. In Python, indentation is significant.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Godspeed, Commander.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
A fuckin' fantastic song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVmV...
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Do you know who the fuck I am? I am Poor-Richard's-Almanack-writing Polymath, bifocal-wearing Hardened glass-harmonica-playing Benjamin Fuckin' Franklin
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
There is still a big big question in my mind is how the hell did this agreement with El Salvador come into existence in the first place?
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
The devil is here with a stupid grin on his face.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Really, you need to create a "The New Yorker Pitch-bot" account and post this type of satire there.
The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted
The Trump administration intends to incinerate $9.7 million in already-purchased birth control in Belgium after USAID shut down, at a cost to the U.S. of more than $160,000 in transport and incineration fees. European governments are still hoping to stop it. nyti.ms/4ma5iaa
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
All new numbers, like ziggity-zeven and velveteen-twine.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Weird, the stats say that the economy grows under Democrats and shrinks under Republicans. So the stats must be wrong because her email.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Well they'd do a lot better if they only had some fashion sense. Jeez.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Zohran Mamdani paints himself as a populist and man of the people, a cynical political ploy that Trump would never stoop to.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; ...
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I can quit anytime the algorithm wants me to.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess hippies like you want to put windmills on the Moon. Good luck with that.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
If Obama never made fun of Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner we wouldn't be in this mess today.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
You only hear back what you are saying in the first place.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't care if your argument holds water, but if there's a typo or comma out of place I will rip you to shreds.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
A feeling of dread whenever you smell smoke.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
They paved paradise.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
"Man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of Grok."
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
That's OK, everyone hates Switzerland.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Well I'm sorry you're sorry.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
You can dress him up, but he's still a ghoul.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
We demand the *REAL* Administrator of DOGE not some namby-pamby "acting" Administrator wannabe!
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Numbers have a liberal bias. Any number other than #1 is suspect.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Supreme Court rules 6-3 that everybody loves Trump.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I always "like" your posts, but not this one.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social will be suing you for the RICO.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
We can't have fun any more, but in lieu of fun we can geek out on tech law.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
We are all corrupt, but some are more corrupt than others.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Stop kink-shaming her.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
But it's the ".top" domain ... it's gotta be legit: "AI overview: The .top domain is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) that signifies excellence and can be used by anyone to suggest a website is at the top of its field or offers top-quality products or services."
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Supreme Court rules 6-3 there's no there there.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Cities provide schools, roads, water, sewage, trash services, and other utilities to residents. All a socialist dystopian nightmare for champion of capitalism Karl Rove. We will not be truly free until we pay all we have to giant corporations to run our lives at the whims of their CEOs.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
It's the worst crime imaginable: giving white folk the vapors.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Amazing deals for you and your entire country! Come down to Trump and Lutnick's Trade Deal Emporium TODAY for the best trade deals you'll find anywhere. Sale extended TWO whole weeks! Buy NOW and lock in your trade deal for the next 90 days. (Trade deals subject to change without notice.)
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Everyone need more rust in their diet.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Or vice versa.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I was for it before I was told I was against it.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Damn it, now I don't feel like doom scrolling anymore. (thank you)
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed, a victim of a heartless system where rich white men can get away with anything and everything they want and that's why he killed himself because he just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Who audits the auditors?
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
As a devoted fan of @lawfaremedia.org , @dogshirttv.bsky.social , and @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org this is 100% on the nose.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
Wow, it's almost as if his economic plan, i.e., tariffs are the cure-all for everything and condemned by all respectable and competent economists, is an unmitigated disaster.
Zippy la tête d'épingle (@zippyltetedepingle.bsky.social) reply parent
I bet they were all great uplifting stories about how Obama lifted the country out of recession, saved the auto industry, and killed Bin Laden.