your dude

conservative media will be careening back & forth between absurd & hilarious hagiography, and sputtering outrage aimed at people celebrating in the streets. it will be AMAZING

always spectacular to see paragraphs like this, where the national institutes of health and people on the can watching tiktoks by failed actors are treated as basically equal authorities

this is right but also we should absolutely say trump wants to bring back the draft

imagine if (e.g.) russia said they were going to liberate us from the trump regime and one of the first things they did was bombed an elementary school, killing 600 american children

Tweet from Daniel Pipes: "The uprising in Iran in early January suggested an even greater insurgency would then follow on the U.S.-Israeli campaign to erode regime power. Yet, the populace now appears cowed into near-silence. This ranks as the most surprising and disappointing development of the past week. Without a new uprising, the regime will likely remain in power, less powerful but more awful than ever. (The picture below is from Jan. 10 in Tehran.)"

Amazing how quickly "We're fighting this war for freedom of the Iranian people" becomes "The Iranian people are at fault for not rising up."

I noticed the reference to a "flar," which as I understand it is another name for a car

so glad it wasn't just me

"be kind to everyone" good to remember

"Someone you know could be gay. Someone you know could be trans." true words

"Someone you know could ride NJ Transit" lol no. ridiculous. inconceivable. I have never known anyone that depraved. okay you know what, forget it, it's time to be mean to everyone

(eating a cinnamon toast crunch clone made by a fancy company using organic wheat) this, to me, is Health

Go, Hippie YouTube video by Fountains of Wayne - Topic

lot worse songs to have in your head when you wake up

maybe the real problem is that we're not what we once were

if you're a billionaire we should be allowed to know the most surprising thing that you pay someone to regularly do for you. I bet it would tell us a lot. I bet some of them are *objectionable*

Chunt M’Dew

a whole generation that thinks it's too good for boone's farm. YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME? YOU'RE NOT BETTER THAN ME

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cy young was too good to play for a team, he was like

either he was so good at baseball that the chargers put him on their roster, or he was so good at football - greatest charger ever! - that he was enshrined in the baseball hall of fame

this is kershaw, kebshaw, hershaw, and, um, I wanna say...kerslaw? erasure

I'd say at this point it's more than justt plambish, it's fully plamb

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

I think it's a low-quality pic of a kind of updated teeter totter? smaller 3/4 disk is where the kids grab (you can see one handle); bigger half-disk is under the seat; blue coils are the bouncy springs it's mounted on

went to check it out and whoops! lol looks like someone conceded the argument entirely

funny that the screenshotted post is not just world-historically dumb and mean, but also just wrong. there are playgrounds everywhere exactly like this! like what the fuck are you talking about, man? are the plastic slides the wrong shade of red now or something?

hearing he's recruited the smartest man in the world to run it

(being lashed to the mast) pull those ropes wicked hahd. then aftah this is ovah I could really go for burgahs

"a big chunk of their citizens were dumb and cruel and bored, and their political system was fucked up in ways that gave those people disproportionate influence. and that was enough to destroy the richest and most powerful country in human history"

I am not & probably never will be a wrestling fan, but I maintain that this is the best lens through which to view it

the pokemon revolution would be "I dunno, they were all chanting their own names, it got louder, then suddenly the shooting started"

tapping the "people underestimate how many of our society's elites are motivated not by self-interest, but by sadism" sign

(alf "hey willie" voice) we used to be a proper country!