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Try to remember, they’re locked in here with us. Bring back Connolly’s Citizen Army.

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Yo! Shout out to some company (and probably a poor AI translation) for being willing to say this about their product:

"This tire pressure sensor programming tool has only one button. Don't need car repairing knowledge and skills, even women and beginners can use this TPMS sensor programmer."

09.03.2026 20:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Please don't take away driver's licenses from trans folks."

"Whaddya mean, it's easy peasy to get a new license. op. cit some rando on social media which is totally binding, confide mihi, frater."

09.03.2026 16:23 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is there a Bad Faith Olympics I don't know about that he's about to medal in?

09.03.2026 16:19 👍 36 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If I have to type the word "balloon" multiple times in one piece of writing, I stop believing there is any way there are two consecutive Ls an Os somewhere around the second or third go.

09.03.2026 11:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

do you think she knows the apocalypse is going to adversely effect her access to hair extensions lol

08.03.2026 20:56 👍 793 🔁 49 💬 28 📌 0

Damnit, I always forget! (6)

06.03.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, I love this. I've done similar in one project where I knew what I wanted to build so I added a couple of technologies that were new to me and had Claude handhold but not do.

And I am trying something similar with an old textbook I bought, Designing Sound, as I do not have the math for it.

06.03.2026 16:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

06.03.2026 16:11 👍 3839 🔁 795 💬 45 📌 53

"Why do you want to have a 1970s music pavilion at the Shakespeare festival?"

"It features wine made by the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party!"

"But how does that make it anything to do with Shakespeare?"

"Mao is the vintner of our disco tent!"

[Exit, pursued by a bear]

12.10.2023 14:57 👍 278 🔁 65 💬 11 📌 5

With all the changes at CBS, I hope they still intend to air their holiday/ traditional fare. I feel like we could all use a reminder from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Kirk".

06.03.2026 15:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TIL it's Graham _Platner_, so my proposed #cryptic crossword clue "Controversial Mainer found right outside your window, perhaps" is going in the garbage. Boo.

(Yeah, maybe "Flowerbox destroyed by controversial Mainer" would work, but it's not funny)

05.03.2026 21:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It Says Here
It Says Here YouTube video by Billy Bragg - Topic

"When politics mix/ with bingo and tits/ in a money and numbers game . . . " www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eVA...

03.03.2026 14:47 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok, guess I should reuse this under #cryptic #crossword -- also, the answer is (7), which I forgot.

03.03.2026 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I want in on this conversation. I feel like the good is it will get more people into cryptics (well, "good" in some ways), but the bad is they're going to be in for a shock when 95% of the clue styles are unfamiliar.

03.03.2026 13:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
C+C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... ft. Freedom Williams
C+C Music Factory - Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... ft. Freedom Williams YouTube video by CCMusicFactoryVEVO

I think I may have cracked the code for problems on social media. Check this out:

boomers
doomers
Laura Loomer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF2a...

03.03.2026 10:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There goes my retirement plan. Again. Good thing I bet against myself.

01.03.2026 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

28.02.2026 17:18 👍 18912 🔁 8081 💬 43 📌 118

Say what you will about RFK’s health ideas, but I’ve found the fountain of youth. Inasmuch as an Irish-American from New England telling me to eat liver when I don’t wanna has me feeling about nine.

28.02.2026 23:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As the son of a Vietnam veteran, let me point out they conditioned people to be like that because Americans used to be really goddamn good at speaking out against the military and the war. Shit, we were good at it right up through until the Gulf War.

28.02.2026 23:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hang on, hang on.

Nope, still doesn't make any fucking sense.

27.02.2026 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's for my brain, not for you!

27.02.2026 20:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd prefer the Vikings. At least they were trying to make a living when they put an ax through your skull instead of just doing it to own the Britzzz.

27.02.2026 11:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have to say, the UK's version of Joe Sixpack seems much more likable.

27.02.2026 11:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Diaz Brothers
The Diaz Brothers YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic

Woke up with www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRva... by @themountaingoats.bsky.social so stuck in my head I am trying to rewrite it as paean to The Smothers Brothers to exorcise it.

27.02.2026 11:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Evidence of strength of spirit (5) #cryptic #crossword

27.02.2026 02:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Printing out now. God I feel old typing that.

27.02.2026 02:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So a spanking is definitely off the table?

26.02.2026 17:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Would have preferred Desolation Row or Hurricane.

26.02.2026 04:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They’re gonna give me noogies for pointing out the cabinet started 13 years later, aren’t they?

Just kidding, they’d have to be able to pick their knuckles off the ground! So I got that going for me.

26.02.2026 04:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe the goalie if you convinced him there was money in it and definitely Strother Martin’s character who also would have been comfy on Epstein’s sex island but never invited.

26.02.2026 04:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0