Arlen Parsa

kash patel looking dumbfounded at a hearing

The moment in the movie where Lindsay Lohan realizes she swapped bodies with the FBI director

WHAT

Newspaper headline reads “China may be using sea to hide its submarines.”

i smell a pulitzer

Progresso brand soup drops hard candy

2025 is off to a weird start

a screenshot that shows a no-entry icon and "Only people who get the joke can reply"

oh thank god. wait

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

Either Threads has the dumbest users, or they’re all masters of posting brilliant engagement bait to get people to reply angrily

Frequently wonder how much celebrities and public figure get paid to create a Masterclass®

Sure did. Here's the full res version that's been living on my phone since they announced the contest.

A lemon pig wearing a top hat made of construction paper toothpicks and cloves

Happy new year from this lil lemon pig

My main hope for 2025 is peace.

That first line refers to the flag designer's connection to the state, since they had people living all over the country who submitted designs

That line refers to the flag designer's connection to Illinois, since they had people submit designs from around the whole country

respectfully, [disrespectful]

If you would like to browse through more of the almost 5,000 submissions for the new new Illinois state flag, may I recommend the longest PDF document you have ever seen: bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/pantagraph.c...

A flag depicting Abraham Lincoln using laser beams that shoot out of his eyeballs to burn a confederate flag

One of the proposed new Illinois flag designs, out of thousands submitted

No, autocorrect, I did not mean to type Seasonal Allegories

• A 24-carat gold-plated handgun found in the luggage of Liliana Goodson on 23 April 2023. Photograph: Australian Border Force "What about the gun in your bag?" she was asked by a customs officer. Goodson replied: "Oh yeah, I forgot about that." A review of Goodson's phone revealed she had searched online "can I have a gun in my suitcase?" and set a calendar entry with a note reminding her to "put gun in suitcase."

extraordinary feat of Americanness www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One of the simple pleasures of the modern age is getting a tech person who really knows their shit to solve your issue. So refreshing.

A map of Australia with the Northern Territory circled in red and Tasmania circled in green

Just learned this red part of Australia somehow does not have statehood but this green part does and I am shook

A Democrat just flipped a Republican seat by 187 votes in California. Your vote matters. Vote every time!

A photo of Biden welcoming Trump to the White House a few weeks ago. Big smiles on their faces.

Now that Biden has pardoned his own criminal son, nobody can say ANYTHING when Trump does the same exact thing in a couple of years.

Thanks Joe!

There’s got to be a German word for the situation where you order food at a cafe and you give them a fake name because your real name is unusual so you don’t want to spell it out, but then later they’re calling your fake name to pick up food and you totally forgot what fake name you gave

A picture of beige computer speakers from the early 2000s

This is considered fascinating now? God I feel old

Kamala Harris Campaign Aides Suggest Campaign Was Just Doomed The Harris campaign’s internal polling apparently never had her ahead of Trump.

“…The campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump.”

It sounds like Biden’s decisions both to run again and to stay in the race so long when his trajectory was clear dug a hole Democrats couldn’t get out of.

www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...

Arlenparsa.com is now my username

did the fancy boy thing and self verified my account with my website

A bamboo magnetic knife board with seven knives mounted on a wall between two cabinets

Saturday project: mounting this magnetic knife board between two cabinets. Only took about 3 years after first having the idea to save drawer space in my tiny kitchen…

Audiobooks are so cool. I listened to an entire book on tape over the course of this past week while I washed dishes and did other chores. And because I used the Hoopla app through my public library, it was 100% free!

One reason Trump wants recess appointments is to avoid having Dem Senators read out quotes like this, and ask the nominee to respond

AXIOS: “Here are the planned members of Trump's second administration linked to sexual misconduct allegations.”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2024/11/20/t...