mr. chris

mr. chris

@crackinwax.com

Space geek, science nerd, baseball fan, football watcher, music lover. Quite possibly the only preschool gym teacher in the world.

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Figure I'll watch some baseball tonight. This Brewers team might end up being pretty good. Still a lot of season left. Anything can happen.

Wait... isn't that the Smarter Every Day guy, Destin?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LOEFFLER: If you want to strike down a regulation that's stopping our reindustrialization, we're here to listen SANDLIN: I'm happy to hear that bc we tried to import a chain mail machine & there was a tariff on it. So we wanted to make jobs, but couldn't LOEFFLER: I want to talk to you about this

How many other POTUS' have called for the death of every person who voted against them? Here's the deal. He runs the WH. He stacked the Supreme Court. His party controls the house. His party controls the senate. This country is endlessly spiraling. If any party is the enemy of America, it's his.

Tea Pain@teapainusa.bsky.social

So…”Death to half of America?”

Microtonal guitar and bass on LIVE LOOPS played on a double-neck guitar/bass combo (I’ve never seen that before) with a sprawling pedal board to manage the effects and live loops all done IN COSTUME… and that’s just one guy. 🤯 youtu.be/sfDtfz7vXkY?...

youtu.beAngine de Poitrine - Sherpa (Live on KEXP)YouTube video by KEXP
mr. chris@crackinwax.com

These guys have kept creeping into my YT reccos for the past couple of months. I’ve been ignoring them… until last night, and… holy shit am I glad I clicked. Comments compare them to Zappa and King Crimson. youtu.be/Te1HkBx7rDw?...

Oh, yeah?! Paul Skenes was almost in the navy or some shit! All this awesome almosting happening almost makes me wanna almost do something, too! Almost.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com

John Lithgow almost quit the Harry Potter series over J.K. Rowling's anti-trans views www.out.com/celebs/j... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

It’s posts like this that make me wonder if I was a good breaker way back when 🤔

The Singing Bush@thesingingbush.bsky.social

I watched a break this afternoon and I've never seen a set that's worse for breaks than Heritage this year. Nobody knows the SPs and nobody wants to go through the back of all the cards to find any variations.

Had to groom her first, obv

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Markwayne Mullin: "To be able to have the love of my life behind me. Somebody I literally fell in love with in third grade. *gets emotional* I knew I was gonna marry her in 8th grade. She didn't know that yet. We had to work that process."

Another one to bookmark 🔖

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FOX NEWS: If this disruption lasts for months, can the US economy absorb the shock without a recession? HASSETT: First of all, it's not going to last for months. And if it did last for a long time, it wouldn't really do a lot of harm to the US economy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Leavitt: "CNN issued a correction on that story after I called them and spent nearly an hour on the phone rebutting it. ABC News ... we forced them to issue a correction."

I’ll tell you what happened. Incompetence. There. Mystery solved. Investigation complete.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: On the school strike, is the US making any adjustments to its targeting to avoid more civilian casualties? VANCE: We have to complete the investigation. I don't think we fully understand what happened. The president has made it clear he wants it fully investigated, so that's what we're doing.

Yeah, that’s still not selling us on the war, STEVE.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller: "There has never in history been a more total asymmetric one-sided annihilation of the enemy than what is unfolding right now in Iran"

How did anyone buy that he's a dem? Christ on a ritz cracker.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FETTERMAN: We should kill every last member of Iran's leadership VARGAS: His son is now in charge FETTERMAN: They should kill him too

This morning, Mat is talking about funeral tapes and it occurs to me that if I have a funeral, MAYBE 10 people might show up. Better get my playlist set

mr. chris@crackinwax.com

Techmoan is my Saturday morning cartoons.

That first sentence is me after every single time I hit the big blue Post button

Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social

I didn't think when I wrote "Additionally, because oil deposits inevitably run dry, we often rely on extraction efforts happening in other countries which may or may not be friendly.... and [its] cost can change quite dramatically based on supply and demand" it would be so prescient but, well...

WHY DIDN’T HE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM DURING HIS FIRST TERM THEN. Our government is a 🤡 government

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

47 years is the *opposite* of imminent (which means "something that will happen soon"). These people are so stupid.

You’ve got Too-Busy Johnson saying it’s not a declaration of war, and just about everyone else in his regime (including President Epstein) saying we’re at war. So… which is it?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Is there any point you think Congress will need to give congressional authorization? MIKE JOHNSON: My understanding of the law is that the president is acting well within his authority. It's not a declaration of war. It's not required because it's defensive in design.

The leadership of this country does not reflect the people of the United States. I think that’s been pretty apparent in the protests you’ve seen.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio: "The leadership of that country does not reflect the people of Iran. I think that's been pretty apparent in the protest you've seen."

Okay, now that we’ve all moved on from yesterday’s atrocities (we haven’t), maybe NOW we can release the files?

Learned over the past couple of days that a YouTuber I’ve been watching for years may, himself, actually be dogshit. Why do so many people suck?

mr. chris@crackinwax.com

Jeremy Jahns says Scream 7 is dogshit, and that's really all I need to know.

I told my wife I’m planning on changing up my look. I gave her my two options, and she gave me the ick face. I said look, babe. I can’t pull off many more looks this late in the game. So which is it going to be? Liver King or Rick Rubin?

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People do what you pay them to do. You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products. You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well. You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth. And so forth. Be aware of what you pay people to do

IT’S A FALSE HERRING, DUH

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

NEWSNATION: Should there be a pro-psilocybin Surgeon General? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I think that's a red herring. Let's focus on the fact that she's a great communicator.

Hey, Vance. Go fuck a couch.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

Besides @atrupar.com, a true saint of current affairs, who’s actually watching this garbage? I wanna fork my eyes out just seeing these tiny clips… and that’s with the sound off.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. Glenn Grothman on Epstein: "I do think that perhaps early on some of those files disappeared. It says something about the elites of this country and it seems largely we're dealing with liberal elites. Their sexual mores are very different than that of the average person."

One album stays, the other is deleted from existence forever. Which one ya keepin? Be careful… one is their most famous, another contains their most iconic song, and the third ends with my all-time favorite Heart track. (See ALT for more deets.) Choose wisely… #musicsky

Of all of President Epstein’s State of the Union addresses I’ve not watched, tonight’s is by far the most recent.

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫