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Fam how many livers does a cow have

Roses are red My dog's name is rover

America policing summarized in 4 images

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil...

Did some tutoring in college, at one point signed on with this agency where owner was an income tax truther. Got sent to some rich people's house to tutor their kid in math. She was literally getting As on her tests so I was like "I'm not sure what you want me to do." Never got another assignment

how does ohio boy vance keep walking right into the buzzsaw of one of the midwest's most Ancient Tribal Hatreds. dog no one in michigan cares what your OSU ass has to say

ahem. . . "it me"

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"Each of us lives a life that is uniquely our own. . . Trying to get a computer to imitate all of that is implausible and doesn’t make for a good business model; because what would be the point?"

Huh. Apparently, people slipping on banana peels was not just a cartoon gag, it was a thing that happened in gross city streets when bananas first became widely available: ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/w...

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

A simple fact. News itself is now heavily partisan-ideologically coded. The Trump right and much of the partisan right doesn’t consume news as traditionally understood. So most efforts like this and to a lesser extent the Post, to find these more ideologically balanced audiences can’t …

Well of course a man with stiff little fingers wants to see an alternative Ulster

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

THE WAKE UP BOMB MOTHER FUCKER

tell you what man dang ol Dub Housin dang ol Caligari’s Mirror like a dang ol sonic nightmare man

Think about how money is discussed in "Pride and Prejudice". Darcy isn't rich because he created a company, but because of inherited wealth - indeed the fundamental assumption is that *all* wealth is inherited.

WOIMSDAY

"Is this about that trip Barney and I took to Machu Picchu?" "LOOK CLOSER, LENNY" "Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!" "I can see through time!" And likewise, "Dental plan"

A New Color (1/5🧵)

After thinking about this more I think Tejas might be my favorite Top sound. This thing is downright evil youtu.be/4xW4UctUydA?...

STOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE

we literally stand on the shoulders of giants. towering figures who have exited the world. fierce intellects who believed things like "you can ban or regulate dangerous stuff" and "societies can rein in excesses," and "peace is generally preferable to war and chaos." may as well have been aliens

gets incredible air here

New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/

I wonder what the host of NPR's witty yet comfortably sober financial program Marketplace is feeling about our current political moment. Let's check in with him shall we

"[Nolan's] films are not fatalistic declarations that doom is inevitable. They’re warnings — multimillion-dollar warnings — that everything we do, including the things we don’t do, comes with a cost."

what’s the point if not to cut the sandwiches into shapes?

Yorgos Lanthimos's The Frogs

"the tradition we conserve is the revolution itself. As Langston Hughes wrote, we must “Let America be America again… 'The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free.'"

Excellent list by @briantallerico.bsky.social of 10 movies by foreign born directors who saw the USA more clearly than its own directors did. So glad to see Robocop on here. www.rogerebert.com/features/thr...

THEY DON'T [BLEEP] SMOKE IT WHILE YOU'RE SAT IN RESTAURANT BOB 🤣

I'm not too proud to admit that I looked up whether Zoot Suit Riot: An Oral History of the Swing Revival 1996-2000 was a real book

the actual reason I logged on here. to post a horrible comic

Our heat stopped working when it was below freezing because the condenseation drainpipe extension was full of ice. I removed the extension and then made a reminder post to our neighborhood board about what to do if this happens, including a warning not to get splashed with backed up drain water

it is a jersey though. they don't actually get it

My fuckin senator baby

THAT'S MY CONGRESSMAN BOIII

BEATNIK THURSDAY

Tag yourself, I'm the common ancestor of a frog and a zebrafish

The vitriol being directed at Lupita Nyong’o and Christopher Nolan is about a refusal to view Helen of Troy as anything other than an avatar for the right’s own psychosexual fixation on whiteness as goodness. Homer has nothing to do with it. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”