Tim Serpas

He expresses hope that the "emanations of the leaden George" will be melted down and cast into bullets to "make as deep impressions in the bodies" of British soldiers. This is in fact the plan, as the lead is eventually melted into 42,088 musket balls. 8/8

Fascinated by English town names like Clacton-on-Sea, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Horny-on-Main, etc

The Mets' ineptitude making announcers think about their mortality

Yes, penises exist to satisfy an incel mindset.

and how about "The Cyclops"

My to-do list

fml

[0004707] Dwarves turn into alligators???

Lawmakers in the U.S. represent more people than in almost any other country. Each of the 435 voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives represents about 802,000 people. The median representation ratio among 106 democracies was about 31,000 people per lawmaker. #USDemocracy

bassists are lizardmen. "bassist" is an oppressive class, like Phoenician people or Branch Davidian people.

Meaty Gumby can still happen if people want it bad enough

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #heatwave

Row!

Happy (belated) 10th anniversary to this absolute gem of a lede from the only July 4th overtime shift I worked during my NYDN H/t @ethansacks.bsky.social

If any American wants me to respect your soccer/futbol, let me say this: the way to do it is for Balogun to score and then mime showing a card.

My founding fathers

Safety enforced with baseball bat

July 5, 1776: The first printed copies of the Declaration of Independence are produced as broadsides from the shop of John Dunlap in Philadelphia. Perhaps 200 of the sheets are run off the presses after a laborious night for the publisher and his two assistants. 1/8

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oh my god

See, the plan is, you put 1,000 foreign women who all got pregnant at the same time on a hospital ship, and you do that 1,000 times, and then you wait 18 years, and then you move all the babies to Wyoming, and you win a House seat.

Celebrating July 4th these days feels like celebrating Valentine’s Day with your loser ex you’re just living with to save rent. Anyway here’s a comic from simpler times: nonadventures.com/2016/07/02/s...

FUCK

Happy If You Catch a Bald Eagle You Can Do Whatever You Want For One Day Day! www.wigucomics.com/oc/index.php...

July 3, 1776: A day after it approved a resolution to declare American independence, Congress spends most of the day as a committee of the whole making alterations to Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration. 1/9

fun fact: Balogun in Yoruba basically means "general" or "commander" but most literally translates to "war dad"

This paragraph is cursed. www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.

"All of these newspaper stories were by “Elena Marchetti,” whose articles page on The Editorial suggests she roughly splits her time between decrying the death of American newspapers and writing about tensions in the South China Sea. (More about that below.)" -- www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-...

Bishop of Ogdensburg, NY notes SSPX “schismatic act” incurred today; instructs Diocese not to go to Church run by SSPX, but to seek “spiritual counsel and nourishment” at TLM in nearby parishes.

When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.

my god

I hope Samuel Alito lives long enough to see his lifework undone.

There we go.