The United States Postal Service announced it will wind down operations, unable to bear the financial burden imposed by James obsessively clicking refresh on the service’s package tracking website. “We just wanted to deliver mail,” the CEO said in a terse statement. “But James wouldn’t let us.”
Lol (This is about Sapporo’s acquisitions of Anchor and Stone)
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 5mo agoSapporo's sale of Stone is just the latest in a long of indignities for the storied San Diego County brewery brought on by decades of self-inflicted reputational damage & lack of focus. This week at @vinepair.com, I put the latest chapter of the "Arrogant Bastard" rise/fall story in that context.
“Another country heard from” was originally “another county heard from” and referred to election results
Halloween III: Season of the Ben@franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.
It probably doesn’t say anything good about me that I’m one of those guys who is convinced he could have turned the tide at Hastings if he had, like, a modern rifle and unlimited ammunition
Andrew Gelston@agelston.bsky.social · 5mo agoIf you lived in 1066, what would you do
Barring an unforeseen setback in my life, I will never fly Spirit again, but I do fondly remember the banter of one of the flight attendants. “Thank you for flying Spirit! We hope you’ve enjoyed giving us the business as much as we’ve enjoyed taking you for a ride.”
Nilo@nilo.bsky.social · 5mo agoLike the Penn central bankruptcy but if it were with our discount airline.
Slopulism I could get behind: make it a federal crime to send a shipping notification when “a label has been created”
Thinking out loud. Half formed thoughts. Mute thread freely. Middlebrow can mean two basically opposite things. One is skillfully-executed, modestly challenging work. Often it is genre fiction, and it is unembarrassed about its status. Agatha Christie is a great example.
I really can't overstate this we saw a clear and truly absurd abuse of power from the Brooklyn Democratic Party today
New Kings Democrats@newkingsdems.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨 Today, we witnessed an alarming attack on ballot access in New York City 🚨 Brooklyn Democratic Party leaders are fighting to block two Stop Deed Theft advocates from running for District Leader in Bed-Stuy... (thread)
turn off lane apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1905
The early warning sign for me was when Trump ordered them to open that dam in California and then pretended the water had alleviated a drought, when in fact it just flowed into the ocean He has always been stupid and demented but it is getting worse
David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 6mo agoPresident urges Iran to start peace negotiations by releasing non-existent, AI-generated women some rando posted about on X
The latest episode of One Iconic Beer. Agostino Arioli, Matt Brynildson, and I tell the story of Birrificio Italiano’s Tipopils, the beer that gave us Italian pilsners.
All About Beer@allaboutbeer.bsky.social · 6mo ago🎙️ Just published a new episode of All About Beer: One Iconic Beer: Tipopils. Have a listen:
Vandevere apples are really interesting. This is from memory, so grain of salt, but as I recall they are EXTREMELY closely related to Smokehouse. Both are triploids.
old fruit pictures@pomological.xor.blue · 6mo agovandervere apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1896
Calling it now: the trend of the summer is pickle beer
Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 6mo agobusch light apple ("bapple," to the real heads) has been such a rip-roaring success that the sickos at anheuser-busch couldn't resist trying to capture the magic again. behold, the newly approved label for bickle—busch light pickle. mybeerbuzz.com/busch-beer-a...
Trump was probably thinking of the part in Infinite Jest where the scientists develop microscopic cigarettes to give to the cancer cells
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 6mo agoDr. Oz Reveals Trump’s Theory Soda Is ‘Good For Him’ and Kills Cancer Cells Because ‘It Kills Grass’
parish priest: oh hey u guys are back early cardinal: pope’s soft on crime parish priest: what? cardinal: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* pope’s soft on crime
The year is 20XX You are a STRAIT RUNNER, brave tanker ship captains racing through The Blockade Swap your ship’s Shield Polarity to block shots of the matching color. Iranian ships launch Blue Missiles and American ships fire Red Missiles
This is from the same administration that unsanctioned ~140 million barrels of Iranian oil. So it’s legal to deliver Iranian oil but illegal to deliver, say, Kuwaiti oil. (The sanctions exemption applied to oil that was already on the ocean, so it would still be illegal to deliver new Iranian oil.)
Rory Johnston@roryjohnston.bsky.social · 6mo agoPresident Trump is awake and long-posting. “Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz”
Marathon's the one place you should have an advantage over Iran!
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 6mo agoMarathon? I’m sure every hour in JD’s presence must feel like an eternity - but come on, he just got there.
The recovery team sails to the reentry capsule and pries open the hatch. There’s no capsule in the capsule. Through the door they glimpse a forest of towering white trees beneath an emerald green sky
I'm sorry, but this woman posting photos of her dog at a religious event in Spain and then having to frantically clarify a few days later at their "supersausage_charlie" Instagram account is something out of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
