weird way to announce on national television that you don't wash your hands, but okay 🤷♂️
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h agoJohn Kennedy: "A smart man washes his hands after he urinates. A wise man doesn't urinate on his hands."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago
Thomas Nast drew Davis as villainous Iago reacting in fury to seeing a Black man in his seat.
your boy just ran across a barely tapped bottle of Los Danzantes 2016 I'm normally not an añejo mezcal guy but 10 years madurado en vidrio? i have initiated the groundwork for negotiations to purchase said bottle updates to follow (hopefully)
i'm taking a freediving course and today i held my breath for over 2 1/2 minutes which is wild what's even crazier is that the instructor said that based on how i'm doing early days i could get to 4+ minutes without too much difficulty 🤯
this bar is projecting old timey movies onto the walls but has the sound off, which means it seems like the most random music videos Turns out a stagecoach chase scene would make a great Backstreet Boys music video
1) if you haven't seen The Invite i highly recommend it 2) lots of articles (appropriately) shout out the brilliant subtle details that costume designer Arianne Phillips worked in, but none of them mention that Ed Norton's phenomenal sweater is a custom piece she had made 🤯 (i obvs want one)
Two things about this beast and its 125cc hybrid engine: 1) it absolutely holds its own ducking, diving, and splitting lanes in Bangkok traffic with the rest of the motos (my mother would be mortified if she saw how i ride here 😬) 2) my real world gas mileage on it is 110 mpg and that’s not a typo
adjusted line spacing and wide margins ... i recognize these essay padding moves "didn't want to fit them" is more accurate (and more fun)
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 7d agoDemocrats have won so many races in Texas that CNN can’t fit all their victories on one screen. It has to use a scrolling list to show them all.
Melville espies an old overweight guy hitting on an entire group of women ...
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 7d agoIn cavalier attendance upon the school of females, you invariably see a male of full grown magnitude
Melville sees the Texas results:
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4w agohere are wonders supernatural
the precision with which a 50+yo Thai masseuse steps on a forearm >>> (don't make the rookie mistake and get anyone born this century - go with decades of experience and your body will thank you)
having voted before i left (thanks, WA, and your incredibly user-friendly voting!), i think i'm gonna take a several day holiday from this here platform, since my feed is increasingly just "this politician said/did this terrible thing, that politician had this terrible thing said about them"
the most common "costume" in bangkok is moulage-style wound makeup. clerk at the 7-11 will have a big ol' gash on their forehead just going about their day, my language teacher taught with a slit neck, etc i haven't treated trauma in years but i'm perpetually thinking "ooh that's a lot of work!"
Ah, voilà le retour de l’appel du vide...
Eating Beagles 🎱@eatingbeagles.bsky.social · 2w agoNot even if I was paid 🍟
spoken like a man who's never put one in the freezer - they're top tier when frozen
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2w agowhat's the worst candy bar and why is it butterfingers hands down
Melville addresses the inadequacies of eulogizing Sir Patrick Stewart:
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · last mo.this were as vain a thing as to attempt weighing a Dutch barn in jewellers’ scales
Melville advocates for giving equal weight to girth:
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2w agolength of foundation is nothing without corresponding breadth
what would you have been benched for at 3yo? wrong answers only [me? benched for talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740, but tbf i hadn't read Gordon Wood yet]
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w agoPolice were called to remove the parents of a three-year-old player at a soccer game in Florida over the weekend
only more painfully accurate as time goes on youtu.be/k1BneeJTDcU?...
Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)
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safe to say the translation of my driver's message could stand to be *slightly* less ominous
Thailand identifies 13 distinct types of smiles (some say 17). I have to admit I find myself reflexively smiling way more often here because *everyone* smiles - and they don't presume smiling equates to happiness so it's not disingenuous to do so regularly. thethaiger.com/video-podcas...
Thai people - 13 types of smiles of Thai people
Thai people have 13 different types of smiles, but not all smiles are created equal though, out of the 13 smiles? only 3 are happy ones.
thethaiger.com
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w agoSome campuses and workplaces are trying to foster more smiling and positivity, and experts say it can go a long way.
thanks to a random line in Moby Dick i found myself reminded that the biblical King Solomon - the wisest man of all - had a combined 1000 wives and concubines idk much about marriage (tried it once, it didn't take), but that feels ... unwise
Board of your usual bootlegged whiskey? Wood you like to try some Scotch? Saw what I did there?
100 years ago news@100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 3w agoOct. 23, 1926: “What appeared to be an innocent truckload of lumber, turned out to be a bootlegger's vehicle loaded with prime Scotch when Los Angeles federal Prohibition agents smelled the odor of a broken bottle.” Behind a trapdoor of board ends was 70 cases of liquor. (International News Service)
Melville has a go at being the DM:
Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3w agoup from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke
to be fair, it's really hard to plan an unnecessary war when you're in a rush to cover up The Files
Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 3w agoMan, Hegseth's Department of War is even more buffoonish than everything else. Kinda amazed how the US military didn't just have some basic war plans they could activate. Their lack of preparedness is astonishing. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...
unintentional perk of finding a condo in Bangkok's Japantown - a surfeit of really good Japanese restaurants, including sushi joints with fish sourced from Japan (never thought i'd eat raw fish in Thailand!)