Dan Wilbur
@danwilbur.bsky.social
My 3rd grade teacher told me I had a “great way of ruining things for people.” Now I do comedy. https://linktr.ee/danwilbur
JD Vance reveals the truth about Mitch McConnell, who is alive.
JD Vance reveals who really vandalized the Reflecting Pool.
An Uber driver in DC asked me why Mike Pence didn’t run with Trump again in 2024 and I had to explain what happened on January 6th. He had not heard about it.
Dude next to me on the Amtrak train has a real katana with him. I’ve never felt safer traveling. A conductor made a call about a suspicious package earlier. Didn’t bother me at all. I have a samurai’s protection.
The lab leak theory finds purchase because the alternative is rethinking our relationship with the animal world (and, likely following from that, industrial agriculture) and people really don't want to do that. But Jane Goodall was right www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
Why Jane Goodall says human disregard for nature led to the coronavirus pandemic
“We are all interconnected,” the famed primatologist, and a leading voice in conservation efforts, told the PBS NewsHour. “And if we don’t get that lesson from this pandemic, then maybe we never will....
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Anytime anything bad happens to me: “Is this how you treat a 2005 Duo Interp State Semifinalist??”
Crazy that he’s making the same face I did when I read the headline.
It's all fun and games until the end credits scene where it zooms in on the bed, you see a smile form, and it says "I am Groot"
So sick of these Google AI answers! I typed “why do the Ninja Turtles sound like California surfers when they grew up in the sewers of New York City?” and Google told me I should “consider grad school”???
“I’ll just wake up early and do it in the morning.” Athena:
A professor in college gave me a “B+” on a paper on the Odyssey and the only note was “this is an extremely well-argued idea but I simply disagree with you” and now that I’ve seen Nolan’s Odyssey…I get it. Technically brilliant. Cool take.But that’s not how I see Odysseus at all.
“Don’t do war crimes” is actually the message of the Iliad. The Odyssey’s message is “go do war crimes, then a bunch of other stuff for fun, but remember to eventually go home and sleep with your wife in a bed made out of a tree.”
The alpha bro conservative backlash to the Odyssey is so funny because Nolan straight up made another Gladiator movie.
BIG NEWS: JD Vance will be live in Astoria on Tuesday, August 25th at 7:30 PM
JD Vance reacts to LeBron James going to the Philadelphia 76ers.
JD Vance reacts to LeBron James going to the Philadelphia 76ers.
We recapped the prescient Twilight Zone episode “One More Pallbearer” this week!
Excited for Elon Musk and Grok’s historically accurate version of the Odyssey!
Once you get your debilitating mental illness in check, every therapy session ends with “Wow… Maybe I should do stuff I like more often!”
“I can’t believe they got The Muppets.” -real thought I had while watching the World Cup halftime show
Great interview with John A. Jenkins about his book Summer of ‘71!
On my deathbed: “please… go into my office… find the shelf of Criterion DVDs… and unwrap them all. I can’t have my children knowing I never watched Rififi…”
