if I was a reporter still working at CBS, I'd go full Paddy Chayefsky, making my reports SO ludicrous only the dumbass cunty culty MAGAs wouldn't get the joke @thelewisblack.bsky.social

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h ago

NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

I'm hoping for really really different, like Angelina Jolie different

Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 7h ago

I guess the cat is out of the bag, to coin a phrase. Ronaldo has graciously agreed to consider taking the role after much pleading from MGM. He wishes to be paid in wheatgrass and tube treats.

August 4th, 8:45pm, saw my first Christmas commercial Doomed. We are doomed

If you've never time tripped to Project Gutenberg, what are you waiting for? www.gutenberg.org

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a Happy Wednesday Good Morning to You from the Piney Woods Where It's One of My Favorite Writer's B'Days...Guy de Maupassant...and THAT Means Delightfully Re-Reading The Horla & ABout 20 Other Great Stories He Wrote Today, Oh Boy!! Safe Travels & Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack.bsky.social

Climate change affects everyone and everything. Fuck anyone who denies it exists & double fuck anyone who does nothing to stop it www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Three lions die of suspected heatstroke at Tokyo zoo as Japan swelters

Most of the zoo’s 16 lions have struggled to cope with high humidity this summer

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a Happy Tues Good Morning from the Piney Woods Where We're Still Trying 2 Figure Out How Trump & His Moron Sons Get Out of Paying Taxes They Owe, While Also Trying to Pay J6ers Out of Our Tax Money, & Like, No One's Fucking Stopping This Insanity Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack.bsky.social

good night from the piney woods! @thelewisblack.bsky.social

I hadn't realized Jane Hathaway was so talented.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 3d ago

Violinist Andrei Korsakov masters Sarasate’s Capricho Vasco, featuring the zortziko, a unique 5/8 rhythm, with breathtaking precision on Soviet TV, 1977. Original post

well, at least we now know what Hyacinth Bucket was up to before she married Richard. @thelewisblack.bsky.social

AJfromBrooklyn@ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.

a Happy Monday Good Morning to You from the Piney Woods Where We Wanted Dragons, We Asked for Dragons & Finally GOT Some Stinkin' Dragons on House of Dragons, Which Ironically is Usually Pretty Short on Giving Us Dragons Safe Travels & Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack.bsky.social

Good Night from the Piney Woods! @thelewisblack.bsky.social

humans actively be working towards our own destruction. And it wasn't bad enough when robots looked like weird people, NOW we have to have demon fucking robots Between AI and these robots...DID NO ONE EVER WATCH THOSE TERMINATOR MOVIES? @thelewisblack.bsky.social www.newsweek.com/terrifying-r...

Terrifying rescue robot comes with instructions to “kill it”

A horned, chainsaw-wielding rescue robot is going viral after its creator revealed built-in "kill switch" features and detailed how it can be stopped.

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Remember back in the 90's when everyone had TMJ. Now you never hear of it...I guess it just went away.

a Happy Peaceful Sunday Good Morning to You from the Piney Woods Where It's All Aces N Eights Here on the Anniversary of Wild Bill Hickok Being Murdered in Deadwood By that Little Coward, Jack McCall. Safe Travels & Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack.bsky.social

here's an anniversary for you...and if you can pronounce this lady's name, you're a better person than I am... 8/1/1980... "Icelandic teacher and politician Vigdís Finnbogadóttir became president of Iceland; she was the first woman in the world to be elected head of state in a national election"

a Thoughtful Saturday Good Morning 2 U from the Piney Woods Where, Sadly, It's the Anniversary of the Final Entry in Anne Frank's Diary Before She & Her Family Were Hauled Off Murdered by Nazis, Germany's Version of ICE Agents in the 1930s & 40s Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack.bsky.social

that man's a fucking over-achiever @audacityofdespair.bsky.social

The Needling@theneedling.com · 5d ago

Today Mayor Katie Wilson announced she’s already fired Seattle’s next police chief after he somehow teargassed Capitol Hill, deleted public records, hired someone to have an affair on the job with, and threatened to fight a reporter all before 9 a.m.

Holy fuck, these guys have hit on a total fucking gold mine! They could make an absolute fucking bundle charging extra for not only Trump, but…Putin, Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, and, of course, the crown prince of the GOP…Adolph fucking HITLER! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

State department to offer Trump-branded US passports nationwide

Passports with the president’s portrait, previously only available in DC, will be offered at 27 agencies nationwide

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how is it that every cheap crappy movie on streaming tv always always always has Nicolas Cage in it? @thelewisblack.bsky.social

god, I loathe what this country's become. a mean, hateful, ignorant, moronic, morass of stupid fuckicity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Africa map: US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries

A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.

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and yet another reason to never go into the ocean 14 feet long, 1650 pounds of I-wanna-eat-you-as-a-tasty-snack...nope www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Huge great white spotted traveling up US and Canada as shark sightings surge

Contender, largest tagged male great white, heading north as overheating oceans alter range of several shark species

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a Happy Friday Good Morning to You from the Piney Woods Where Today We're Verklempt as We Ponder Folks Actually Giving their Vote to Awful People Like Susan Collins, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Tommy Tuberville or Any of the Rest of those GOP Assholes. Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack.bsky.social

my how the Tiffany Network has fallen... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No TV experience? At CBS News, that’s no problem | Margaret Sullivan

The conservative columnist Ross Douthat is the network’s latest perplexing hire – but the move is in line with the new leadership

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but...but...but...the US is the greatest, bestest, smartest country in the world...isn't it? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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if you think you've been having a bad day...at least your car didn't go airborne then wedge itself in the side of a bus. (there's video in the story) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘A car in the bus!’: Toyota becomes airborne and then wedges in side of Brisbane bus

Queensland police fine driver of another car that allegedly caused Yaris to swerve before it hit kerb and catapulted into air – and bus

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a Happy Nat'l Chili Dog Day Thursday Good Morning to You from the Piney Woods Where We Prefer Our Chili Dogs to Be All Beef, Our Chili Eyes Crinklin' Slam Yer Hand on the Table Spicy, & Our Buns Oversize, Baby! Safe Travels & Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack.bsky.social

so where the hell does the sweat GO, then? @thelewisblack.bsky.social

a Happy Wednesday Good Morning to You from the Piney Woods Where It's the Anniversary of King Kamehameha III Leasing the 1st Sugar Plantation Land in Hawaii, Which in Hindsight Was a Huge Mistake Cause Next Thing Ya Know White Colonists Took Over the Joint. Good Luck to Us All Today @thelewisblack

Forgot what a pretty good film The Tourist is. One of the streaming channels ran it today and Depp and Jolie are good together. Not a bad little movie.