I am told that apparently they did not appreciate "Send them to Ft. Leonard Wood".
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d agoU.S. military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to ‘punish Iran’
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago
Motorola pushed an update that turns on notifications for "trending topics" that, when you click on it, loads a news item and a Taboola page and hold on a second there, I don't think you guys realize the full magnitude of the go fuck yourself
Just voted in sleepy jet-blue precinct in northern VA, turnout looks to be around 6% here. I'm surprised more poll-workers weren't playing Candy Crush, what with having to deal with tens of people every hour. ...yet, there was an obvious unmarked cop car in the near-empty parking lot, what the fuck
COUNTERPOINT: Brent crude below $80 suggests more bombing is imminent, as the fraud stops working shortly after the rollercoaster does.
Darin Self@darinself.com · 2d agoGuys, a permanent deal is imminent in which Trump will get everything he wants just like the past 30 permanent deals that lasted a few days and ended with more bombing
"The rent is too damn high" may have been a bit too ambitious as the central message of a political campaign. Maybe start smaller? Like "Ice cream bars should only cost a dollar"? BINFACE 2026: YES WE TIN CAN
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 2d agoEarlier, BBC was doing man-in-the-street interviews in Clacton and as God is my witness I had no idea that Onslow from "Keeping Up Appearances" was a real guy.
An IRGC spokesman responded that they would treat their twenty-third 'last chance' with every bit as much gravitas as they had the proceeding twenty-two, and wondered if the USA was still using that radar installation at Thule.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2d agoPresident Trump said his decision not to escalate the war in Iran over the weekend was Iran’s "last chance" to make a deal. https://to.pbs.org/4gaCnSB
...well, good luck finding five high-school boys all willing to have their underwear pulled up over their heads on national TV, I guess. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/im-a...
Perspective | I’m a WNBA player. Men won’t stop challenging me to play one-on-one.
I have nothing to prove, even if you do
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Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 3d agoWhat sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
I wanna get some o' them pap-tights! My wife got a whole schmear of 'em!
Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 3d agoI see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing
Along with losing the presumption of regularity in the courts, this is the first administration I can recall that made me doubt lettuce. Previous recalls, you thought "oh, that was a bad batch, I'm sure it's safe now'. Today? We just- ...didn't buy lettuce. Trump take presumption of safe lettuce.
Make America Great Again, like two decades ago when pump-and-dump stock fraud merely threatened to annoy the shit out of everyone with an email address, and not, y'know, the global economy and world food supply.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d agoYou almost have to hand it to Trump at this point. He’s figured out how to manipulate world markets by doing nothing more than tweeting bullshit 24/7.
RIGHT: we're poisoning society to death so it can be replaced with one that exists only to enable our violent fantasies LEFT: we must strengthen society by expanding social services and expelling those who seek to kill it CENTER: so... the right gets what? nothing?? come on. let em kill it a little
Watching the Indiana/Minnesota game, three observations: 1) this is some amazing basketball 2) either there's no weird courtside bullshit or the TV feed is doing a good job at avoiding it 3) Sophie Cunningham took an elbow to the face, surely inadvertent and not called
My latest for MSNOW, why Mitch McConnell is doing Democrats a favor by refusing to retire when he's too sick to vote:
Opinion | Why many conspiracy theories about Mitch McConnell don’t actually make sense
In fact, it’s best for Democrats if McConnell is alive and absent.
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I went through basic training with Private Major and I'd be surprised if he wasn't Sergeant Major by now.
Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · last wk.Lieutenant? General? Admiral? Lt. Gen. Kevin D. Admiral was nominated to serve as the next leader of U.S. Army Europe and Africa.
Most songs of the genre "we came up with this weird groove and liked it so much we built a song on top of it", for example Don Henley "Sunset Grill", are terrible. The exception that proves the rule is Frank dorking around with synths: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFk...
Poi Dog Pondering - The Chain
YouTube video by Lotus by The Sea
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lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d agoPost your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.
The mRNA research that led to both COVID vaccines and remarkably effective cancer treatments.
Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 5d agoI like this brainstorm: greatest achievements since 1969. Number one for me: eradicating smallpox What else?
Do you suppose that when modern guitar heroism adherents meet their elders they're like "man, I dunno how you guys did it back in the 80s, with the brutal hair care routines and the marathon cocaine orgies, I just wanna stand on my plinth and play a million notes"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuD4...
Matteo Mancuso - Drop D (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Matteo Mancuso
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Starting to think that putting the least qualified, most evil people in charge of our country wasn’t the best idea.
(panel from Matt Bors comic) ...again.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoSen. Jim Banks repeatedly refers to American citizens as "babies of invaders"
The concept of 'lights-out' machine rooms has been around for decades, but is never fully realized; there are always remote hands nearby, if not onsite. When I worked in a data center, we typically had one or two people there, per building. So for a big campus, we're talking maybe six jobs?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Buckaroo Banzai and the Galaxy Quest
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d agoName 2 film franchises that need a crossover film.
Downplay a book or movie: For example, the two big SF movie fandoms are, of course, Star Nerf Bat Fight and Star Trip to the Liquor Store
Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 6d agoDownplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"
I see no possible way this could go even the tiniest bit wrong.
MIT Technology Review@technologyreview.com · 6d agoMontana opens experimental drug access to nearly anyone. The state now allows any consenting adult to purchase experimental drugs—including unproven longevity therapies—from newly established treatment clinics, pending approval by review board.
Huh. Just imagine how they treat people who DON'T have a national platform to complain about it, like, I dunno, the toddlers in that Texas immigration jail.
Blake Tapper@blaketapper.bsky.social · 7d agoSorry guys, humane prisoner treatment is woke.
I mean yeah, sure, government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub, but it's also important that we have a nationwide conversation about how we're going to fuck up the life of this one specific trans girl in West Virginia who wants to be on the high school girls' cross-country team.
"Standard Chartered" is British English for 'smothered and covered', but their version is just beans on toast.
...okay, but everything is a surprise if you haven't done any of the reading.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 7d agoLet me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
