Merrill Markoe

@merrillmarkoe.bsky.social

Writer of things intended to be humor and animal lover. I post A LOT of pieces on my Substack page:"Still Looking for the Joke" https://substack.com/@merrillmarkoe?utm_source=user-menu

I have a new contemporary movie rating system to add to The Bechdel Test. It involves labeling the film with the number of minutes you would watch it at home before deciding that you're done for today. Time to turn it off and head out to the gym.

Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊

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It's important to be careful with this stuff. So before I do as they suggest and 'make my friends day by forwarding", first I am checking to see which of my friends are into gun violence and ticks.

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I've just signed an executive order: All future documentaries about successful rock stars spiraling into drug addiction are hereby forbidden. Our civilization has hit its threshold and the cultural ecosystem in which we live is at a dangerous saturation point.Thank you for your attn to this matter.

AI just revealed "The 5 men who drafted the Declaration of Independence were known as the "Committee of 5." :Thomas Jefferson of Va., John Adams of Mass., Benjamin Franklin of Penn., Roger Sherman of Conn., and Robert R. Livingston of New York." I hope Sherman and Livingston fired their PR people.

Aha. Anyone who understands anything about the surface of paint now understands why sheets of the paint are coming off the reflecting pool bottom. On May 26, after painting but before they refilled the pool, Trump drove in a huge motorcade down the whole length of the newly painted pool.

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