Well I guess I know why there's been a train parked outside my house all day.
Alex Blaes
@otagian.bsky.social
Nerd, professional drawer of straight lines, painter of small things.
Mitch McConnell's "death" is just a misunderstanding: 84 is quite young for a turtle. He's bruminating. Bury him in the back yard under a few inches of soil and he'll dig himself out in a few months, perfectly healthy.
Deciding "submissive and breedable" is a fine thing to say tells me that y'all haven't been estrogenated by your fey boyfriends and it SHOWS.
"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · last mo.“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.” - Tish James on Mamdani 👀😳
Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish
Hooray, we officially have screw worms in the US! One step closer to @tkingfisher.com's latest becoming real! Now excuse me while I barricade myself inside and make sure my home is air tight.
You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!
This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…
Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social · 2mo agoso, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
I was *obsessed* with brewing chifir for a while after reading too much Russian literature. It is cartoonishly, wildly, impossibly strong black tea, tea strong enough to keep you functional in a Siberian gulag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chifir
Chifir - Wikipedia
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phantasmAgaric 🍄@lalonde.bsky.social · 2mo agoreading russian literature hasn't made me smarter or more thoughtful or expanded my philosophical worldview. but it has made me really want a samovar
Okay, so I have a great plan for getting banned from Lego Ideas.
Alex Blaes@otagian.bsky.social · 3mo agoAt least it's better than the Oklahoma State Building memorial Precious Moments figurine?
pelcan Mouth perfec t size for $1.776 billion anti-weaponization monies! inside very Soft and Safe put monies in Pelican Moouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth. Apelican Mouth yes a place for $1.776 billion put $1.776 billion in pelican mouth can trust pelican. friend pelican
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you were Todd Blanche, who would you appoint to the 5-person board that will administer the $1.776 billion dollar “Anti-Weaponization Fund”? Wrong/funny answers only
Gailey: don't fool yourself Gailey: the hippo may look cute, maybe even harmless Gailey: but the so-called river horse is a remorseless murder machine, designed by God only for death Gailey: you ever looked into the eyes of a hippo
GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!
For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...
Her Name Was Juniper Blessing
Sick Burns 5/15/2026 - The slain 19 year old trans University of Washington student has been identified in the press It's never easy to write about a trans woman who dies by violence. It's just a fac...
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Oh my god she uploaded a slow motion video and it's amazing. He's just like me fr running as best he can and still going backwards over and over!
Well, time to change my password I suppose. Getting 30+ 2FA requests in a matter of minutes is usually a good sign, right?
There’s been a hell of a lot more hand-wringing over lefty politicians associating with Hasan Piker than there was over Gavin Newsom welcoming (and agreeing with) Charlie Kirk and Ben Shapiro on his podcast. I wonder if that says anything about our politics.
Crosby finally realized the neighbors have an outdoor cat, and that the cat will play chase with him. Crosby, the world's gentlest boy, is going to be very, very upset if he ever wins a game of chase.
