Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum
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Cat rancher. Breaker of software. Quiescently frozen.
When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.
Maine also has towns like Poland, China, Norway, and Mexico. This has the potential to get even funnier.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoThe people of Portland, Oregon, were probably very confused about why they were being flooded with information about the Maine Senate race. trib.al/F8k3r9A
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
Why do we wear eyeglasses but not legpants?
The new Trump coins look like plastic tokens that would come in a board game called “Bank Foreclosure!”
U.S. Mint Begins Selling Trump $1 Coins. Are They Legal? — TIME
The U.S. Mint began selling $1 coins bearing a likeness of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, making him the first living president in a century to have his face on currency. Celebrating the nation’...
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The Denial stage of bananas: “This is still good. I‘ll make banana bread out of it”.
If I was in the sea salt business, I would have never have even checked the Himalayas
Government so small it fits inside your emotional well-being at every waking moment.
"Lake America" instantly just absolutely clogged with algae. Six uniformed National Guard guys standing on a beach dumping windex into it. It smells like a turtle tank.
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
Mr. Sandman Send me a man Make him so sandy The sandiest man
Republicans play by flopping soccer rules, turning a light shin graze into a being attacked with a hammer. Democrats play ultimate frisbee rules, calling fouls on themselves for the spirit of the game.
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
The only acceptable and historically accurate translation of the Odyssey is the one where George Clooney sings bluegrass.
i think it's a bit anachronistic that the main character is named after the odyssey when the odyssey didn't exist until after the odyssey existed.
The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.
Declarations of innocence are taken as signs of guilt. This is pure Salem Witch Trial logic. Only when we are drowned will we be acknowledged as innocent.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoJD Vance: "My 6-year-old gives me a hug and says, 'Daddy, I didn't steal any of the cookies!' Of course he stole the cookies. So when I hear a guy protesting out of nowhere, 'I did not do any election fraud! I did not do any fraud!' It makes me wonder, why is that guy protesting so aggressively?"
working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"
the writers on this season of the trump show really need to dial it back
Anthony's Spinning Circles here too!@circlesspinning.bsky.social · 4mo agoMaga taking shelter in the National Museum of African-American History And Culture!
Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility
I also don't think it's a total coincidence that the apex promoter of the Mars colonization grew up in apartheid South Africa: Mars colonization fantasies always include the idea of escape from the terrestrial political reality of having to share space with one's lessers.
Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe fantasy of human colonization of Mars isn't just stupid, unrealistic, or a waste of resources — it's pernicious, because it actively stokes insouciance with respect to safeguarding the only planet that at least 99.99999999% of us are ever going to live on.
He can’t even drain a literal swamp, let alone a metaphorical one.