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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

I contracted as a paid media strategist at agencies for many years, basically auditing efficiencies for PPC clients. Throughout 24-25, they axed me because various AI tools made my job “unnecessary”. Seeing this contextualizes the “how’ve you been” text I got from a former colleague last week lol

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Rich people think they live in a higher tier of society full of better and more brilliant people, but it’s actually just the same society except the people have more money to waste and lose. So much of what they do is just wealth-induced hallucination

the DOD and the FAA got into a public slap fight over drone tests, coinbase announced that they’re gonna let AI try to commit fraud for you, your doorcams won’t actually be used by or useful for law enforcement if you’re kidnapped and everyone has dash cams, the future rules

so wait el paso airspace got shut down in a turf war over DOD letting the worst racists in the government drunk drive a laser cannon

Images of Rihanna, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, U2, Bad Bunny, Coldplay, Shakira, The Who, The Weeknd. All but Bad Bunny are labelled "not a citizen"

Which one is not like the others?

Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in Eastern DRC

I know how the Congolese militant group m23 can very suddenly make themselves real popular

kigalidailynews.rw/reports-emer...

Lizzo’s “About Damn Time.” The title works and the song itself is a banger by a strong black woman which someone will absolutely fucking hate as they peer up from hell.

Nice.

I am a little older than these guys. Sheesh.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

Every president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017.

He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Public Inspection: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census

BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register

That squint makes her look like a young Bernadette Peters (complimentary).

@davidfrum.bsky.social

RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet WASHINGTON—In an address touting the practice as a completely drug-free method to relieve the common affliction, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demonstrated Thursday how ...

“Doctors won’t tell you this, but you don’t need medication for a tapeworm—all you need is the natural power of friction,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said as he dropped to the floor, lifted his legs high, and dragged his ass along the White House carpet during a press conference.

You can sing that to the tune of baby shark, just with a bunch more doo-doos.

Maddening how hard it is to get Americans to understand the Kafkaesque impossibility of immigrating “The Right Way.”

dystopian america was more fun to read about in old scifi novels than it is to live through

An original one-sheet color poster for "Dr. Strangelove," featuring the tagline, "The hot-line suspense comedy." The poster features a squadron of gray silhouetted B-52 bombers receding into the background and flying toward the viewer under the title of the film (in a red font), below which are caricatures from the back of the US president and the Soviet premier each holding a red telephone to their ear, a globe featuring a rendition of the US and Soviet flags between them. A woman's bare arm holding an empty wine or cocktail glass is draped over the Soviet premier's left shoulder.

A black and white archival photograph of a large movie theater marquee announcing "Dr. Strangelove."

An archival black and white photograph of Peter Sellers and his soon-to-be wife Britt Ekland standing inside a theater at one of the premieres in front of two large posters for the film. Sellers is wearing a dark overcoat while Ekland is holding flowers and wearing a leopard fur coat.

A full-page black and white advertisement in the January 29, 1964, edition of the New York Daily News for "Dr. Strangelove," featuring six large photographs of individual cast members in a scene from the film, each of them holding a telephone receiver (Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott, Tracy Reed, and three images of Peter Sellers in his three roles, even though Dr. Strangelove never uses a telephone in the film) along with questions about each character (e.g., "Why did Dr. Strangelove want ten women for each man?," and "Where was General 'Buck' Turgidson when the hot-line rang?"

Today in 1964, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” premiered in New York City, Toronto, and London. The original release date of December 12, 1963—and a special New York City preview on November 22, 1963—were postponed after President Kennedy’s assassination.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Would this be the same army that was never going to win against a much larger, better funded, better equipped enemy, and consistently crapped the bed throughout the Confederacy's existence, which was shorter than the original broadcast run of Sanford and Son?

Ostentatious cross pendant like so many of the American culture warriors wear.

JD Vance has admitted he'll lie about a story for political advantage, so I give this as much credence as his previous one. I won't repeat it either.

Another possibility is that Bezos doesn’t know what he’s doing. These tech billionaires have proven time and again to be what I call “civic idiots.” Smart and efficient at making vast sums of money in their narrow corner of the market, but dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to many broader issues

I subscribed to the paper version for 23 years when I lived in NoVa, and kept the digital for 2 more. I cancelled it finally last fall. I might have kept it had I found a way to block seeing the opinion page in my browser. But now probably not.