Alex Hartmann

In the end, though, “I can’t believe our governance looks kinda like Belarus!” is the same thing as “I can’t believe these streetscapes and businesses in Belarus look like ours!” It misreads circumstances and history in both places, and sees the fun stuff and the bleak stuff as a divide of contradictions and opposites, rather than interlocking gears that turn together. It’s easy to take the wrong message from the landscape around you, to imagine that malls and cocktail bars are an indication of continuous progress and underlying function, that everything is fine as long as there are on-trend shoes, global pop stars, and MEAT FESTS to be had.

I also VERY MUCH stand by the observations about how authoritarianism doesn't always look aesthetically bleak, and it's dangerous to assume it does

Oh, that's lovely! 😍

FWIW, SoCal misses you as well.

LEGO shuttle with Ro Laren minifig

LEGO shuttle with Ro Laren minifig

LEGO shuttle with Ro Laren minifig

LEGO shuttle with Ro Laren minifig

A better look at the LEGO #StarTrek shuttle with Ro Laren gift-with-purchase limited release

LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November

NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November

#StarTrek #Lego

blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...

Sometimes I regret reading the whole thread.

This is not that time. 😂

so whose fucking last horcrux was Dick Cheney

But that might mean paying people not to work and we can't have that. 😜🤬

#AMomentofJoy cause this is Thriller.

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.”

<shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade>

Vance spokesperson: No comment.

Increase the number of circuits to 15. Reshuffle the circuit justices. Pull five at random for three year terms on a rotating basis. No justice may receive any other income except salary and cannot be a member of any external organization, including political parties.

Blue merle smoothy? Lovely!!

I know far too many people who really, really need this.

A recycling bin, not long after colliding with a bus. It's still right side up!

Attenborough voice:

Here we are in Edinburgh to witness the big communal bins™️ head off on their adventures, aided by the autumnal winds. Will they topple and empty their contents across the land? Will they fly free, lids flapping into the wind? Or will they smash into a number 124 lothian bus?

Breaches works.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Any particular label you would recommend? I'd like to stock up before the tariffs become prohibitive.

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

Interesting. I do wonder how a state would deny a plane the ability to access its airspace. And I don't want to be anywhere near an argument over the interstate highway system.

Are there any lesser evil streaming services left?

They are! I love the color.

Age verification?

"HR Pufnstuf. Who's your friend when things get rough?"

DO NOT WANT!!!

Gun violence sucks.
HOWEVER, if an adult makes it their life's work to sow hate & division & gets hurt as a result, that's on them.
He wasn't a politician, this isn't a federal case, he's not a martyr or a hero.
He was just a guy, standing in front of a crowd, asking them to hate with him.

a ship surrounded by a ton (or probably a lot of tons) of shipping containers that fell off and are floating in the water

something I love as much as a stuck boat is a Shipping Oops :) this was in the Port of Long Beach today

We need more kids in this world named Morticia.

What's truly frightening is that it works over and over and over.

Disney LAND.

Do they eat Pekinese and small children? Is that why Tim rescued it? 😜

For those if you who have a bottle of champagne/sparkling wine set aside for That Day, what label is it?

#DingDong #WeekendAtBernies #JustDieAlready #Dolt45