Lee Behlman

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

tiny black kitten wrapped up in a scarf being held by a passenger

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

post by @jamellebouie.net from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over" Nothing made slavery's toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers "learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter." The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the "goodlooking" daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, "every private in the ranks" cursed "that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women," according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

why is it so funny that it's lunch

I really miss Flashback. 😔 My wife and I have been listening to the old episodes with great pleasure. I hope that someday you and Kam can get the band back together.

THE SHADE OF DEATH, TOWERING OVERHEAD AS THE SKY BLACKENS: Thy doom is at hand, Kevin Hassett; an eternity of torment shall presently commence.

HASSETT: [grins] Well, perhaps!

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

please, tv writers, i beg you

stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here

i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!

Flying Eye Guardian

Cute little John Carpenter beastie guy.
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A panel from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' WATCHMEN, where a circulatory system (Dr. Manhattan) walks through the kitchen. This happens on November 10.

happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day

I can’t remember the last time I legit cried laughing at something but the second verse of this song has done it

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]

SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

This may be one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Loved and Missed is my favorite book read this year. And you can't go wrong with Elizabeth Taylor.

YouTube video by Υπαστυνόμος Ρεξ Kommissar Rex - All Intros (Season 1-10)

I only heard about this show when someone made a supercut of all the intro sequences. Dog takes over control! youtu.be/853GbAuFX-k?...

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

This is in my "Top 10 Dickens Bits That Often Run Through My Head."

"That is the only good that has ever come of it."

A key part of my process (the process of being gay not being a writer) is watching that clip of Diane Keaton singing “seems like old times” from the end of Annie hall