Greg Lester

Truer words were never spoken.

It can be a strength when we play to our ideals, but it sure as hell goes south fast

I suspect you're correct. But when I see polls of "rural Americans," I kind of want to know whether it is the 50% of 20% (the Authentically Rural?!?) of Americans or 50% of some larger percentage of Americans.

It would help me better understand how effed we are as a nation.

What complicates things is that only 20% of Americans are actually rural, but I'm sure a larger percentage are actually suburbanites who cosplay as rural.

I think that distinction matters, but I don't know if pollsters agree with that.

Two panel comic. Top is someone scoring a touchdown thinking “touchdown for you Jesus” second panel is Jesus watching Star Trek deep space 9.

Another!

Amazing how all of the fellow travelers end up in the White House together.

Oddly enough, C-3PO can't seem to do a convincing robot.

Star Tours is still the best Star Wars ride at Disney.

So, Bluesky is a great source for book recommendations. I'm midway through The Pollutant Speaks by Alex Cochran (cannotbegrouped.bsky.social) and loving it. Engaging hard SF.

Next is To Catch a Fascist, an incredibly timely non-fiction by Christopher Mathias (letsgomathias.bsky.social)

She pointed out it was Trump & MAGA that got this ball rolling.

In his June. '24 Fox & Friends interview, Trump's big mouth agreed to release the files. Even though he immediately backpedaled, his MAGA toadies made it a campaign point.

The universe always favors irony.

Brush Brush
We grow teeth now
Dental caries

Giant ghost jellyfish filmed deep under the sea near Argentina Scientists spotted a rare jellyfish with huge ribbon-like arms deep in the ocean, where dozens of possible new sea species were also discovered.

And this is why I don't go into the ocean...

www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

There is no context that makes this not racist.

Wake me up when someone holds Leavitt to that point.

The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad

I’m sure it has as much to do with “owning the libs” as courting Italian-Americans, at this point.

MAGA is a political ideology built on hate and mockery.

What is remarkable is all the FB posts that cut out the first few seconds of the video to make it appear that this poor, innocent man was attacked by bloodthirsty students.

Also, I hate that autocorrect knows how to spell QAnon.

And we still haven't heard about his health plan, which he assured us was in the works during his first term.

White House tries to defend Trump amplifying bizarre ‘medbed’ pseudoscience Karoline Leavitt had several days to come up with a reason why the president promoted a video about magic beds. She apparently couldn’t think of much.

I think we breezed past when Trump posted an AI video about his new Medbeds-based health plan. Medbeds are a QAnon-born fiction about secret alien tech.

For any normal president, this would be an Administration-shattering lapse of sanity. For DJT, it was a Saturday.

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

We've apparently also ceded consumer safety to China's lead. What a world.

"That would more than remove the debt"

He is off by an order of magnitude. Our debt is currently $38T

Reminder that Dr. Oz was an elite physician. He gave that up because promoting quackery was more profitable. He continues to push profitably sloppy thinking.

Safe bet, Phil.

Dr. Oz’s anti-Armenian smear in LA fits a pattern OPINION: During a visit to Van Nuys, Dr. Mehmet Oz conflated Armenians and their language with organized crime, Stephan Pechdimaldji writes.

Not-so-fun fact: Backlash against Dr. Oz's anti-Armenian stances might have helped propel Fetterman to the Senate in Pa. As a Pennsylvanian, that didn't turn out to be the bargain we had hoped.

Still, Mehmet Oz is an Armenian Genocide denier, and that's nuts

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

a shooting star with the words " the more you know " behind it Alt: a shooting star with the words " the more you know " behind it

Extraterrestrially eliminationist rhetoric is a bad trip, dog.

Hey. Your pal, Greg, with a little straight talk to jive with today's youth.

If you are at the soda shop or the church hall & someone hits you with "What do you call X (population) on Ceres? A good first step."

Your friend might be a racist. At min, they show an aptitude for crap thoughts.

Somewhere, Dr. Oz sees this and is out there thinking, "heheheh...a good first step."

Amazingly, human greed can even screw up rollypollies.

“All reasons”

Love it. Maybe a typo, maybe not. We all have good reasons to ride.

Just had to block a guy who equated fictional "dissenters" and a fictional FEMA plan to detaining actual humans in warehouse concentration camps.

That was the point: the FEMA plans weren't real. The paranoid black helicopter-fearing conspiracists of my youth are now backing actual fascism.

The point was more about the people claiming to worry about concentration camps are now building one, but thanks for trying. Goon squads and death camps aren't a good look for the world's oldest Republic.

YouTube video by BikeFarmer My bike vs. ICE - Prepping for Alex Pretti Memorial ride in Minneapolis - Studded Tires and Fenders

Dude.
If you lost the Bike Farmer, you're going to lose.
My bike vs. ICE
youtu.be/OZp0_b64R_E

I'm old enough to remember when the forerunners of our current MAGA friends used to pretend that Clinton planend to build FEMA camps to control dissent.

That was quaint. I think it was referenced on X-Files.

This is sick. Unamerican.

This does nothing to improve my feelings about Mississippi.