Steve Gifford

So is Andrew Mountbatten Windsor (currently 8th) and his daughters Beatrice (9th, then her daughters) and Eugenie (12th, then sons) still in the royal line of succession? Are Beatrice and Eugenie still Princesses?

Asking as a potential showrunner for a THE CROWN/DESIGNATED SURVIVOR crossover.

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Without being bombed is crazy work

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

two panel meme showing a guy shooting another guy. in the first panel, the guy being shot is labeled "government funding" and the shooter is labeled "republican majorities." in the second panel, the shooter looks at the camera and says "why would democrats do this"

i made this a couple days ago bc of a dumb headline but it’s proving rather evergreen

Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel An independent reporter claims that more than 1.7 million paying subscribers canceled their plans to DIsney streaming services.

Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel www.engadget.com/entertainmen...

They say if you ever wondered what you’d have done in 1930’s Germany, it’s what you’re doing now.

Apparently I’d be the guy going “*Two L’s in “kristallnacht”, dumbass.”

The key to understanding Pete Hegseth is just asking yourself this question: "What would the worst O3 I ever met do in this situation"

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky

"More than a million people had canceled Disney streaming subscriptions as of Monday, the Disney source told me, and the company likely knew that trend would only continue the longer they kept Kimmel silenced."

@marisakabas.bsky.social w/ a doozy. 👀

Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Empire? 'Revolutions' and 'History of Rome' host Mike Duncan discusses the decline of the American empire, comparing it to Rome and other revolutions.

Was the fall of Rome this stupid? I spoke to Revolutions and History of Rome host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about the decline of empires, and the unraveling of America.

Full interview at @rollingstone.com

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When does Ai make things better?

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don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten

Charlie Kirk in His Own Words 17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

“Charlie Kirk in His Own Words”

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

Two important things:

1. The show is REALLY good.
2. Stars Hollow compact, walkable, nice urbanism is de facto illegal in most of CT due to parking mandates and stupid zoning rules.

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

You can also just fully watch it rooting for Peggy and Jack, and letting the rest of it wash over you with costumes and low stakes!

Just wait till you see him deal with a strike! (actual scene, season 2, ep 6)

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

More than three anecdotes is "survey data"

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

National guard troops lounging outside a Krispy Kreme

Dearest Martha,

The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover.

Yours in glaze,

CEO on LinkedIn: "I don't screen for credentials, I screen for passion. I don't look at degrees, I look at dedication. I don't see prior experience, I see positive potential."

Candidate: "Amazing! And what does your outsourced HR software filter for?"

CEO: "Oh credentials, degrees and experience."

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

I know what they think they're doing here, but they are actually conveying that 9 agents decided they'd work together to...make a little video about how they went out to take down a mean paper sign