Jym Dyer 🚲

PT Cruisin'!

He really does know how to gang aft agley.

Publicity photo of Jack Webb in character as Joe Friday on the TV show _Dragnet_, superimposed with his catchphrase, "Just The Facts, Ma'am."

✪ I'm Joe Friday. I carry a badge. Just the facts, ma'am.

There is also the Western Pennsylvanian "you'ns" (pronounced and popularized as "yinz" in the city of Pittsburgh).

I'm right here.

Maybe they shouldn’t have capitulated with Na-zhays

My thoughts: bring Łink back.

Operation Epstein Fury

lotta words to say “now that most of the white house reporters have been swapped out for slavish right-wing influencers he and his doily-delicate skin will attend”

Trump’s 2016 criticism of the Iraq war was the US didn’t do enough war crimes. He argued that the US should’ve stolen oil and killed insurgents’ innocent family members.

That’s what some prominent media figures presented to the public as isolationist, anti-intervention, anti-war, “Donald the Dove.”

20260227 stanley-on-deck-misty-indoors Two cats this #Caturday. Stanley drops by to visit but seems to be a little perturbed by what he sees. Misty, indoors, wonders who this is on her deck. (The human beings in the house are in the middl...

¨ Bonus cat for #Caturday, the orange guy dropped by to see what's up, the white kitty stays indoors to see what's up. (This is likely what prompted her to seek out an observation station.)

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20260227 misty-on-glass-shelves Misty, apparently still curious about earlier goings-on out on the deck, hops up into the glass shelves to surveil the area.

¨ She has deftly made her way up onto the glass shelves, now serving as her observation station for the entire back yard. #Caturday

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Left-wing plumber helps Greens sink ruling Labour and far-right in surprise U.K. election win The victory for Hannah Spencer, a plumber before she entered politics, complicates the wider narrative of a surge by nationalist populists backed by the Trump administration.

🚰 In the U.S., we have "Joe the Plumber," who was never a plumber nor is his name Joe. In the U.K. they have real plumbers.
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I dunno whether they're accepted as "legit leftists." I do know that maybe a decade ago they were shouting things I agreed with, except I thought the shouting part was awful while others thought it was good strategy. The only consistency since then has been the shouting.

Gooder grammar.

"Just think" is a bizarre détournement of an Apple ad for Dennis Miller. Pretty much his whole brand is laughing at his own jokes because he's the only deeeep thinker around who gets them, the rest of us are too dumb.

She looks like my '99 roommate, but I didn't park my bike in the kitchen.

Nokia 6xxx-series phone displaying the name "Scully." The truth is out there.

#2 but way cooler.

My first cell phone was a work phone, purchased for me by my dot-com startup. It was the same Nokia model that Mulder and Scully used in _The X-Files_ (but mine didn't get cell service in a UFO a mile under Antarctica).

Later, _The Matrix_ upped the Nokia coolness factor.

So rightful. And then their rightful part gets sifted through delegates and superdelegates.

Can you engage with anything Hogg has to say and refute it? Without that, you're just posting ad hominem blather.

I have been this goose since the 1980s.

It has not been my most popular question.

20130703 ttt-roofless Losing BART service across the Bay this weekend reminded me of the 2013 #bartstrike, but the new Transbay Transit Terminal was still under construction and we had to wait out in the sun under this ro...

¤ Today's #TwitpicTuesday rescue was inspired by BART shutting down transbay service this weekend. It reminded me of the #bartstrike in 2013 where we had to schlep off to catch some buses (except the buses were on reduced Sunday schedules this time around).

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That's okay, happens to the best of us. The _Times_ has, for example, had Jayson Blair, Judith Miller, and David Brooks in their employ.

Maybe the Democrats could invite MTG to come heckle.

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

The eugenics/sociobiology creeps are more often called out for their racism than their sexism. I fear this is because patriarchy and rape are so endemic in our society, that so many people internalize it as normal.

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I once found a trade publication for ministers on the sidewalk outside a church, back in the 1970s. It had a sort of Reader's Digest story section, specifically to be put into sermons.

There is such a thing as being TOO accepting.

_Strange Days_, Kathryn Bigelow before she started making Oscar-winning discomfort movies.

Yes, there have been a few strips on that theme.

Alysa Liu showed the way. Donna Summer dance party!