Curtis Retherford

I have no idea who this man is, other than his name, and I also don't follow this sub, but I have learned everything about him and his horrible treatment of his dog through constant reddit headlines

A sci-fi story containing the phrase "Let's Make America Strong Again"

Was reading a short story written in the 70s (printed in Harlan Ellison's posthumous "Last Dangerous Visions") and saw this fun little prediction

the "you have to tell me if you're a cop" people made their own license plates

me, 3 rows away, loudly and repeatedly, to no one: "Is this a plane, or a tray? An ice cube tray? Get it? Because that one guy over there? Looks kinda like that guy? A tray!" *presses attendant call button until someone acknowledges my joke*

This has all been a dry run for the discourse for when he finally dies. Lots of people saying, "look, I don't think ANYONE should die of a bigotry-induced prolapsed urethra, but there are some things he did which I maybe, a lil lil bit, disagreed with"

I love that you're doing "we don't need (blank), we have (blank) at home" to yourself

thor, giving a lil wink, because he gets it

seems pretty bad that we have to start obvious statements like "racism is bad" or "transphobia is bad" by stating other obvious things like "murder is bad"

One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

The actual race against China is renewables and we are losing badly

Ground the choppers The LAPD's helicopter mania is both a policy disaster and a symbol of our malignant, badly functioning surveillance state.

LAPD choppers are a malignant nuisance. They're harbingers of surveillance, operated *continuously*—yet the city's own data show they raise stress, impair cognition and burn 100,000s of gallons of gas. The best part? there's no evidence they deter or reduce crime at all.

It's time to ground them.

Instead, I suggested rallying the base by sending them 300 texts a day asking for money

Was recently paid several million dollars to tell Democrats that they can no longer use the following terms, because they may offend Republicans:
winning elections, social security, representation, transgender, gender, homosexual, heterosexual, government, Constitution, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC

You may notice that, in episodes of Murder She Wrote, you rarely see anyone's feet. This is because Jessica Fletcher had difficulty writing convincing feet, so she often hid them, employed extreme writerly perspective, or gave murder suspects excess pouches

A class from the king of podcasts?!?! A chance to make your own Eurovangelist to Zyxx podcast! (or a different podcast, are there more than 2 podcasts?) Wow wow wow you gotta jump on this

Reminds me of this video either @therobstern.bsky.social or @khealywu.bsky.social showed me ages ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9CE...

Leonardo DiCaprio (in his role as "The Titanic") pointing at the screen when Paddington shows up. He is saying "bababababa"

my 1-year-old daughter every time Paddington is on screen

Bizarre little men

I assume they're related to these guys

this is Bam's chance to post "Damn Rock I wish you were still with us"

1896: Oh no the train is coming right out of the screen!
2025: The train is capable of self-reflection and I do therapy with the train.

I wondered why articles kept saying "The Jumbotron Song", capitalized like a title, and at first assumed that Coldplay just has a song they wrote about jumbotrons (very possible) but then I looked it up and it's this, unfortunately

if I paid $500 or whatever it is for a single coldplay and then the ex-husband of Goop started singing made-up songs about people he saw? I would beg, BEG to be relieved of the life I have fallen into

One thing that's lost in all of this jumbotron CEO affair discourse is that apparently Coldplay has a specific jumbotron song, called "The Jumbotron Song," where Chris Martin sings about audience members, like an even lamer version of the old Leno "Jaywalking" bit. THIS is real crime, people. Focus

people seem really confused about racial categories maybe we should have some educational programs to teach how these historically constructed categories structure our entire society in insidious ways we could even do programming in workplaces to improve how people communicate with each other

A reddit post on r/fraiser where I asked "That motherfucker ever figure out his salad and egg situation?" It has a lot of downvotes.

Got banned from the Fraiser reddit again

all the tanks getting stuck in a roundabout, like a giant ant mill

"a new book by Jason about Nick Drake" is almost TOO well targeted towards me: clearly the CIA is trying to draw me out of hiding

"Local Gays Show Their Pride" with picture of Miles