Ben Loory

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

A large crowd, amid which are two vehicles bearing stages and a small elevated monument with people standing on its platform. A headline reads: Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School. Photo by Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News Agency, via Associated Press

A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i

[man having heart attack during flight]
Flight Attendant: IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
Me: [raising hand] it’s not a house, it’s an airplane

people often refer to ambergris as "whale vomit" but in fact it's an intestinal slurry produced when undigestible parts of the whale's diet are *not* successfully vomited out and begin to irritate their stomachs, a phenomenon familiar to taco bell fans

dolly should have just set jolene on fire

That’s a 29 point swing. In Arkansas.

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I just walked 16 blocks to save $3.00 on milk. Whole Foods can fuck off with their $7.50 milk. Anyway, I'm the only one at the new gelato place

Julie Newmar for the episode Of Late I Think of Cliffordville on The Twilight Zone (1963)

“Because fuck you that’s why.”

They didn’t have a plan to evacuate Americans because they didn’t want to.

bet it's a bit embarrassing for wizards when they put in their first custom robe order. guy keeps asking if you're sure about those sleeve measurements

I was at a restaurant in Baltimore and accidentally dropped my winter hat in the toilet

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I stayed in that hotel just to the right of the crab and later found out it’s the building where the whorehouse was located in The Wire

Inventum coffee maker circa the 1970s it has a delightful shape and appealing color palate of orange, yellow, umber and white and a pattern of flower stalks it doubtless makes undrinkable swill, but has rizz for days

contemporary Inventum drip coffee maker looking like a piece of sterile lab equipment with a little digital clock makes better coffee, but at what cost?

look how far we've fallen

hate living in the time of "the worst people do an evil thing incompetently"

Trailer for Shudder doc celebrates “1000 WOMEN IN HORROR” - Rue Morgue Groundbreaking genre talents past and present are showcased here.

Trailer for Shudder doc celebrates “1000 WOMEN IN HORROR” https://ow.ly/I4Sm50YoI3O

Color photograph of a blue window curtain sunlight coming through the curtain as it underlates forms alternating areas of light and dark on the rich Brownwood of the windowsill there is also an area of bright yellow following the curves of the curtain where we see the sunlight coming directly onto the windowsill without going through the curtain

José Javier Serrano a.k.a Yosigo
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you can tell that this isn't a real problem, because if it was this would be written by someone it happened to and not someone who it didn't happen to saying "but if it did that would have sucked."

a young black angus bull stands on the other side of a fence. On the side facing me is a bright yellow Amish foot scooter. It's a drab winter day.

This might be my favorite picture I have taken so far this year.

😂

I thought this was a drawing of my dad

In my adult work office eating a corn dog and a cup of pho like some kind of eccentric toddler.

Sounds like Kash Patel is a co-conspirator covering up a murder.

A wood-framed display case with glass on all but the bottom. Inside it is are human-size forearm and hand bones. Behind them, as if perhaps initiating an investigation, are five ceramic dogs of various sizes and the Fisher-Price figurines of the Bad Kid (a kid with freckles and a yellow shirt wearing a tipped-up baseball cap) and the Bad Kid’s Dog, a black-and-white dog.

Stacey improved the display for March.

“‘Missed the joke’ is not an oppressed class” is a GREAT line, though.

Some email I got with new additions to Peacock starting March 1

...and on that list is the entire Leprechaun series. Which, to be fair, is not really great. I've seen about 4 in total, and most of them are really terrible. We once did a great drinking game to Leprechaun V: In the Hood, and followed it up the next year with one for Leprechaun 4: in Space. Good times. Note that Peacock has the subtitle wrong; it's "In Space," not "Lost in Space"

hold my calls

one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint