Another Bruce

Turns out firing career diplomats and replacing them with Trump loyalists who learned international relations from Truth Social has consequences. Who knew. #holdfast

I won occasional bar bets with this. "What planet is farthest from the Sun *right now*?"

OTD in 1979, Neptune became the farthest planet from the Sun until February 11, 1999.
Pluto was still a planet at that time, it just has a crazy orbit. That orbit is part of why some people were already thinking maybe it shouldn't be one.

Washington Post:
"Democracy Dies in Darkness"
Bezos:
"Okay, lights out."

Sadly, this is NOT satire.

Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

The current bit of cope is telling themselves "I am the boot."
Seen it a few times on FB

There's a full moon tonight so please remember to leave your ghost out to charge

*You* can't walk in with guns. MAGAts can.

If you're a US citizen, and not on some federal watchlist, what are you doing with your life?

The New York Times pitchbot can't keep up with the New York Times.

They're coming for all of us. Let's stop them before it's too late!

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

People who don't know this, or don't have the discipline to follow this, should not be on a public payroll with authorization to use force.
3/3

Assume a person is justified in using deadly force, because there is a risk of deadly force against them or others.
The *moment* that risk ends, the use of deadly force is no longer justified.
2/3

One thing that hasn't been mentioned, that bears mentioning. This was basic stuff in the first year of law school, and basic use-of-force training in the Idaho Department of Corrections.
1/3

One dollar, and get change back.

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

If you want to know why human civilisation is collapsing it’s because so many of us think it is OK to comment on a post without reading the article first.

if you prefer getting freaky to a free collection of public domain films maintained by wikipedia editors, perhaps consider "wikiflix and chill" wikiflix.toolforge.org#/

Situation in Copenhagen 🇩🇰👀

Donald Trump is the Milli Vanilli of Nobel Peace Prize winners.

#GirlYouKnowItsTrue

YouTube video by The A.V. Club GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan

GWAR covering Pink Pony Club is a gender.

nooo ken burns nooo don’t make an entire episode of TV about how soldiers quartering (3rd amendment) made bystanders to the US revolution into participants nooooo

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

In 2004, a garbled scream ended a run for President.
In 2026, it would be a major policy speech from a sitting President .

This is our first time watching four astronauts sit inside 3500F with our own eyes. It was stunning, and the sonic boom was deep, flexed windows, and activated our lizard brain “scary” response. Welcome home Crew-11!

scott adams won’t see your tweets about him but your friends who destroyed their legacies as inoffensive newspaper cartoonists with decades long racist crashouts will

Scott Adams might not see your mean jokes but a lot of other sociopaths who know people will make jokes about them when they die will