Rusty Long

YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke Bo Burnham: How The World Works

youtu.be/oDQXFNWuZj8 👍

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room looking at the camera . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a room looking at the camera .

People losing it over the newly released Epstein files is pretty reasonable. But, we should probably keep in mind that this is apparently half of what the DOJ has…

So if that’s the half that they were willing to release…

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

YouTube video by Equal Vision Records Converge "The Saddest Day"

Every time you justify,
Another good in you dies.

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No… I LOVE brutalism.

My seven year old just used the phrase “stitches get snitches” correctly, without a whiff of irony, but in the context of not telling the magical fairies that she’s eating pork. #thedadlife

“Just because they had a boat land there 500 years ago, doesn’t mean that they own the land”

~President Donald J Trump in regards to Greenland

YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Clips What Kind Of American Are You Scene | CIVIL WAR (2024) Movie CLIP HD

How many steps away from this are we now? youtu.be/lgKGIhfKrpY

“See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
Robin Williams

“But the Epstein files will impact people on both sides!”

An old school Cracker Barrel logo, rendered in rainbow colors and with a leather clad costumed man, dressed as a police officer in the style of the Village People.

Now that I can get behind.

the CPB shutting down is a history defining event in the arc of journalism’s existence as a practice

A blue ridge mountain inspired water color

An abstract monochromatic study in spirals and perspectives

A woven water color jellyfish painting

Making steady progress toward my daughters fundraising efforts for her summer pre college program! I’m biased, sure, but I think she’s a natural. gofund.me/e7196b5f #artist #dadlife #blueridgemountains #jellyfish

Two white-on-black line art pieces, one of an owl, one of a cat.

Stoked about my oldest’s opportunity to study art this summer in New York. She’s pretty darn talented. gofund.me/c5f2d7f6

Housing May 26th Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.6% Week-over-week, Up 32.4% Year-over-year Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 2.6% week-over-week. Inventory is now up 26.0% from the seasonal bottom in January ...

Housing May 26th Weekly Update: Inventory up 2.6% Week-over-week, Up 32.4% Year-over-year www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/05/hous...

The War on Rot: Architects Turn to Science to Future-Proof Wood As wood reclaims its place in modern facades, researchers worldwide are racing to outsmart decay—without poisoning people or the planet.

New options for preserving wood are on the horizon. www.architectmagazine.com/Design/the-w...

With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.

~Chuck Palahniuk

Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind.

Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers.

Disabled people were Holocaust victims, too: they were excluded from German society and murdered by Nazi programs In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.

Important reminder about where exclusion of disabled people leads: theconversation.com/disabled-peo...

YouTube video by Noah Lee We are gonna have tryouts | The Dark Knight #joker

EPA offering folks who just got laid off the ‘opportunity’ to reapply for about 20% of their own jobs, like: youtube.com/shorts/7YEbn...

Can we get a sequel to Playing with Fire? Where John Cena and Judy Greer are fired without cause, wrecking their careers and sending them into a deep despair about their time in government service?

DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.

www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p... what could possibly go wrong?

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So DRP 2.0 (Fork Part Deux) comes with a threat of imminent RIF, includes roughly two months less Admin Leave time, is open for a whopping seven days, and closes a day after many folks are forced to return to under-resourced over-occupied offices.

‘Dignified and fair departure?’

Right.

Book banning at the USNA? archive.is/2025.03.29-0...

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New DRP? Forget that noise. Hold the line.