Cheburashka

One deleted post, on a writer's detention: "Many of my former colleagues have left journalism, while some have simply disappeared … How many people are willing to risk being accused of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ and having to deal with the anxiety of having no status or protections?"

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Spiritually, this feels like a bizarro-world @noirlamps.bsky.social post

The view from the rooftop looking south along Meicun Road in Taichung. The Sogo department store building is visible at bottom right.

Looking west along Taiwan Boulevard. The ridge on the skyline is Dadushan.

Looking north from the rooftop of a tall building on Taiwan Boulevard in Taichung. Part of what is probably the elevator room can be seen on the right.

Looking across the rooftop of a tall building on Taiwan Boulevard. Blue pipes snake across the scene.

Taichung from the rooftop of one of the tallest buildings on Taiwan Boulevard 🏙️

Don’t suppose that edit button is coming anytime soon

I also want new blood, but the track record of Platner-type guys is hardly spotless and we absolutely cannot afford another Fetterman.

Mods are asleep, post Whoopi Goldberg as an old white businessman in The Associate (1996).

man, we lost on this, but i think it still fucking matters, you don’t lose until you’re dead and we are gonna fucking outlive trump, THEY DO NOT BREAK US, THEY BREAK UPON US

Appreciate your consistent clarity that losing the battle doesn’t mean losing the war.

”Only after realizing that our plan to be secret hitters had failed did we publicly embrace Nazism” is not the argument some republicans seem to think it is

you’re missing the point: you, yes, you, reading this right now, can march up the steps and kick the fucking door in if you’re willing to do the work. you can be “local democratic operations”.

BYD would be an extinction event for the American auto industry

Was wondering if they’d notice that

'human psychic evolution has been stalled because all the seers and mystics are taking botox' perfect. love it. a perfect concoction of ‘what’

Make gutter oil great again

Part of stuffing the press pool with cranks is they get to ask "will you do [crazy thing]?" and he'll give some version of "maybe yes" even if he's never thought of it before. Sometimes it then becomes real policy. They're not reporters there to influence the public, they're there to influence him.

Complete elite degeneracy

zhil c @zhil_arf G... "We did it. We resurrected LKY. Father, tell us: what should we do to fix America?" "Ten billion H1B Indians." "What? B-but-" "Forced race mixing of neighborhoods." "Father, no-" "Arrest anyone who disagrees."

I know you’re joking, but “the party of Lincoln and Lee Kwan Yew“ would go pretty hard

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

I will not support a primary challenge against Chuck Tingle.

Works surprisingly well as a pun, too

Cruisin' (Live At The Jazz Cafe, London/1995) by D'Angelo on Apple Music Song · 1996 · Duration 6:38

when i worked the overnight shift the only other person there played adult contemporary on a radio all night. i heard the huey lewis/gwyneth version of "cruisin" several times a night and it ruined the song for me. this fixed it music.apple.com/us/album/cru...

D’Angelo??? Fuck.

what Pizzaro encountered in the Inca Empire was like if a visitor ran into Lord Humungus and concluded that this was what Australian society before Mad Max was actually like.

How Elle Bisgaard-Church became Zohran Mamdani’s most trusted adviser The first-time campaign manager steered him to victory in June. Now she’s focused on the likely next administration.

Glad we finally got this profile

www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

Playing the jrpg where you have to kill Budweiser to save god

They did the tweet