danger and dance

Gavin Newsom smiling

Gary Callahan aka The Smiler from Transmetropolitan, also smiling in a way eerily similar to Newsom

a lot of words have been written over the past couple of days about why people don’t trust Newsom but if you need the argument in visual form, here you go

Do you really think he's going to be alive in 20 years

You may be surprised to learn that "Billy Mitchell" is not a unique name. Seems much more likely that the room is named after this guy: www.americanheritage.com/billy-mitche...

Those do look good! I'll have to keep an eye out for them.

Yeah, it was a question at a trivia event I went to a few months ago. The theme was "things that happened in 2015", which I did not guess (how could it have been so long ago? It was yesterday!)

… "early" Internet? This was 2015!

Oh no! But also, fancy Snickers? This sounds interesting

Alabama is the 8th-most-rural state [2020 census]. The state DPH says "55 out of 67 of Alabama's counties are considered rural. […] 42.3% of the entire Alabama population, live in rural areas." [https://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/ruralhealth/at-a-glance.html]

Why is it an inadequate comparison?

From what I remember of the public comment meeting for the lane's most recent reconfiguration, that police station was a bane to improved safety measures in front of it.

Since the rail line is just a bit south of the interstate, I've doubled my Missouri visited counties on this trip

Happy birthday!!

Update: gooey butter cake is also great in ice cream form

Well, I both was a Boy Scout and have French ancestry, so maybe that's why I like it so much

In contrast, Maryland knows how to have a good time with its flag, I'm just saying

The flag of St. Louis: three wavy blue-and-white lines (symbolizing the river confluence) on a red field, with a gold fleur-de-lis disc over the intersection

One thing I don't understand is, when cities have Really Good flags, why they don't fly them everywhere? I haven't seen St. Louis' as much as I think I should.

Toasted ravioli

Ryan holding a frozen custard strawberry shortcake and me holding a concrete, both from Ted Drewes

St. Louis–style pizza from Imo's

Gooey butter cake

Eating well in St. Louis

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

I immediately had the same reaction. No thank you!

Baltimore is the usual comparison because similar historical reasons, but I'd say San Francisco, Denver, and Philadelphia also had roughly equivalent structural splits when they consolidated (but for mostly different reasons)

A black cat in a yard, on a leash

An orange cat from behind a screen window

Went out with my sister-in-law walking the cat, as you do. (The other cat watched wistfully from the patio)

it is a very good shirt!

Surely no one else in the world could have such a unique name, right?

Hot take: for a game where music is as central to the plot as DK Bananza, it's a shame that none of its songs are as good as "Jump Up, Super Star!"

Street sign showing the top of Acme Alley

View of the Castro and the city's skyline, from Acme Alley

Watch out, Wile E. Coyote

To be fair, we haven't ever had tariffs like this either, and they've stated that's why (it also affects some switch 2 accessories)

A popular human form of
appreciation is hailing the
person as the "god" of a
particular activity.
Though quite proficient at
volleyball, Thor does not
seem ready to alter his title
of God of Thunder just yet.
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Oh it was a setting on old DDR cabinets where you could play double for one credit (as opposed to the standard 2)

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(the page on Wikipedia has some interesting shifts in meaning when loanwords come back: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborro...)