Bee Ostrowsky

YouTube video by Steve Martin - Topic Dentist!

Or this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V_f...

One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.

He's a human Reichstag.

Y'know, at some point y'all are gonna have to chisel that poem off the base of that big ass statue, or at least cover the damn thing with a tarp. i mean jesus.

Canon

@jessesword.com *snort* xkcd.com/3123/

Your anger at the news of a Running Man remake is understandable. I felt just as much anger when I saw the 1987 movie after reading a much better (and entirely different) novella. If you haven't read it yet, you're in for a real treat!

A lot of 12 year olds are going to learn the phrase "op sec" in the next few years.

"Are those burner shoes?"
"I didn't think --"
"You're not SUPPOSED to fucking THINK, Skylar, you're supposed to follow FUCKING PROTOCOL."

Unfettered by common sense!

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

🎵 Your favorite man of song
Lived almost a century long
‘Til your wife's birthday, so how do you mourn and cry?
Quietly, quietly, quiet-L-Y. 🎵
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Wow they always go in threes: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne, and Chuck Mangione and absolutely no one else

So beautiful! I've gotta wonder who put that @datadoghq.com code in the Gastronauts mainframe...

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

How can you have a reasonable suspicion that an American citizen is in the country illegally?

You can’t

How can you have a probable cause that an American citizen is in the country illegally?

You can’t

How can you lawfully deport an American citizen for being in the country illegally?

You can’t

Yeah

a picture of some patterned pub carpet. on the left half of the picture it is badly faded and marked, scuffed into only grey marks in some places and with a substantial hole through not just the carpet but the floorboards to the tiles below. on right right is a vibrant red carpet with clear patterns, unblemished

on the left, the carpet that's been down in one of the bars of my pub for at least 50 years. centre, the hole that a (now) little old fella called Bill has made by shuffling his feet when he gets excited about horse racing over half a century. right, the carpet as revealed under a fitted bench

I hope someday we can rename it for Marvin Dunn.

Yeah, he doesn't deserve the honor. It was just the name I heard growing up, but fuck that guy.

Why is Edesia hoarding them for profit when they could ship them to save lives?

Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp.

Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.

(to my consternation they already changed the county name to Miami-Dade, but I'll be from Dade County til I die)

or "Everglades Concentration Camp", but yes

it’s worth making this more explicit:
The NYT is suggesting Zohran lied by checking off both “Asian” & “African”, because (in their view) someone of Indian descent born & raised in Africa isn’t “truly” African. Which was also how Idi Amin justified expelling Zohran’s father & thousands of others.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

A moment of silence please for #USAID, which is officially shuttered after months of dismantling.

Why a moment of silence? Not only for the employees. But also for the estimated 14 MILLION deaths by 2030 predicted without the agency.

@altusaid.altgov.info

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I’m in Pittsburgh. For lunch I had a sandwich that came with french fries on top of it. For dinner I had a salad that came with french fries on top of it. I mean, these motherfuckers know how to live.

From the Birdfy community on Reddit: The Anatomy of a Blue Jay. What's one surprising fact you know about them? Explore this post and more from the Birdfy community

@rosemarymosco.com Is Birdfy paying you for the illustrations that seem to be in your style, or are they just using gen AI so they can try to avoid paying you? www.reddit.com/r/Birdfy/com...

one thing on my mind, still thinking about this conversation

to echo an excellent point @katelynburns.com makes, like,

speaking for myself: I *was* a trans child, regardless of how the medical system or my society saw me ... that was always my truth (inside).

www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...

Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.

Ralph Macchio (in My Cousin Vinny) responds with confusion by saying "I shot the clerk?"

"I stabbed the clerk?"

Either we're in it for each other or we're no good. Fix your hearts and fight for your neighbors.

Bad rap, dangit. Misery factory strikes again.