🎃 Chris Lay's rotting corpse 💀

The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:

It's not too late for the left to run someone who doesn't have nazi tattoos against Mills. I will cut the candidate introduction video for them if you want. I've got lens flare transitions and everything, it can look like Platner's if you need it to.

primary every democrat who doesn’t pledge to abolish ICE

One of my favorite memes.

Back in the 90's Bill Maher kept going on Howard Stern all the time and talking about the women he had assaulted at the Playboy Mansion that weekend.

Another thing memoryholed despite being broadcast live to millions of people repeatedly.

“turning the East Wing into a golf course” never would have made it past the workshopping phase as a joke in 2024

I’m a small d democrat out of the zeal of true belief, sure. But also because it’s actually the way things happen. Heroes generally don’t wear capes. They mostly do small things together that add up to big things in the end. And it has ever been thus.

Obviously, it has no capability to do background processing. So there's a bunch of posts from irate users because ChatGPT told them to wait hours/days/weeks while it did absolutely nothing at all 💀
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The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
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A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad:
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

There are about 325,000 miners of all kinds in the entire United States. My law firm currently represents about 100,000 home health aides in wage underpayment cases in New York City.

the duality of man

The dementia patient in power took it personally that Canada accurately quoted Ronald Reagan in an ad and, as a result, he's going to make Americans pay 10% more for anything they buy from Canada.

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Also having visited Canada recently I would say that it would be extremely difficult to make Canadians any less inclined than they already are to buy American products

At this point it really doesn't matter what new additional tariffs president dumbass announces because increasing rates have sharply diminishing returns. A 30% across-the-board tariff basically makes that country's products unmarketable in the US so adding another 10% doesn't actually do anything

i agree the gilded age analogies are overwrought. the era we are living through is much worse than the gilded age.

In the long Republican tradition of harassing people, especially non-white-people, who might not vote for them.

www.npr.org/2024/10/31/n...

You want to read this thread.

SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

it can’t be overstated what a giant deal this could be

no lies detected. she was the tip of the spear while all the comedy bros assumed the fetal position.

Looks like he's more unknown than unpopular according to your poll, perhaps due to the fact he is running in a local city's race. Meanwhile every bit of national news about him is that he's a jihadist communist who's going to steal from you.

Voter suppression, plain and simple

Yes. Even prior to DJT the GOP Speakers since Gingrich have been capable, media-savvy faces for their Party while Dem Speakers have, um, not.

there's nobody that Dems can point to and go "this is the person in charge" so the people driving the messaging end up the people who are good at playing the internal caucus politics game

it's an orthogonal skillset

this is a real problem with the American political system for the opposition, and it's why Republican benefited so much from Trump being the clear party leader even when he was out of power

the skills that put you in a party leadership position don't translate to being a good party face

Many feelings on this:

1) Crime is pretty much an out-in-the-open career now
2) Ha ha
3) The only real non-crime use for crypto is annoying people
4) Ha ha ha ha
5) Capitalism disincentivizes morals and ethics
6) Ha ha ha stop I can't breathe

Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

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“Trump did what Al Qaeda couldn’t” is pretty solid messaging