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Esure - Calm Down Dear (2003, UK)
I just found out today that DEATH WISH director and notorious prick Michael Winner once directed and starred in a series of insurance ads in the UK that were 1) so popular they inspired their own catchphrase, and 2) feel as deranged and ill-conceived as one of his movies. youtu.be/efl5pFTFnBU?...
12.11.2025 01:07 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 1 π 1
aurora borealis
it is insane that this is real
12.11.2025 01:08 β π 656 π 98 π¬ 9 π 4
A photo of Katie Wilson standing beneath the glass window sign for Katy's corner Cafe restaurant with her arm resting on a public waist bin decorated with stickers and graffiti
an image of the election results from King County on the 9th of November 11th 2025
Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.
12.11.2025 01:07 β π 515 π 52 π¬ 18 π 16
"And James Bond, who did NOT die"
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This morning
A dense CME was launched
By a strong X5.16 solar flare
Either of the next 2 nights
May display bright auroras
Comparable to or exceeding
The last big one
Oct. 10, 2024
Pass it on!
#photography #naturephotography #nature #scape #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #thewildimages
11.11.2025 17:41 β π 210 π 27 π¬ 2 π 2
Brendan Lynch
a screaming man with half his face being exposed skull, there is a big piece missing revealing a purple brain
LOGGING ON
11.11.2025 16:05 β π 132 π 20 π¬ 4 π 0
"YOU. BETRAYED. ME?!"
11.11.2025 17:30 β π 46 π 8 π¬ 1 π 2
man at least when people said this dumb shit about doing DMT they got to be high for a minute
11.11.2025 21:00 β π 34 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
WWI is a topic where you simply cannot imagine how anybody could be that stupid and reckless and yet they keep digging that big old hole βo stupid, beginning with two would-be caesars having a slap fight via telegram.
11.11.2025 21:09 β π 66 π 11 π¬ 2 π 0
This race could come down to your vote! As of yesterday, we were just 91 votes ahead. Additional votes will be counted today.
Do your part and check on your ballot with King County ASAP: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
11.11.2025 17:45 β π 293 π 97 π¬ 9 π 15
DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, with caption: and the only explanation I can find
DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, leaning in, with caption: is that our leaders have simply gone insane.
11.11.2025 13:41 β π 454 π 153 π¬ 4 π 5
Frog and Toad look out over Toad's garden. Nothing yet is growing in the dirt.
From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
βLeave them alone for a few days. Let the sun shine on them, let the rain fall on them. Then your seeds will start to grow.β
11.11.2025 17:37 β π 254 π 40 π¬ 1 π 0
Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition
11.11.2025 07:18 β π 537 π 137 π¬ 9 π 5
Katie Wilson is ahead by 91 votes
Seattle's Mamdani is winning by an absurdly small margin over our incumbent mayor, who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot.
Vote in your local elections!
www.thestranger.com/news/2025/11...
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11.11.2025 02:39 β π 189 π 37 π¬ 5 π 2
Their labmate sorted every photo by file size.
They had nearly identical success rates.
08.11.2025 14:36 β π 86 π 10 π¬ 2 π 1
Makes me think of MAO II where DeLillo is talking (in 1991) about how terrorists now occupy the space novelists once held. Novelists once dangerously influenced mass consciousness, now they don't, and terrorists have seized their role.
Oates is from the last generation still trained to kill.
11.11.2025 05:00 β π 121 π 17 π¬ 3 π 0
it's bad even on the bad site, the libs and centrists are furious at the senate dems
it almost feels like the thermocline has been breached, even the normies are mad, not just the political sickos
11.11.2025 00:32 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
it's difficult to convey to a modern audience how Predator hit - it was 1987, and it had been a decade full of watching beefcake men like this be untouchable god kings, slaughtering their way through hordes of lesser men - and now here they were, getting picked off one at a time, easy victims
10.11.2025 17:19 β π 124 π 34 π¬ 4 π 1
A photo of Katie Wilson seated in a wooden chair beside a white brick fireplace smiling at the camera with her hands folded
an image of the election results from King County
SEATTLE!!!
Weβve now taken the lead by 91 votes! π€― This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you havenβt tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
11.11.2025 00:16 β π 5815 π 1457 π¬ 88 π 149
i have not watched GDT's Frankenstein but i am firm in my belief that it needs a tie-in adventure/fighting game like the 90s Kenneth Branagh one did on the Sega CD. and they need to keep in elizabeth's roll attack
10.11.2025 20:42 β π 532 π 177 π¬ 20 π 11
<condescendingly> it means βthe Moinesβ. Itβs French.
10.11.2025 23:14 β π 49 π 5 π¬ 4 π 0
Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
10.11.2025 20:26 β π 7578 π 2010 π¬ 7 π 205
not to be all "oh yeah well what about the OTHER awesome old timey-sounding '70s canadian shipwreck folk song" but if you pay attention to the lyrics of "The Mary Ellen Carter" it is surprisingly detailed and precise about marine insurance underwriting and drysuit salvage operations
10.11.2025 23:22 β π 146 π 17 π¬ 4 π 1
"oh shit people don't like our nazi CEO, quick let's remove all the branding from our cars, THAT will fool them!" is an all-time brain genius marketing move, every time I see one of these de-branded piles of crap on the road it gives me a chuckle
10.11.2025 18:41 β π 144 π 24 π¬ 6 π 1
When the technically gay Nate Silver said he was "ethnically straight" (real quote!) what he meant was "I have no idea how to be funny and am utterly unengaged in trends or culture"
10.11.2025 18:42 β π 92 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexyβor occasionally anti-sexyβOGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
10.11.2025 18:41 β π 2385 π 871 π¬ 46 π 44
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