Midnight Platypus

I assume people have already seen this but just to be safe

Oh, radar sometimes makes that mistake when there's a flock of seagulls.

The Fine Print is definitely worth subscribing, and really happy he gets this sort of endorsement.

Star Wars memes are particularly useful in engaging the sorts who live skeet their Comic Con registration portal follies. Or who beat Wil Wheaton in scoring the TNG Enterprise Lego set on drop date.

Did the stormtroopers of the Star Wars Galactic Empire make good money?

Palpatine had the whole imperial economy wrapped up in a chain code scam, had the Empire not fallen, those guys would have been chest deep in Bored Wampa NFTs for a pension.

when I've finger shuffled off a tesla coil
Must give us pause - for I have no respect
To be made Sunday TV accountable for loss of life
For who would bear the woke scolds of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of disprz'd lol, the law's delay,
I am insolent in office 3/

To die - need sleep, No more; and by sleep to say we end
the headache of a thousand ml natural Scotch
That flesh wit manscaped hairdo: 'tis a cosummation
Dewars to be wish'd; to die, to sleep;
To sleep, lethatlity dreams, I rub one out;
For in that sleep of death what dreams I come, 2/

[Hegseth enter in stagger, takes hold of his own skull]
To regime change or to reduce capacity, that is the woke media's question:
Whether tis nobler to suffer the Jaegerbombs celebrating polymarket fortune
Or in war room watch arms cause again the Red Sea trouble
And in lethal tantrum end trade 1/

It's a cook book!

Sorry, it's a cooked book.

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TBF "Let me say that again: a conventional shield for nuclear blackmail ambitions" probably sounded more ominous and badass during the power hour they had while writing that script from the war room to the make up chair. Bet there'll be a monochrome filter release vid on socials of that soundbite.

Is that the same carrier the Houthis sunk like a half dozen times last year? Can't we just compromise and call it a submarine with a flight deck?

bert from sesame street is reading a book while sesame street is sitting on a couch . Alt: unmasked NYT's columnist Bert Stephens from sesame street is reading a book while sitting in a chair, he seems interrupted by being called out over his most recent embrace of military boondoggles and is not amused at being called out over it. I don't think Ernie knows. But Ernie also might be Ross Douthat.

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The Right understands Bruce Hornsby and the Range's "The Way It Is" the way they understand Springsteen's "Born in the USA" or Frost's "Mending Wall."

Oh, and to whoever keeps sending me Bail for random b&w Ewoks and stuff I forgot I had, MTFBWY. 3/

Yes, I'll take that Bail Organa stockpile you got from that chase last month. This is a lucky day for both of us. 2/2

Was beginning to think Stephen Root had done something to upset Star Wars fandom or at least users of the Card Trader app, and every now and then would check the trades to figure out what to no avail; but finally, 3-4 months after this wave's release, found someone hoarding Lortha Peel base cards 1/

Shit, I'm particularly vulnerable to this abandonment of common standards as I'm one to misread the last thing as "raw caramel milk" and would likely have pounded half a quart in the parking lot before my taste and literacy caught up with the reality.

To be fair, the high approval line has a disproportionate number of armchair General Turgidsons and Major Kongs in its makeup.

Bruce Hornsby and the Range, deep cut.

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So my store has this in stock, and been meaning to pick it up. Would I get more from it if I read Vol I first or are they truly independent story arcs?

I mean that soundbite is right up there with his saying "He knew what he signed up for" in a first term consolation call with the family of a Green Beret killed in Niger (and insinuation that the POTUS at the time needed a lot of coaching on correct pronunciation of that country).

Jesus.

screengrab of New York Times coverage of Iran response to U.S./Israel attacks resulting in American military casualities, posted on Times coverage at ~1410 PST reading, "President Trump expressed condolences for the slain American troops and predicted there would be more causalities(sic) in the coming days. "Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends," he said. "That's the way it is. Likely be more."

If there are still historical disciplines that branch into pop culture's impacts on world events after all this, I'm betting there will be at least a footnote if not chapter pointing out Trump's resolve in this moment consisted of weak paraphrase of Bruce Hornsby and the Range's "The Way It Is." 1/

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How does all of this affect the next Riyadh comedy festival?

Shoot first, ask "What are we doing?" later I suppose is the Maduro precedent, because that wonder move got so much traction.

U.S. Ability to Determine What Comes Next in Iran Might Be Limited

Definitely a cognitive impairment within the Executive's function.

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Step closer to the President's Monkey's Paw wish: to ultimately lie in state in gold framed glass sarcophagus in the Capitol rotunda, w/ miles long lines of people actually paying to pay their respects. The paw finger: the gilded aquarium box is a piss trough whose use is covered in the entry fee.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Pullup _edits_.