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this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

Marco Rubio, Conquistador

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

TV Guide ad for The Magical World of Disney special A DuckTales Valentine.

More peak seasonal TV programming

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

a ricki lake screenshot of a very 90scoded man named mike. the lower third says he “WANTS TO TELL HISVALENTINE CRUSH SHE HAS "BODACIOUS BAZONGAS"

happy valentine’s day

They don't even build many *basements* in Florida.

Garbage Pail Kids with their finger on the pulse of pop culture.

YouTube video by アlex Milli Vanilli on Super Mario Show

Case in point:

A collage of five images, three of which are on the top and two of which are on the bottom. The photos are of, in order: Sean Dunn (the guy who threw a sandwich at an ICE agent), the Master Debater (ultimate debate chad), the guy who taunted ICE on an e-bike in Chicago and got away, the guy who punched Richard Spencer in the face on January 20, 2017, and our most recent hero who punched the guy trying to cause a ruckus at a high school by supporting ICE. Each of the photos are of them in their “action shots,” if you will. Dunn is in the act of throwing the sandwich, Master Debater is in the midst of saying he would have both to some trolls question about whether he would have economic growth or gender equality, the e-bike guy is in the midst of taunting an ICE agent and biking away, the Richard Spencer puncher is seen right at the moment of making contact with his face, and our latest hero is clasping his hands together and saying “okay” after the troll said he would get in trouble if he punched him in the face.

Choose your fighter

The dagger purportedly used to stab Cook, on display at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, Canada

On this day in 1779, James Cook is killed by Kanakas as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, an aliʻi nui of the island of Hawaii.

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Not to scare you, but...

Please drive safe, whatever you do. Can I ask what you're listening to on your cross-country quest?

cuneiform tablet

“The son of Adad-iddinam, whose father is only an assistant of my father, has two new sets of clothes, while you fuss even about sending a single set of clothes for me. Even though you bore me and his mother only adopted him, his mother loves him, while you, you do not love me!”

YouTube video by Addams Family Podcast Lurch, the Teen Idol S1:E33

New Episode! Fivel & JohnPaul get on the couch and talk Weird Al, therapy, travel shows, cooking shows, Zimbabwe inflation, photography, street food, BTS, and so much more! And of course, Lurch!

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I was thinking about this recently.

That's a pretty cool selection!

flaming arrows

David Boreanaz kinda belongs in the direct-to-DVD bin, in my opinion.

KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."

I heard that stuff like this could happen to AI data centers, too.

UK tabloid culture is horrendous.

Notable Sandwiches #138: Reuben Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where my editor David Swanson and I trip merrily through Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches. This week, a...

in which i discuss the reuben, a glorious sandwich and the pride of omaha

and the patriarch reuben, disowned by his father for being a slut

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A white trumpeter swan drifts across the glass surface of a pond peppered with lilly pads. Stacks of submerged deadfall lie undisturbed.

Here’s one from a wayzzz back, “Slow Drift,” oil on linen, 30”x24”.

"Now computer goes on you!"

- Banksy's Black Mirror

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

An Ewok playing an ICE and Border Patrol drumset.

This machine yub nubs fascists.

Marshmallow and cilantro broth, just like grandma used to make