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Vincent D’Onofrio is one of those actors who really does seem to be a different person in every role I see him in, so it’s kind of funny when his Kingpin performance reminds me of that time he played a giant alien cockroach wearing a human skin

I would note that this message is full of (a) kitchen table issues and (b) both rhetorical and material moderation and people love it because it is clear, mobilizing and oppositional this is what the national Dems just don't get

If I were a European leader I’m not sure I’d be able to overcome the temptation to make Ukraine aid conditional on getting a couple more seasons of Servant of the People when this is all over

MANGA TRANSLATION EDITOR: Let’s just leave out the honorifics and use first names all the time. Surely there will be no scenes where shifts in how characters relate to and address each other will be significant in this [checks notes] romantic comedy

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment: "18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."

Every single politician in America, especially Republican could learn a lesson about not cravenly debasing yourself like a pathetic meek coward. (There are other terms that come to mind.)

Protesters disrupt Couch Botherer JD Vance’s holiday in Vermont following his appalling Oval Office attack on Zelenskyy.

The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.

Okay it’d be stunt casting but I kinda want to see Radcliffe as John Constantine

I wish social media sites had a feature where any “AI has made my team 1000x more productive, if you’re not on board you need to get out of the way” post has to be accompanied by a video demonstrating actual use cases

Almost impressed that they didn’t try to argue that Ebola is good, actually. Finally a virus these clowns don’t like.

I guess @ryannorth.ca and company’s Fantastic Four is the official comic of This Moment, huh

Seems like our yard was visited by wooden Starfleet officers. They must have beamed down from the Ent-erprise.

Has any medical equipment company approached Disney about a licensed Darth Vader CPAP and if no, why not

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

I’m not saying the terrible TSA experience at FLL vs. the very quick Clear line yesterday was some kind of conspiracy to convince people to support privatization of government services, but if it was I’m not sure how it would look much different

Should’ve called it Diversity, Justice, and Tolerance. If nothing else the executive orders would be funnier.

It is the nature of techbros to talk all the time about the (possibly imaginary) problems they’re trying to solve and not getting anywhere with. The idea that people can just be quietly competent at essential work is alien to them. Therefore those people must just be useless and redundant.

I wonder if JD Vance got the "buyout offer" email

Going through wrong door in defiance of narrator / bucket theft

I don’t think the headline needs anything more www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I’ve been watching so much anime lately I feel like I’m supposed to go visit a shrine now

You will be visited by three spir—

ME: Surely my affordably priced laptop can handle a retro, low-res game ALSO ME: Why is my keyboard burning me

Krypton’s not sending their best. They’re sending Zod. They’re sending Ursa. They’re sending Non. And some, I assume, are super people

my ideology in two images

“Look! Up in the sky!” “It’s a drone!” “It’s a drone!” youtu.be/KbE8n146umc?...

HBO? I thought Sesame Street was brought to us by the letters E and M and the number 3

Not looking forward to the “we can’t fix healthcare because that would be letting the terrorists win” arguments

I feel like we missed out on a good moral panic in the 80s “The suspect was known to play ‘Pac Man’, a game where players pretend to get hopped up on pills and eat their enemies”

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are Muppets. John Wick, keep Keanu Reeves.

Next year we (2 people) will pay $12,461.28 for health "insurance," and this amount means my insurer will pay for the bare legal minimum of preventive care; anything else we need we will pay out of pocket, until I have paid an additional $8000 for me or $16,000 for the family.

In the next few weeks there will be a lot of posts sharing how much people have achieved in 2024. In case anyone needs to hear this... it's okay if the only thing you did this year was just get through it ❤️‍🩹

Just learnt we lost an amazing voice actor on Wednesday Morgan Lofting. Well known as the voice of Baroness in G.I Joe. She also did work for Transformers as Firestar and Moonracer, Black Cat and Aunt May in the 1981 animated Spider-Man show and even voice work in Total Recall. R.I.P

Look, all we want is for this free service with one employee per million users to perfectly tackle problems that much bigger companies also wrestle with, without any degradation in service, is that really so much to ask?

Happy Thanksgiving week to the audience for this

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention