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[vacuously-true]

Lmao @ rep McCarthy. Get fucked pal.

[tarilaran]

Context!

The US just concluded a general midterm election, and that means a vote for the Speaker of the House is required. Sen. McCarthy is the republican favorite... But!

Numerous Republicans have pledged to not vote for McCarthy. In order for house business to continue, a Speaker must be elected, and in order for a Speaker to be elected, a simple majority must be won. Enough Republicans dislike McCarthy that they're willing to grind half of congress to a halt to not vote for this guy.

[vacuously-true]

There were three ballots today and he couldn't win any of them. It's the first time in a hundred years that the speaker couldn't be chosen on the first ballot.

[vacuously-true]

Lmaoooooooooooooo

[vacuously-true]

It's the third day of this nonsense. They're in the middle of their 11th attempt to elect a speaker and it's not looking good. What a shitshow.

[vacuously-true]

We haaaaaaave a speaker :

[vacuously-true]

LMAO PART 2 @ REP MCCARTHY. GET FUCKED PAL.

[tittyinfinity]

[tittyinfinity]

[roguecore]

[ID: Two images of social media posts from Internet personality Skweezy Jibbs. The first is of white text on a purple background, reading: “Is there any way I can mute Taylor Swift from my entire everything”. The second is of a series of comments all made by Skweezy, which read: “I’m sure she’s very nice”; “my last straw was watchin sports center an I had 2 wait 4 tha NFL highlights until after they got done talking about her [side eye emoji]. Like cmon homey she’s everywhere else just gimme 1 hour of swiftlessness”; “well I’ve lost 11000 followers”. All quotes are stylized in all caps. End ID.]

[birdlord5000]

next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.

[birdlord5000]

"rowan if you hate james patterson how come you know about a book of his that's coming out seven months from now?"

I Must Keep The Scope Of My Sniper Rifle Trained On The Beast At All Times

[foxofninetales]

Okay, I feel the need to explain just why James Patterson is so hated by librarians.

See, it's not just that he writes mediocre, churned-out thrillers; there are many, many authors of mediocre, churned-out thrillers out there, he ain't special.

It's also not that he "writes" them with "coauthors" and slaps his name on them - again, this is not unique.

It's not even - though this is starting to get there- that he chases every publishing trend and creates His Version of everything from Diary of a Wimpy Kid to Nicholas Sparks, which nobody likes as well as they like his thrillers but still buy because they have His Name on them like a summoning charm.

No, what makes James Patterson uniquely loathed is the combination of the frequency of publication and his popularity. Because, to be honest, I'm not sure that anyone even likes his books anymore, but it doesn't matter, because if they have the James Patterson name on them then readers will be queuing up like zombies desperate for a fix of decaying cerebral matter. Which would be tolerable if he had the decency to only write one book a year like most other bestselling authors, but "James Patterson" (quotes VERY intentional) puts out roughly two books per month. So as a librarian, not only do you have to buy every new book James Patterson puts out, you have to buy multiple copies in order to fulfill demand. Somewhere around 5% of my fiction budget is spent ENTIRELY ON JAMES PATTERSON. Every new James Patterson that comes out means a dozen or more queer romances, inventive sci-fi novellas, unique cultural viewpoints, etc, etc that you can't buy because YOU HAVE TO BUY JAMES PATTERSON INSTEAD. (See also, you just weeded and shifted the Ps in fiction to make room and now it's full again oh god why.)

And the clincher - the absolute clincher - is the knowledge that the publishers will be "finding" "unfinished manuscripts" by "James Patterson" for a minimum of fifty years after his death, so even if some right-minded bibliophile with a claymore takes one for the team, we will never, ever be free.

And that is why we hate James Patterson.

[iheartallthethings]

I was wondering about this when i saw the first version of this post

[bloodclotbitch]

[paxamericana]

the x files is funny because at the time it was “progressive” or whatever to have the ultra-rational, levelheaded character be a woman

but it’s also a show where all the fucked up alien shit actually is real, so she’s just constantly wrong about everything

[cryptid-sighting]

What’s funny is how often they’re both wrong. Mulder will be like “the victims all had their livers scooped clean out this is obviously the aliens escalating from cattle mutilation” and Scully will be like “don’t be silly Mulder this is clearly just a serial killer who’s really good with surgical tools” and then it turns out the actual killer is an immortal sewer man who comes out ever quarterly century to feast on human liver.

[feather-ball]

I cannot stress enough that this is literally the plot of an actual episode

[donald-trump-official]

Fun facts of the day!

- State charges cannot be pardoned by the President of the United States. They have to be pardoned by the governor of the state in which the crime was committed

- the governor of Georgia does not have pardon power, that power was stripped in 1943 by the Georgia state legislature

- TV cameras are forbidden in federal court. TV cameras are permitted in state court. It’s already been stated that Donald Trump’s Georgia trial will be televised

- Donald Trump will be booked, processed, fingerprinted, and have his mug shot taken just like any other person who enters the Fulton country jail. They don’t believe in special treatment down there

- the Georgia RICO statue carries a 5 year mandatory minimum sentence which cannot be revoked by a judge

[oopdeathnote]

Imagine if you locked Light and Patrick Bateman in a room together. They would be having the most generic conversation but you wouldn’t be able to hear it over the sound of their overlapping internal monologues. There would be a few seconds where their monologues both play in sync to say something misogynistic.

[were--ralph]

CAST CAST NOW CAST NOW DO NOT HESITATE CAST FUCKING NOW

[were--ralph]

MANIFESTING

MANIFESTING

[liarsblade]

Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

[liarsblade]

[a-potato-of-death]

[garaks-padded-bra]

forgot my night time garlic bread in the oven for the length of 2 mythbusters wpisodes and when i opened the oven door it was so thoroughly cremated that i was blinded not by smoke and ash but what surely must have been its Soul as well

[wizardpotions]

I think I know where she is pal

[animar-seal-of-elephants]

[sob-dylan]

ive been working on and off with kids for about 6 years now, (a decade if you count babysitting), and something i’ve only noticed this summer is that this generation of kids is calling their stuffed animals “stuffies.” it really weirds me out for some reason, so please let me know what you called them when you were a kid. bonus points if you tag approx. when you were born so we can figure out if this is a generational thing:

what are those squishy little bitches called???

stuffed animals

plushies

plushes

stuffies

something else (pls tag and lmk where you’re from)

Voting ended onAug 12, 2023

[homeboygirl]

i think everyone needs to adopt "i didnt say it was good, i said i liked it" into their vocabulary right now. it did me wonders

[neenarchive]

what's the most demented thing you guys got in trouble for in school mine was when an english boy in my class made fun of my name and called my mum a (derogatory word for irish travellers) so i told him my ira uncle was in town and was coming to blow him up after school

[neenarchive]

ok so nobody got in trouble in school?

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[nonaferatu]

Arianna cheating with Spongebob is fucking hilarious

[nonaferatu]

imagine having a wonderful wife, your highschool sweetheart, who stood by and supported you through your musical theatre career and was still sexually attracted to you even though you played Spongebob. Imagine having a newborn baby boy with the woman who tolerated you despite knowing you had spent hours perfecting the Spongebob voice

then ariana grande, the woman known for going after married men and then dumping them (and also known for her racefishing), approaches you and you are like "oh boy that sure sounds swell!"

[nonaferatu]

this is who ariana is fucking, ariana saw this guy with his wife and newborn baby and was like "i cant not fuck him"

[geek-ramblings]