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jourke-rourke

Leverage (2008) // eliot fighting for his life in the background

When cats put their whole body into making a sound. Only to be squeak.

therozanov

HEARTSTOPPER FOREVER [2026]

#heartstopper #heartstopper forever #heartstopper spoilers

unadulteratedhideouttrash

what-even-is-thiss

Wait what the…

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has died at 71 after a brief illness, according to his office.

Oh.

mysticalcoffeequeen

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

switchnx

Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags

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mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026

Not the citrus scale I was looking for but I like it

whimsical-catacombs

polarity-disturbed

Ryland Grace and his popularity as a character feels like such an important step in repairing the cultural tsunami left by the long running trope of every genius character needing to be an insufferable asshole to everyone in a ten mile radios about it.

polarity-disturbed

Conversely, Eva Stratt is doing wonders for repairing and inspiring a appreciation for commanding women with dubious moral convictions who are fully willing to bend laws for the greater good without hesitation.

polarity-disturbed

And together they are doing brilliant things by not kissing or hooking up even once.

kingpin-of-steel-act3

ihatenearlyeverything

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

oatmealbrain

And boy are they clumsy

hydrangeafae

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

polar-solstice

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

sindri42

BONK!

prokopetz

I know this makes me a Bad Socialist, but I can’t help but find it hilarious when two rawr-kill-the-bourgeoisie types get to talking and slowly come to realise that they’re setting the bar in very different places with respect to the definition of “bourgeois”. Like, one of them is talking about the direct exploitation of the working class, while the other means “anyone who lives in a house”.

chirpingfromthebox

#wpbl #baseball

divorcedfranklangdon

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PITT ON ITS 25 EMMY NOMINATIONS, INCLUDING 13 ACTING NOMINATIONS

#the pitt

ragingpunsexual

I love the idea of Spock being super queer, highly expressive and very emotional from a Vulcan view point. Like...

What humans see:

What Vulcans see:

livebloggingmydescentintomadness

i love how this implies that gritty is how vulcans see jim

animentality

maswartz

$fractally blog's avatar$

fractally

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

mariacallous

prismatic-bell

Look, this is something I'm extremely passionate about, so indulge me for a minute and let me tell you how this should have been done.

The RIGHT way to do this would have been to have a month-long event that went to twelve different cities, with Philadelphia hosting during July because that was our capital (insofar as we had one) in 1776; the other eleven stops could have their own significant-in-the-Revolution days (for example: Washington crossing the Delaware on 25 December, the start of the First Continental Congress on 5 September), and you could get commemorative items from your stop's specific event.

All fifty states AND FIVE TERRITORIES should have been invited to attend, not charged for it. And we should have done it Colombian Expo style: respected thinkers and educators speaking, concerts, "come look at our wild new inventions," and cultural events. If I was in the Oval Office my first thought for this would be to contact ethnic leaders to see who wanted to tell their story. Tribal leaders. Civil rights leaders. Local arts groups. Let us celebrate your food, your art, your dance, your place among our people; and let us also recognize that the flip side of the coin of amazing inventors and economic prosperity on a global scale has been devastation and exploitation. You can't tell the story without both. It's not fair to leave out things we've done for good (Mark Twain! Jonas Salk! Airplanes! Comic books! Musicals!), but it's equally unfair to leave out the lives we've taken and futures we've destroyed. We can't do better if we don't look at these things and say "no. Not again. Not on our watch."

The state fair format is extremely American; I think that was a good choice, I'll give credit for that where it's due. But "that was a good idea" is as far as it goes. Because this doesn't look like a state fair. It looks like a church revival on the third day when all the tents are out of food and everyone is hot and tired and wants less Jesus and more air conditioning.

It could have been so good. My only hope is that we have a Democratic president in 2037, and that they take the opportunity for a Constitutional Celebration Year (it'll be the 250th for the Constitution that year, and ours is the oldest constitution in continuous use in the world), and do it right.

engineerlady

That would be a very cool format! I would suggest that, instead of all 12 locations being significant to the revolution, they be aignificant to US in general. (montgomery alabama, for wxample).

That would allow for a greater location spread. More expensive to move, but would allow people across the country an easier/less expensive travel to get there.

prismatic-bell

No, no, I mean every location would have a significant date they could build their experience around. It wouldn't be "well, sorry, Seattle, but you're getting June, not July, so no big holiday for you." It'd be "hey Seattle, you're in June! That's Washington taking the army and the Battle of Breed's Bunker Hill!" Then Seattle could choose to, say...have an image of Washington inspecting his troops as their "and on our commemorative STUFF we have...." image.

Otherwise everything would be in Boston, New York, and Philly. That ain't gonna work. The Big Day should be in Philly, tho.

penig

As someone who remembers 1976, the Bicentennial, this is all very pathetic.

In 1976, the Bicentennial was everywhere. There was merch. You could decorate your home with it. In the city where I lived, the Girl Scouts were asked by the city to go around painting all the fire hydrants red, white, and blue. American history was the hot topic in publishing and people were buying history books and even talking about them. One of the TV stations used commercial breaks to air "Bicentennial Minutes," 60-second spots in which actors from current shows (I specifically remember Loretta Swit from MASH and Nancy Walker from Rhoda) told us little snippets of social history, like the state of garbage collection in the Colonies, with appropriate visuals like political cartoons and paintings from the time period. High school proms had Bicentennial themes. You never saw so many people put flags out. Every town worked hard on their firework displays and some had more than one.

Yeah, we all knew it was overblown and a bit tacky but also people were into it. The energy rose for months to the climax and lingered into the next school year -- I remember all my pocket folders for that year were glossy prints of classic patriotic paintings, The Spirit of '76 and The Declaration of Independence and so on.

For the 250th, nobody cares. Because it doesn't feel like we're living in the United States of America, where freedom was for everyone and our freedoms were expanding every day and history was a vital living force.

You can't celebrate history without teaching it.

You can't expect people to celebrate freedom when we're losing it.

kereeachan

Also b/c orgs that had put nearly a decade of planning towards it were hijacked by Trump's Freedom250 group (named to confuse people that they were still America250, the real bipartisan group, like with the arists who all backed out from performing on the Mall once they realized the difference) within the last year and essentially told "give us your funding and go pound sand." And then tried to throw together their own MAGA celebration and make money off it and it was SUPER obvious.

People were protesting stuff during the bicentennial too! DC had a Potomac Tea Party to protest only having a non-voting representative on Congress. The American Indian movement held multiple large protests! People mocked the commercialization by calling it the "Buy-cenetennial"! But the main planned events still occurred so that's what people mostly remember!

My guess is this year people are mostly going to remember the states' various celebrations because the federal one has been SO screwed by grifting and mismanagement. They have somehow made it so there is almost NO ONE on the national mall during PEAK TOURIST SEASON. You have to use specified entry points, there's armed national guards everywhere, and the electricity powering things like the ferris wheel and food booths has broken down multiple times already.

How The Battle Over America 250 Turned The National Mall Into A Ghost Town State Fair - The National Mall in Washington, D.C. should be buzz

Freedom 250 is calling crowd critics "Negative Nancy skeptics" as DC News Now reported sparse attendance at the Great American State Fair.Pr

The Great American State Fair has failed to impress the president’s own voter base.

biglawbear

Yeah a lot of the problem is that the actual congressionally created publicly funded America 250 has been sidelined by trump so he could do what he wants with corrupt private donations through freedom 250, which has done squat. He's cared more about the UFC fight. DC is bleak and empty. There's nothing there right now except some flags.

Also it's 1000 fucktillion degrees out and nobody wants to be on the national mall with no shade or food or water or restrooms