@richterscale
Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
The *official* story is that "five passengers" set sail that day, but we've never known how long it was between the start of that 3-hour cruise and the boat's eventual grounding on the desert isle. Now meet: the nurse, the farmer, and the chef.
Coming to Netflix—
The Minnow: Hunger on the High Seas
it comes in small, medium, and bigger than most
if the Brewers did a version of this, i could totally wreck it
the common acela needs a human host in which to reproduce; occasionally it will shed individual cars as it grows
thank you for speaking for those dead
really concerned that we're going to have an even worse March Madness season this year, what with all the changes to vaccine recommendations
in practice, they simply decide that the text means whatever they want it to mean in the moment, so that no matter what they do, they have the authority of the text to back them up
this is the same type of person who thinks that having an LLM summarize a text for them is the exact same thing as having read the text themselves
there is a type of person who claims authority from a text (Bible, Constitution, a Trump executive order) and will literally swear under oath that they have a 100% exact understanding of the precise wording and intent of that text, but will be completely unable to tell you what it means when asked
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH"
Drew a few lines, and somehow four little cats appeared.
Watching them play and run around, can you believe they’re made from just a few simple strokes?
A little unruly, but already kind of adorable, right?😆
#shouxinsketch #sketch #cat
detail of the second image from the above post: a very threatening reflection of a cardinal peers out smugly from a car's rear-view mirror
this guy started it
A bright red cardinal sits on top of the Sideview mirror of a car
The Cardinal jumps down to look at himself in the mirror
The cardinal begins furiously attacking his reflection in the mirror
“Look at that bird”
A Play In Three Acts
A lot of these people have written angry letters to Kurt Vonnegut for falsely claiming that all of this happened, more or less.
WELCOME TO THE PAST
WELCOME TO MY NEW ALT
WELCOME TO "OUT OF CONTEXT MAGAZINES"
@oocmags.bsky.social
"Please, keep your voices down—this is the ASML Foyer!"
holy shit
ALIEN: Eventually From The Company That Brought You Snow White
I made sure to get it right for this awful joke:
this woman would be unquestioningly polite to a german tourist in boise in 1943
American Gothic by Grant Wood, but the house with the distinctive window behind the couple has been replaced by a white barn-shaped house with a distinctive pair of upper-story windows, each in the shape of a quarter circle, with the curved portions facing up and outward, like they're the eyes of a malevolent house
The American Gothic Horror
ALIEN: From The Company That Brought You "Cleopatra"
at least we can look forward to one extra hour of Halloween this year
Operation Epic Daylight will achieve its objectives within two weeks. Reports that the operation will go on for months are fake news.
OPERATION EPIC DAYLIGHT
wait i completely forgot that they illustrate the word "soul" with a Seoul 1988 poster
the video concept is: a rebus
Conservative: What you lefties don't understand is that we need to go back to basics.
Me, who grows vegetables in my garden, raises chickens, brews my own beer, and reads books by the fireplace: What are you talking about?
Conservative: I WANNA GO TO THE PARK, BUT MY RESTRAINING ORDER SAYS NO!
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
