more offices should take regnal names tbh

most genocides are performed during campaigns. they’re not exclusive terms

having grown up in rural america and lived in dc, 👍 good luck yimbys, please make it more like dc

w h a t

as a child republican dem hater and adult commie dem hater, i really dislike being guilty by association with people who make me look stupid. well, stupider

yeehaw

Vanity plate that says “SAPPHO” on a Subaru

it’s what makes a subaru a subaru

i haven’t heard very many good ones here yet that’s for sure

we have murals of washington-as-zeus, for instance. very silly stuff

American civil religion - Wikipedia

short answer, we venerate the state and form of government using the same general social rituals as organized religion in cultures that have a more entrenched form of that. long answer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

well that’s my public speaking anxiety cured. no matter how bad i fuck up i just need to walk off to silence and im still doing pretty good

(anna frozen voice) do you wanna found a start-up bsky.app/profile/myrr...

the last time i worked at a gas station (2014) it was owned outright by the local franchisee and as long as he paid his dues to whatever brand it was he had free run of the place

i bet i could put a credit card reader an ammeter and a contactor in a box, and street lines are already carrying between 7 and 35 kVac. just drop one (1) rectifier and bury some conduit. how is this not a fairly straightforward concept by now

oh my god i finally found the emoji sequence for the lathe of heaven

me: i wish more people knew that the american civil religion is fundamentally incompatible with a sincere expression of the roman faith

the catholic monkey: 🖕🐵✝️

when i said it wasn’t possible to be both catholic and american i didn’t mean that as a dare

if i owned a gas station, esp a big travel plaza like love’s, i would be installing hvdc chargers in all my parking stalls

so why aren’t the people who own those doing that. am i stupid. are they.

you are one of the stupidest people alive

that’s correct it wasn’t

fun fact i just learned about the united kingdom: the scottish fish production is mainly trout and salmon both on the main island and in outlying places like the hebrides, but only the hebrides produces specialty fish like the malewife

sixty* equivalent trees

everybody say it with me now: tree vandalism has

TRE-ble DAM-age! 🥾🥾👏👏👏

it mostly gets turned back into fuel after a decade of sitting still

why are the doing h-1b visa programs for wifes instead of hiring americans. what happened to on shore industry upskilling

a lot of Very Serious Democrats told me that platner is a real problem because he might wind up voting like the pennsylvanian ogre and can’t be trusted to be a good party soldier

mr emeralds: hee hee hoo hoo i copied your silly boat names

the boat: in my Culture everyone transitions at least twice in their life and you’re a weird antisocial freak we all hate if you don’t

i do think he’s on to something about the only two kinds of major civilization being “fully manualized austerity straight space fascism” and “a swarm of sentient hyper-intelligent spaceships that keep organic life as pets” tho

every time i read an ian m banks book it becomes even more embarrassingly obvious that elon musk never has. anyway just finished excession last night and: dogshit. sucked ass. god i wish it were real

it’s actually spelled bongino

(starting the slideshow) sure, and “theoretically” angelina jolie could take me home like an african waïf. when you need guaranteed mission success you need general dynamics. you need the autovulkanizer. this flat-pack auto-erecting waffle house kitchen slides under standard door gaps,