When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, he left carrying a peculiar souvenir. He showed it off to two friends who were waiting outside the jail to collect him: it was a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine with a jagged series of lines—not unlike a heartbeat monitor, or a mountain range—scribbled on it. This was, 6ix9ine explained, the autograph of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The signature was also dated, in Spanish, “2.º Abril.” “Look, one of one,” 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. “Maduro signed it,” he said, proudly, before adding, “Venezuela forever.”

well *that* is a lede www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This girl teaching her new puppy how to go down stairs . 😍

This image shows a person sitting on a bench seat inside a train or subway car, holding a large, fluffy dog on their lap. The dog has a thick, light gray to tan coat with a darker face, and its tongue is hanging out as it appears happily panting. The person is wearing a red jacket and blue jeans. The dog's leash is visible, and the person's hand is gently holding it. The window by their side lets in natural light, and blurred passengers can be seen seated further along the train.

Has science gone too far?

#GoneTooFar

Patrick Stewart on Extras YouTube video by Amber

youtu.be/Fg_cwI1Xj4M?...

Not to be a dick, but e.g. I fantasize about relating to women in a way I don't think would be a good idea irl, too

My fitness tracker keeps telling me it was a stressful or demanding day on days I don't even exercise. 🤷‍♂️

All a convoluted plot by Section 31 violating the Temporal Prime Directive. IYKYK

You gotta give to the GOP.

They trained their voters to hate “libs” so much they would gratefully accept every manner of corruption, lawlessness, cruelty, ineptitude, and criminality, and cheer it on, so long as it is their team doing it.

I was going to say, "Is THAT what that means?"

Masters of the Universe stuff when I was 4: Waving a phallus around, Al_Bundy_reading_Bigguns.jpg

Masters of the Universe stuff now that I'm 44: Deflated at the thought of a phallus, Al_Bundy_holding_up_sign_saying_shoot_me_$12.gif

WE ARE BROTHERS ETERNAL, I AM A PART OF YOU AAAALLLLLLLLLLL

My buddy and I watched Bloodsport and Commando yesterday. I've watched Bloodsport before, so as you can imagine, I wasn't prepared for it to be the better of the two lol

Obviously, Commando had a higher budget. "Wealth belongs in the hands of those best suited to wield it" or whatever lmao rite???

So the He-Man trailer, ah... *sucks*?

curated meme by The Trek Memes; a mock movie poster for "O Brother Where Art Thou" with "2 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS: BEST SCREENPLAY, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY" but edited to be Data, Lore, and B-4 from the Star Trek TNG universe, starring Brent Spiner, Brent Spiner, and Brent Spiner;

I'm ostensibly a straight, white man who's frankly uncomfortable with large swaths of the aforementioned and I'd like to draw the line more at legislating your personal comfort.

Like, lots of people don't like lots of people. I just don't see why you have to make a law about it.

I'm sure I've said it before and I'll say it again that I was doing 3 lifts a session for 20-25 minutes and now I've added a fourth for 25-30, but I've gone as high as 7 for like an hour but I don't want to spend all day in the gym.

...something like 205x10 tho, so I guess maybe I'm not doing so bad? The most I've ever squatted was like 335, maybe 345 and I'm at 295x3 on that.

Need to LIFT MOAR

#gym

Super bummed about my leg curl progress. Over the past few weeks, I've gone from 165x10 pretty hard to 165x10 a lot easier, but not, like, 11 or 12x165, whereas my other lifts have gone up more like you'd imagine my n00bgainz in 6 or so consistent months.

To my recollection, my "natty limit" is...

Wouldn't it be "gray market"?

I got my hair cut today

I got my eyebrows trimmed today

I'd been getting hairs in between my glasses and my eye and I had to figure out they weren't falling out--they were just really long 🙁🙁

...tearing the other poor bastards down

From the scientific, secular point of view, religion is just thoughts, thoughts are just biological, biology is based on evolution, evolution is based on survival of the fittest, and "fittest" is determined by % of representation in successive generations, so it behooves them to look strong by...

MY piss is STRONG!

Real answer: I have an autism diagnosis and people can leverage quite a lot of enforcement ability due to the power of basic sociology lol

...they've constantly been trying to project an (un-?)intentionally false image of who they are and what they're trying to achieve by occupying their position.

e.g. That movie The Invention of Lying, QED.

...tenets of National Socialism, but" to the extent that's true, you can't fault the guy for that.

As I read about agencies' purpose and mission and things, I'm reminded that virtually all authorities I've ever encountered have been focused on the *forgetfulness* of being as I understand it, i.e...

"Post-traditional" human-services major thought of the day:

I don't know that much about it, but I think Existential Psychotherapy says that scumbag Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger talked about a kind of awareness of being and a kind of forgetfulness of being. "Say what you will about the...

I would say, more originally, naturally, and fundamentally, they want a kind of protective, nurturing relationship associated with their sexuality but they're constantly denied that, what with all the machines.

Yesterday, a new person asked me if I work out.

I assume they saw that I'm basically kind of doughy and pudgy and felt like they needed to say something to be nice lol 😄😄😢😢