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form a mind-picture of Puka Nacua’s attorney, Levi McCathern
you got one?
Happy for you, and happy local communities can benefit from your brilliance.
An adult man named Esoteric Jeff claiming The Onion would be out of business by 2025.
A series of other guys with names like Esoteric Jeff giving The Onion 12 months to live.
The Onion being named one of the most innovative companies of 2026.
Eat shit, lol, and long live The Onion.
oh sure, mock a scene like this because it hamfistedly makes the Man From New York the only one wearing a life vest. Or because Dude 2 is doing a bad impersonation of rowing a boat. Or bc it telegraphs that the blondes shaking their heads now will eventually learn to respect (long for?) Dude 2's pov
headline in a local paper which is folded up on a table so you can only see the legs of some women athletes but the headline beneath it reads "Husky women dancing again" beneath these headlines is "UW is a succeed and will place South Dakota st" and "Gonzaga men earn number three seed in West, will face Kennesaw St"
FINALLY some good news
fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this
New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.
In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."
would have also accepted "No, what I have is a romantic abnormality, one so unbelievable that it must be hidden from the public at all costs."
Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” A cocktail of tropes that I find distasteful elsewhere but rise to the level of angering me when QT does them
again???
good thing we're here
Hearing reports that yes, it is
it's like if Andy Rooney had lived to see podcasting
thought I saw an outer ring of bean paste for a modified 4-way
is there a layer of something under the chili?
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
Wow, you don’t say
Probably not ideal that we’re left with only the NYT as a load-bearing institution to maintain the Fourth Estate.
Independent journalists and local outlets are critical, but it takes infrastructure beyond their resources to report out certain national and international news stories.
usa thurman in black and white saying I am gonna kill Punxsutawney Phil
Dan rules. Well done, all
apropos of nothing, "go birds" can technically include all biological species of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate, including ospreys and sea-dwelling buzzards
Further googling has revealed it’s a video game term I don’t know. I was trying to rotate the angle and now I get why I can’t.
What does isometric mean in this context?
Sad to see this. Dan was an amazing addition to the NBC Philadelphia team a decade and a half ago, and wonderfully funny and intelligent voice to follow on social media since. He always seemed to beam good vibes.
deion sanders and charles woodson levels of db backpedaling
RIP Greg Bovino