once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!
Look, after the LAFD funding kerfuffle I'm trying to fact-check everything and I was like "This sounds cool lemme look it up" but actually it's AMAZING because it's a Clydesdale mare named Moana and this took five months to finish, during which Moana was PAMPERED
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english peasant turned longbow-man at agincourt, walking over 6,000 dead french aristocrats: yeah this is probably the funniest thing that's ever happened
Guys, C-SPAN is momentarily in a state of lawless anarchy.
counterpoint: it is absolutely living up to my exact expectations
The Wasabi Fenway Bowl being sponsored by some random company named Wasabi and not the Japanese condiment is especially disappointing now that we have been conditioned to expect bowl games sponsored by suicidal foods yearning to be consumed
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.
Science works, y'all.
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“Holy infant so tender and mild” will never not be funny, don’t write lyrics when you’re hungry.
SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood
MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
When men rage, they blow and shoot things up and start wars.
When women rage, we create.
We knit, do embroidery and cross stitch. We create new things ... while we figure out how to fix the broken things.
Behold rage project #1
"Video games cause violence"
Meanwhile, me reloading my save because I accidentally made one of the characters sad
Post Thanksgiving travel day ended with me taking a Lyft to the office instead of home. 0/10 do no recommend
Saw this and had to repost. <3 Credit to Marpal Embroidery for the work!
10pm at your parents’ house as an adult feels like 3am at your own apartment.
My current situation.
I find it so funny when people are like, “I like Lin-Manuel Miranda, I just wish he weren’t so corny.” Like, what do you think the #1 requirement for a composer of musical theatre is.
There are two Thanksgivings inside you
(I dunno who made this image but I looooooove it)
having exactly (1) day out of the year where every amateur chef in America attempts to cook a giant bird and not fuck it up is, honestly, a wonderful and hilarious tradition
A rap battle is two men writing poems about each other
At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?
You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???
*door in my house opens on its own*
me: fascinating. there must be quite a temperature differential between these two rooms to create that kind of pressure
the ghost haunting me: (slamming its head through the wall) i hate you i hate you i hate you i hate you
So we beat on, boys against the milkshake, borne back ceaselessly into the yard
My Retired Parents' Extremely Elderly Dog: PLAY!
Me: No!
MRPEED: PLAY!!!
Me: No! You were at the emergency vet's twenty hours ago because I thought you were dying! You're resting today!
MRPEED: ZOOOOOOMIES!!!!!!!!!
Me *gritting teeth*: I. Am. So. Very. Grateful. You. Are. Alive.
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
Middle grade/YA writers, don’t stop. There are kids at the book fair waiting for you
Sun flag looking like it's giving a boat captain a back rub.
Captain: I'm really nervous about giving this speech.
Sun, rubbing his shoulders: Don't worry, big guy. You got this.
disney exec: it’s about a guy who thinks he’s a monkey lol. probably don’t need anything too crazy for the soundtrack.
phil collins: [eyes glowing white, levitating above the ground] no