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walking mirage

@wolf.observer

3 panel LOTR "fighting side by side with a friend" meme.

first panel: Gimli saying: I never thought I'd be fighting side by side with the Walt Disney Company.

second panel: Legolas saying: If you draw a goofy I will fucking kill you. We will extend copyright 1000 years. Our intellectual dominion will last until the end of time.

third panel: gimli, silent

June 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

This is really good. Felt it in my bones.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Jun 10

You can cry.
It doesn’t make you weak.
It just means you are hydrated.

If Charles Bukowski Wrote a Children’s Book About Emotional Regulation

Sometimes you feel like a fist. Other times, you feel like the ashtray after a party no one invited you to. Both are fine. Just don’t throw the fis...

buff.ly

June 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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derek guy

@dieworkwear.bsky.social

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it.
Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

June 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Jun 9

Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

June 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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William Shakespeare

@shakespeare.lol

Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.

June 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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Popehat of Serious Proportion

@kenwhite.bsky.social

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 6

MIKE JOHNSON: From the people who mandated mask wearing for years, it's absurd. They need to back off ICE & respect our agents

Q: So you're ok w/agents not identifying themselves when they're arresting migrants?

J: Why, so they can target them? So they can put names and faces online and dox them?

June 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

Adults on Hulu is fun. Fun shows are nice. Like a Gen Z Seinfeld.

June 4, 2025 at 4:28 AM

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Soren Spicknall

@sorenspicknall.bsky.social

I need you all to see the hype video that this person made to sell their 1994 Geo Metro

June 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You!

@wolvendamien.bsky.social

Everything suffers and everyone dies, so why not strive to make our time here, together, as warm, as compassionate, as caring, as kind, as good as it possibly can be?

June 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM

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Randall Munroe

@xkcd.com

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

Internet Roadtrip

Let's take a streetview roadtrip

neal.fun

May 31, 2025 at 3:27 AM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

I don’t know if the new Superman movie will be good, but it’ll have to outdo 1987’s Nuclear Man and… tall order, really.

a man is standing in front of a city with a body of water in the background

Alt: Nuclear Man slowly flies into frame with an evil grimace on his face. He turns up his hands revealing fabulous metallic nuclear fingernails. Superman does a double take.

media.tenor.com

May 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

Great 🧵. I’ve rushed my son to the ER for this exact treatment several times. It’s a simple, effective tool that’s a literal miracle for a panicked parent. It was built on generations of science funded by a caring public. To think we are losing that caring public is an unimaginable tragedy.

Stacey D. Smith @iochromaland.bsky.social · May 5

On Friday, my son stayed home from school because he had a sore throat and wasn’t feeling well. He went with my husband to his office for the morning while I handled our daughter. When he came back at lunch, he was not interested in eating, saying his throat hurt too much. 1/n

May 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

This is wild. I read to my kids all the time. I read around them. I read in front of them, behind them. There are books in every corner of our home. I take books everywhere we go. Reading is one of the great joys of life. Raft a river, skydive out of a plane, read a book to your kids! Do it!

kottke.org @kottke.org · May 1

A recent survey “shows a steep decline in the number of parents reading aloud to young children, with 41% of 0- to four-year-olds now being read to frequently, down from 64% in 2012.” [theguardian.com]

Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love

www.theguardian.com

May 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

Sinners is good good. Fun as hell. Worth seeing in the theaters.

April 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM

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Randall Munroe

@xkcd.com

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

All of this is just so goddamn shameful

April 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM

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Robert Maguire

@robertmaguire.bsky.social

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.

Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

“A couple days later, on March 6, I was working from home at around 11:30 when I got a notice that my VPN had gone down,” he says. “I didn’t think much about it. It can cut out from time to time. About 10 minutes later, I got a knock at the door.”

Two men were outside Jackson’s door, dressed in slacks and polos. They were not wearing badges.

“I first thought they were going to try to sell me something. But as soon as I opened the door they said, ‘Are you Clayton Jackson?’ I think I shook my head or said ‘yeah,’ and then I heard, ‘We have information that you are obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation.’”

Jackson says alarms went off in his head. “My first instinct was to want to know what this was about. That it must be a misunderstanding. So I started to tell them about how I’ve been involved in some pro bono work. Then this voice in my head kicked in and just said, you need to shut the fuck up — don’t say anything.”

The officers never identified themselves. They did ask if they could come inside.

“I said absolutely not,” Jackson says. “I asked for their names and badge numbers. They said they didn’t have to provide that information at this time. So I told them I’d be calling my lawyer and I shut the door behind me.”

Jackson says his mind started racing. “I needed to know who they were, what agency they were with. Then I remembered that I have the Ring camera. Maybe I could watch the video of the incident and figure out who they were from that.”

There was no video. “That’s when I learned why my VPN had gone down. It wasn’t the VPN. Someone had shut off my Wifi.”

About 15 minutes after the interaction at his front door, Jackson’s Wifi was up and running again.

April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Cactus Kewler

@brawndo.bsky.social

This whole order is important. Potentially historic. Read it.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Apr 17

NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...