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"But the Ayatollah was a bad guy!" Just because citizens ...

2026-03-01T03:53:24Z

"But the Ayatollah was a bad guy!"

Just because citizens of another nation don't like their leader doesn't mean they want the U.S. dropping bombs on them. That would seem to be an obvious point.

I once waited for three hours in a restaurant bathroom for an ...

2026-02-07T20:31:17Z

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I once waited for three hours in a restaurant bathroom for an employee to come and wash my hands before I could eat. I'm lucky I didn't starve to death

God help me, this Don Martin cartoon has stuck in my brain for 35 ...

2026-02-07T20:10:09Z

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God help me, this Don Martin cartoon has stuck in my brain for 35 years

If you love old-time radio — and by gosh, who doesn't? — ...

2026-01-18T20:59:36Z

If you love old-time radio — and by gosh, who doesn't? — I host "Seems Like Old Times" Sunday nights at 7 p.m. Eastern U.S. time.

Tonight, it's "Jack Benny," "Fibber McGee & Molly" and "Boston Blackie" from this week in 1946, plus "Dragnet" from this week in 1951:

http://www.wmck.fm/

Here's this month's cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh's ...

2026-01-15T19:11:47Z

Here's this month's cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh's East End newspaper.

#Pittsburgh #PostGazette #journalism #newspaper #cartoon

The trailer for Melania Trump’s movie is out. I like the part ...

2025-12-17T20:07:05Z

The trailer for Melania Trump’s movie is out. I like the part where she kidnaps the dalmatians to make them into a fur coat

NEWS ANALYSIS: Democrats are sweeping off-year elections. ...

2025-11-05T01:59:27Z

NEWS ANALYSIS:

Democrats are sweeping off-year elections. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

(exclusive to all websites)

#USpol

Any time you feel useless at work, just remember there's some ...

2025-10-30T01:19:56Z

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Any time you feel useless at work, just remember there's some guy in Germany who installs turn signals on BMWs

Has anyone else noticed that Teslas don't seem to have turn ...

2025-10-30T01:19:46Z

Has anyone else noticed that Teslas don't seem to have turn signals?

So the President now makes foreign policy to retaliate against TV ...

2025-10-26T14:42:17Z

So the President now makes foreign policy to retaliate against TV commercials he doesn't like. Next he'll deport the LiMu Emu and Doug.

#USPol #OhCanada

Seems legit ...

2025-09-29T23:38:45Z

Seems legit

8.5 million views in 9 hours. The administration is finding out ...

2025-09-24T13:51:01Z

8.5 million views in 9 hours. The administration is finding out about the Streisand Effect in real time.

"A lot of folks are pretty excited about how the rapture and ...

2025-09-23T13:03:12Z

"A lot of folks are pretty excited about how the rapture and the end of the world are coming Sept. 23. Oooh! Tough break, Kimmel." —Stephen Colbert

#Kimmel #rapture #Colbert

"Disney executives were pissing themselves all day. On the ...

2025-09-19T13:56:13Z

"Disney executives were pissing themselves all day. On the bright side, that proves that Disney is Number 1 in streaming."
—Stephen Colbert

#JimmyKimmel #ABC #Disney

You're for consent of the governed and human rights for ...

2025-09-18T00:46:27Z

You're for consent of the governed and human rights for everyone — or you're not.

Those two things should not be negotiable.

They're not liberal positions. Ronald Reagan would have agreed with them. So would Barry Goldwater.

So: Which side are you on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKMwWZVpPE

I mean, considering there are only 340 million people in America, ...

2025-09-14T23:34:55Z

I mean, considering there are only 340 million people in America, that's a lot.

Personally, I died from drugs like three or four times last year.

( ... I got better)

#USpol

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2025-09-12T21:16:10Z

#WallStreetJournal

Kaiser von Shitzenpants posted a video last night praising CK and ...

2025-09-12T00:56:12Z

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Kaiser von Shitzenpants posted a video last night praising CK and calling on "radical left terrorists" to be hunted down. But the video was poorly edited (at one point, his hands move very awkwardly) so a rumor has spread that it's actually an AI-fake.

El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago looked to be in very poor health this morning at the 9/11 memorial, so that's added more speculation.

You lunatics made me watch that stupid video in super slo-mo. ...

2025-09-11T23:50:35Z

You lunatics made me watch that stupid video in super slo-mo.

It's not A.I., for God's sake. For one thing, you can see the reflection of the Teleprompter in the window behind him.

Aren't things bad enough without spreading conspiracy theories?

Also: It's bad enough to listen to his stupid mouth at normal speed, but listening to him repeatedly at 0.25 speed is a fucking Eldritch horror

Morgan & Morgan — the official attorneys of the #Pittsburgh ...

2025-08-15T14:41:08Z

Morgan & Morgan — the official attorneys of the #Pittsburgh Penguins — have been running these ads in the Mon Valley since an explosion at U.S. Steel's Clairton Plant killed two people.

Someone should ask the Penguins how they like being associated with these ambulance-chasing bottom-feeders.

My "I Know I Have a Nazi Battleship On My Wall" T-Shirt ...

2025-08-14T19:46:01Z

My "I Know I Have a Nazi Battleship On My Wall" T-Shirt is Raising A Lot of Questions Already Answered by the Shirt

BREAKING: Following the deaths this week of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, ...

2025-07-24T17:00:21Z

BREAKING: Following the deaths this week of Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan, the Allegheny County Health Department is asking all millennials and Gen Z residents of Pittsburgh to check on your Gen X neighbors and make sure they're OK.

More news any moment.

I have sat on the board of directors of a small charitable ...

2025-07-09T14:53:27Z

I have sat on the board of directors of a small charitable foundation for 10-plus years and I cannot overstate to you how much of the stock market is pure, unadulterated bullshit. Like, you may think it's bullshit, but when you talk to a broker, most of them are 100% full of shit

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2025-06-24T13:53:19Z

"Heat dome" I think is the term, and yes, I never ...

2025-06-23T20:11:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…ugxc
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"Heat dome" I think is the term, and yes, I never remember these happening before — now, they're a regular occurrence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_dome

"L'État, c'est moi" —Louis XIV, King of ...

2025-06-08T22:37:11Z

"L'État, c'est moi" —Louis XIV, King of France, 1643-1715

("The state is me")

#USPol

Congratulations to the U.S.'s most-expensive law firms who ...

2025-04-29T01:03:46Z

Congratulations to the U.S.'s most-expensive law firms who will soon find themselves --- for free! --- providing criminal defenses for racist dirtbag small-town cops who murder innocent people.

Great job, you dummies at Skadden Arps and Paul Weiss.

"Sorry, Brad, I know we promised you that you could work on mergers and acquisitions this year, but you have to go to Muley Ass, Alabama, and defend a deputy sheriff who killed a prisoner. Now, go make America great!"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/strengthening-and-unleashing-americas-law-enforcement-to-pursue-criminals-and-protect-innocent-citizens/

I'm not one for victim-blaming, but like Last, I don't ...

2025-04-04T00:36:05Z

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I'm not one for victim-blaming, but like Last, I don't think it's possible to excuse American voters from having agency.

They went into the 2024 election fully aware of what Donald Trump was:

"There are only three possible explanations as to why Americans voted for this man:

1. they wanted what he promised;
2. they didn’t believe what he promised; or
3. they didn’t understand what he promised.

"Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter."

If you dare, pour yourself a strong, heavily tariffed beverage ...

2025-04-03T23:31:56Z

If you dare, pour yourself a strong, heavily tariffed beverage and read this column by Jonathan Last, who is what we used to call a "rock-ribbed conservative":

"We have a deeply stupid government. But also, we have the government we deserve. The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over?r=a9n56&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner for economics: "The ...

2025-04-02T22:59:19Z

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner for economics: "The administration’s case for tariffs is completely incoherent. Over the next few days we’ll see many news analyses purporting to explain the thinking behind this radical change in U.S. policy.

"Such analyses will be a waste of time, because there’s nothing to explain. I don’t see any thinking at all."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/stop-looking-for-methods-in-the-madness

Yep. In October, I spent a day with a reporter from Brazil who ...

2025-03-31T16:58:23Z

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Yep.

In October, I spent a day with a reporter from Brazil who was covering the U.S. elections, and she was ... I'll say a combination of depressed and amused ... that the supposed greatest democracy in the world couldn't successfully prosecute Trump.

Wait ... so in other countries, politicians who commit crimes are ...

2025-03-31T13:16:11Z

Wait ... so in other countries, politicians who commit crimes are sentenced — they don't get to be elected president?

How weird! That's why America is the greatest country in the world! /s

#USPol #France

Trump and Musk using armed thugs to kick out the "U.S. ...

2025-03-19T12:47:27Z

Trump and Musk using armed thugs to kick out the "U.S. Institute of Peace" is a little on the nose.

"Move fast and break democracy"

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/g-s1-54569/us-institute-of-peace-trump-doge

Here's this month's cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh's ...

2025-03-17T17:50:07Z

Here's this month's cartoon for Print, Pittsburgh's East End newspaper.

https://jaythurber.com/2025/03/17/pen-avenue-for-march-2025/

#DOGE #USPol #Pittsburgh #NIH #NSF #cartoon

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the ...

2025-02-15T13:15:37Z

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/national-archives-head-resigns-as-trump-takes-control-of-records/

I thought The Onion was supposed to be satire ...

2025-02-09T20:26:18Z

I thought The Onion was supposed to be satire

"Canada is safe when America is strong; right now, America is ...

2025-02-05T01:42:07Z

"Canada is safe when America is strong; right now, America is the weakest it’s been in our lifetimes. And that’s what Trump’s threats are really about. They are his attempt to distract the country from its own suicide."

https://macleans.ca/society/canada-51st-state-america/

Congratulations to Alert Listener Greg from #Pittsburgh, ...

2025-01-29T22:08:49Z

Congratulations to Alert Listener Greg from #Pittsburgh, today's winner of the "Take Jay Thurber's Crap" Contest. Greg just took home a 26-year-old PowerMac G3 and a 25-year-old PowerMac G4.

Watch for the Jay Thurber Prize-Wagon-o-Crap coming to your neighborhood soon! #RetroComputing

I've got lots of new friends over on #Bluesky. What a great ...

2025-01-10T18:37:57Z

I've got lots of new friends over on #Bluesky. What a great app that is

we're about two weeks away from pieces in both the New York ...

2025-01-08T14:10:22Z

we're about two weeks away from pieces in both the New York Times and The Washington Post explaining why "the Nazis were good, actually"

Copyright run amok: 1. High-end hoity-toity electronics company ...

2024-12-17T16:17:24Z

Copyright run amok:

1. High-end hoity-toity electronics company sends a YouTube DIY'er one of its products to repair.

2. He repairs it on camera (and reveals how poorly it was made).

3. Company files a copyright complaint with YouTube and gets his video taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI

Happy #PublicDomainDay !

H/T: Sal Fadhley via Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)

#audiophile #audiofool #RightToRepair #diy #diy_electronics

A friend was just told he violated "community standards" ...

2024-12-15T03:56:16Z

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A friend was just told he violated "community standards" for posting this. LOL

Yep. Zuck's all in on Dumbito Derpolini

This is George. He lived in Africa. He was very happy. But he had ...

2024-12-05T20:59:16Z

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This is George. He lived in Africa. He was very happy. But he had one fault. He was too curious. And then the murders began.

ETA: Ah, darnit, I didn't know Third spruce tree on the left (npub16yx…z98s) had beaten me to this, because of the way Mastodon doesn't always show replies. Sorry.

#MastodonMigration #TwitterExodus Stolen from @npub1atl…0ack : ...

2024-11-26T16:13:08Z

#MastodonMigration #TwitterExodus

Stolen from billy joe bowers 🗽 (npub1atl…0ack) :

Follow people and hashtags, lots of them. That's how this place works, there is no other way really. If you're waiting for stuff to come to you it aint gonna happen.

Start typing hashtags of things you're interested in and follow them. Put them in your introduction and/or bio.

Start following anyone that looks slightly interesting. Follow people who boost a lot and anyone they boost that looks interesting.

Not me. I am naturally inclined to believe Elmo is a bullshit ...

2024-11-11T16:51:07Z

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Not me. I am naturally inclined to believe Elmo is a bullshit artist who's high on his own supply, and nothing he's ever done has shifted my opinion.

Until the day I die — which could be soon once RFK Jr. is done with the FDA — I will never understand the American belief that "that guy must be smart, he's rich"

I had never heard of ecofascism until you used the term, so I googled it. Yes; that's their plan. That's why these rich a-holes are buying private islands to escape.

I'd like some of what he's smoking ...

2024-11-11T16:40:59Z

I'd like some of what he's smoking

It's very telling that the white men on my Facebook feed are ...

2024-11-08T13:25:41Z

It's very telling that the white men on my Facebook feed are like, "ha ha, what a week, wow, glad there's no more political commercials on TV, lol" and the Black people and LGBTQ+ people on my Facebook feed are discussing their passports, making out wills, and encrypting their emails.

#USpol

Several people pointed out she spent more time campaigning with ...

2024-11-07T00:21:05Z

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Several people pointed out she spent more time campaigning with Liz Cheney than with Bernie Sanders. Bernie noted that as well today.

Would it have made a difference? I don't know.

"The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing ... they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat" —Harry S. Truman

If you thought that song was melancholy, you don't know the ...

2024-11-03T04:11:46Z

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If you thought that song was melancholy, you don't know the half of it.

Ray Davies wrote that song in memory of his sister, who had a weak heart; she died while dancing at the Lyceum ballroom in London's West End, age 31.

I get something wet in my eye every time I hear it. Must be my allergies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Dancing_(song)

Tonight's earworm, courtesy of CFZM Toronto: Come dancing ...

2024-11-03T04:09:30Z

Tonight's earworm, courtesy of CFZM Toronto:

Come dancing
That's how they did it
When I was just a kid
And when they said "come dancing"
My sister always did

The day they knocked down the palais
My sister stood and cried
The day they knocked down the palais
Part of my childhood died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOIjcUwiuso

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2024-10-13T13:06:00Z

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My conservative Army veteran father-in-law just informed us he ...

2024-10-06T19:04:08Z

My conservative Army veteran father-in-law just informed us he voted for Harris and Walz via absentee ballot. He doesn't like her, he says, but he trusts Trump and Vance less, especially for Trump's treatment of veterans.

”Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”

Ham radio operators in western North Carolina are connecting ...

2024-09-29T01:14:31Z

Ham radio operators in western North Carolina are connecting emergency calls and checking on people affected by flooding and power outages. H/T AI6YR Ben (npub1ucv…5a8g)

https://www.broadcastify.com/webPlayer/43107

#hamradio #helene

Alert Listener Jim tipped me off to this episode of Ted ...

2024-08-26T14:01:56Z

Alert Listener Jim tipped me off to this episode of Ted Danson's new podcast, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name," where he and Jeff Goldblum discuss their experiences at Carnegie Mellon in the late '60s/early '70s.

https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/where-everybody-knows-your-name/episodes/jeff-goldblum

#Pittsburgh #CMU #CarnegieMellon #JeffGoldblum #TedDanson

During World War II, the U.S. Army invented a chocolate bar that ...

2024-08-25T17:09:46Z

During World War II, the U.S. Army invented a chocolate bar that tasted so terrible, soldiers would only eat it if they were starving.

After the war, the inventors used that expertise to create Domino's Pizza.