Pronounces licorice like Wile E. Coyote

My profile claims I'm a real human who likes black licorice. The captcha was going to find me out eventually.

I closed the tab. I have my life (artificial as it may be) back. :-)

This is where I tapped out. I had to find the couple kissing.

And I will add that MAPLECROFT is just brilliant because it’s Lizzie Borden with an ax against Lovecraftian horrors

US Gasoline Pump Prices Jump to Highest Level Under Trump The average retail price of gasoline rose to $3.32 gallon on Thursday, according to the American Automobile Association. Current prices at the pump are the highest Trump has had to manage in his firs...

TRUMP AT THE NEXT PRESSER: People are getting gas for free now. In fact, gas stations pay them to fill up.

finance.yahoo.com/news/us-gaso...

finally read uncle vanya, one more thing i can chekhov my bucket list

damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte

I definitely want to hear more deep thoughts from the guy who claimed Elon Musk's purchase of twitter would "extend the light of consciousness"

all of these dudes are just lottery winners being treated like they’re a combo platter of Thomas Edison and Marie Curie

U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

NEW -- The Geneva Conventions state clearly that after a naval battle, all parties are supposed to take "all possible measures" to rescue survivors from the water.

Our sub that sank that Iranian frigate Wednesday took no possible measures.

www.huffpost.com/entry/submar...

Jared Polis, Gov of Colorado, just pardoned Tina Peters (a 2020 election conspiracist who broke the law) at the demand of Trump

I’m shocked and sickened

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

Here's the point to remember about the brutal negative revisions in today's job market report: They aren't saying the labor market showed green shoots that withered. It's saying that there never were any green shoots. They were an illusion.

MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Photo of a letter that reads: “If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree.” Sincerely, Shirley Jackson

If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree

NEWS: Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) has dropped out of his primary runoff after admitting to an affair with an aide who later died by suicide and amid a House Ethics probe. His exit makes Brandon Herrera the GOP nominee in Texas’ 23rd District.

I see where he's going here, he means a Total War, taking the enemy by surprise - a Blitzkrieg of sorts, you could say

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Kristi Noem escorted from Capitol Hill directly to gravel pit

News In Photo:

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

lol, just finished calltime and saw that Noem got fired WHILE she was giving a live press conference, and that just sums up the casual cruelty and incompetence of this administration in a nutshell

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

So, we have some family friends who are Russian. About five years ago, they started renting from my folks, and they are here on an asyum visa; though they will not talk about it, they were obvious dissidents of some kind. Anyway, their kids are my kids ages, so of course my folks were on board

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.