For reference this is a Whoopie Pie

Uhhhhhhhh what the fuck happened to my poll

no rest of the world sweep

whatever show the girlies are obsessed with nowadays will never have as much sexual tension as this

I remember when this first aired. My parents hung out with queer people in the 80s enough for me to understand why it was so funny and popular at the time. I can still say "not at all" in my old Brooklyn accent. But I had no idea about bisexuality back then.

I found this article from 2022, which has some interesting thoughts.

I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

Weirdly Specific Things from Dreams

Okay, I was pondering this on the way home from work, so, which weirdly specific (or specifically weird) thing that tends to crop up my dreams have you also noticed in yours?

kitten, stop fucking around and tell daddy where you hid his prozac or daddy's gonna add another 'hey there delilah' to the sex playlist

why do you guys only like my bad posts

hi prev i read all my tags anyway my wife watches house and she says you’re right

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of two Georgia election workers who sued Rudy Giuliani for defamation, further ordering the attorney associated with former President Trump to pay sanctions.

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss sued Giuliani in December 2021 over his baseless statements claiming the duo helped commit election fraud.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in a 57-page opinion ruled in favor of the two election workers by default after Giuliani resisted turning over discovery in the case. Her ruling suggested Giuliani may have done so to reduce his legal exposure in other cases.

“Perhaps, he has made the calculation that his overall litigation risks are minimized by not complying with his discovery obligations in this case,” Howell wrote. “Whatever the reason, obligations are case specific and withholding required discovery in this case has consequences.”

Howell also ordered Giuliani to pay nearly $90,000 and his businesses to pay more than $43,000 to reimburse legal fees the election workers incurred in their attempt to compel Giuliani to turn over the discovery.

The ruling marks a significant legal blow for Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor and New York City mayor turned attorney for Trump. Giuliani was indicted this month in Georgia for his actions following the 2020 election, including allegations that overlap with the election workers’ lawsuit.

In the wake of the election, Giuliani made a series of false statements about Freeman and Moss’s work at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, where ballots were counted. Giuliani and other Trump allies baselessly claimed the two workers committed election fraud by processing “suitcases” of illicit ballots.

Howell’s ruling finds Giuliani civilly liable by default for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy. 

A trial will still be held to consider damages, and Howell’s ruling gives Giuliani a final opportunity to turn over discovery for the trial.

:D

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Courts are not fond of the "err, nope, no evidence here" approach to defense.

...Penalties for destroying evidence are even heavier, including "by accident" destruction. (As in, judges are likely to run against the person to the maximum amount allowed by law, AND slap them with penalties for destruction of evidence.)

It's possible that Giuliani is willing to take a roughly $150,000 hit to avoid putting the details of his crimes into the public record. This is one of the problems in dealing with the rich: "punishable only by a fine" means "it's legal for rich people," and it's hard to get courts to declare "criminal contempt; actually spend some time in jail" for people who are gaming the system.

I’ve only got three possible reactions to watching a TOS episode:

“I can’t believe this aired” (the worst plot you’ve ever seen on tv)

“I can’t believe this aired” (a piece of media so beyond its time and still relevant to today’s discussions, that I’m surprised it didn’t got censored at the time it went on air)

“I can’t believe this aired” (gay as fuck)

her pronouns are HE/HIM

Unmute !

Video transcription:

"...Terrell and in Dallas, your--your heat index is 107. Everyone in McKinney is dead. The temperature--the, uh, the heat index right now in McKinney is ten thousand--what is that, one hundred and one thousand, one hundred and five. It's hot in McKinney."

Man, this is obnoxious

The Potter Enterprise, Coudersport, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1925

Thank you for the modern translation

i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny

saw someone misspell "stochastic terror" as "socratic terror" so I'd like to clarify that stochastic terror is the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act that seems random but is not, while "socratic terror" is what every athenian felt when they went down to the agora in the 5th century and saw an old man with a beard approaching them

there are three genders

you can transcend the gender binary by becoming a lich in north dakota

lmao some swifties went and offered tlaloc (Aztec rain god) a friendship bracelet asking him to stop the rainstorms during the Taylor concerts in Mexico 😹

Yes, it worked. Since it’s rainy season it was expected to rain the whole weekend, but it only rained at the end of the show (night3) and the other days it was perfectly clear.

hell yeah. Would not have thought to do that honestly

people bitching about the usage of "too modern" words in fantasy or historical fiction is sometimes justified, but ultimately I think it's a waste of time because

according to the dates given in the Oxford English Dictionary, if you wrote a book set in 1897, you could have your characters say "fuckable," (1889) "sexy" (1896) "uncomfy" (1868) "hellacious" (1847) "dude" (1877) "all righty" (1877) and "heck" (1887), but not "wiggly" (1932) "moronic" (1910) "uptight" (1934) "lowbrow" (1901) "fifty-fifty" (1913) "burp" (1932) "bagel" (1898) or use the word "rewrite" as a noun (1901)

Some more words where the date of their first known usage just Doesn't Sound Right:

Fucked up (1863) is much older than fuck you (1943) but older still is the now-obscure fucked out (1862) which means what it sounds like—exhausted from too much sex.

my beautiful newborn twins both named Entendre

The cat owns the house.

That's why the word "HOMEOW NER" has "MEOW" in it.

Gimmick blogs are rad

I love all of you

Yes please tell me which car that is in the back

Yes please do rate my orange text

Yes please do find stupid accidental haikus

Yes please please do count the number of times I used the letter "T" please

Yes please please do count

the number of times I used

the letter “T” please

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

T Count: 22

Letter Count: 304

Your T Percentage: 7.24%

Average T Percentage: 10.40%

You used the letter T 0.7 times as much as average.

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Thank you! It's lovely to be appreciated by thee and by my love, @the-haiku-bot.

I thank thee, my bot, for loving how I count thy letters and thy 'T's.

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1973 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight