Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Peak wingnut was a lie.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

T R E 4 5 O N

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

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Whale: You think it’s bad, getting a fly in your soup?…

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And that’s not even the weirdest story I ran across this week:

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  1. 1.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    I’ve been lobster diving, and I’ve been within about 5-10 yards of a krill/plankton eating whale shark’s giant maw, but never at the same time. I gotta say, I had worries about what would happen if I got accidentally sucked in at about the time the animal decided to go down the 6000 foot abyss where he was eating the plankton upwelling by the continental shelf, and didn’t imagine that I’d survive the ascent after he decided to spit me out.

    This guy really held his shit together in a terrifying spot.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    Yeah, like a Frisbee is “nearly swallowed” by a dog.

    Color me singularly undazzled.

  6. 6.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @debbie:

    Never used a trap. A tickle stick and a hand-carried net for me, 30-35 feet deep for Caribbean spiny lobsters.

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    mrmoshpotato

    Whale of a tale to tell ya, lads!

    Also, they should’ve jailed the Nazi shitbag’s brother too.

  11. 11.

    Xavier

    I saw one news report that the lobster dude had previously survived a plane crash…

  12. 12.

    MontyTheClipArtMongoose

    It appears that Anschluss proponent’s fascism goes…

    [Removes sunglasses]

    Balls deep.

    … Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

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    J R in WV

    I’m pretty sure Humpback whales have strainers to keep big stuff from being swalloed, like a diver. Stiff Baleen sheets with slots. Same with Whale Sharks, which aren’t sharks at all. So he was in no danger of being swallowed, although drowned is drowned if whale took you too deep too fast or kept you mouthed too long.

    Our dogs “bite” each other with their big fangs, squealing and nashing, but no blood is shed, in spite of the noise and jumping around. They even mouth us at times, without shedding any blood. I imagine that was how the whale treated the diver, feeling around him in the mouth before going “PTAHH” and spitting him out, tanks and all.

    Still, what a great story for evenings at the local bar!!

    Wife kissed a young grey whale once a couple of years ago, and that same afternoon best friend Mike got sneezed on, covered with whale snot, which they evidently produce profusely! Whales are BIG and curious. We didn’t swim with them, but we saw other folks getting into the still waters of the bay with the whales. Did not look dangerous to me…

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