Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Second rate reporter says what?

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Optimism opens the door to great things.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

So many bastards, so little time.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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  1. 1.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    Of course Twitter flags that as “potentially sensitive content.”

    Beautiful though!

  3. 3.

    Spanky

    Since the thread, it is open …

    In case you see your car insurance rates go up …

    (CNN)A Missouri woman was awarded $5.2 million in a settlement from insurance company GEICO after contracting a sexually transmitted disease from her partner in his vehicle, which was insured by the company, court documents show. The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld that award this week.

    The woman, a Jackson County resident, said she contracted Human papillomavirus (HPV) from her partner, according to court documents. On Tuesday, the Missouri Court of Appeals filed an opinion confirming the initial Jackson County Circuit Court arbitration award finding against GEICO.

  4. 4.

    Nora

    Totally appropriate that this happened during Pride Month. How Twitter sees this as “sensitive” is beyond me.

  5. 5.

    Spanky

    I would not be surprised if Twitter received multiple complaints about Randy Rainbow.

  7. 7.

    Mathguy

    I hear that Wyoming is now trying to ban the waterfall for being too pro LBGTQ.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    @Old School: Rainbows are now sensitive content?  Started as gay rainbows, now all rainbows have gay cooties,I presume.  Un-fucking-believable.   The world is catering to bigots.  sigh.

  9. 9.

    Dangerman

    Yosemite Falls. The trail to the top can be seen to the left; very much worth the effort. Hell, every trail in Yosemite Valley is worth the effort.

  10. 10.

    Old School

    @WaterGirl:  Who knows?  “Rainbows”?  “Very high”?  “Undocumented”?

    Not sure what flags something on Twitter.

  12. 12.

    different-church-lady

    I’m sure this will all be much better when the insane white South African is running the thing.

  16. 16.

    Anonymous At Work

    @Spanky: IAAL and courts hate the notion of people gaming the system.  Arbitration happened and rather than go against the woman, the arbiter found for her.  The court didn’t strike down the award either, and then and only then did Geico try to object.  Worst thing you can tell a court is “After everything is done, we’ll object to it if we lose and not a second before.”

  17. 17.

    Matt McIrvin

    My guess is that some poorly-calibrated image-scanning AI thought it might be porn

    As for the image itself, I think the rainbow filling the whole waterfall is as much a product of the camera being exactly in the right place as anything else.

  20. 20.

    Ken

    @Anonymous At Work: Worst thing you can tell a court is “After everything is done, we’ll object to it if we lose and not a second before.”

    If only someone had told this to Rudy Giuliani and the rest of TFG’s election lawsuit squad.

  22. 22.

    brendancalling

    Since it’s an open thread—if any jackals are in Arizona, I’ll be backing the glorious Rebecca Jed on bass on the 17th, 18th, and 19th in the Phoenix area. Her voice is a cross between Kitty Wells and Loretta Lynn, and the new album—coming out any day—is just lovely. Y’all come out and see us!

  25. 25.

    eclare

    @Dangerman:   I went to the top of that waterfall where the trail to half-dome breaks off.  I knew I did not have the fortitude to hike that.

    I met someone a few months later who had done the hike.  He said the scariest part was people freezing in fear, refusing to leave the gripping of the cables, so he had to let go to go around them.

  26. 26.

    Splitting Image

    @Old School:

    What’s the sensitive content? Something with a rainbow?

    According to the Bible, the rainbow is the Lord’s promise that he will never inflict on mankind the world-ending catastrophe that evangelicals have been insisting for years will smite us all any minute now. The whole book is liberal propaganda.

    Plus it’s filled with exhortations to “wake”. Dead giveaway.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    @WaterGirl:

    Ken Ham, the president of Answers in Genesis, an organization “an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith,” is determined to take back the rainbow from the LGBT community, who he feels has appropriated it from biblical teachings. His first move? Decorating the Ark Encounter, a 510-foot-long reproduction of Noah’s Ark that he operates as a fundamentalist Christian theme park in Kentucky.

  34. 34.

    Peale

    @eclare: Freezing in fear describes me in the parking lot before any strenuous hike. Which is why I talk myself out of it and just stick to “scenic overlooks 500 feet or less from the road.”

  35. 35.

    Joe Falco

    @mrmoshpotato:

    No no. The waterfall is trying to turn us all gay.

    First, the waterfall came for the frogs, and I did not say anything because I was not a frog…

  37. 37.

    eachother

    Profound timing.  The Rainbow will not be silent.

    The Cosmic Comedian just trumped the supreme court.  Black robes?  What’s the message?

    If you really want to convince us all we can do better, bend the guns like you did the visible light while we sleep tonight.

  41. 41.

    Bill Arnold

    Twitter labeled the video “politically sensitive”.

    The rainbow, I presume.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    @eclare: That’s the Mist Trail past Vernal and Nevada falls. It’s a real workout, not helped by the hundreds of granite steps that can be very slippy from the…uh…mist.

    Now it takes reservations to snag a Half Dome summit permit, giving me a perennial excuse. Every few years someone slips and skitters their way down uncontrolled. This is 100% fatal. I will add picking a shoe that grips polished granite isn’t as simple as it sounds.

  43. 43.

    trollhattan

    Hey, we just got our new set of Biden Tests, eight this time. Thanks, Joe!

  49. 49.

    Gravenstone

    Okay Twitter, why in the Nine Hells was that flagged as “potentially sensitive” content?

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