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Friday Afternoon Brain Bubbles Open Thread

by Tom Levenson|  September 27, 20244:43 pm| 66 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Open Threads, Popular Culture

Seems like we could use some more blog real estate.

So…have some “art”work. Maybe a little off kilter compared to my usual fare:

Friday Afternoon Brain Bubbles Open Thread

I mean…that’s who Vermeer should have painted, amirite?

Also…a newly discovered canvas suggesting the original plan for Edvard Munch’s masterpiece:

Friday Afternoon Brain Bubbles Open Thread 1

Yeah…I may be a little overbaked at this end of what has been an even more absurd week than usual.

Still..use this thread to talk about absolutely anything…though if that were to include your favorite parodies and satires, that’d be fun.

So, yeah…this thread is as open as a Waffle Hut in almost any circumstance. (Keep safe, southrons!)

ETA:  I realize that I didn’t include any image data. Got none. The first image came from my brother; the second is floating around Bluesky.  What a brave new world that has such things in’t!

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Late Night Open Thread: Spoilers

by Anne Laurie|  August 17, 20243:45 am| 190 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Open Threads, Project 2025, social media

Elon Musk buys a pub pic.twitter.com/DpIruMJC1m

— Matt Green (@mattgreencomedy) August 16, 2024


 

New: journalist Malcolm Harris found a Project 2025 duffel bag and Heritage Foundation documents on the street. Then a Project 2025 staffer called the police on him. ?? pic.twitter.com/Il0BSBeNgo

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 16, 2024

Story here, featuring @BigMeanInternet https://t.co/GObFfKKfNq

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 16, 2024

From the Style section of the Washington Post, “He found a Project 2025 duffel bag. Then police showed up at his house”: [Gift link]

Author Malcolm Harris opened the door of his Capitol Hill home on Tuesday morning to find a D.C. police officer on his stoop.

The officer had come to find out what Harris knew about a missing “Project 2025” duffel bag from the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank — and the documents that had been inside. But Harris wasn’t interested in chatting.

“I don’t talk to the police, so we didn’t have a very long conversation,” Harris told The Washington Post.

For the Heritage Foundation, it’s hard to imagine a worse person to come across a bag full of their internal files than Harris. A Marxist journalist with a sense of humor and three books critiquing capitalism to his name, including the 2023 national bestseller “Palo Alto,” Harris has dedicated his life to the opposite of Heritage’s conservative politics…

In Harris’s telling, he came into possession of the duffel bag on the evening of Aug. 9, as he walked to pick up a cheesecake. At the corner of Sixth and E Streets NE, Harris passed a low-set ledge where he says people often leave free, unwanted items. (As Harris reenacted his discovery of the bag at the corner a week later, someone was giving away a succulent.)

“People in Capitol Hill just leave a bunch of really nice stuff out all the time,” said Harris, who once picked up a coffee machine on the same block. “This is, in fact, not the nicest duffel bag I have found outside for free on Capitol Hill.”…

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Project 2025, a wide-ranging blueprint for a second Trump presidency created by many people with close ties to the ex-president, has become a weight around Republicans’ necks and a sort of byword for Democrats’ concerns about an extremist future in a second Trump administration. Amid a barrage of criticism of its goals — which include the elimination of the Department of Education, mass deportations and new restrictions on abortion — Trump distanced himself from the program in July. That same month, Project 2025’s leader left Heritage, and the group ceased new policy work…

The files and other items inside weren’t hugely revelatory. The bag and most of its contents appeared to be part of a Heritage internship program, including a document with pictures and lengthy biographies of its interns. Still, the fact that Harris discovered the documents on the streets of Washington could be a minor embarrassment for the think tank, at a time when both Heritage and Project 2025 are under intense scrutiny…

But Harris’s plans for the bag would soon run into D.C. police. After seeing Harris’s tweets, a woman who describes herself on LinkedIn as a Project 2025 staffer called the police and filed a complaint for theft, according to a police report obtained by The Post.

In the account she gave to police, the bag disappeared in the late afternoon of Friday, Aug. 9, when she and another Heritage staffer “left a bag in a parking space while getting into their car,” in a public area a block from Heritage’s headquarters on the 200 block of Massachusetts Avenue NE. When they returned to get it 30 minutes later, the bag was gone…

On Thursday morning, after learning more about the ongoing police investigation, Harris decided to end the dispute himself. With his wife and 7-month-old baby (who was dressed in a police-abolition onesie), Harris walked to Heritage’s office to return the bag.

At no point in the process, Harris said, had anyone from Heritage just emailed him to ask for the bag back, but he was eager to be rid of it…

Inside Heritage’s lobby, Harris and a man who identified himself as Heritage’s head of security sorted through the items in the bag, so the man could give Harris an itemized receipt that he hoped would put the police case to rest. The security chief said he didn’t need to verify the bag’s contents, given that the internship documents inside were not exactly “the keys to the kingdom.”

In a statement to The Post, a Heritage spokesperson said they were glad the bag had been turned over.

“We are pleased that our intern’s property was returned and hope that in the future our neighbors will exercise basic decency so that the police need not be involved,” the statement said…

@ProjectLincoln

The @USNatArchives definitely needs to acquire one of those Project 2025 duffle bags to include in the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library next year.

Future generations need to know the truth about this failed presidency.

— Robert Smith (@NebraskaSower) August 16, 2024

These leaked Project 2025 training videos aren't helping conservatives beat the "weird" allegations pic.twitter.com/7p1HZhZ36R

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) August 15, 2024

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Late Night Open Thread: Dark (Dork) Humors

by Anne Laurie|  May 1, 20242:13 am| 39 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Open Threads

And scattered about… were the Martians – dead! Slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth. (HG Wells, 1897) pic.twitter.com/92hphFg4wV

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) April 29, 2024

John Wilkes Boothe: vicious cycle as several generations of maltreated peacocks belonging to the Romanovs. Recently ousted as Chairman of Project Veritas. https://t.co/4P5mHQLhDY

— zeddy (@Zeddary) April 30, 2024

In a great bit of NASA oral history, flight director Jay Greene recalls the Shuttle flight that then-congressman Bill Nelson finagled himself onto. Nelson of course is now NASA Administrator. pic.twitter.com/Zbglqvo1Ct

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) April 22, 2024

“Why are these bollard things, anyway?!?”

It’s the ‘gotta get the car rewrapped’ for me. She’s hitting everything all the time. GTA cars go longer without damage. https://t.co/tGC3rherCc

— zeddy (@Zeddary) April 21, 2024

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Friday Afternoon Comic Relief

by WaterGirl|  March 15, 20243:47 pm| 63 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Open Threads

Maybe a little comic relief is in order. You know, after the week, month, year, nearly a decade of what we have been through.

I laughed way too hard at this 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/3UTMkF9DW3

— Rock (@TheCensoredRock) March 13, 2024

Open thread.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Hypothetically…

by Anne Laurie|  May 13, 20235:28 am| 103 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Military

Without comment. pic.twitter.com/JDmCZDowP0

— Tony Stark (@Iron_Man_Actual) May 10, 2023

… We may have discovered another Thing Skippy Can’t Do.

(And gems like this are why Twitter isn’t dead, yet.)

There is a reason why Murphy the Trickster God manifests as a coyote, folks!

The (I am not a lawyer) correct answers are as follows:
Article 15, BDE level for endangering fellow soldiers and various property violations
No, do not feed it. Do not give it alcohol. Do not put a coyote in your car to take it to the vet. It will kill you.

Do not blackmail.

— Tony Stark (@Iron_Man_Actual) May 10, 2023

Asking for a friend

— Henry Simpson (@_Henry_Simpson_) May 11, 2023

Promote trooper WAY ahead of peers

Promote the murder puppy to company mascot

— Medium Zee, Ursine of Armored Cavalry (@WiednerZach) May 11, 2023

So you guys get coyotes, but when ONE alligator follows me in the SCIF…

— Syntaxin Bach (@Synntaxxin) May 11, 2023

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Rude Diversions Open Thread: Who’s On Twitter?

by Anne Laurie|  April 27, 20234:52 pm| 37 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Military, Open Threads

1.) If these were women people would be losing their fucking minds

b.) cue the dusty old-timers talking about how they never did shit like this back in the day blaming this on wokeness or insufficiently masculine ads

iii.) grand pap did even weirder shit in the Pacific Theater https://t.co/PFofXGsfrb

— Affable Himbo Critical Russ Theory (@RPG_volley) April 25, 2023

Somebody needs to make sure the Blogmaster sees this… and also the replies.

People are gonna watch this and honestly think the Corps is going soft.

That scene in Jarhead exists for a reason. Marines have been doing this shit since Samuel Nicholas in 1775. It’s been passed down as our most hallowed tradition. pic.twitter.com/TCu4jQQFnj

— Kyle (@SonOfUhGunn) April 24, 2023

Of course, I’m sure Army tank dudes (like Cole) were *much* more serious about their tasks & purpose…

Yeah until these millennials came we were good at war because all we thought about was killing pic.twitter.com/ymVsE508aj

— Blake Herzinger (@BDHerzinger) April 25, 2023

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Alexandra Petri, Perfectly On Target, Will Lift Your Spirits

by WaterGirl|  October 26, 20225:27 pm| 35 Comments

This post is in: Humorous, Politics

Vote GOP! We’ll fix the economy by making the rest of life worse, too!   (gift link to full article)

Excerpts from Alexandra Petri’s latest column

Voters! We are thrilled to see that so many of you are leaning R this fall! And we hear it’s because of … the economy? Wild!
…
To our knowledge, we haven’t been saying anything about the economy or offering any kind of exciting plan to fix it! As far as I can see, we’ve just been calling Joe Biden a socialist, fear-mongering about the existence of trans people and suggesting that people who want us to denounce antisemitism are Like “1984,” But Worse!
…
That’s why we appreciate your confidence so much! As you clearly have realized, when one thing is going very poorly, you have options! Try to fix it, or just make everything else worse, too! Vote Republican, and we guarantee to do our level best to distract you from the economy by impeaching everyone in government, putting Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge of more things, and, in our spare moments, urging the Supreme Court to eliminate any more rights or protections that might be lying around!
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In the meantime, look forward to lots more bills preventing you from mentioning that gay people exist, and requiring children to have genital exams to play sports! And maybe we’ll even come for gay marriage! Who knows! Anything to keep your mind off the economy! You’ll be so busy watching your liberties erode right and left (but mostly right) that you won’t even notice the rise of gas prices!
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As you hurtle across state lines in an ambulance on the brink of death, your rights decimated, your vote uncounted, your libraries shuttered — I guarantee the last thing you’ll be thinking about is the economy! Just like you wanted! Vote Republican today!

This is the raw gift link in case you want to share the article with others: https://wapo.st/3eYIa13

Share the gift link on social media, and let Alexandra Petri help us spread the word.

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