"those better be metric butter tarts, and not imperial!"

@nikkuneko The Vancouver Zoo would probably use Nanaimo Bars as units.

Oh, apparently Maple weighs 528 Timbits:
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And is 12 hockey pucks high:
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I look forward to learning about her daily poop volume in Poutine increments

@otaman I … did not require that last visual.

I used to like poutine, too.

TIL she's called Maple, and I live in the same city. Damn that closed social media loop!

CULATER

There is no need to be upset.

Good doggy!

yaaayy Blixa! Give Brooklyn a big ol’ lick on the snout for me.

freedom fries ONLY

Quotation marks doing a lot of work there

The people who want to whitewash Bush’s legacy as somehow “more sane” than Trump are having to ignore a whole lot that happened over those eight years.

@BennyTheIcepick I dunno. Calling it "more sane" is by no means an exoneration. Each R administration in my lifetime has been terrible* and each provided the means to facilitate the further excesses of its successors, which means they're inarguably not as absolutely nutbag-crazypants as what's there now. For the same reason, whatever follows has a pretty high likelihood of being even less sane than the current administration.

*(Okay, Nixon was a mixed bag. An extremely mixed bag. An absolutely fucking miserable bag that you would never pick up at the grab-bag counter because of the suspicious stains and odors. But he held office in a time when the political and media environment ensured he couldn't get the unilateral support necessary to do anything he wanted to do, so he managed to get some things right even if only for quid pro quo with his opposition.)

@ardgedee Let us not forget that while Nixon achieved detente with China, he wasted thousands of American lives (and thousands more of allies and enemies) on a losing war and was also a filthy fucking crook.

@MackReed Not gonna stand here to defend Nixon, the country would have been better off if Eisenhower had shoved him off. Just wanted to note that he managed to get a couple things right, even if only in a stopped-clock sort of way, and his successors have largely been incapable of even that.

Is this in little Marseille

Thanks I hate it

+++ just amazing

Dem socks!

These theee really do get around.

the garden phone line is absolutely killing me this morning

Yeah man, she has the scoop on the back story.@nikkuneko

Aw yiss

@0y3ahSansAcut3 "hello, sally? yeah, i'm calling you from the garden phone. you should see the back story i'm looking at right now..."

10/10 No notes.

science is for the nerds he used to beat up in high school

Reminds me of when the GOP starting harping spending money on "something called 'volcano monitoring'".

Then a big ass volcano went off and they were suddenly quiet.

@artwells Bobbbbbby Jindall!! In a response to an Obama State of the Union speech. He truly thought the U.S. didn't have any volcanoes and was endlessly mocked for it. He managed to stick around for another term but the whole debacle kind of neutered his political career.

I remember at (I think) the GSA (Geologic Society of America) conference after that mess there was a panel or lunch speech in response to his comments with something like, "How do we scientists respond to shit like this," and the speaker(s) and half the audience were all "be measured and calm, take the high road" and the other half of the audience was . . . "Can't you see we're in a fight for our lives here, you stupid fucks, so *noOoo*." (That side was right.)

The stupidity hasn't changed but the reaction sure has. *sigh*

@williwaw I used to have a Jindal GIF of his dismissive look and the caption of that quote. I posted it relentlessly during subsequent eruptions.

😩

With apologies to Rihanna:

Burning in a hopeless dream/
Hold me when you go to sleep/
Keep me in the warmth of your love

So, that's not some gal, and those are men, not children? Horror show.

yeah, FUCK that guy.

I just let my 8-year-old kid watch the first two of these, and she was SO into them. This scene freaked me out when I first saw it at her age, but she was unbothered.

A butt that was constipated.

https://wahsonline.com/2019...

Air Force 1

Is this the chalice from the palace that has the brew that is true?!

That’s a cutie pie!

Raised by cats.

This is awesome! I'm sending this to my queer, ADHD, autistic bike mechanic friend, Mason right now.

I was so lucky to have been able to see this painting last month, it is currently on loan to the lucas museum in los angeles.

powerful painting of a powerful girl who became an amazing woman.

It's worth noting, on the same point, that Barbara Henry, the Bostonian teacher at William Frantz Elementary School who was the only teacher willing to have Bridges in her classroom (having had experience teaching integrated classrooms to children in the military), is also still alive at 94. She spent every morning of the 1960-1961 teaching Bridges and Bridges alone, because every white child transferred classes. Here's a photo of them in 2014: https://i.guim.co.uk/img...

I liked it, but I don't like it.

🎶who wears short shorts? 🎶

but you playin

@jive_t ++

When your SO sews, you can't say a thing about anything.

No. Put on the leather dress shoes and just a little bit too long socks. We're making this real weird for your dad and his obsession with his new camera.

Over the garden wall with you

cheesed: https://mltshp.com/p/1RVTZ

In front of pho in San Jose is a happy place to be.

Decent pho is one of the dishes I miss most about not living on the West coast.

@m3moellering the are “phở islands” in the oddest places sometimes, though. When I was living in Madison Heights (Michigan) there were three decent places serving it within walking distance of my apartment.

Never had pho on the west coast. We did discover that the Vietnamese restaurants in a smaller city about an hour's drive away from here are amazingly better (and cheaper!) than the ones in our own megalopolis. Which was a pleasant discovery but also kinda depressing since it means a two-hour round trip for a good meal.

@ffg YES! Posted the above before I saw your comment. When we lived in southeast MI we'd make roadtrips to MH! There was a stripmall that was almost entirely Vietnamese businesses, iirc, we'd stop for pho and snacks.

@ffg I agree. There is a traditional Chinese restaurant here that I love. But all too often it is someone doing cross-cultural cooking. I’d rather have a real Cambodian or Viet Namese dinner than your take on Szechuan.

A place recently opened in Santa Clara called Phở King. It's pretty good.

An interesting monster needs an *interesting* hairdo.

"Oh no, a giant monster!"

My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives. I said to my girlfriend just the other day ... gee ... I'll bet monsters are interesting, I said. The places you must go and the things you must see.

Title ++

Mongo is appalled.

Wire chewing critters?

NEW ACHIEVEMENT! THE EMPTY WALLET!

You've spent more on a repair than the house was worth. It'll take decades to rebuild your savings account!

REWARD: Isn't knowing you're not homeless yet reward enough?

YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT UNEXPECTED HOME REPAIR COSTS, CARL!

Find yourself somebody who doesn't look at you like Robert F Kennedy Jnr looks at Cheryl Hines.

Clearly lizard people

I'll put that one on our list!

I'm constantly impressed by the variety of amazing food we have around Columbus, especially in that part of the city. Last year my wife came up with an "eat through the alphabet" idea where we pick a restaurant or cuisine style starting with a different letter of the alphabet every week. We found some great places, and it was no problem finding something for each letter. One of the favorites was Brazilian Grill & Bakery, also on Cleveland Ave.