Mr. Ridley Kemp

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Cromulent, but not perfectly so.

Music. Books, comic and otherwise. FF and especially FFXIV.

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A little somethin' for the 4th by the great @tedleo.bsky.social and his RX. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91t...

The One Who Got Us Outwww.youtube.com Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesThe One Who Got Us Out · Ted Leo · The PharmacistsShake the Sheets℗ 2012 Ted LeoReleased on: 2012-04-24Auto-gen...

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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

In retrospect, we didn't take this seriously enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality...

Reality-based community - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Sorry to all my lawyer friends who spent a bunch of time learning how law works in the US. I had friends who were Flash developers and things turned out alright for them after they pivoted to C# or whatever. Hopefully there's an equivalent for our national legal system

If you don't know the name "Lou Andreas-Salomé," you're missing out.

I'm a little surprised they're not from the western side of Tarrant County...

Amazing these racist fucks have always had the nerve to act like they have the right to say THEY are the "True Texas." ("NE Tarrant Tea Party" is now "True Texas Project.")

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This will be held up as "SCOTUS isn't political," which overlooks how the case was outrageous and absurd in the first place. Kacsmaryk and the 5th Circuit brazenly violated basic principles of standing taught to every 1L. It shouldn't have made it this far.

First SCOTUS decision of the day is the mifepristone case! SCOTUS unanimous (by J. Kavanaugh) holds that the doctor's group challenging the 2000, 2019, and 2021 FDA approvals lack standing. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Reskeet how old you are using a vague proxy: I played my first computer game in my high school. It was a game by a tabletop war game company loaded by cassette on a computer from a company that mostly sold diodes and such. The object of the game was to influence a nuclear Holocaust on your enemy.

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: Learning how a computer works with a little green turtle

Friends, I defy you to read the description of the Lil Abner movie and tell me you believe it was really made . en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27l_...

What movie did you watch as a kid that felt like just a fever dream until you realized as an adult it actually existed?

Li'l Abner (1959 film) - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Reskeet with your mental state

Stonehenge was in 3.14 time...

Anyone who's in to This Sort of Thing (synthesizers) and lives within 1,000 miles of New Braunfels, Texas ought to check this out:

Syntaur After Hours commercialwww.youtube.com Syntaur After Hours opens up our entire showroom for your private recording or sampling session. Use any and every synth that we have on hand to lay down tr...

I'm not going to repost the story because I've seen it once and it made me sick to my stomach. Here's a study on false confessions. If it seems like police prey on the young and the ill? There's a reason for that. www.law.umich.edu/special/exon...

False Confessions www.law.umich.edu

My wife and I both had "dilettante" on our dating profiles when we first met. No wonder we wound up together.

I think too many people who are brilliant in one arena, think that they are brilliant in every arena, and I think that causes a lot of problems societally This is why I am committed to being a true dilettante, being “middling” to “pretty good” in several things, and brilliant in absolutely nothing

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Apropos of *nothing*: Mark Sexton, one of the concept artists on Fury Road, takes on the vehicles and characters from Wacky races. Very much in the vein of what I'm slowwwly aiming for in 28mm.

This is good information. We saw a red-eared slider trying to cross Hwy 130 (speed limit 85) last weekend. The good folks of Texas somehow avoided it and it was still undamaged when we walked back and helped it across the road. Always move 'em in the direction they're trying to go.

What to do when you see turtles crossing the road in NY state... www.whec.com/local/how-to...

How to safely help turtles crossing the road during nesting season in NYwww.whec.com ROCHESTER, N.Y. — May 23 is World Turtle Day, and the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is asking drivers who come across one on the road to give turtles a “brake.” In fact, News10NBC’s N...

I swear, no one even looks at the alt text.

QT with a famous landmark you have seen. The World's Largest Pistachio Obvious Tourist Trap Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA

QT with a famous landmark you have seen. I've road-tripped across a lot of U.S. states and some of Canada, so I wanted to think of something less common than the Grand Canyon or the Statue of Liberty. Cadillac Ranch (1974) Public art installation Amarillo, Texas, USA

This seems relevant today: "Stand Your Ground" laws are designed to allow the right people to kill the wrong people without punishment. They are extremely fit for this purpose. You can probably guess who the wrong people are.

Stand Your Ground Laws | Bradywww.bradyunited.org “Stand Your Ground” laws legally allow a person to use a firearm to shoot and kill another person anywhere, at any time.

"(Clarence) Thomas says critics are pushing ‘nastiness’ and calls Washington a ‘hideous place’" Did somebody get his feelings hurt when it was pointed out how transparently for sale he is? Awww... www.politico.com/news/2024/05... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-V...

Supreme Court Ethics: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)www.youtube.com John Oliver discusses the Supreme Court, the ethically questionable gifts some of the justices receive, and an offer for Clarence Thomas that could ruin John...

I never tell my joke about Eurydice, but maybe it's worth another look?

I have a joke about Tantalus, but I stop telling it right before the good part.

Any time you here someone talking about people "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps," you might want to remind them of who Horatio Alger was...

Horatio Alger - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Is it just me or does building a highway to a danger zone seem really irresponsible?

Oof. Few things worse than hurting someone's feelings without meaning to.

It is surprisingly difficult to get Wikipedia to agree that Chicago is not on an ocean.

My wife just asked "Did they call it 'shock and awe' because it sounds like 'Chaka Khan'?" She almost managed it with a straight face.