VanVelding

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We should just keep jokes as jokes. The GOP should not look at funny lil' comics from the internet and pin them to their fucked up vision board.

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The following are the biggest takeaways from the Heritage Foundation’s 922-page political playbook designed to bolster Trump’s power:

Highlights From The Heritage Foundation’s ‘Project 2025’www.theonion.com Several high-ranking members of Donald Trump’s former administration recently released a stunning, highly detailed document outlining how they would overhaul the federal government should he be reelec...

I don't usually do these, but this was fun. youtu.be/sI1SLHEC98I?...

Hardware Store CEO: We're Rebranding (For Some Reason)youtu.be The owner - I mean, CEO - of Midland Park Hardware is here to disrupt...the nail industry?Watch over 15 minutes of bonus footage for this sketch by joining D...

Me, staring at my conspiracy board: Hm...they always cast Manny Jacinto as a really hot dude.

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they passed a fucking parkinsons bill you ghoulish dumbshits www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

Bill Signed: H.R. 2365 | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the President signed into law: H.R. 2365, the “Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act,” which requires the Department of He...

Mouse problem solved?

Nothing like seeing a copy-pasted meme wash up on the beaches of my feed and blocking everyone that doesn't add alt text or a source.

*Preparing my great essay on absurd humor vs. lol random humor vs. nonsense humor and engraving it on stone tablets to throw at people who do the wrong ones*

Just finished the outline for a story I'm doing in a BattleTech AU I've called "Miniverse," and it feels good. Next steps: -Create 'sets' for a starport for the final fight. -Assign the 'mechs on file to Mechwarriors as fits their character & story Next-next step: Write a rough draft 😢

I haven't seen this interview about Mechwarrior 5: Clans posted anywhere yet: www.sarna.net/news/talking... #Battletech #Mechwarrior

Talking MechWarrior 5: Clans With Narrative Director Chris Lowreywww.sarna.net We have a special treat for you this week! I've been in contact with Chris Lowrey, Narrative Director for the upcoming MechWarrior 5: Clans. He managed to escape PGI's brutal internal security service...

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July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)

"returning the consequentiality to sex" "ending recreational sex" There it is.

I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

I guess between Bojack Horseman, Prodigy, Love+Robots, The Three Body Problem, and NCIS, I probably do need to get a few months of Netflix and do some binging.

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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Okay, so in 2367, when the Borg were about to assimilate Earth, the Borg Queen changed Jean-Luc Picard's genetics (aka, "star tresticles") so that IF the Borg impossibly failed and then another Starfleet captain got lost in the Delta Quadrant in 2371 and then traveled back in time from 2404 (1/3)

youtu.be/lxrCyqXzHI8?...

four dramatic reinterpretations of that 90s sears air conditioner commercialyoutu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqZZgVxnCk

The "I will catch up," that sounds natural gives me hope for, at the very least, the elements of Clan culture in this. #Battletech youtu.be/PNO76yYgug8?...

MechWarrior 5: CLANS - Character Featurette - STAR COMMANDER JAYDENyoutu.be Greetings Warriors,Welcome to our second MechWarrior 5: CLANS Character Featurette, featuring Star Commander Jayden played by Rory Saper. Our Character featu...

This is what the internet was made for. youtu.be/5RTQz-UPz-0?...

Solo but it's I'm Han Solo for the creditsyoutu.be inb4 taken downCoulda edited the sound better but eh

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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.

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Part of what’s happening with the Biden political media freakout is about power to act. Journalists have felt feeble and useless during the Trump era. They write their usual articles about Trump and it has little effect on his approval. Not so with Biden.

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“Almost the entire population”

Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.

Almost entire population in Gaza now displaced amid fresh Israeli offensive | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military this week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ...

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If Athens and Sparta are Athens and Sparta, what does the rest of Greece look like? Well, a lot like Naxos. youtu.be/3AM0qHi2qeE?... -B

History Summarized: Naxos, The Island Frozen In Timeyoutu.be ⭐🦀 SPACE CRAB! 🗡🦀 KNIFE CRAB! We've got two new constellation pins in our merch store! https://overlysarcastic.shop/ Most of History isn't the big momentous events – most of it is false starts, unfinished projects, and relics of ideas too grand to realize. So for an illustrative example, let's look at Naxos, the Greek island frozen in time. SOURCES & Further Reading: "Oxford Archaeological Guides: Greece" by Christopher Mee & Antony Spawforth "Histories" by Herodotus, sections 1.60-1.64, 5.28-5.31 "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides, section 1.98 "History of Greece" by JD Bury "Naxos" by Mark Cartwright from World History Encyclopedia "Temple of Apollo Portara, Greece" Google Arts & Culture MUSIC: "Phoibe The Orphan" from Assassin's Creed Odyssey OST by The Flight "Local Forecase" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 "I Know How It Feels To Be Lost" from Stray Gods, by Austin Wintory @awintory Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language? Check out our guide to contributing translated captions: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/community-captions

Me reading Legend of the Jade Phoenix when a guy taps Adian's 'mech to spin it around then double-taps it in the back armor like a boss: "Damn. He's good." Me, learning how to delete cockpits in Mechwarrior 5: "Actually, I think I could do that." #Battletech

It's weird to search a trending topic on this site and find so many folks I've already muted posting on it. Maybe...just not engaging with that.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

Listening to the Subspace Rhapsody soundtrack and thinking about how all the trauma in the world and being Khan's grandniece didn't make me connect with La'an, but her singing a sad song in her quarters and carrying the weight of her job did.

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Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes!

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Due to the fireworks, New York City's air quality is the worst in the world tonight. When AQI is low, it's a good idea to wear a mask to protect your health. But this could soon be a crime, as one of the mask ban bills prohibits masks at "lawful assemblies." #NoNYMaskBan