💫R

Trekkie. Spare me your human platitudes.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I don’t even know what to say anymore. Couches and now this.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

To the people asking what Obama did to make Republicans hate him, he's black and he won. That's it. There's no other reason. You can stop asking.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

I love the reaction of cat lovers upon seeing a cat. Every single time the level of excitement is like they've read about cats for decades but never actually seen one in real life and they're SO EXCITED. Every. Single Time. Even if it's the hundredth cat they've seen that day.

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Michelle Obama is clearly not a man, but Melania Trump is clearly a hooker who went from the whorehouse to the White House.

[Haley Britzky @halbritz]

As a first time cat owner I’m realizing much of having a cat is laying in bed and hearing something fall in the other room and wondering if it sounded serious enough to check it out now or leaving it until morning

[Dailymeow @Dailymeoww1]

🇸🇬 An interesting new initiative from Singapore; under a new policy introduced in certain areas, cats will now accompany security personnel on their nightly patrols. 🐱🚔

The goal is to both protect community cats and bring a little more warmth to the streets. From now on, the safety of Singapore's streets will be entrusted not only to security forces, but also to their four-legged partners. 😹

However, the system is already facing a few minor challenges. Some of the feline officers have reportedly been caught taking naps in the middle of their shifts, while others tend to disappear without notice and return whenever they feel like it. 😂

Even so, experts believe this may be one of the most adorable public safety projects in recent years. One thing is certain: this is a system that absolutely deserves to be adopted around the world. 🐱❤️🌍😹

[Cats Out Of Context @Cats_ooc]

Friends for life

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”

-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable

“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”

-powerful
-commanding
-honest

[Eric Jay @EricinAmericaX]

Just gonna leave this here for posterity purposes:

The Trump administration—in tandem with an FCC headed by a Trump loyalist—applied regulatory pressure on Paramount and threatened their merger with Skydance; trying to force them into settling a lawsuit that had no legal ground to stand on in the first place, all for the purpose of silencing one of Trump's critics (because he's an unparalleled, insecure narcissist and wanna be dictator)

Paramount execs yielded to the Trump regime; all but emboldening the government in its continued targeting of news networks, media organizations, journalists, law firms, judges, prosecutors, universities, etc, who don't toe the line and can be bullied, bribed, defunded or driven to exhaustion by tedious investigations and lawsuits.

Colbert has been the top performer in the late night slot for years, so this goes beyond a "purely financial decision." There had to have been plenty of other fiscal avenues for Paramount to take other than cancelling one of CBS's most recognized and time-honored shows. Even lower ranking, yet popular late night shows have avoided cancellation by tolerating a less drastic approach to addressing the show's, the network's, or the parent company's financial woes.

And of course CBS/Paramount are going to come out and say the show was hemorrhaging money with whatever figures they have to cook up in order to justify this decision. "A purely financial decision..."

And just like that, the conservatives who normally cry "fake news" when the media publishes or broadcasts anything they disagree with, are now suddenly trusting of the "mainstream media" while cheering on this outcome.

It's no coincidence that this incident corresponded with the Paramount merger and with the FCC's investigation and the bureaucratic pressure it applied to Paramount. The Trump Administration—alongside an FCC that is beholden to the president—abused its political power and leverage to get Paramount to fold. If you think these things had nothing to do with the decision to cancel The Late Show, then frankly, you're either being disingenuous or naive.

And the audacity of right wingers to claim that there was no political agenda involved here when their contrarian, cynical, crotchety and conspiratorial asses would be drumming up all kinds of theories if this situation had seen one of their favorite shows get cancelled after a dubious legal battle involving a democrat administration. Which would never be the case because the Trump administration is unique in its dictatorial bullying of private institutions.

It shouldn't have to be said, but if you have any principles at all, you don't submit to the authoritarian whims of a government hell bent on tightening its grip on the media—no matter the cost—because the consequences ripple.

And as a consequence of this, The Trump Administration will emerge from the situation more empowered than ever as it continues its crusade against free speech and the free press. Meanwhile, Paramount will be viewed as sacrificing the independence of private businesses for the sake of a f-cking merger. A merger! What a damn cliche.

Nobody should be satisfied by this outcome, but Trump and his supporters view the unraveling of our democratic institutions; the defunding of independent journalism; the normalizing of authoritarianism; and all the repeated attacks on the constitutional rights and civil liberties of their political enemies as "wins." Because at the most fundamental level, they believe it's only *their* rights that deserve protecting, it's only *their* speech that has a claim to being free, it's only *their* "news," *their* opinions, *their* talking points and perspectives that are worthy of being defended.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun.

The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

[Doug Arrowsmith (insert blue check here) @ArrowsmithDoug]

Letterman tonight on Colbert as a parting shot to CBS after tossing a shitload of Paramount property of the roof of the Ed Sullivan theatre..."Good night and good luck motherfuckers!"

[Variety @Variety]

David Letterman Sends Stephen Colbert Off ‘The Late Show’ in Style — By Destroying CBS Property https://t.co/8iH51cbnAj

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Haunted by this passage from Fahrenheit 451 in which a retired professor describes how the abolition of reading began with the shuttering of newspapers and the closing of college humanities departments.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

NASA told the world that, on July 19, 2013 a spacecraft would be photographing Earth from Saturn.

They published the exact time. They asked everyone on the planet to go outside and smile at the sky.

Thousands of people did.

This is the photo it took.

If you were alive in July 2013, you're somewhere in this picture.

From 898 million miles away, the universe waved back.

[Michael Okuda @MikeOkuda]

This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see:
https://t.co/Y979JhPyo9

[MillG (blue rondo a la czech) @grainreader]

@bryanbehar @JamesTate121

[Professor Pingosaurus @Pingosaurus]

The cat flap in my kitchen door is now officially renamed the Straits of Hormuz as it seems to be opening and closing every five seconds and I’m not sure when I agreed to any of this.