Donald

Permaquizzical afroputz, aspiring iconoclast, meatpuppet, soothsayer, muppet, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas. Sero sed serio

[Donald @sirspudd]

Pedigree pork about to be inserted in an absolute mutt

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

EXCLUSIVE: A multi-millionaire banker descended from royalty has been arrested by police hunting the 'Putney Pusher', the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

The suspect was detained today at his £1.4million home in west London.

A director at a private bank, he is a decorated former British Army officer who served in several major conflicts.

His arrest comes nearly ten years after a jogger shoved a female pedestrian into the path of a double-decker bus on Putney Bridge.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

“One of the main problems in the countryside is dogs. Muslims don’t like dogs.”

Liberal commentator complains that the British countryside is racist and Muslims avoid going there because too many people walk their dogs, which are haram in Islam.

These people are truly insane.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

The SNL sketch that got Damon Wayans fired mid-season was this "Mr. Monopoly" sketch where Wayans decided before the show went live to play his cop character as flamboyantly gay.
Wayans later said that Eddie Murphy previously warned him he better come up with his own sketch ideas or the other writers were going to write him as stereotypical black characters. "Everything Eddie said came true." As for why Wayans chose this particular moment to rebel, he said, "I snapped. I just did not care. I purposefully did that because I wanted [Lorne Michaels] to fire me," which host Griffin Dunne said he saw occur literally right after they all walked off stage.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Deranged leftist who mocks the ass*ssination of Charlie Kirk assaults interviewer at a Baltimore Pride event, aggressively grabbing him by the throat when he tries to walk away.

He needs to be immediately arrested. @BaltimorePolice

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is nuts

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Ben Affleck just described something Beethoven figured out 200 years ago, except Beethoven couldn't hear a single note of it.

In 1823, a copyist named Franz Schlemmer got a handwritten score from Ludwig van Beethoven that was almost unreadable. Notes crossed out, rewritten, crossed through again. Pages glued on top of other pages. Schlemmer had to guess at what Beethoven meant, and Beethoven, deaf for nine years by then, had to write corrections in conversation notebooks, furious at every mistake.

The 9th Symphony took seven years to sketch. Beethoven's surviving notebooks show the famous "Ode to Joy" melody went through over 200 versions before he landed on the one you know. Early versions are almost unrecognizable. He knew. He always knew. He reportedly threw early sketches across the room and started again.

Ninety percent of the time, you look at it and think: we've got a long way to go.

The hardest part was the collaboration he couldn't escape. Beethoven wrote music only he could hear inside his own head. But a symphony needs 200 musicians who can't read your mind. He had to explain everything. The markings in his scores were obsessively detailed, so specific that musicians sometimes couldn't make sense of them. What was clear in his deaf skull wasn't clear to anyone holding a violin.

What's obvious to you isn't always obvious to someone else.

The premiere of the 9th Symphony was May 7, 1824, in Vienna. Beethoven stood near conductor Michael Umlauf and moved his body to music he literally could not hear. Umlauf had quietly told the musicians beforehand: ignore him. Follow me.

The symphony ended and five thousand people erupted into applause. Beethoven kept conducting, his hands still moving to a piece that was already over.

He had no idea. A soloist named Caroline Unger walked over and physically turned him to face the crowd. Five standing ovations. Security had to step in before the audience would leave.

The first cut is a private failure. The final version is a public miracle. Between them is years of repetition, frustrated collaboration, and the exhausting work of making other people understand what you can only fully see inside your own head.

Film is collaborative. So is a symphony. So is every complex thing humans have built. The Eiffel Tower needed 300 metalworkers and faced a petition from 300 Parisian artists calling it an iron eyesore, before a single tourist had climbed it.

The first cut is supposed to be bad. The real work is the 200 versions of a melody that isn't right yet, the copyist who misreads your notation, the seven years between the first rough sketch and the night someone has to physically turn you around to face what you made.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Remember in 2017 when a woman was pushed into the path of a bus on Putney Bridge by a jogger?

Well, a 44-year-old multimillionaire private banker with ties to the Royal Family and a former British Army officer has been arrested on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm.

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

A Miami-Dade County, Fla. employee and an Indian aerospace engineer were among those arrested in a child s—x trafficking sting in Miami.

Leftists defending the non-white suspects say this was entrapment, racially biased and that they shouldn't be prosecuted.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

the purpose is not to remove young people from the internet. the purpose is to remove anonymity from the internet in a country where the government routinely punishes dissent with jail. the british caliphate is no longer free.

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

I stand by every word.

When Ensemble Studios was murdered, the devs didn’t “die”. Some of us founded four new game studios. Some went and pollinated the rest of the industry. Everyone benefited except MicroSoft, who killed us.

And we were a studio that ought not to die. Studios that SHOULD die should go.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Everything about this clip is brilliant.

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

What do you want us to do, shoot her?

[Donald @sirspudd]

Preeclamsia treatment is looking promising: https://t.co/pBsh4a5CZr

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

So many of the silly debates about the sexes breakdown by normal guys in healthy relationships/ marriages and women who say things like this:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@wholemars If I were, the douchebags at Verge would have been dead long ago 😂

[Donald @sirspudd]

The US governemtn has nice fat udders: https://t.co/WOSVzIO9ci

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

>” Without the silicon Satan you are devoid of your own thought.”

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

If this turns out to be the case, it will be a brazenly political decision that's inexcusable.

No social media app glorifies hate and violence more than Bluesky. Just last week, the large and influential user Ken White called for Elon's assassination. The post is still up!