burn the oligarchy (taylor’s version)

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Buldak frozen spicy dumplings, in the freezer case
Carrots for sale. According to the sign, they’re “loose carrots”.
A collection of yellow-green fruit. Could be lemons, could be limes. The sign with their price says “Limes / Lemons”, so it’s no help in determining which.
Steinman said in an interview with Playbill about the inclusion of the song in his 1997 musical Dance of the Vampires: with 'Total Eclipse of the Heart, I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was Vampires in Love' because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark…
A one-star review at pirateship.com that reads “Do not trust these criminals”.
VFOX NEWS TSA sounds alarm after World Cup fans pack their bags with American staple
Naming Despite its name, the sauce does not contain any monkey glands.
A job posting for an elementary school counselor. Includes the words “this position requires frequent fingering”.
Orchestra section, second row.
Me wearing a disposable rain poncho.
A woman (me) indoors at an outdoor theater with several hundred other people, sheltering from a tornado warning.
A phone screenshot showing a tornado warning alert. Emphasis on the words TAKE COVER NOW!
A phone screenshot with two severe thunderstorm warnings, with 80 MPH winds.
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4.32 billion (years): Due to the gradual slowing of Earth's rotation, a day on Earth will be twice as long as it is today. To compensate, either a "leap day" will have to be added to the end of every day, or the length of the day will have to be officially lengthened by one day.
This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 May 2026.
Pointy-haired boss: our goal is to write bug-free software. I’ll pay a $10 bonus for every bug you find and fix. Dilbert: Yahoo! Alice: We’re rich! Wally: Yes! Yes! Yes! Pointy-haired boss: I hope this drives the right behavior. Wally: I’m gonna write me a new minivan this afternoon!
Obi-Wan Kenobi saying LocalTalk… now, there’s a name I’ve not heard in a very long time
MAN OF STEEL, WOMAN OF KLEENEX WRITTEN BY LARRY NIVEN
ST:TOS opener with the captain’s log quoting shittymorph from Reddit.
Captain’s log, stardate 47332.4. It has been 300 years since 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer’s table.
ST:TOS title card saying “ANOTHER FUCKING GODLIKE ALIEN”
ST:TOS title card saying “EPISODE IV: A NEW HOPE”
ST:TNG title card saying “How Soon Until Wil Wheaton Gets a Decent Storyline?”
ST:TNG title card that says “How Soon Until Gates McFadden Cones Back?”
ST:TNG title card saying “We Ran Out of Ideas Two Seasons Ago”
ST:TNG title card that says “Thank God Gene Isn’t Making Us Do Stories Like ‘The Omega Glory’ Anymore”
Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online): We should throw some money at domesticating anteaters. A weird, stretched out cat might be a good use of resources. cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social): what | see when I get home from work every day (a photo of cait’s cat adonis, stretched out on a windowsill)
A common grackle. Attribution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_grackle_in_PP_(36732).jpg
A paperback copy of Lock In by John Scalzi (@scalzi.com).
A result screen from Wordiest: DETAILED + WANK You scored 149 points, beating 99% of other players. Your 90.1 rating grew by 1.8 to 91.9! 0 lower rated players beat you. 1 higher rated player beat you.
Original post from @belledejour.bsky.social: When will everything stop being so fucking stupid Newer post from @belledejour.bsky.social: Just in case you thought there was a bottom of the barrel we busted through and found another one
Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social): Chicago remains undefeated. Cooper Lund (@cooperlund.online): Really loving all the visible nipples in Chicago tonight.
German: Warum hat dein Nachbar einen Bären? English: Why does your neighbor have a bear?
A cat in a cat bed next to a space heater.
A cat sleeping on a pink blanket on a lap.
A mess of collard greens braised with bacon and onions.
Gumbo in the making — chicken broth added to the roux and trinity, then bay leaves, garlic, Worcestershire sauce, black and white and cayenne pepper, sweet Hungarian and smoked Spanish paprika.
Roux just short of the dark chocolate stage.
Roux at the milk chocolate stage.
Roux at the butterscotch stage.
Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social: I've heard that some believe that whatever you're doing on New Year's Eve you'll be doing for the rest of the year. So that's me booked for a year of screaming at the top of my lungs, "Fuck You 2025 and all y'all assholes who starred in it." Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social: If what you're doing at midnight on New Year's Eve determines the course of your next year, I'm going to be seeing a lot of Richard Kind
A bowl of andouille sausage cut up.
A still from Anna and the Apocalypse
One of our cats sleeping on my lap.
German: Wir laden eine Schnecke zur Grillparty im Park ein. English: We are inviting a snail to the barbecue at the park
Seeking to restore American power and prestige, and using the slogan "Make America Great Again", Jarret embarks on a crusade to cleanse America of non-Christian faiths.
“One word: latency.”
A product named “Liquid I.V.”
Dennis from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia saying “because of the implication”
The #1 programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off: GitHub is down
Pope Leo XIV with a microphone
Duolingo: Warum gehst du mit deinem Arzt zum Strand? Translation: Why are you going to the beach with your doctor?
Kermit the frog with a scrunched face
A white mug with the six-color Apple logo and the name “Apple” in the original Macintosh-era branding font (Apple Garamond).
@qi.com: “A woman named Krystal Ball ran for US Congress in 2010. She lost.” @vontasbe.bsky.social: “Should have seen that coming, really”
App Store update for Duolingo, but the icon is slightly scrambled like something from a dystopian nightmare.
SUITCASES THAT BELONGED TO PEOPLE DEPORTED TO THE AUSCHWITZ CAMP
A hawk in a tree.
A screenshot of a video taken from the International Space Station of the aurora australis over Antarctica.