Michael Stewart

@stewart.bsky.social

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Faster than a rocket scientist, smarter than an Olympian

A text from The Blood Connection offering $70 for blood so you can “gas up your car”
A screenshot from etymonline, reading: bunk (n.2) “nonsense,” 1900, short for bunkum, phonetic spelling of Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. The usual story (attested by 1841) of its origin is this: At the close of the protracted Missouri statehood debates in the U.S. Congress, supposedly on Feb. 25, 1820, North Carolina Rep. Felix Walker (1753–1828) began what promised to be a “long, dull, irrelevant speech,” and he resisted calls to cut it short by saying he was bound to say something that could appear in the newspapers in the home district and prove he was on the job. “I shall not be speaking to the House,” he confessed, “but to Buncombe.” Thus Bunkum has been American English slang for “nonsense” since 1841 (it is attested from 1838 as generic for “a U.S. Representative’s home district”).
Guy with a mustache saying oooooof
A blue coloring book with a red title: Don’t Play With Guns. It features a beige cartoon dog aghast that his peer, an orange cat, is holding a gun.
a tweet saying, time to take a big sip of coffee and log into betterment
The memo emoji, featuring a yellow pencil and a piece of paper. Zoomed in close you can see that the paper has the words from the famous Apple ad, “Here’s to the crazy ones.”
A happy man dressed in running gear stands in front of the wienermobile, Oscar Mayer’s large hot dog-shaped vehicle.
A screenshot of Hallmark showing a “video birthday greeting” card for $5.99.
An illustration of dolphins jumping out of a sparkling ocean beneath a rainbow with hot air balloons in the background.
Two really cool dudes posing for a picture at comic con. One is weird Al, the other is just a teen in a green lantern shirt.
A blog post titled We Were Wrong from Kickstarter’s blog
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs with “maslow’s hierarchies” added to the bottom.
A tractor trailer truck with branding on the back gate stating Anything Anywhere Anytime