Tim Pierce

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what's a man like me supposed to do with all this extra savoir-faire?

Screenshot from the Constitution of Kentucky: Section 152 Vacancies -- When filled by appointment, when by election-- Who to fill. Except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, vacancies in all elective offices shall be filled by election or appointment, as follows:
Screenshot from Wikipedia: There are five post-tournament awards from the FIFA Technical Study Group: * the Golden Ball (commercially termed "adidas Golden Ball") for best player, first awarded in 1982. * the Golden Boot (commercially termed "adidas Golden Boot", formerly known as the "adidas Golden Shoe" from 1982 to 2006) for top goalscorer, first awarded in 1982; * the Golden Glove (commercially termed "adidas Golden Glove", formerly known as the "Lev Yashin Award" from 1994 to 2006) for best goalkeeper, first awarded in 1994; * the FIFA Young Player Award (formerly known as the "Best Young Player Award" from 2006 to 2010) for best player under 21 years of age at the start of the calendar year, first awarded in 2006; * the FIFA Fair Play Trophy for the team that advanced to the second round with the best record of fair play, first awarded in 1970.
Photo of the FIFA World Cup award, which is a shiny gold world globe being held aloft by what looks like gold-plated angels or soccer players or something. It is all very confusing.
From the 2006 movie THE LIVES OF OTHERS ("Das Leben Der Anderen"), Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler (actor Ulrich Muhe, a bald middle-aged white man with a lean, lined face) sits at a desk in a dim, dreary room wearing a set of headphones, with an oddly entranced, captivated expression on his face.
From the 1992 movie A FEW GOOD MEN, Tom Cruise wearing Navy dress blues, standing in a courtroom, shouting with his fist raised, in the scene where he yells "I WANT THE TRUTH!"
Still frame from the Amazon Prime show "The Boys" of Black Noir, a superhero wearing head-to-toe black body armor, including a black helmet and cowl, a black cloth gaiter covering the bottom of his face, and mirrored black lenses over his eyes. Every inch of his body is covered in black uniform, with no skin exposed anywhere.
Selfie of me, a white man in front of a carport and a rural house and garden, wearing a black t-shirt, a black motorcycle vest, a black motorcycle helmet, blue mirrored motorcycle goggles, and a black KN95 mask over the rest of my face.
The cover of Squeeze’s 1980 album ARGYBARGY, showing the five band members in washed-out monochrome photos, amid strange shifting angular shapes of blue and yellow and pink.
Detail of a Patriot Front chud wearing the requisite dopey khaki cap and white gaiter, but the gaiter is stretchen skintight against his face, clearly outlining his horrifying, enormous cod lips
Promotional photo for "Shining Time Station" of Ringo Starr (a white man with a bushy black beard and a bulbous nose) wearing a conductor's cap, winking at the camera and holding up a small Thomas the Tank Engine next to his face
Photo of Patriot Front doofuses, dressed in their dark blue overshirts and khaki caps with a dumb flag-shaped red white and blue logo, and white gaiters covering their mouth, and sunglasses covering their eyes, so their entire face is obscured except for a pathetic nose poking out like a sad micropenis. Caption reads "spent 4 whole years acting like a paper mask at Costco was the trail of tears just to voluntarily dress like a racist beekeeper in 110-degree heat"
Black-and-white photograph, with strong contrast suggesting a tintype or daguerrotype, of a man wearing a dark jacket, white shirt with tie, dark slacks, and black ten-gallon hat. He is holding a smoking cigarette in his left hand that is resting casually on the back of an upright chair, and his right hand has pulled back the hem of his jacket and is resting on a revolver holstered to his belt.
Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron in STAR WARS IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, captioned “Somehow, Platner returned”
Screenshot of a Facebook post by Cynthia Alberson: In all fairness, women should get to decide what is done with Mitch's body.
Screenshot from Wikipedia: Controversial article In July 2018, Forbes published an opinion piece by Mourdoukoutas titled "Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money". It was deleted due to backlash from American libraries and their communities. In deleting the article, Forbes noted that it "was outside of this contributor's specific area of expertise.”
The photo from the old "my friends are all just out of frame, laughing too" tweet, showing a young man with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and dark tie, seen in extreme close-up in the corner of a room.
The @dril "corncob" tweet: "im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
Selfie of me, a white man with white beard and mustache, wearing a teal t-shirt, 3-D movie glasses with red and blue lenses, and a ridiculous huge plush top hat in red white and blue fluffy stripes with white stars on the underside of the brim.
Screenshot of a Kickstarter page, saying $25,033 pledged of $25,000 goal
Screenshot from a Kickstarter page, reading $25,033 pledged of $25,000 goal
Screenshot of a conversation from Threads or something: markshrime Doctor here Giving an hour-long speech in 107˚ heat is not recommended thisone0verhere Shush smarken1 I heard Obama did two hours
Screenshot from a Wikipedia article: In September 2010, Stephen Pollard and The Spectator apologised and paid damages and costs to the organisers of the Islam Expo conference, in a defamation case involving a blog post written by Pollard and published in July 2008. The apology regretted the suggestion that "Islam Expo Limited is a fascist party dedicated to genocide which organised a conference with a racist and genocidal programme" and accepted that "Islam Expo's purpose is to provide a neutral and broad-based platform for debate on issues relating to Muslims and Islam."
Detail from the linked video of a tall white man wearing an American Flag button-down shirt and a red TRUMP ball cap, with a broad face and a white handlebar mustache, extremely long and well-trimmed, with curlicues coming off either end of it in the style of a villain of an old Perils of Pauline movie.
Screenshot from the linked video of some Fox News twink in a blue blazer saying “WOOOOOWWWWW” with a huge open mouth
From the 1976 movie ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, Ben Bradlee (played by Jason Robards, a middle-aged white man with gray hair), wearing a dark suit and bow tie, sitting on the edge of a desk in an empty newsroom, holding a sheaf of paper and looking at someone in front of him with a wry smile on his face.
Photo looking straight up, of a clear blue sky, with deciduous trees around the camera all going straight up toward the center of the photo
Selfie of me, a middle aged white man with a white mustache and goatee, wearing blue mirror shades, a black ball cap and a black leather motorcycle vest with patches that say “TOPAZ” and “SECRETARY”. Behind me are tables with other people wearing motorcycle vests and eating food, a grassy lawn area and a parking lot behind.
Photo of the Washington D.C. Reflecting Pool, with the Washington Monument at the far end, all cast to a uniform shade of dark red. The film logo "DEADPOOL" has been pasted in at the bottom.
Screenshot of a NYT headline "Steve Kornacki on the midterms, 2028 and how he got into statistics" with an inset button that says "FOR SUBSCRIBERS"
An image of green blobby-looking amoeba or algae things, with text in a cheerful slightly psychedelic font reading "Radical Leftwing Algae Vandalized My Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool." Some of the algae have little faces on them and are saying things like "I'm gay!" "Unionize water!" "Tax the phytoplankton". One is holding a "No Kings" sign and another one is wearing a full-face knit ski mask.
Screenshot from a conspiracy web blog, headlined "Gonzo Journalism Founder Popularized Adrenochrome, Highlighting Child Abductions and Abuse". The post includes a still frame from the movie FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, with Johnny Depp playing Raoul Duke, a journalist with oversized aviator sunglasses, wearing an ill-fitting suit and garish blue tie, carefully withdrawing a dropper from a medicine bottle.
Photo image of a meme made from the "baby wheel" video linked in this thread, showing a screenshot of the fish in the video and overlaid with several panels of words labeled things like "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?" and "WHAT DO WE DO JAY?"
Selfie of me (a middle aged white man with graying red hair and a white beard, wearing gold rimmed glasses and a dark blue button down shirt with white dots) and my father (an older white man with wispy graying red hair; wearing a blue check shirt and suspenders) with our arms around each other, standing on a wooden deck over a minigolf range.
Screenshot from the nature catalog app “Seek”: YOU OBSERVED A NEW SPECIES! Pignut Hickory It's been added to your observations. Learn more about this species here: VIEW SPECIES
Screenshot from the linked Wikipedia article: Catsimatidis has been described as a "longtime", "loyal", and "high-level Clinton donor". Catsimatidis donated a significant sum to the Clinton Presidential Center, thought to be between $100,000 and $500,000. Catsimatidis was a member of Hillary Clinton's finance team during her 2008 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, saying in February 2007 of Clinton, "She's unstoppable. She's got such a machine." Catsimatidis hosted a number of fundraising dinners with Bill Clinton at his home in New York that in total raised well in excess of $750,000 for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Catsimatidis has said that he is friends with Bill Clinton and that the former president "often" has flown in one of Catsimatidis' two airplanes. Hillary Clinton attended Catsimatidis' daughter's wedding.
Photo of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. -- now filled with bright green water following the Trump Administration's incompetent renovation and an algae bloom. From the side of the picture extends the hand of Judge Doom from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", holding up a cartoon shoe which has a terrified expression on its face, as though the pool is "The Dip" from that movie which dissolves cartoon drawings.
An advertisement, originally in Japanese, showing the musician Courtney Love wearing a tiara and holding up a 3.5-inch floppy disk, with a very small Kurt Cobain kneeling on her shoulder, and an inset photo of a 1980s-era personal computer (which is displaying a photograph of Love kissing Cobain on the cheek) The translated text in this image says: My boyfriend and I prefer floppy disks! memories and music Tsubai
Screenshot of a headline from the Babylon Bee satire site: Learning from Trump, Man Successfully Negotiates Wife Down To Absolutely Everything She Wants Post includes a photograph of a young dark-haired man and woman sitting at a table in front of a window, engaged in deep conversation, with an inset picture of Donald Trump smirking at the camera.
Screenshot of a weather map of central Massachusetts, with a storm front on the west and a red trapezoid outlining an area where tornado conditions have been sighted
Screenshot of two consecutive bluesky posts by @soulboundkai.bsky.social: 1. It took me literally 5 seconds on Google to figure out the Bluesky Licenses that are going around are AI [followed by a screenshot of a Github page for "kojira/bluesky-chan" described as "a chatbot using gpt3.5" 2. Upon further review, bluesky-chan is not the license thing going around; however they're made by the same person. So it's still highly likely that it's AI-based.
From the 1988 movie THEY LIVE, Rowdy Roddy Piper (a white man with shoulder-length shaggy ash blond hair and blue eyes, a craggy face, and wearing a plaid flannel shirt) standing in a bookstore and pulling down a set of oversized sunglasses to look over at them in shock at something in front of him. The sunglasses bear a striking resemblance to the Snap "Smart Glasses" in the quoted post.
Image of the "FRIENDSHIP IS UNIVERSAL" poster from the 1983 miniseries V, showing a smiling humanoid alien white man with blond hair, wearing an angular orange jumpsuit, and holding out his hand as though to shake hands. He is wearing a large set of sunglasses that strongly resemble the Snap "smart glasses" shown in the quoted post. A huge red "V" has been spray-painted over the poster.
The cover art for a DVD set of the tv show “Holmes & Yoyo”. Two men are on the cover wearing suits, one of them a heavyset white man with dark hair and a nervous expression, and a solidly built man with a lantern jaw sitting next to him and speaking on an old landline telephone. The second man has a panel open in his midsection showing some sort of keyboard and screen and circuitry. The credits at the top of the box say “John Schuck” and “Richard B. Schull”.
Cillian Murphy as Scarecrow in BATMAN BEGINS, wearing a terrifying scarecrow mask of a burlap sack, with a ragged mouth torn in a grimace and two eye holes through which he is staring balefully
Screenshot from the linked NYT article, with text as follows: The details of internal debates over how aggressive Mr. Trump should be in seeking to deport millions of immigrants and crack down on those protesting his policies are drawn from reporting for a forthcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.” In reporting the book, the authors spoke with Mr. Trump and conducted more than 1,000 interviews with a wide range of people close to him, including campaign officials, White House staff members, officials serving in government departments and agencies, former aides, donors, lawmakers, friends and business associates.
Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social: New theory: Congressman on Hantavirus Boat
Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Musicology Duck (@musicologyduck.bsky.social), which shows a photograph of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., but there is a huge tarpaulined scaffold in front of the building obscuring the name on it. The post is captioned: "Still be-tarped but the tarps have doors now"
Thanos from AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR while wearing the Infinity Glove, but with Jerry’s head
Screenshot from the article linked in the original quote tweet: At the SEAL Team, one could buy a T-shirt that said: “I support Iraqi Prisoner Abuse.” No joke. Did we really believe that war crimes as policy were good? Or were we 23 years old and doubling down on being tough and aggressive when our friends were trickling home in body bags and we had been taught that being tough and aggressive would keep us alive?
From the 1979 movie LIFE OF BRIAN, Eric Idle and Graham Chapman are standing in a desert setting with mountains behind them. Eric Idle is looking at Graham Chapman, who is staring straight ahead with a look of concern on his face.
Photo of actor Don Cheadle, playing Miles Davis, seen in profile wearing a white suit and playing a trumpet
From the 1988 movie MIDNIGHT RUN: FBI agent Alonzo Mosely (actor Yaphet Kotto, a middle-aged heavyset Black man with a broad face) mutters "this thing is gonna give me a heart attack" while a team of agents around him scribble notes and talk into their lapel radios.
Screenshot of the YouTube Live stream of construction workers at the Kennedy Center preparing to take Donald Trump's name off the building. Several people are working on the scaffolding in front of the building and one is walking on the very highest level of scaffolding where his name is. One person in the crowd in front of the building is holding up her arms in a cheering victory stance.
Screenshot of a YouTube livestream of the Kennedy Center, with a large scaffolding structure in front of it to allow access to the names on the front of the building. The scaffolding rises to where "DONALD J. TRUMP" is on the building and a number of workers in reflective construction gear and hard hats are walking around on the lower levels of the structure. A crowd is gathering on the street to watch and take pictures.
Screenshot from the linked NYT article: Mr. Musk’s allies said his net worth was justified by his impact, providing an example and incentive for those who want to build successful companies. Mr. Diamandis, the head of the XPrize Foundation, an organization that holds contests to encourage scientific breakthroughs, said Tesla and SpaceX were “raising the floor.” “The fruits of his labor are making him into a trillionaire, and they’re uplifting humanity,” Mr. Diamandis said.
Screenshot of a web form comment box, containing the following text: The Triumphal Arch should not be built. It is a travesty. There is no purpose to it and no valid historic event that it signifies. It is, to quote Wikipedia, not a "triumphal arch" at all, but a ''memorial arch' or 'honorary arch', essentially built by emperors to celebrate themselves." It is nothing but yet another grotesque vanity project for Donald Trump to demand fealty from the public. It has no place in Washington. Washington, D.C. is an extraordinary place because of the memorials that have been built to history -- to presidents of years past (Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson), to civic leaders (Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr), or to events of extraordinary national grief (the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the U.S. Holocaust Museum). One thing that it does not have is a monument that does not commemorate a former president or great national figure or an event of national significance - a monument that only exists because one person demanded it, out of adolescent insecurity. We do not need one now. The Arch should not be built. Do not build it..
Actor Oscar Isaac in STAR WARS IX: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, wearing an attractive collared work shirt and standing in front of a crew of identically dressed pilots, in the scene where he says "Somehow, Palpatine returned."
Screenshot from the linked L.A. Times article: Assistant film school professor Rory Kelley, who never met with Spielberg, wrote a brief critique of two films--”Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Jaws”--to determine whether this returning student had a firm grasp of lighting, sound, editing and script management. He did.
Table headlined with two columns, "RAC" and "Religious Faith", containing the following religious faiths: Agnostic Baha'i faith Buddhism Christian - Assemblies of God Christian - Baptist Christian - Brethren Christian - Catholic Christian - Church of Christ Christian - Church of God Christian - Church of the Nazerene Christian - Episcopal/Anglican Christian - Evangelical Christian - Jehovah's Witnesses Christian - Lutheran Christian - Methodist Christian - Non Denominational Christian - Orthodox Christian - Other Christian - Pentecostal Christian - Presbyterian Christian - Quaker Christian - Reformed Christian - Scientist Christian - Seventh Day Adventist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Hindu Islam (Muslim) Judaism (Jewish) No Religion Other Religions Sikh
Screenshot of a whole slew of Bluesky posts by "casanova-2121.bsky.social", all minutes apart, and all replying to different people with the text "I love you 😍" or "Good morning beautiful I love you 😍"