I have found people’s preferences for hot and cold beverages do not deviate based on the weather.
I’m a hot coffee man. 100 degrees out and the a/c is broken? Don’t care. Bring me my hot coffee.
Similarly, an iced coffee drinker will drink iced coffee during a North Dakota winter.
Today's ephemera: Yipes!: https://mitchw.blog/2024/09/06/todays-ephemera-yipes.html
Please enjoy this brief series of animated GIfs from the immortal movie “Tombstone." https://atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/759117938781470720/tombstone-1993
book cover - Bloodline To Murder - 1960 https://www.tumblr.com/oakendesk/749096247550410752/book-cover-bloodline-to-murder-1960-artist
@tiffanycli Opposite for me. 96 degrees out and I'm thinking a nice hot cup of coffee would be nice.
I told the organizer that if he had accidentally mislabeled the regular coffee as a decaf, I would give him a call at 3:30 in the morning to let him know. (2/2) 🧵
I went to the La Mesa-Foothills Democratic Club event last night, and they had a coffee urn out with the usual fixings. Normally, I am a coffee snob who buys gourmet beans, grinds them at home and drinks it black, but last night I poured a cup of the institutional decaf, added coffeemate and a packet of Splenda, and it was delicious. It was so good that I had two more. (1/2) 🧵
On other other hand, Kamala says she worked at McDonald's. But it's not on her resume. So did she REALLY work at McDonald's? (4/5) 🧵
I can understand why undecided voters are finding this such a difficult decision! (5/5) 🧵
He's also an admitted sexual predator. He's on tape admitting it and those tapes have been widely and publicly played. Around two dozen people said they are his victims. He was sued over it, lost and the judge said he's a rapist.
He's a convicted criminal. Dude's a felon, no different from a guy who sticks up a 7-11. (2/5) 🧵
Add this to his mishandling of the Covid crisis. No matter how serious or trivial you think Covid is and was, you can still look at Trump and say he failed. Either it was a horrible pandemic or a hoax. Either way, Trump failed to protect us. (3/5) 🧵
Trump is telling us that we need to "get over it" about school shootings.
A major podcast network supporting Trump is supported by big Russian money. I've seen their alleged talking points -- it's basically the Trump campaign party line.
There are credible allegations Trump took $10M cash from the Egyptian government.
We know he was openly accepting payoffs during his Presidency -- it was widely discussed at the time. Even he talked about it. (1/5) 🧵
@manton My number one use case would be people's names floating above their heads.
C.W. McCall, Popular Science magazine, 1976 https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/1esb0l0/on_the_road_id_be_all_alone_without_my_midland/
An Informant Exposes The Inner Workings Of The Ku Klux Klan [Fresh Air]
"Joe Moore, a former Army sniper turned FBI informant, shares how he infiltrated the KKK and helped foil a plot to assassinate then Sen. Barack Obama. Moore explains how hate groups are growing. His new book is ‘White Robes and Broken Badges.’" https://www.npr.org/2024/08/12/1197973316/fresh-air-draft-08-12-2024
Long Island Expressway in 1961 blizzard https://www.facebook.com/groups/45296156244/?multi_permalinks=10160030255226245&hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen
Now the person least willing to participate in a "trust fall" team building exercise.
Bob hit “reply all” one time too many: “A worker on an office hiking retreat to a national forest in Colorado had to be rescued after 14 of his colleagues allegedly left him stranded on a 14,230-foot mountain, authorities said.” https://abcnews.go.com/US/office-retreat-awry-worker-allegedly-stranded-colorado-mountain/story?id=113207945
Joyce Dewitt and her dog, 1970s https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCelebs/comments/1esg7k9/joyce_dewitt_and_her_dog_1970s/
“… a defunct missile-silo site in North Dakota; and a twenty-thousand-square-foot cave in Arkansas used by its previous owner to raise earthworms. (Favorite bit of real-estate marketing copy: ‘The worm room speaks for itself.’)” (3/3) 🧵
After weeks of scrolling, I found a handful of dream hideaways on the market whose sellers were willing to let me take a tour. There were two bunkers in Montana, one of which sleeps at least ninety; a prepper bunker in Missouri that features an inconspicuous entrance and a conspicuous arsenal of guns (not included in sale, but makes you think twice before criticizing the kitchen-countertop choice)…. (2/3) 🧵
@coyoty That was a dealer extra.
@coyoty Holy shit. Try this https://mitchw.blog/2024/08/30/heres-something-i.html
@mandaris Or jelly beans.
@jessekelber Especially if there's no Internet access.
@lewism Tumblr has unique affordances, chiefly the way it handles reblogs. But yeah Tumblr becomes a layer on top of Wordpress. Almost like a plugin.
@coyoty Better than bats in his belfry.
@estherschindler Same.
@JoshuaHolland I feel a connection with him even though I'm not a jock, veteran, hunter or outdoorsman. But I'm a cishet white Jewish dude who works in a corporate job, been married to the same woman 30+ years, lives in the suburbs, drives a Subaru Forester. And I support women and my LGBTQ+ friends, colleagues and neighbors. That's just normal.
2/2
@coyoty Needs to be perfectly clean.
@gozzy OK fine under 50 then.
@eurobubba And since then you've forgotten them?
(Does anybody under 60 even remember Theodore Sturgeon anymore? Poul Anderson?) (4/4) 🧵
I was an English major in college in the early 1980s, and then it was breathtaking, revolutionary and controversial to suppose that the author was not the ultimate authority on their own work — that readers and authors were coequal creators. Only the greatest minds of literary analysis were capable of comprehending that rarified thought, and many considered it blasphemy. (2/4) 🧵
Today, deprivileging the author is commonplace, and every 14-year-old fan is just as great an authority on the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Kevin Feige.
The transitions in the art of genre reading might go a long way to explaining why 99% of the sci-fi and fantasy being published today just bounces off me. Even the award-winning stories. Maybe even especially those. I fail to connect with them. And yet, when I was a teen, I consumed science fiction voraciously. (3/4) 🧵
@marjolica Ow!