Tuesday, June 2, 2026

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Brit tabloids share the best stories. Oops, she did it again...

 
This article appeared on the front page of the US Sun today in the language of superlatives they love to use. Don't be fooled by the name - it's the US version of their UK tabloid.
THIS is the shocking moment a woman falls down a manhole on her way to work just hours after two men allegedly tried to steal the cover. Terrifying footage showed the unsuspecting 31-year-old plummeting down a drain after the heavy metal lid she stepped on suddenly gave way. In the harrowing CCTV footage, captured in Brazil, the female can be seen getting off a motorcycle on her way to work on Sunday morning. 
She is then seen strolling down a pavement as she uses her phone. Completely unaware of the loose manhole cover ahead of her, she paces ahead on her way to work. But just moments later, as she steps on the lid, the woman is swallowed into the ground.
 

The motorcyclist who dropped her off is understood to have raced to help her. She was rushed to Andaraí Federal Hospital in Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, and suffered moderate injuries, according to local media. Just hours before the horrific fall, two men were captured by the same CCTV camera tampering with the cover. Local authorities said they believed the pair were allegedly trying to steal the chunk of metal.





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We all know what a shitshow Hurricane Sandy was, right? The hurricane they refused to call a hurricane...

Have you guys heard this story? Pretty wild...
We all know what a shitshow Hurricane Sandy was when it made landfall at the Jersey shore in October 2012. Homes filled with water. Boats washed up on people’s lawns and on the Brielle Avenue bridge. Also, a real estate sign went missing.
This sign had been planted in back of a house for sale on Cedarcrest Drive, facing a narrow inlet called Debbie’s Creek. The sign was 18 by 24 inches and about a half-inch thick and made of plastic composite. It disappeared along with the post it was mounted to and was never seen again.
Until around May 14, 2018.  A man walking along the Plage du Pin Sec, near Bordeaux, spotted it. Evidently, Diane Turton, Realtors, needs no bottle to get its message out across the globe. As it turns out, its signs are seaworthy.  
The for-sale sign made to a beach west of Bordeaux, France about 5½ years later, according to the real-estate firm based in Point Pleasant Beach. "Having our signage wash up in France on the beach truly proves that Diane Turton, Realtors is a global real-estate company," Perry Beneduce, the firm's marketing director, said with a bit of a wink.

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When even the leftie loonies think it's stupid, well...

And The Guardian.com is about as leftie as it gets. 
An excerpt from one of their editorials today:
Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?
The Egyptians had their pyramids. The Anglo-Saxons had their barrows. And the Americans have their presidential libraries – the chief difference being that the leaders the US venerates are usually still alive at the opening.
Lacking a royal family or a state religion, the US presidency has swelled to fill the void, transforming over the decades into a national personality cult, complete with its own secular temples to these powerful men. The latest pharaonic edifice is about to open on Chicago’s south side, where it looms on the skyline as a towering totem to the 44th president, Barack Obama. He might have seemed humble in office, but in his post-presidential, Netflix-producing afterlife, Obama has erected the largest, costliest and most audacious complex of them all. Behold the $850m Obamalisk – or, as it sometimes feels morbidly like, the Obamausoleum.
 
To read the editorial in it's surprisingly scathing of this monstrosity, click here.




I gotta look up the word 'petulant'...

Iran said Monday it will no longer talk to the U.S. as long as Israel pounds away at Iran’s terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, in Lebanon. “The Iranian negotiating team will suspend ‘talks and the exchange of texts through mediators,’” the semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that Iran considers “the crossing of red lines in Lebanon and Gaza to mean direct war and the imposition of costs on its national security and the Islamic Resistance.”
This is some kind of weird schoolyard bullshit game for these people. They have somehow come to believe that we won't - or can't - squash them like the bug they are. I give DJT some credit for not having done so already, but the time of  'give them a chance to come around' is over. 
Every time we hold out a olive branch, they smack us in the ass with it. It may well be the start of WWIII, but I think it's time that we, once and forever, show these third-world porch monkeys what real power is. I have said enough on this.
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Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan said Thursday she has “nothing to announce” about a possible 2028 presidential bid, stepping back from her comment hours earlier that she will not run for president after leaving office later this year.
“You know, I never thought I would run for governor, so I guess I should know better than to say any of it. Never say never,”

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New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is claiming victory after the federal government announced it would restore visitation rights at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark.  Sherrill celebrated the decision, stating she had successfully pressured the feds to meet her demands and that the facility should never have been used as a detention center in the first place. However, the Department of Homeland Security pushed back sharply, stating that Sherrill and her allies helped create the violent protests and unrest that forced the temporary suspension of visitation in the first place.
DHS officials made it clear: “We did not cave to the Governor’s demands. Visitation was suspended because the violent riots outside the facility made it unsafe for our officers, detainees’ families and lawyers to visit the facility.” The agency added that now that they have secured the perimeter, visitation can resume safely. Sherrill and other Democrats had visited the facility amid protests and complained about conditions and lack of access.
This is peak Democrat hypocrisy. Sanctuary politicians create chaos by obstructing federal immigration enforcement and encouraging protests, then claim victory when the resulting mess forces a partial retreat. New Jersey residents deserve leaders who support law enforcement, not those who turn detention facilities into political battlegrounds.
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Lucille Ball and Paula Stewart enacting a scene from the Broadway musical Wildcat 
on the television program The Ed Sullivan Show, 1961

An article in the Saturday Evening Post archives from 1961 quoted a TV critic who voiced what many Americans were saying: that watching television was a waste of time.  
Television was a well-established medium by that year. Ninety percent of Americans had TVs in their homes and were watching six hours a day on average. Other than a few cultural and public-affairs shows on Sunday afternoon, critic Harriet Van Horne said there weren’t five hours of programing a week worth watching.
Television critics were given more attention in that era, when many Americans still hoped the networks would add artistic and intellectual content to their programing. Ms. Van Horne complained that TV didn’t try to raise the tastes of mass audience. She was particularly disapproving of westerns, which she said dulled the human sense of outrage at violence.
The only reason people watched the tripe on TV is because it was free and available. 
“Today in American History with Jeff Nilsson” can be heard on select public radio stations across the U.S.
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A small surviving detail from old Penn Station. These Art Deco-style escalator terminals in Manhattan’s Penn Station show the kind of craftsmanship once built into even the most functional parts of transit architecture. The original 1910 station was largely demolished in the 1960s, but a few metalwork details still remain like ghosts of its lost grandeur. Crafted when pleasing the eye was as important as function.
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The dress was originally red...

 
They have these elaborate dance competitions. Very fancy, 
very competitive. This is a friend of mine doing what she loves.
Would that I could...

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Monday, June 1, 2026

Buying a gift for that special 'someone'? Are the batteries included?

 

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You gotta be some kinda extra-special jerkoff to spread his ashes like that...

A tourist appeared to pour a loved one’s ashes out on the streets of the world-famous Greek tourist destination Santorini in a bizarre viral stunt. The visitor, believed to be British, has sparked fury after footage of her surreal moment was shared on social media.
In the video, the group of visitors can be seen singing Bob Marley’s 1977 hit “Three Little Birds” as they walk through the streets of Oia on the north side of the island. The woman sprinkles ashes on the cobbled streets as they walk past residents’ houses.
 

It isn’t clear exactly when the video was filmed, but it was first shared on Reddit on May 25. It was reportedly the deceased’s final wish to have their ashes scattered in Santorini, an island that has seen soaring tourist numbers due to social media influencers.

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You think he invented it for your comfort? Think again, sweatball...

In 1902, a printing company in Brooklyn had a soggy problem. Humidity was warping the paper and smudging the ink, ruining entire print runs. Publisher Sackett & Wilhelms turned to a 25-year-old engineer named Willis Carrier for help.
Carrier built a machine that blew air over chilled coils, removing moisture while lowering temperature. He had no intention of cooling people. He was just trying to save the color registration on magazine covers. Carrier's machine used cooling coils to stabilize humidity, which accidentally lowered the air temperature as a byproduct.
The byproduct - human comfort - was an accident. But it was an accident that changed the shape of cities. Without air conditioning, Phoenix and Dubai - and even here in NoCen Florida -  wouldn't exist, and summer movie blockbusters might still be played in sweltering theaters.
This industrial solution laid the foundation for comfort-cooling systems in movie offices, department stores, and homes decades later.
All because a printing plant needed to dry its paper. 





Even Major League Baseball can't get off the LGBTQXYZ123++ train...

 
Okay - here's the pop quiz for today, class: Name all of the MLB players who've come out of whatever closet they were 'hiding' in. I'll wait here.
Major League Baseball has replaced its traditional logo across social media and digital platforms with a Pride-themed version for June, featuring the league’s iconic batter silhouette set against the colors of the Progress Pride flag as 'Pride Month' begins across the United States.
The annual logo change coincides with dozens of LGBTQ+ events planned by teams throughout the league, including Pride Nights, special merchandise giveaways, community partnerships, and fundraising efforts. 
Yet the campaign also highlights a longstanding reality within professional baseball: despite years of inclusion initiatives, there are currently no publicly out active players on a Major League Baseball roster.
 

So - it bears the question - just who the fuck are they proud of, and why? Certainly, the vast majority of people in the stands aren't Moms and Pops and kids. It has to be all the queens sitting in the bleachers they want to be proud of. 
This shit makes my brain hurt.

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