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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4h

an online news distribution service where, early in the morning, a child with a list of subscribers personally DMs each person on the list a PDF containing the day’s news.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 10h

Forgot to post the link to the AP story my screenshot is from: apnews.com/article/rfk-...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being investigated for collecting dead whale

A federal law enforcement agency confirmed it’s opened an investigation into Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after he allegedly cut off the head of a dead whale and took it home two decades ago.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 10h

RFK should not be in the government because he once cut a whale’s head off without needing, or being asked, to do so.

Kathleen Kennedy said when she was 6 years old, her dad got word that a dead whale had washed ashore.

He got a chainsaw, cut off the whale's head and strapped it to the roof of their minivan for a five-hour drive home.

"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Kathleen Kennedy recalls. "We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us."

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 10h

Sometimes I get tired of maintaining my mustache, so I grow an even more unruly beard to hide it.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 11h

All this Dolly Parton stuff led me to finding out her sister, Freida, does (or did) music. And it sounds like Dolly doing her best Axel Rose. youtu.be/WFH70xERGAw?...

I Can Feel the Squeeze

YouTube video by Freida Parton - Topic

youtu.be

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 11h

Okay, they released another video, and it looked like pikmin because IT WAS PIKMIN.

Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 12h

Okay, I’m on board. It would make sense for it to be invisible lumas, except for all the music and the fact that everything looks exactly like it’s being carried by Pikmin.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 1d

Okay I definitely assumed it was a pikmin reference – the music! – but did not at all connect Mario Galaxy! I don’t see it, pls help

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 1d

But um… tree Paine?

Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 1d

Turkish food is a real mvp in Germany.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 1d

Congratulations, we’re all very proud of you

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 1d

What I’m getting from this is that the human chin is our Star Trek alien feature. youtu.be/VkYITGZccMs?...

Do Chins Make Us Human?

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 1d

I am not familiar with WSJ’s Matthew Hennessey, but he should not have a job after writing this hatefully framed story that lets him vent his trans hate under the guise of a perceived cultural vibe shift that he thinks excuses this. What a shitty dork. What a coward.

$Article lede that reads: One benefit of Donald Trump's second presidency is that Americans can talk openly about the trans delusion and what it's doing to our politics. In the cultural atmosphere of a year or two ago I probably wouldn't say this: The person who was sentenced Friday to 97 months in federal prison for attempting to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a 29-year-old man. His name is Nicholas Roske. Most of the mainstream media, and Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the Federal District of Mary-land, decided to endorse the fiction that Mr. Roske is now a woman named Sophie. Judge Boardman even said in court: "I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family ... accept their daughter for who she is."$

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

His hair was perfect.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

This is close to what I wanted to say but I wasn’t certain if it was correct. So thanks for weighing in!

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

I think it depends on whether they sell you the whole seat, despite you only needing the edge.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

I think so, but I’m no diehard fan. I just like Miyazaki a lot. The Lupin cartoons are fun, too, but Cagliostro is a work of art.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

Honestly, I’d love to see it regress to the old look.

Mac OS X dvd player app with pseudoskeuomorphic controls on a brushed metal-appearing panel

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

(Also, forgive the tumblr link. I saw the same info in a few places but that one put it the most succinctly)

Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

Those Superman eps are gorgeous, and it’s a short watch, only a few episodes. I think they’re streaming… somewhere? I bought the blu rays a few years ago and archived them.

Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

Ah, so it seems it was a Lupin episode that Miyazaki directed, and that he borrowed elements of later for castle in the sky! www.tumblr.com/3lix13/70242...

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💬 3 🔁 140 ❤️ 441 · So this is news to me - Lupin episode 155, directed by Hayao Miyazaki gives us the origin or prototype inspiration for the Laputian robots from ‘Castle in the Sky’. Here we se…

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

This is gorgeous.

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 4d

I haven’t seen it in at least 20 years! I’m very excited to rewatch it. Main thing I remember is… automatons inspired by the Max Fleischer Superman serials? Maybe that was a different Lupin the 3rd thing though?

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Wes Davis @blunderchief.blather.ing · 5d

Went to the library today and they had a copy of Castle of Cagliostro on DVD, so I checked it out. So I guess you could say my weekend is fully planned.

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