Mid-Morning Art Thread

Zelfportret met schede
Carel Willink

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Alas, poor Yorick! I'm not first.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (p9rFX)

2 Title checks out, I guess.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

3 Or am I?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (p9rFX)

4 Christopher Walken is in the house.

Posted by: huerfano at January 16, 2026 09:31 AM (98kQX)

5
"Zelfportret met hond" would be better. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (tgvbd)

6 Carel Willink was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

7 Okaaaaay…

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

8 Or Peter Weller. I can't decide.

Posted by: huerfano at January 16, 2026 09:32 AM (98kQX)

9 Nice self portrait except for the skull.

Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (lJ0H4)

10 Skull and bones

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (Kt19C)

11 I bet he’s a hoot after three martinis.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM (IhIKR)

12 Skull and bones
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 09:33 AM

Good heavens, a Yale man!

Posted by: Thurston Howell, III at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (kgE5c)

13 Don't worry, buddy. You won't look anything like that skull. Your forehead's twice the size.

Posted by: red speck at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (Ve/HL)

14 Self-Portrait with Skull," is a notable painting by Carel Willink, created in 1936. This work is a significant example of Willink's style, which is often associated with Magic Realism.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:34 AM (NpAcC)

15 Thinking first of mortality would be a tough way to start every day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (dAH7n)

16 I guess this guy didn't really understand the role of the doctor when he applied to play McCoy on Star Trek

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (sKqQm)

17 Well done portrait. I bet he was fun at parties.
The skull belongs on a pike out front where the moose can't reach it.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (d4s+f)

18 That’s a really good artist CBD. His work on the hand is really impressive. Almost photographic detail overall. That talent is pretty uncommon.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (pDt9x)

19 How is he holding the paintbrush, since he’s got both hands on the skull?

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

20 He's dead, Jim.

Posted by: Bones at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (JCZqz)

21 So hey Mr Artist...are you free to paint some album covers?

Posted by: Megadeath at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (sKqQm)

22 Wiki-

The skull serves as a powerful symbol of mortality, while the artist's introspective gaze invites viewers to ponder their own existence.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

23 He became a camp guard, right?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:37 AM (s0JqF)

24 His mom's offstage, whispering, "Smile, Carel. Smile"

Posted by: red speck at January 16, 2026 09:37 AM (Ve/HL)

25 I need to cast this guy in my next project!!!

Posted by: David Lynch at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (JCZqz)

26 Alternate title:

"Self-Portrait with the Last Guy Who Called Me "Carol"

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:38 AM (iJfKG)

27 "Zelfportret met hond und bruste" would be better.

FIFY

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 09:39 AM (Riz8t)

28 Nicely detailed
Hope he didn't kill that person

Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 09:39 AM (1YNCp)

29 How is he holding the paintbrush, since he’s got both hands on the skull?

prehensile genitalia

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 09:39 AM (Riz8t)

30 I wouldn't hang, but I do like this.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

31 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (NcvvS)

32 A throne of skulls starts with but one....

Not that one. The other one...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 09:40 AM (U2OZr)

33 Well done but creepy

Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 09:41 AM (VE6XX)

34 Could also be an artist for the police.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 09:41 AM (EyfuW)

35 He's skilled that's for sure.

Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2026 09:41 AM (lJ0H4)

36 Might make an interesting impression on my next Zoom meeting.

Posted by: Donny Brook at January 16, 2026 09:41 AM (vmAac)

37 Would hang. In the hallway leading to the restrooms. At the big funeral home on the other side of town.

Posted by: Sophomore interior design student at January 16, 2026 09:42 AM (2Ez/1)

38 So you think you can screw around just because of my nice shirt and office? You think that YOU can walk into MY office and hand me a line of bullshit like that? What, you think that this mahogany desk, accent lighting and wall-to-wall window mean I'm some kind of pussy who will but up with your crap?

Go look out that window, bucko. Look straight through it, at eye level. What do you see? That's right, motherfucker. You see SKY. Nothing but air. Wanna know how I got up this high, in an office this big, with furniture this polished? Of course you do. Every single mewling little lying quim in this building wants to know. They think they can get it by being little bitches, playing little bitch-ass games and then collect their prizes.

But you're wrong. Deep in your heart, you know you're wrong. You wanna get this desk? You want this office? You see yourself parking your little pansy ass in MY chair? Well there's only one way to do it. Let me show you the guy who I took this office from.

Posted by: Business ain't for sissies at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (GyQIQ)

39 Let’s see him hold an AoSHQ flaming skull with a pudding cup.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

40 I hate a wrinkled shirt and yet that's what I love most about this painting.
Go figure.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

41 Skullduggery!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (2Ez/1)

42 You can tell the dude in the picture probably played in a pretty awesome avant-garde electronic music act.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (uEmCf)

43 Maybe I'd hang this in a long dark hallway and I'd have a secret passageway behind to watch people through hidden eye holes but not in creepy way but in a cool totally normal friendly spying on all my guests way.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (3uBP9)

44 You can tell the dude in the picture probably played in a pretty awesome avant-garde electronic music act.

Where's the plastic flower pot on his head?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (Riz8t)

45 You can tell the dude in the picture probably played in a pretty awesome avant-garde electronic music act.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:43 AM (uEmCf)
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NEIN! VE ARE NOT LIKE KRAFTWERK! NOT ALL AVANT-GARDE GERMAN MUSIC IS KRAFTWERK!

Posted by: It's exactly like Kraftwerk at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (GyQIQ)

46 When the 7th Day Adventist missionary shows up with a skull, and not The Watchtower, you should probably keep the door closed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (HXT0k)

47
No!
Why?
And like, don't.

Posted by: Don Black at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (ZxPkt)

48 That is an impressive forehead.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

49 Artist had a rather turbulent personal life. Married a much younger woman after his second wife died. Then dumped her for another much younger gal.

Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (lJ0H4)

50 Zelfportret met schede
Carel Willink

**********

Self-portrait with Skull - a limerick

Carel Willink was a pretty cool cat
But his outfit was not quite "all that"
From his head down to his feet
His look us incomplete
It cries out for a ten-gallon hat!

Posted by: the guy who does limericks at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (/iMjX)

51 That is an impressive forehead.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (RIvkX)

That's a sixhead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (ExV1e)

52 I think tucker will teach the marxist how to laugh.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 09:46 AM (EyfuW)

53 45 NEIN! VE ARE NOT LIKE KRAFTWERK! NOT ALL AVANT-GARDE GERMAN MUSIC IS KRAFTWERK!
Posted by: It's exactly like Kraftwerk at January 16, 2026 09:45 AM (GyQIQ)

Sure, it could be Einsterzende Neubauten.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (uEmCf)

54 Honestly, I never thought I'd be first for some Neue Sachlichkeit self-portrait as Hamlet.

And I agree with the others, that's a fivehead, at least.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (p9rFX)

55 13 inch neck and a size 9 hat. Unsettling.

Posted by: Pencil-necked Geek at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (oftw2)

56 His work on the hand is really impressive. Almost photographic detail overall. That talent is pretty uncommon.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (pDt9x)

Agreed. I like his skill.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)

57 I actually like this. I don't want to hang it up, but it is well done. I could see it in the club room of a gentleman's club. The real kind. The kind with dark paneling and leather armchairs where the upholstery is held together with big, brass rivets and silent men in tuxedos fill up the drinks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (GyQIQ)

58 Voorhoofd

I had to look it up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (RIvkX)

59 Skullduggery might be a fun word in a limerick.

Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

60 46 Thought The Watchtower was Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

61 Dutch painters, man.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 16, 2026 09:48 AM (0bjKf)

62 Artist had a rather turbulent personal life. Married a much younger woman after his second wife died. Then dumped her for another much younger gal.

Posted by: Tuna

=====

What's your point?

Posted by: Leo Dicaprio at January 16, 2026 09:48 AM (8AONa)

63 49 Artist had a rather turbulent personal life. Married a much younger woman after his second wife died. Then dumped her for another much younger gal.
Posted by: Tuna

Nice info, but more importantly, did he paint any of them naked?

Posted by: Booby Fan at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (oftw2)

64 It's well done. I do like it. Would probably hang.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (g8Ew8)

65 Gives a whole new meaning to skull f*ck

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (GK5Hx)

66 >>> His work on the hand is really impressive. Almost photographic detail overall. That talent is pretty uncommon.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (pDt9x)

Agreed. I like his skill.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)

I get the feeling the artist has studied a lot of human internal anatomy, skeletal structure, musculature, circulatory systems, perhaps without the subjects consent.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 09:50 AM (3uBP9)

67 >59 Skullduggery might be a fun word in a limerick.
Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)

Ponders the word buggery...

Posted by: Muldoon's Frontal Cortex at January 16, 2026 09:51 AM (GTqXr)

68 I get the feeling the artist has studied a lot of human internal anatomy, skeletal structure, musculature, circulatory systems, perhaps without the subjects consent.

Some help cops.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 09:51 AM (EyfuW)

69 We would approve.

Posted by: Silent men in tuxedos full of alcohol sitting in leather chairs with big brass rivets at January 16, 2026 09:52 AM (2Ez/1)

70 Thought it was Josef Goebbels at first.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 09:52 AM (8zz6B)

71 63 49 Artist had a rather turbulent personal life. Married a much younger woman after his second wife died. Then dumped her for another much younger gal.
Posted by: Tuna

Nice info, but more importantly, did he paint any of them naked?
Posted by: Booby Fan at January 16, 2026 09:49 AM (oftw2)
________
You can always trust the Horde to get to the important questions in life.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 09:53 AM (s0JqF)

72 Did he buy the skull, or dig it up himself like that fellow on the news in Pennsylvania?

Posted by: Jonathan Gerlach at January 16, 2026 09:53 AM (oftw2)

73 Thought it was Josef Goebbels at first.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not pinched and weasely enough.

Posted by: Tuna at January 16, 2026 09:54 AM (lJ0H4)

74 Abby. Abby somebody.

Posted by: Marty Feldman at January 16, 2026 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)

75 I actually like this. I don't want to hang it up, but it is well done. I could see it in the club room of a gentleman's club. The real kind. The kind with dark paneling and leather armchairs where the upholstery is held together with big, brass rivets and silent men in tuxedos fill up the drinks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (GyQIQ)
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This guy would be the founder of said club.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 09:55 AM (ESVrU)

76 What you don't want to see in your Ring camera at midnight

Posted by: one hour sober at January 16, 2026 09:55 AM (Y1sOo)

77 I like the one of St. Jerome with a skull on his desk better.

Posted by: no one at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (qFwJc)

78 Skullduggery might be a fun word in a limerick.
Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick

***********

Diggin' Up Bones - a limerick

Burke and Hare were known for their thuggery
For mugging and all sorts of buggery
But they got into trouble
At a grave with a shovel
Engaged in pernicious skull-duggery

Posted by: the guy who does limericks at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (/iMjX)

79 Jeez, it looks like a self portrait of Adolf Eichmann.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (hxusQ)

80 *What you don't want to see in your Ring camera at midnight*

Candygram.

Posted by: Chevy Chase at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (2Ez/1)

81
The guy in the portrait listens to the most avant-gardeiest Krautrock song evah! Every! Single! Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=GRxvQmTTz5I&list=RDGRxvQmTTz5I&start_radi

o=1

(remove spaces)

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (iJfKG)

82 What you don't want to see in your Ring camera at midnight

Posted by: one hour sober

I mean, it kinda depends, if it's unexpected it's one thing, but if you put out that hit a year and a half ago and someone's finally collecting on it, that's another thing entirely...

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 09:57 AM (OUMaO)

83 Bravo!

Posted by: Person who always enjoys a good limerick at January 16, 2026 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)

84 Thought it was Josef Goebbels at first.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Jeez, it looks like a self portrait of Adolf Eichmann.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 09:56 AM (hxusQ
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Hmmm. Skull imagery.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)

85 This guy looks like he's fun at parties.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (SSEhk)

86 Thought it was Josef Goebbels at first.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Heh. Holding Magda's skull, or maybe one of their children's, that she murdered.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (XeU6L)

87 >>> 66 His work on the hand is really impressive. Almost photographic detail overall. That talent is pretty uncommon.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 09:35 AM (pDt9x)

Agreed. I like his skill.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 09:47 AM (n9ltV)

I get the feeling the artist has studied a lot of human internal anatomy, skeletal structure, musculature, circulatory systems, perhaps without the subjects consent.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 09:50 AM (3uBP9)

Was that wrong?

Posted by: Hannibal Costanza at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (ULPxl)

88 Looked up some of his stuff. A couple made me think of the Saki story "On Approval".

Posted by: Eeyore at January 16, 2026 10:00 AM (s0JqF)

89 >85 This guy looks like he's fun at parties.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 09:59 AM (SSEhk)

You know he has a few gallons of bleach, rolls of plastic sheeting and 100lbs of quicklime in the trunk of his car.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 16, 2026 10:00 AM (GTqXr)

90 What you don't want to see in your Ring camera at midnight

Posted by: one hour sober

Oh....my!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi Opts For the Sunday Night Special at January 16, 2026 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

91 This guy would be the founder of said club.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Yale, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:01 AM (XeU6L)

92 86 Thought it was Josef Goebbels at first.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

###

By the way, I recently saw the Nuremberg movie starring Russell Crowe. Really enjoyed it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)

93 80 *What you don't want to see in your Ring camera at midnight*

Candygram.
Posted by: Chevy Chase

Delivered by the Candyman.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM (GK5Hx)

94 #78, that is beautiful. What a shame I'm too lazy to figure out how to properly quote.

Guy looks worried to me, like he's thinking "Gee, I hope the other body parts don't start surfacing, too."

Wouldn't hang, but it is interesting. I guess this is what museums for - pictures you don't want to see every day, but once in a while it's nice to say 'hmmmmm. interesting."

Posted by: Persnickety at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM (NXsA/)

95 I always like to point out that the first major staring role for Angela Lansbury was the movie Gaslight.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 10:03 AM (HXT0k)

96 It's 0800, and I have bacon in the skillet. And covfefe.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:03 AM (8zz6B)

97 Why did everyone want to hire the headhunter?

Because he had such a great skull set.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

98 Wouldn't hang, but it is interesting. I guess this is what museums for - pictures you don't want to see every day, but once in a while it's nice to say 'hmmmmm. interesting."
Posted by: Persnickety at January 16, 2026 10:02 AM

+++
Which pretty much explains the popularity of The Art Thread.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 10:04 AM (2Ez/1)

99 He has a whole lot of paintings of himself. One of his favorite subjects.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:05 AM (3uBP9)

100 He looks… troubled.

Translation says "Self-portrait with sheath." Sheath? Is that what the kids are cal

Posted by: mindful webworker - giving sheath at January 16, 2026 10:05 AM (FMpsC)

101 The Shah live on TV

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

102 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller joined RFD-TV's Jennifer Vickery Smith to tell us his latest findings show these outbreaks are caused by indigenous screwworm flies, and the warning he is sending to producers and pet owners.

"Check livestock, check pets, it's going to be across the border. I hate to say it, but it's inevitable."

Poison them Sid. That's your go to for everything. Poison them!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:06 AM (GK5Hx)

103 Speaking of Art, my Art History Prof. wife is flying to Italy today. Florence to give a presentation, Rome to attend one. She's probably been there 20 times in our 25 years of marriage, I have yet to tag along.

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 16, 2026 10:07 AM (vV6n9)

104 62 Artist had a rather turbulent personal life. Married a much younger woman after his second wife died. Then dumped her for another much younger gal.
Posted by: Tuna
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What's your point?
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio

Yawn

Posted by: Woody Allen at January 16, 2026 10:07 AM (JCZqz)

105 Does Ivermectin kill the screwworm larvae?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:08 AM (8zz6B)

106 The Shah live on TV
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I can't believe Goldie isn't on YouTube liveblogging right now.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:09 AM (GK5Hx)

107 Yawn
Posted by: Woody Allen

IKR?
— Zombie Charlie Chaplin

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:09 AM (77rzZ)

108
I'd use this for the cover of a Re-Animator compilation...

Posted by: American Hawkman at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (6nplM)

109 He says 12,000 killed but the protests continue

The regime continues its murderous rampage

He calls for outside help.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (RIvkX)

110 Did the Steelers win a playoff yet?

Posted by: the skull at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (gKWVE)

111 Does Ivermectin kill the screwworm larvae?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I honestly don't know.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (GK5Hx)

112 AOP,

Yes, ivermectin is effective against screwworms, particularly the larvae, and is authorized for use in livestock to combat infestations.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:12 AM (GK5Hx)

113 He says large portions of the military have defected

He calls for targeting IRGC command and control inside Iran

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:12 AM (RIvkX)

114 I honestly don't know.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:10 AM (GK5Hx)

Looked it up. Yes, in the early stages, at least.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:13 AM (8zz6B)

115 Yawn
Posted by: Woody Allen

No kidding.

~ Karoline Leavitt's husband

Posted by: one hour sober at January 16, 2026 10:14 AM (Y1sOo)

116 So the guy robbed the cradle and a grave? He's a menace!

Posted by: I Blame His Parents at January 16, 2026 10:14 AM (oftw2)

117 He calls for targeting IRGC command and control inside Iran
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 16, 2026 10:12 AM (RIvkX)

Mosques could be considered to be IRGC command and control, too. Do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (8zz6B)

118 Hmm. That skull is no trophy. Would not mount.

Posted by: The Predator at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (JCZqz)

119 Those screwworms sound like nasty little buggers.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

120
Looks like an Arrow Shirt model.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2026 10:16 AM (tgvbd)

121 Is Karoline Leavitt showing yet?

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

122 At last, a baroque lutist who makes O-faces while performing:
youtube.com/watch?v=7A4vR1NFS_I

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:17 AM (N8ZBc)

123 Move over Bill Gates we have a new largest landowner in America. Rams owner Stan Kroenke purchased 1M acres in New Mexico and is now the champ. His total ownership is 2.7M acres. Thats about the size of Connecticut.

This is insane. No person should be allowed to own that much land.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (kgFPv)

124 The Iran situation seems more and more like a Tom Clancey novel

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (XeU6L)

125 >>> 53 45 NEIN! VE ARE NOT LIKE KRAFTWERK! NOT ALL AVANT-GARDE GERMAN MUSIC IS KRAFTWERK!

True, there's also Rammstein. And David Hasselhoff.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (gWBY1)

126 Don't worry, guys. It'll be OK.

BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

127 "The Iran situation seems more and more like a Tom Clancey novel"

'Clark' probably engineered the overthrow of Pahlavi.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (N8ZBc)

128 123 Move over Bill Gates we have a new largest landowner in America. Rams owner Stan Kroenke purchased 1M acres in New Mexico and is now the champ. His total ownership is 2.7M acres. Thats about the size of Connecticut.

This is insane. No person should be allowed to own that much land.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (kgFPv)

"HE'S AN EEEEEEEEEEEEEEENOS!"

--Vince McMahon

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (uEmCf)

129 These contemporary versions of Shakespeare's plays can be rather hit and miss in their effect.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (XjTSo)

130 This is marginally better than the sepia-tone dreck posted on Wednesday and Thursday, so i would say things are looking up.

Posted by: Kudos To The Art Curator at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (oftw2)

131 This is insane. No person should be allowed to own that much land.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:18 AM (kgFPv)

Now he gets to pay taxes on it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (8zz6B)

132 A federal judge Thursday dealt a significant legal setback to the Trump administration in its efforts to obtain voter data held by states. In a 33-page order, U.S. District [ Clinton ] Judge David O. Carter in California dismissed a lawsuit that sought to give the Justice Department access to the Democratic-led state’s voter files, including records like Social Security numbers and driver’s license information. California is one of 23 states, along with Washington, D.C., that the Justice Department has sued for refusing to hand over the voter data. The lawsuit against California was filed in September.
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That's why I am calling them cartel judges now.
Lot's of thundering and purple prose in the opinion with bromides like "sacred right to vote" and "bled and died for the right to vote."
Which he then jumps the canyon to "and if the DOJ has that data, someone, somewhere, somehow might not vote."
If they weren't so stupid and bought, they might actually write a sound opinion.
As it is, they're just performing for their choir.
That is, they're so deranged, they don't even see there's no meat on their bone of an opinion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (HXT0k)

133 >>> BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

When the left thinks healing, they think therapy goats and James Taylor. They are not sending their best.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (gWBY1)

134 Ugh you gullible fools. There is no killing in Iran. It’s all Jew propaganda. The mullahs are benevolent leaders who love their people. Stop buying the Zionist lies.
- Cucker Tarlson

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (kgFPv)

135

Jebbers, Nazi Much?

Posted by: Bristol Type 6 at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (OLJhz)

136 large portions of the military have defecated

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)

137 >>> Those screwworms sound like nasty little buggers.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

I think I've read before that a good bit of the stereotype of the dumb poor white southerner in the early 20th century was really because of widespread screwworm infestation of the population, that they got from walking around barefoot. It can cause severe cognitive impairment.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (3uBP9)

138 I'm getting "Connection timed out" on X links.

downdetector says no problems reported.

Who am I to believe, downdetector or my own lying browser?

Posted by: mindful webworker - what the x? at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (FMpsC)

139 >True, there's also Rammstein. And David Hasselhoff.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (gWBY1)

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/W3q8Od5qJio?si=9oFqmhjvG0d_KRP_

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (GTqXr)

140 Heino is the premier German musical artist. There is no question about it.

Posted by: Heino Fan Club #52, Hamburg at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (oftw2)

141 This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

I'm with Sefton. Send battalions to Minnesota and squash this shit. It's already getting started in the Philly area with the child-sheriff of Bucks country (33) ending all cooperation with ice as it makes the illegals uncomfortable.

Posted by: night lifted at January 16, 2026 10:22 AM (kJmLc)

142 I think I've read before that a good bit of the stereotype of the dumb poor white southerner in the early 20th century was really because of widespread screwworm infestation of the population, that they got from walking around barefoot. It can cause severe cognitive impairment.
Posted by: banana Dream

From what I've read, it was hookworm.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

143 >>> Now he gets to pay taxes on it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:20 AM (8zz6B)

And environmental studies won't allow him to build, mine, or drill on it because it is the one valley where some stupid lizard lives.

Where did he find one million acres of land to buy in New Mexico?? Out west, land like that is either owned by a tribe or the federal government.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:23 AM (gWBY1)

144 BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)

When they are done with the therapy, they will have to sell the goats two villages away.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (8zz6B)

145 Isn't there some blogger gal, food and ranch life, something like that, who owns along with her husband a good part of a U.S. state?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (3uBP9)

146 See? He's sorry.

Timothy Busfield Faces New Sexual Abuse Claim by 16-Year-Old Girl, Whose Dad Says Actor 'Begged' for Therapy Instead of Police: DA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (L/fGl)

147 136 large portions of the military have defecated

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In the woods?

Posted by: The Charmin Bears at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (2Ez/1)

148 123 Move over Bill Gates we have a new largest landowner in America. Rams owner Stan Kroenke purchased 1M acres in New Mexico and is now the champ. His total ownership is 2.7M acres. Thats about the size of Connecticut.

This is insane. No person should be allowed to own that much land.
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It's the reverse effect of a lot of Westerns. Big landowners buying up farms & ranches everywhere & keeping it for their own private use. Meanwhile the price of beef & pork stays high, but moneybags has a nice view. The long-term effects of letting the Leftists control public education have taken effect.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (XjTSo)

149 Looks like an Arrow Shirt model."

Van Heusen, before the eyepatch...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (XuXeR)

150 I think I've read before that a good bit of the stereotype of the dumb poor white southerner in the early 20th century was really because of widespread screwworm infestation of the population, that they got from walking around barefoot. It can cause severe cognitive impairment.
Posted by: banana Dream

Oh, yeah? Then how in tarnation did I become a sixth-grade graduate AND a Double-Naught Spy?

Posted by: Jethro Bodine at January 16, 2026 10:24 AM (oftw2)

151 Looks like an Arrow Shirt model.
Posted by: Hadrian
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Arrow had a shirt, or collar, called 'Trump'.

pic: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256476876519

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:25 AM (XeU6L)

152 "I'm getting "Connection timed out" on X links."

I'm getting 'Grok is under heavy usage right now. Please try again soon.' Skynet is aborning as we speak.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:25 AM (N8ZBc)

153 "@marklevinshow 16h
Here's a third idea: seize all vehicles used to block ICE agents. Forfeit them as instrumentalities used in violation of federal law. And sell them."

Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 10:25 AM (vbXSk)

154 Is Twitter down for anyone else?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (lFFaq)

155 X is a mess right now.

Posted by: night lifted at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (kJmLc)

156 120 ... "Looks like an Arrow Shirt model."

Hardrian,

Had to laugh. That was my first thought. Maybe aimed at depressed northern Europeans.

Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (yTvNw)

157 >>> From what I've read, it was hookworm.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

Ah, ... I just thought they were the same worms. I mean, hook, screw, they probably have rivetworms, stapleworms, could they please come up with different names to help dummies like me?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (3uBP9)

158 BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
____

We have, how you say, "therapy goats" too in our culture.

Posted by: Somalian at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (Dv3i1)

159 Alternate title:

"This Guy Just Saw the New Trailer For "The Bride!" The New Bonnie and Clyde, Girlboss Musical Version of The Bride of Frankenstein and Wants His Time Back...But, No. It Is Gone. Gone Forever."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgcUArO3Uo&t=144s

Posted by: naturalfake at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (iJfKG)

160 In the woods?
Posted by: The Charmin Bears "

That's not a pope....

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (XuXeR)

161 138 I'm getting "Connection timed out" on X links.
downdetector says no problems reported.
Who am I to believe, downdetector or my own lying browser?
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If X gets any slower it's going to start generating images of rabbits.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (XjTSo)

162 A backdrop, and in fact the driving force behind the unrest in Iran, is that the Iranian Rial is now trading at a black market rate of up to 1.5 million to the dollar. It was already bad, at about 42,000 to the dollar before this current round began.

No matter what the immediate result of the military situation is, the Iranian economy is in a state of total collapse. That will not change no matter what the current government does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (uWKK8)

163 The Velcro worms are irritating, but pretty easy to remove.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

164 >>> X is a mess right now.
Posted by: night lifted at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (kJmLc)

Yeah it's down. I think some big things are probably afoot somewhere. Or not. Who knows.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (3uBP9)

165 I guess I should have done F3 for X or Grok instead of Twitter before asking.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (lFFaq)

166

Eyepatch Mccain has been very quiet lately. Someone must have pictures of him in bed with a dead girl and a live boy...

Posted by: Bristol Type 6 at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (OLJhz)

167 158 BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
____

We have, how you say, "therapy goats" too in our culture.
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Beat me to it!!

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (XjTSo)

168 They both deserve it.

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado gives Trump her Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (L/fGl)

169 We're sitting right here.

Posted by: The Torx Head Fastener Worms at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (2Ez/1)

170 Is Twitter down for anyone else?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 16, 2026 10:26 AM (lFFaq)

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Looks like same for me. I tried to ask Grok if X.com is down:

"Grok was unable to reply.
Something went wrong, please refresh to reconnect or try again."

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (jQtSL)

171 to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

When the left thinks healing, they think therapy goats and James Taylor. They are not sending their best.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (gWBY1)

Need candles? Call me

Posted by: Gwyneth Paltrow at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (/6GbT)

172 American Psycho, the painting
Would hang in my lab.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (Oql3v)

173 Forfeit them as instrumentalities used in violation of federal law. And sell them."

Have you seen these rigs? Food and trash everywhere, squealing drive belts, dents....

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (XuXeR)

174 142 I think I've read before that a good bit of the stereotype of the dumb poor white southerner in the early 20th century was really because of widespread screwworm infestation of the population, that they got from walking around barefoot. It can cause severe cognitive impairment.
Posted by: banana Dream

From what I've read, it was hookworm.
Posted by: Bulg
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Hookworms and illiteracy. New fangled IQ tests for WWI help cement the idea as 'scientific'.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (WDjG6)

175 The Velcro worms are irritating, but pretty easy to remove.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

BAH! I hate that tearing sound!

Posted by: Morty Seinfeld at January 16, 2026 10:29 AM (PSEDc)

176 > Where did he find one million acres of land to buy in New Mexico?? Out west, land like that is either owned by a tribe or the federal government.
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Trump mentioned divesting the Feds of land they own, but do nothing with. Mostly vast swaths out west. Same thing with buildings they own, but don't need to.

No clue if he followed up on earlier musings about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 10:29 AM (U2OZr)

177 large portions of the military have defecated
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)

Assuming this is true... the best outcome that the regime could hope for is a protracted civil war.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:29 AM (ExV1e)

178 I think you mean Pioneer Woman. Their family owns a sizeable chunk of OK

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (+mUZM)

179 The Velcro worms are irritating, but pretty easy to remove."

Try that at 0200 hours. It'll wake everyone

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (XuXeR)

180 Frasier when they found that skull under their old rental house they lived in as young nerds.

Posted by: Niles Crane, homosexual at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (n+1Zi)

181 twitters back, a little now. Not 100%.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (3uBP9)

182 "BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”"

Years ago, our city planted 'peace poles' in the bad neigborhoods to try to stop the violence. The thugs pulled up the poles and beat each other with them.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (N8ZBc)

183 BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
While Democrats fan the flames against ICE agents. City staff are being offered quiet reflection time with goats.
This is not parody. This is Minneapolis.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:19 AM (L/fGl)
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"Therapy goats?"

That can't possibly be misinterpreted as something else....Especially if Somalis are involved.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (ESVrU)

184 BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats."

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"Wait, I recognize that goat bending over -- it's Beta O'Rourke!"

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (jQtSL)

185 166

Eyepatch Mccain has been very quiet lately. Someone must have pictures of him in bed with a dead girl and a live boy...
Posted by: Bristol Type 6
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He picked a stupid fight with big youtuber Sean Ryan pissing off the online folks that like Sean. He pissed off his GOP colleagues by being a drunk on a foreign trip so he got a six month time out from such. His district has also been redrawn in the TX redistricting. Has competition in the primary.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (WDjG6)

186 22 Wiki-

The skull serves as a powerful symbol of mortality, while the artist's introspective gaze invites viewers to ponder their own existence.
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Ah, so that means the theme of the work is a thanatotopsis.
(Heh, I got to use that word for the first time in a few years.)

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (XjTSo)

187 >>> It's the reverse effect of a lot of Westerns. Big landowners buying up farms & ranches everywhere & keeping it for their own private use. Meanwhile the price of beef & pork stays high

It's the meat packing industry, it's like a cartel and has a chokehold on the small farmers. I have friends with families that own small cattle farms, it's been a problem. If they would let ranchers and farmers do more of their own beef harvesting, we would have more in stores.

It has to get fixed and no one's doing it. And the meat packers are controlled by people trying to reduce our beef consumption.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (gWBY1)

188 A backdrop, and in fact the driving force behind the unrest in Iran, is that the Iranian Rial is now trading at a black market rate of up to 1.5 million to the dollar. It was already bad, at about 42,000 to the dollar before this current round began.

No matter what the immediate result of the military situation is, the Iranian economy is in a state of total collapse. That will not change no matter what the current government does.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (uWKK

If you held rials, why even try to trade them at that rate. Hoard them, and later sell them on ebay as collectors' items, like Zimbabwe dollars and Confederate currency.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (8zz6B)

189 >>BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

The unbalanced, Millennial "safe space" kids of the 2010's are now in the workplace and recreating the indulgent, unchallenging, and entitled environment they were provided throughout childhood and college.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (LlV+5)

190 inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

Goat yoga is so 2018...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:32 AM (XuXeR)

191 I prefer Velcro worms to shoe laces.

Not a joke.

Posted by: Creepy Joe Biden at January 16, 2026 10:32 AM (2Ez/1)

192 Where ya goin', Stymie?

Fishin.'

Got worms?

Yeah, but I'm goin' anyway!

Posted by: Matthew "Stymie" Beard at January 16, 2026 10:32 AM (oftw2)

193 The Velcro worms are irritating, but pretty easy to remove.
Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:27 AM (77rzZ)

https://youtu.be/F89McWFENTs

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (ExV1e)

194 Years ago, our city planted 'peace poles' in the bad neigborhoods to try to stop the violence. The thugs pulled up the poles and beat each other with them.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (N8ZBc)

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* snort *

"Stakes Have No Home Here!"

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (jQtSL)

195 The unbalanced, Millennial "safe space" kids of the 2010's are now in the workplace and recreating the indulgent, unchallenging, and entitled environment they were provided throughout childhood and college.

At this point, I welcome our new alien overlords. Couldn't be any worse.

Posted by: Alien Collaborator at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (REOC8)

196 If they would let ranchers and farmers do more of their own beef harvesting, we would have more in stores."

Can't have that. It might lead to other things, like selling non processed milk...

/ your government at work

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (XuXeR)

197 >>large portions of the military have defecated

Think you mean "defenestrated."
Yeah, that's it!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (LlV+5)

198 Ask your doctor if Thanatotopsis is right for you.

Posted by: Big Farma Marketing Department at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (2Ez/1)

199 Portrait of a First World Problem:

Stop digging. Put it back where you found it. Call a priest to bless the house.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (yFLFB)

200 COVID 26: Now with furin cleavage, protein spike, AND velcro hooks.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (N8ZBc)

201 >>> I think you mean Pioneer Woman. Their family owns a sizeable chunk of OK
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 16, 2026 10:30 AM (+mUZM)

Yeah, thanks. That's the one. I've used her recipes a lot.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:34 AM (3uBP9)

202 large portions of the military have defecated
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)

Mostly once a day, but twice a day is not uncommon.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (g8Ew8)

203 At this point, I welcome our new alien overlords. Couldn't be any worse.
Posted by: Alien Collaborator at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (REOC

++++
So .... exactly like Minnesota, then?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (GyQIQ)

204 Ah, so that means the theme of the work is a thanatotopsis.

A good dewormer can fix that.

Posted by: The Wellness Company at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (oftw2)

205 large portions of the military have defecated

Think you mean "defenestrated."
Yeah, that's it!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (LlV+5)

No shit?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (8zz6B)

206 200 Furry cleavage? Don't want none of that.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM (77rzZ)

207 Ah, ... I just thought they were the same worms. I mean, hook, screw, they probably have rivetworms, stapleworms, could they please come up with different names to help dummies like me?
Posted by: banana Dream

Hookworms are not native to the US but brought over by trade with Africa in slavery times and became endemic in the Southern soil like fireants eventually did. Africans have some natural resistance to hookworms, whites did not so going unshod in the South is not a good idea.

Screwworms fly and the one that is a problem is a parasitic blowfly except it likes live instead of dead tissue.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (WDjG6)

208 Willink clearly is a good technical artist. The anatomy is accurate and he really captures the look and texture of the fabric and the skull. But then we are left with 'so what'. Maybe this was an art school assignment, not something to be displayed.

He was part of an imaginary or magical realism movement: well drawn scenes with some incongruent elements. That's fine for sci-fi or fantasy paperback covers. But without the context of the story it just feels unimportant and isolated.

Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)

209 large portions of the military have defecated
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 16, 2026 10:21 AM (Kt19C)
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I would hope so! Regular troops are effective troops!

Posted by: Military Nutritionist at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (GyQIQ)

210 One of the surprising or maybe not so surprising things they discovered, both physical health and literacy declined dramatically between the world wars.

IQ testing for the government arose in part because of the idea of tailoring the Army’s needs with a soldier’s aptitude.

By world war two it was obvious then that the new fangled methods of instruction were terrible, and that nutrition during the Depression was awful as well. Vitamin deficiencies, things like Rickets had exploded

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (2BdZb)

211 162 A backdrop, and in fact the driving force behind the unrest in Iran, is that the Iranian Rial is now trading at a black market rate of up to 1.5 million to the dollar. It was already bad, at about 42,000 to the dollar before this current round began.

No matter what the immediate result of the military situation is, the Iranian economy is in a state of total collapse. That will not change no matter what the current government does.
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I do believe the revolutionaries are convinced that can change if they can get someone in power who knows more about governing than reading a holy book, ordering punishments, and giving piles of money to terrorists.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (XjTSo)

212 >>No shit?

Nope, just lots of breaking the glass ~~ceiling~~ wall to get outside. I think?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (LlV+5)

213 I shit you knot.

Posted by: Just the punchline at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)

214 118 Hmm. That skull is no trophy. Would not mount.
Posted by: The Predator

I'll "mount" it. After adding a few more holes...

Posted by: Jeffrey Dahmer at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (JCZqz)

215 Which one is the self-portrait?

Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (pVn4H)

216 Ask your doctor if Thanatotopsis is right for you."

Don't take Thanatotopsis if you're allergic to it or any of it's ingredients.

"Side effects include nausea, upset stomach, diarrhea
Drowsiness, fatigue, dizziness dry mouth, changes in taste
Headache skin reactions like flushing or rash
Severe allergic reactions (swelling, difficulty breathing)
Chest pain or severe shortness of breath
Signs of internal bleeding (e.g., black, tarry stools with blood thinners)
Severe or persistent pain, swelling, or dysfunction
Changes in heart rate or rhythm "

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (XuXeR)

217 >>BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

Therapy. Goats.

Great. The kids are in charge.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (kgE5c)

218 The Velcro worms are irritating, but pretty easy to remove."

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Many years ago, there was a rumor that the Belgians had invented silent velcro for their military. I don't know what kept them from conquering the world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (L/fGl)

219 >>> Venezuelan opposition leader Machado gives Trump her Nobel Peace Prize
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM (L/fGl)

The blocked and reported podcast hosts were complaining that Trump told her she should give it to him, and she's too nice a person to say no to the orange man. So apparently she did. But honestly, it's a great gesture. And she's openly credited him for doing more to help the Venezuelan people than anyone else. She knows what the gesture symbolizes to the woke press and the commies.

If the regime currently still running Venezuela doesn't get with the program, and implement a democracy, she needs to be put in charge. And I say that as someone that's been very non interventionist since we totally screwed up in Afghanistan.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:37 AM (gWBY1)

220 That's fine for sci-fi or fantasy paperback covers. But without the context of the story it just feels unimportant and isolated.
Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)

Maybe it was a cover pic for Skull Fanciers Quarterly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:38 AM (8zz6B)

221 Ever see Mortuary Flies. Kinda creepy looking and can be mistaken for Bumble Bees at a quick glance.

Posted by: Goodbury and Graves, Ltd... at January 16, 2026 10:38 AM (oftw2)

222 "Furry cleavage?"

First photographed between William Bendix's moobs in "The Hairy Ape" (1944).

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (N8ZBc)

223 Is this about us?

Posted by: Prune juice and bran MREs at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (2Ez/1)

224 large portions of the military have defecated

Think you mean "defenestrated."
Yeah, that's it!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:33 AM (LlV+5)

No shit?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:35 AM

No.

Posted by: MREs at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (kgE5c)

225 Let me know is there is any change in his condition...

Creepy.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 16, 2026 10:39 AM (DgMqy)

226 I do believe the revolutionaries are convinced that can change if they can get someone in power who knows more about governing than reading a holy book, ordering punishments, and giving piles of money to terrorists.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (XjTSo)
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And the revolutionaries are correct, but they will not be correct immediately.

The Rial has no formal value now. There is black-market trade as described, but there is no legitimate market for it at this point. The currency has no value. Amazing.

When this ends - whether with mullahs or without them - it is going to be a long path back. Absent communists, anyone who takes over from the mullahs - kings, democrats, military dictators, whatever - will do better than the mullahs, but it's going to be a long and difficult road. Coming back from "zero" is not going to happen quickly.

Which will make things harder, perhaps, for the mullahs. The game is effectively lost now, which means the "nothing to lose" group is growing by the minute.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:40 AM (GyQIQ)

227 I do believe the revolutionaries are convinced that can change if they can get someone in power who knows more about governing than reading a holy book, ordering punishments, and giving piles of money to terrorists.
Posted by: exdem13
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Don't forget the mullah's expertise in stealing from the state. Khameini and his family are most likely billionaires among other high officials.

The entire world is being run a kleptocracy with a few exceptions. Government to the ruling classes is simply a means to get filthy rich and not do a damn thing to earn it.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:40 AM (WDjG6)

228 >>> I think you mean Pioneer Woman. Their family owns a sizeable chunk of OK

Her merch is all over in the Walmart cooking section. She got in trouble a few years back for supposedly ripping the artwork for her merch off of other artists, and not compensating them. I suspect she paid a pretty penny to make that quietly go away.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:40 AM (gWBY1)

229 Hookworms were on some of the Japanese-held Pacific islands. When the Marines took those islands and later relaxed in camp going barefoot, they got infected with 'em.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (wVcYX)

230 Does Ivermectin kill the screwworm larvae?

Highlighted that. Did DDG search. Answer in 2 seconds:

The efficacy of ivermectin against larvae of the screw-worm fly (Chrysomya bezziana)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3840994/

Posted by: mindful webworker - what the x? at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (FMpsC)

231 The unbalanced, Millennial "safe space" kids of the 2010's are now in the workplace and recreating the indulgent, unchallenging, and entitled environment they were provided throughout childhood and college.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:31 AM (LlV+5)

The good news is Zoomers look at that and think it’s cringe as fuck. Millenails are basically a joke for anyone older and younger than them.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (kgFPv)

232 >>inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”

Reminds me of doing college tours with the kid. There was one that had posters all around informing students that mental health issues are not a stigma, help is available here blah blah blah, as well as a day where puppies would be brought in to relieve final exam stress. It was kind of oppressive, like, is everyone here a little crazy - or do they want them to feel that way?
Crossed that one off the list!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (LlV+5)

233 Slit trench is over there, dude....

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (XuXeR)

234 I can see X just fine, but traffic sure seems lower than usual. Verizon and some other networks had large outages earlier this week, it sure feels like someone is launching large scale cyberattacks on our network systems.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (uWKK8)

235 Chrysomya bezziana"

Isn't she the singer for the Russian cover band?

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (XuXeR)

236 >>> I can see X just fine, but traffic sure seems lower than usual. Verizon and some other networks had large outages earlier this week, it sure feels like someone is launching large scale cyberattacks on our network systems.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (uWKK

It was completely down a short while ago but it is back up now.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (3uBP9)

237 It's the meat packing industry, it's like a cartel and has a chokehold on the small farmers. I have friends with families that own small cattle farms, it's been a problem. If they would let ranchers and farmers do more of their own beef harvesting, we would have more in stores.

It has to get fixed and no one's doing it. And the meat packers are controlled by people trying to reduce our beef consumption.
Posted by: LizLem

If they work with a butcher, they can do direct sales to individuals.

You buy a half cow. Butcher cuts, trims & wraps meat. You pay the rancher for the 1/2 cow & pay the butcher for his expertise and wrapping.
Everyone wins because the meat packers are cut out of it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (GK5Hx)

238 Hookworms are not native to the US but brought over by trade with Africa in slavery times and became endemic in the Southern soil like fireants eventually did. Africans have some natural resistance to hookworms, whites did not so going unshod in the South is not a good idea.
Posted by: Whig

Actually, there is a native American hookworm, Necator americanus, in addition to the introduced Old-World species.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (77rzZ)

239 When this ends - whether with mullahs or without them - it is going to be a long path back. Absent communists, anyone who takes over from the mullahs - kings, democrats, military dictators, whatever - will do better than the mullahs, but it's going to be a long and difficult road. Coming back from "zero" is not going to happen quickly.

Which will make things harder, perhaps, for the mullahs. The game is effectively lost now, which means the "nothing to lose" group is growing by the minute.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Not so sure. If Iran is no longer under sanctions, they can do pretty well with oil and natural gas sales pretty quickly. Like Venezuela or Russia, the oil industry has not been getting the maintenance and optimizations available and due to sanctions, get a lot less for their oil from places like China and India who pay below market rates for it.

Probably be a rough ten years or so.

Countries that do not have such abundance of wealth suffer a lot longer from currency collapse. From economic historians Rogoff and Carmines, those nations take about twenty years or a bit more to recover.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (WDjG6)

240 I can see X just fine, but traffic sure seems lower than usual. Verizon and some other networks had large outages earlier this week, it sure feels like someone is launching large scale cyberattacks on our network systems.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:41 AM (uWKK

Good thing the HQ is protected by the impenetrable armor of Pixyware.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (8zz6B)

241 Venezuelan Poll Shows 92% Support for Trump; Left-Wing Protesters “Do Not Represent” Them

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Did they overlook AOC completely?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (L/fGl)

242 >>The good news is Zoomers look at that and think it’s cringe as fuck. Millenails are basically a joke for anyone older and younger than them.

Yeah, the *subset* of Millennials that demanded safe spaces and trigger warnings has not aged well.

Sadly, Gen Z seems to be both extremes, though their safe space crew appears to be a lot more violent should you "trigger" them. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (LlV+5)

243 I think you mean Pioneer Woman. Their family owns a sizeable chunk of OK

400,000 acres over four or five ranches.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (GK5Hx)

244 merican Psycho, the painting
Would hang in my lab.
Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:28 AM

Very nice. Let's have a look at Paul Allen's self-portrait.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (kgE5c)

245 Ivermectin got the Nobel Prize for its antihelminthic effectiveness, IIRC. Good. I hate parasitic worms. We had a textbook in school "Animals Without Backbones," with sickening photos of humans infested with worms and flukes and shit. Ugh.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:45 AM (N8ZBc)

246 206 200 Furry cleavage? Don't want none of that.
Posted by: Bulg

You consider yourself more of a "scaly"? What if the sexy snake GF is wearing a fuzzy sweater?
https://tinyurl.com/2chwhmsb

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 10:45 AM (JCZqz)

247 400,000 acres over four or five ranches."

The King Ranch smiles...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:46 AM (XuXeR)

248 >>The King Ranch smiles...

Wasn't that sold recently?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 16, 2026 10:47 AM (LlV+5)

249 > BREAKING: Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
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Oddly specific. The goats. Therapy goats that is. Would have thought there'd be a drum circle too. Those seem to be popular with the leftist nutjobs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 10:47 AM (U2OZr)

250 A large number of the military have defecated
No shit
Yes shit

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (Oql3v)

251 Supposedly this is The text Machado had put on framed plaque of her novel peace prize gift to Trump:

"What the text reads on the plaque
To President Donald J. Trump
In Gratitude for Your Extraordinary Leadership in Promoting Peace through Strength, Advancing Diplomacy, and Defending Liberty and Prosperity.
Presented as a Personal Symbol of Gratitude on behalf of the Venezuelan People and in Recognition of President Trump's Principled and Decisive Action to Secure a Free Venezuela. The Courage of America, and its President Donald J. Trump, will Never Be Forgotten by the Venezuelan people."

It kind of feels like a participation trophy, I can't lie. But it's a gracious gesture. And I love that the libs' heads are exploding. "Trump stole an award from a Latina to feed his insatiable ego!" Not getting it's an act of nuanced diplomacy.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (gWBY1)

252 229 Hookworms were on some of the Japanese-held Pacific islands. When the Marines took those islands and later relaxed in camp going barefoot, they got infected with 'em.
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All this talk of hookworms has me feeling good that as a diabetic I don't go outdoors barefoot. Admittedly I first stopped going outside barefoot after the bee sting. Dad was in an "organic lawn care" phase back in the Seventies & the clover was in bloom a lot between mowings. Then we got a dog.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (XjTSo)

253 I think you mean Pioneer Woman. Their family owns a sizeable chunk of OK

400,000 acres over four or five ranches.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (GK5Hx)

Ah, yes, the back 40.

Posted by: King Ranch, Texas at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (wVcYX)

254 That's fine for sci-fi or fantasy paperback covers. But without the context of the story it just feels unimportant and isolated.
Posted by: JTB at January 16, 2026 10:36 AM (yTvNw)

Maybe it was a cover pic for Skull Fanciers Quarterly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:38 AM (8zz6B)

Fifteen years ago, teens massed in Hot Topic stores, put skulls on everything.

Today, they go to work in offices, with "No Skulls" dress codes.

This is their sadz.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (dGCAG)

255 Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (RHGPo)

256 You buy a half cow. Butcher cuts, trims & wraps meat. You pay the rancher for the 1/2 cow & pay the butcher for his expertise and wrapping.
Everyone wins because the meat packers are cut out of it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM

*contemplates buying a half cow from my buddy in TX*

*contemplates shipping costs to MA*

F*ck.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (kgE5c)

257 But seriously, goats (in small doses) make people happy. We do goat therapy here in the weekday Cafe's often.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (N8ZBc)

258 It's a 522 Host Error on X so something's hogging it up. Probably an attack of some sort just as you guys suggested.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (3ImbR)

259 I just checked again, and X is down for me now.

this feels like a cyberattack.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (uWKK8)

260 Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
___

These are lawyers for cripesake.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (Dv3i1)

261 The first African American mayor of Riverview, Missouri has been arrested on child porn and sex crimes.
Yay diversity

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (Oql3v)

262 Trump Says 'Venezuela Leaker' Jailed As Polymarket Accounts Go Quiet

Trump said the "leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail..."

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

263 >>> 243 I think you mean Pioneer Woman. Their family owns a sizeable chunk of OK
==

400,000 acres over four or five ranches.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 10:44 AM (GK5Hx)

Really? That's almost half the size of the King Ranch.

(OK is ~45 million acres so while quite yuge, 400k would be less than 1%)

Posted by: Hannibal Costanza at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (ULPxl)

264 It has to get fixed and no one's doing it. And the meat packers are controlled by people trying to reduce our beef consumption.

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Wifey is freaked out about reports that mRNA vaccines are being used in the US for pigs and chickens (although since those are eaten cooked and not raw, so less likely to cause harm to humans as would beef -- which she eats "rare" cooked -- and apparently IS being used in cattle in the UK).

Also, now many pet vaccines use mRNA -- and some are concerned about the literal "shedding" phenomenon that was apparently one way people who weren't jabbed during the Covid PsyOps were ultimately affected by the clot shot if they were frequently in contact with or around others who did get jabbed.

[Me? I don't know why you'd want to kill off your consumer base ... unless you were the GloboHomo WEF Death Cultists trying to "Save The Planet" by mandating cricket-only diets and reduce the human population by 90-100%, which is just crazy talk and (at least at one time) advertised right on their website.]

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' is Code for 'Hell On Earth' at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (jQtSL)

265 Off #)*&*)& sock!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (ULPxl)

266 Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office emailed staff inviting them to a “healing circle” with “therapy goats.”
___

These are lawyers for cripesake.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM

These are leftist lawyers. They litigate like fags and their briefs are retarded.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (kgE5c)

267 Oddly specific. The goats. Therapy goats that is. Would have thought there'd be a drum circle too. Those seem to be popular with the leftist nutjobs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 10:47 AM (U2OZr)

And going out in the woods and communing with trees.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (8zz6B)

268 Ah, yes, the back 40.
__

*perks up*

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (Dv3i1)

269 Actually, there is a native American hookworm, Necator americanus, in addition to the introduced Old-World species.
Posted by: Bulg

You are correct. The one that comes through the feet though is Ancylostoma duodenale.

Soil contaminated with feces is often the source for the native variety.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (WDjG6)

270 "522 Host Error on X"

Some dork tech set up a routing table incorrectly or something like that.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (N8ZBc)

271 Bambi v. Godzilla

White House Fires Back After Gov. Walz Tries To Lecture Trump

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (L/fGl)

272 >>> *contemplates shipping costs to MA*
F*ck. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (kgE5c)

Surely there are ranchers in MA you could buy from? Much cheaper. Or ask a local rancher to help you purchase a hobby cow, and they raise them and you split the cost of the cow or the meat or something. Everyone wins.

I keep wanting to do a "Good Ranchers" meat subscription box. I bet over time it's cheaper than steak in stores. But I don't know which ones are legit.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (gWBY1)

273 Ah, Carol Willink's famous "Coroner" series.

Posted by: Paco at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (2L+MU)

274 "How did hyu get dat skull? Vas he villink?!"

Posted by: pookysgirl in bad German at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (Wt5PA)

275 >>> I just checked again, and X is down for me now.

this feels like a cyberattack.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (uWKK

Yeah, it's currently in the chumbawamba, tubthumping phase.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (3uBP9)

276 I hate going about barefoot, anyway, indoors or out.

You never know when your foot is gonna find that one stray Lego from your kid's childhood.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

277 I wonder if the Minneapolis people promoting the "goat therapy" realize that it's both a meal opportunity and a dating opportunity in the Somali community

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 10:52 AM (Oql3v)

278 Extreme Hakeem goes all butch.

"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

279 222 "Furry cleavage?"

First photographed between William Bendix's moobs in "The Hairy Ape" (1944).
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I thought it first appeared in fan art of dubious value concerning Maid Marian & Cheetara. You guys know who you are.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (XjTSo)

280 White House Fires Back After Gov. Walz Tries To Lecture Trump
____

Fires Back >>>>>>> Claps Back

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (Dv3i1)

281 And going out in the woods and communing with trees.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:50 AM (8zz6B)

Trees actually communicate through a fascinating network of fungal hyphae that somehow approximate the function of a working human brain.

Much like Jim Comey.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (06Hmj)

282 *contemplates buying a half cow from my buddy in TX*

*contemplates shipping costs to MA*

F*ck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 16, 2026 10:48 AM (kgE5c)

Buy the half-cow in Texas, and drive it back to MA. "Git along little semi-dogie, git along."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (8zz6B)

283 262 Trump Says 'Venezuela Leaker' Jailed As Polymarket Accounts Go Quiet

Trump said the "leaker on Venezuela has been found and is in jail..."
Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

yes the name's been released. It's not the journalist, it's the government contractor who gave her the classified info.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (uWKK8)

284 The list of stuff Ivermectin isn’t effective against is what you want to look at. It absolutely is a miracle drug.

What’s kind of strange is the particular strain was found in a patch of soil on a Japanese golf course and nowhere else since.

It is effective at such a wide range of diseases anyone who has spent a lot of time overseas in particular ought to take a couple rounds. 2 weeks apart. One of the big problems since WW II and subsequent adventures was “fevers of unknown origins”

Parasite infestations have a long cycle, and the symptoms are non specific and mimic a gazillion other things like the flu. But they are debilitating for years and cause all sorts of complications.

Ivermectin is very safe, inexpensive and highly effective and generally benign for most people.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (2BdZb)

285 Not so sure. If Iran is no longer under sanctions, they can do pretty well with oil and natural gas sales pretty quickly. Like Venezuela or Russia, the oil industry has not been getting the maintenance and optimizations available and due to sanctions, get a lot less for their oil from places like China and India who pay below market rates for it.

Probably be a rough ten years or so. ...
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 10:43 AM (WDjG6)
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A decade is a long time. Absent sanctions, they can start *fairly* quickly, but they aren't going to be absent sanctions. If we drop ours and Russia raises theirs, for example, it will still be difficult. Ours are probably the worst, but it wouldn't surprise me if Russia and much of Europe slap sanctions on a post-mullah regime if it shakes out as a post-mullah regime.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (GyQIQ)

286 Downdetector: X, Grok, Cloudflare and AWS got spiked.

Posted by: gp at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (N8ZBc)

287 I hadn't heard about a Venezuela leaker. What did he/she leak? Obviously, wasn't very effective at preventing what we did.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

288 >>> 278 Extreme Hakeem goes all butch.

"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

1) Funny how OrangeManBad has the commies so Concerned about things they gave no shits about not so long ago
2) immivaders aren't American people, timwalz

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (ULPxl)

289 For some reason, George Clooney and 'The Men Who Stare At Goats' has come to mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (XeU6L)

290 Ivermectin is very safe, inexpensive and highly effective and generally benign for most people.
Posted by: Common Tater

And you can't have it because it screws up the covid narrative.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (Dv3i1)

291 You know what's crazy? California imports gasoline from South Korea and India.

Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (rj6Yv)

292 And going out in the woods and communing with trees."

Check out the Minn/St Paul forecast over the next few days.
No one's outside communing w/shiite...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (XuXeR)

293 "To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
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Okay, Hakeem. If you make retribution the expected outcome, enjoy the consequences of it. I won't, because I don't want to be expropriated and murdered, but you do you. If you go down this road, fully expect the next guy to do the same thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (GyQIQ)

294 278 Extreme Hakeem goes all butch.

"To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)

What exactly is the upshot of this missive here?

"Once Trump is gone, all you schmucks and noodniks pretending to be Governors and ginning up Civil War II: This Time As Farce will have free rein"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (06Hmj)

295 “You are hereby put on notice."

What a fag

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (2BdZb)

296 Hey. We're on a mandatory 20 minute break. Union rules.

Posted by: Chumbawamba Tubthumpers local #408 at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (2Ez/1)

297 ... Ivermectin is very safe, inexpensive and highly effective and generally benign for most people.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 10:54 AM (2BdZb)
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*AND* off-patent.

Which is why it's such a thorn in everyone's side.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 10:56 AM (GyQIQ)

298 Ivermectin is very safe, inexpensive and highly effective and generally benign for most people."

Yeah. We can't have that.

/phhhhizer

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (XuXeR)

299 >>> Me? I don't know why you'd want to kill off your consumer base ..

There were apparently more deaths than births in France last year. First time since WW2.

Why people in power hate humans enough to kill off their consumers and their own fellow countryman, I don't know. Thats something to ask Satan, he's putting them up to it.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (gWBY1)

300 Too much communion wine, I guess.

Parents Banned After Massive Brawl at Staten Island Catholic Youth Basketball Game

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (L/fGl)

301 278 Epstein News has been successfully buried by chaos.
Who celebrated that?
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Probably a whole bunch of globalist pawns who were getting very nervous about getting outed on Fox News.

wait a minute, the Clintons got subpeonaed, then the Leftard witches in Minneapolis went bonkers & one got shot in the face. Could it be a coincidence?

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (XjTSo)

302 >>> 298 Ivermectin is very safe, inexpensive and highly effective and generally benign for most people."

Yeah. We can't have that.

/phhhhizer
Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:57 AM (XuXeR)

How do you expect us to meet analysts' expectations?!?!?!

Posted by: Pharma CEOs at January 16, 2026 10:58 AM (ULPxl)

303 I've been using horse paste to try and end my cold sores. So far so good. 1 minor outbreak since I started and this time of year should be 5 or 6 by now.

I'm not a doctor. Don't try this.

Posted by: Reforger at January 16, 2026 10:58 AM (v8m2L)

304 "To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime.

Like the incitement to violently interpose oneself between ICE and a detainee? To physically intervene to effect escape? To drive your SUV at an agent when you have been detained and ordered out of the car? That kind of violence?

Posted by: All projection all the time at January 16, 2026 10:58 AM (TbWk/)

305 Why isn't RFK Jr and Trump making ivermectin over the counter in all states? If we can make abortion drugs OTC, but not a parasite cleanse that might cure cancer, we are screwed up as a society.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (gWBY1)

306 300 Too much communion wine, I guess.

Parents Banned After Massive Brawl at Staten Island Catholic Youth Basketball Game
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Here in Cincinnati we call that the Moeller & Roger Bacon game!

Posted by: exdem13 at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (XjTSo)

307 If you make retribution the expected outcome, enjoy the consequences of it."

Heh. Dumbass needs to understand there are lots of us old, fat, and well armed asses out here. We're not interested in the fun'n'games, but don't push us.

I'd probably not last long, but would cause a world of hurt...

Posted by: man at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (XuXeR)

308 Things I thought to comment but didn't: Besides the admiration for the artist's technique:

19 How is he holding the paintbrush, since he’s got both hands on the skull?
Posted by: Bulg

120 Looks like an Arrow Shirt model.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Posted by: mindful webworker - didn't say what? at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (FMpsC)

309 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Late again.
Goes looking for coffee

Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (2WIwB)

310 Hakeem is telling ice agents you will be imprisoned if we win in 2028.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (kgFPv)

311 We're on a mandatory 20 minute break. Union rules.
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Screw that. Just work through them. Every twenty four working days I get the whole day off. Paid MFers

Posted by: Non-Union Scabs 307 at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (2BdZb)

312 305 Why isn't RFK Jr and Trump making ivermectin over the counter in all states? If we can make abortion drugs OTC, but not a parasite cleanse that might cure cancer, we are screwed up as a society.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (gWBY1)

IIRC, Ivermectin can have some pretty severe side effects if you take it with a lot of very common heart medications. Not making a stand myself on the issue, but I think that's part of the non-retarded part of the rationale behind it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (06Hmj)

313 "To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime.
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The only thoughts they can manage are projection.

Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (vSvIl)

314 Dr. Mommy Jill, I made a viral load in my pants!!

Posted by: Scranton Joe With Squirts at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (oftw2)

315 Hakeem is telling ice agents you will be imprisoned if we win in 2028.
Posted by: Really?

If the Dems do regain power in 2028, the hot Civil War 2.0 is gonna break out.

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

316 >>> 305 Why isn't RFK Jr and Trump making ivermectin over the counter in all states? If we can make abortion drugs OTC, but not a parasite cleanse that might cure cancer, we are screwed up as a society.
Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (gWBY1)

I thought a few ~~red~~ American states had done this on their own.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (ULPxl)

317 Nood Buck.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (NcvvS)

318 So you can't buy ivermectin? Don't they give pills out by the millions in 3rd world?

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (/6GbT)

319 >>> I thought a few red American states had done this on their own.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:01 AM (ULPxl)

They have, but not mine. Jealous!

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (gWBY1)

320 Hakeem is telling ice agents you will be imprisoned if we win in 2028.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 10:59 AM (kgFPv)

If the Insurrection Act is proclaimed in Minnesota, Jeffries and many others would be subject to arrest and trial for sedition.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (8zz6B)

321 NOOD.

And The Bulg has nailed the First!

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

322 289 For some reason, George Clooney and 'The Men Who Stare At Goats' has come to mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 16, 2026 10:55 AM (XeU6L)

Coming soon in Minneapolis: "Jacob Frey and the Men Who Stare at Goat's Asses."

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 11:03 AM (uWKK8)

323 *So you can't buy ivermectin? *

This isn't America. This isn't even Mexico.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at January 16, 2026 11:03 AM (2Ez/1)

324 >>> 312

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IIRC, Ivermectin can have some pretty severe side effects if you take it with a lot of very common heart medications. Not making a stand myself on the issue, but I think that's part of the non-retarded part of the rationale behind it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 16, 2026 11:00 AM (06Hmj)

I don't think it's heart medication in general, but I've read there's an issue for people taking blood thinners (anti-stroke meds). But I am Not A Doctor, and I don't even run a Quality Learing Center.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 16, 2026 11:03 AM (ULPxl)

325 "To all members of the Trump administration," Jeffries wrote, "the incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime. Donald Trump will leave office long before the five-year statute of limitations expires. You are hereby put on notice."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 10:53 AM (L/fGl)
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Jeffries, the Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, is calling federal authority and duty criminal incitement. And we are being put on notice that if our elected political leaders continue to enforce the laws of this country, exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY, then we can expect punishment for doing our duty.

Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 11:04 AM (rj6Yv)

326 These are leftist lawyers. They litigate like fags and their briefs are retarded.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

The same people who are giving business to AI outfits whose products are made by people like them, resulting in the output being even worse than if the lawyers did the work themselves.

It's stupid all the way down, lads.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 11:04 AM (OUMaO)

327 Jeffries is telling federal employees some of you will be arrested if they “win” in 2028.
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Eh, they were gonna do that anyway. They were already doing that anyway. Disabuse yerself of the notion that playing nice will cause these clowns to play nice or re-think their strategy or whatever “Unconditional Surrender” has its downsides. Makes people fight harder, to the death.

Posted by: Non-Union Scabs 307 at January 16, 2026 11:04 AM (2BdZb)

328 Ohhh, ivermectin is legal in Idaho! I might have to run across the border to a drug store.

I know plenty of people who head to the border to get lottery tickets in Idaho. Even some Mormon friends of mine do it for fun on occasion, like once a year in their birthday they'll get a scratch off. I guess I'll be the one person heading to a pharmacy and not a lottery machine.

Posted by: LizLem at January 16, 2026 11:06 AM (gWBY1)

329 I’m not a Doctor either, but that doesn’t mean fuck all too much these days. LOL Jayzus. Do your homework.

Ivermectin is safer than the wuhan lung rot vaccine and leftist Democrats.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2026 11:08 AM (2BdZb)

330 Where did he find one million acres of land to buy in New Mexico??

OMG. Philmont.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 16, 2026 11:19 AM (zdLoL)

331 From X
" Kyle Bass Jan 15
Time for a math problem : In the 2024 presidential election, 2,308,256 people in Oregon voted, representing a turnout rate of 75.4% among the state's 3,060,374 registered voters. 800,000 registered voters were ‘improperly registered’ voters. That means a WHOPPING 34% of votes were fraudulent. Kamala won Oregon by 321,000 votes….

Donald Trump received 919,480 votes. Kamala Harris had 1,240,600. "

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 11:30 AM (WDjG6)

332 Soooooo … this is 'Yorick', I knew him, the stupe … he was a good friend, until he became soup.

Posted by: Dr_No at January 16, 2026 11:45 AM (ayRl+)

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