Yay! Nobody Cares about Tickle Me Elmo Musk

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Canada or Greenland are Conservative enough?

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Do Republicans really think Canada or Greenland are Conservative enough? Of the 4 choices here, I want to say I have heard Puerto Rico is pretty conservative, probably more than Greenland and Canada, primarily due to religeon.

They absolutely won't make Greenland a state, Current population is less than 60k. They'll try to make it a corporate owned territory. A resource to exploit the same way Bush's neocons thought they could sell off Iraq for... ? Campaign support?



They wouldn't know what to do with Canada, I'm 80% certain that's just posturing/theater trying to look as tough as Putin.

[Edited twice because my phone fingers are stupid]

 

[Casey Pelous]

Elon Musk Suggests America Should 'Liberate' Britain From 'Tyrannical Government'

After a barrage of attacks from the key adviser to Donald Trump, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned "lies and misinformation."

www.huffpost.com

Sorry Leon, but were presently dealing with our own incoming tyrannical government to be bothered with Britain's.

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR THE GRAVY SEALS!!!!!111!!! Don't worry English/British people, we are coming to save you!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Why does Elon Musk suddenly care so much about UK politics?

He once said he kept out of politics, now he rages against the British government. Helen Rumbelow reports

www.thetimes.com

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[Noodles]

Why does Elon Musk suddenly care so much about UK politics?

He once said he kept out of politics, now he rages against the British government. Helen Rumbelow reports

www.thetimes.com

Evernote Link

One day they nearly succeeded in killing him, “I was almost beaten to death, if you call that bullied,” Musk told the US magazine programme 60 Minutes. In Elon Musk, a biography by his fellow South African Michael Vlismas, it is reported that after being kicked down a flight of stairs and then attacked at the bottom, Musk was in hospital for two weeks. The police declined to prosecute, saying it was just “skoolseuns wat rondspeel” (schoolboy high jinks).

I didn't want to know that. It makes me think... "Bad things."

 

[Free]

THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR THE GRAVY SEALS!!!!!111!!! Don't worry English/British people, we are coming to save you!

Is this a biscuits and gravy reference?

 

[Casey Pelous]

Is this a biscuits and gravy reference?

Perhaps scones and banger bechamel?

 

[Free]

Perhaps scones and banger bechamel?

I don't think anyone calls bechamel a "gravy," but fine.

 

[detrius]

Perhaps scones and banger bechamel?

Beer guts and neck beards?

 

[Casey Pelous]

I don't think anyone calls bechamel a "gravy," but fine.

"Banger white sauce" lacked alliteration and punchiness so I was forced -- forced, I say! -- to go with banger bechamel.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I also note Casey is from Seattle, home of the aptly named Lunchbox Laboratory.

seriously, Seattle is the Frankenstein laboratory of cuisine.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social)

Elon Musk is almost done building a lithium refinery that will need up to 8 million gallons of water per day. And it's twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, which is so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games...

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[Innula Zenovka]

Elon Musk ‘discussing ways to oust Keir Starmer’

The billionaire has launched a barrage of criticisms at the PM after accusing Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, of being a ‘rape genocide apologist’

www.thetimes.com

Evernote Link

Original FT article

Musk, the world’s richest man and key confidant of US president-elect Donald Trump, is probing how he and his rightwing allies can destabilise the UK Labour government beyond the aggressive posts he has issued on his social media platform X, the people said.

“His view is that western civilisation itself is threatened,” one of the people added.

Musk has sought information about whether it might be possible to build support for alternative British political movements — notably the rightwing populist Reform UK party — to force a change of prime minister before the next election, according to associates.

This is objectively bonkers. The prime minister is the person who commands a stable majority in the House of Commons. Keir Starmer is the leader of the Labour Party, which won last May's general election with a massive majority (currently 156 seats). Starmer can be replaced as PM only if he voluntarily stands down, or his government loses a vote of no confidence (which won't happen with a majority of that size) or the Labour Party uses its internal procedures to unseat him as leader of the party (theoretically possible while he's PM but effectively impossible).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

This is good

 

[Innula Zenovka]

And talking of objectively bonkers... TechCrunch: Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’

 

[Casey Pelous]

I also note Casey is from Seattle, home of the aptly named Lunchbox Laboratory.

seriously, Seattle is the Frankenstein laboratory of cuisine.

Lunchbox Laboratory's heyday was the product of the fevered (and, sadly, bipolar) imagination of its chef, Scott Simpson. Scott died in 2011 at the age of 38.

All local reports suggest it has not been the same since.

Nevertheless, your point is accurate -- we'll try "fusing" any two or three cuisines just to see what happens. Some of that is most likely because we have so many different cultures; within a couple of dozen miles of me there are communities of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Laotians, Cambodians, Thais, Indians, and more -- and that's just counting the Asian flavors. And some of our bent toward food experimentation is probably simply that winters are long and we get bored.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

That's Pacific NW cuisine in a nutshell. It's the English language of cooking: steal from everyone and mix it in the most unpredictable way.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Nevertheless, your point is accurate -- we'll try "fusing" any two or three cuisines just to see what happens.

That's how you get a taste explosion.

 

[Casey Pelous]

That's how you get a taste explosion.

Or, in a few cases, Chernobyl.


Any pedant who feels compelled to explain the difference between fission and fusion is cruisin' for a bruisin'.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Thread -- Trump is pretty obviously putting his thumb heavily on the scales to amplify X-cretions by members of parliament from the far-Right AfD party, which he supports.

Curd Knüpfer (@curdknupfer.bsky.social)

In case you were wondering how things are going in Germany & on X, after Elon Musk announced his support for the far-right "Alternative für Deutschland" (AfD) in the upcoming Federal election: The chart below shows sums of tweets x impressions by members of parliament over the past 7 days...🧵⤵️

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