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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 19m

When he gets shoved away from the small woman he was manhandling he adopts the universal 'just walking down the sidewalk minding my own business' body language immediately.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 30m

I think I'd know if I had a knife in my hand right now, c'mon bruh.

missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 34m

Nah he's gonna get the Presidential Medal of Freedom and get his name listed first on the International Victims of Antifa Monument.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 38m

It's a copyrighted movie for Time Warner, what did you expect?

missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 49m

Do not explain the plot
If you don't understand
You should not be here!
Your money is now
Our money, and we will
SPEND IT ON DRUGS

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1h

If you can't put on a dominance display against the Raiders you really would have to throw in the towel.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1h

I don't quite understand why you would need to speak slowly and clearly to say just one word: 'Ghanan.'

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1h

'Would you piss on me, old friend?'

missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1h

Gotta convince him to start a small fishing business and this all solves itself.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1h

I think it's relatively true that 'millennials and younger Gen X have the best relationship to online life,' basically out of sheer luck, but anytime you find yourself claiming our generational cohort is not insane you should recognize that for the lie it is.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 2h

'Vance forces Marines to listen to him speak'

missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 2h

With Freddie you just have to ignore the parts where he attacks other writers, who may exist only in the paranoiac marsh of his mind; he needs to imagine a writer he hates having a reaction he disagrees with to be able to generate any piece of writing.

missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 3h

Everybody says 'be the change you want to see in the world.' Milo DOES it.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 3h

He knows what saved him against Joe Kennedy.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 3h

History dictates that we will win, but if we have to do it with people who'd rather be at brunch it's too icky to be excited about.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 3h

You can't choose where you're from, but you can choose to embody it in the eyes of the nation.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 3h

Well he certainly doesn't have feminism.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 3h

Embrace the Celt within.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

That's very true, and is a trap a lot of people fall into. Even if they were making a factually correct claim, their attitude would be the issue and running down the details can get you way off base. But there is a social purpose to it sometimes, I think.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

And, in some cases, to mock them and invite other people to do so, and thereby impose a cost for being bigoted.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of the fact check isn't to persuade the bigot, it's to stop the bigot from persuading somebody else.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

Just refer to the scene of washing an eye free of chemical irritants using just water from the popular film, One Battle After Another.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

Gopnik as Gopnik, performance of the year.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

I have to assume Belfast will have competing 'No Kings' and 'No Tyrants' protests, which I hope do not intersect.

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missingjigsaw.bsky.social @missingjigsaw.bsky.social · 1d

Having an insane daughter and oppositional defiance disorder towards anything anybody but your insane daughter tells you is a bad combination.