Mike Miller

@nomaiphlox @Saltygorilla1 @empanadadaddy23 I just assume anyone that dumb is a bot. God I hope they're bots

@Saltygorilla1 @empanadadaddy23 Did you miss the part where THEY called in to be a nuisance fuck outta here

Somebody just called the bar and asked if this place was LGBTQ and I was like yeah and then she said okay let me read you this bible verse quick. I hung up on her. They’re such hypocrites. It’s not like I’m calling places and asking them if I could read Slayyyter lyrics to them

Fun fact: The 1998 paper that introduced Google and PageRank to the world ends with this acknowledgment: "Supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding also provided by DARPA and NASA." Sergey Brin was on an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Larry Page was a PhD student on the grant. Google—now worth $2 trillion—exists because American taxpayers funded "the Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project." Not a startup garage myth. A government grant. Every time someone says public research funding "picks winners and losers" or "crowds out private innovation," remember: the most dominant technology company of the 21st century was incubated entirely with public money, inside a public university, by researchers on federal fellowships and grants. The private sector didn't see it coming. VCs passed. The government funded it anyway—not because it would become Google, but because fundamental research into information retrieval seemed worth understanding. That's the point. You can't predict which grants will change the world. You fund the science and let researchers explore. The internet (DARPA). GPS (DoD). Touchscreens (CIA/NSF). mRNA vaccines (NIH). Google (NSF/DARPA/NASA). Public investment in basic research isn't wasteful spending. It's the seed corn of the entire modern economy.

@leitzkejs @pattonoswalt Probably thinks "I almost had him"

@pattonoswalt I doubt that he learned anything

This is my “powerlifter vs. poseur cowboy” story except in my story the cowboy doesn’t need to be told twice.

Notice how it’s somehow the government’s job to legislate a few Bible verses on human sexuality over our entire country, but it’s suddenly “not the government’s job” when it comes to the +2,500 Bible verses calling for a generous use of wealth that prioritizes the poor.

@MarcMitchell6 @highbrow_nobrow @Acyn 163rd time this week. On a Tuesday

Trump on Greenland: Denmark is really far away and really has nothing to do— What happened is a boat landed there 200 years ago or something and they say they have rights to it. I don’t know it that’s true. I don’t think it is.. @Acyn (2025)

@ztb453 @Acyn I hate that so much. I was trying to hear the points the other guy was making, and dude wouldn't stfu

@Acyn Look at him lay out facts and Ferguson only has interruptive subjectivities.

Mockler: Donald Trump's priorities are so off that he has mentioned Comey on his truth social 2042 times. How many times has he mentioned inflation? Ferguson: Well, when you fix inflation, you don't have to mention it. Mockler: He did not fix it.

@KingTuchus @kare11 That's a good point I hadn't thought about

@kare11 To be fair, if it was just a nondescript date change because of reg scheduling concerns, no one bats an eye. Say it’s to respect a coinciding religious event and suddenly every pocket bigot crawls out of the woodwork to define it as bad/wrong. Coincidence? Not even slightly.

Eden Prairie High School moving graduation date after concerns event was same day as religious holiday kare11.com/article/news/l…

@the_jimmy_says @HalfwayPost First time ever they've both been right

@HalfwayPost Both of them make excellent points.

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have reportedly begun campaigning to be the next Speaker of the House, with Greene calling Boebert an "unprofessional ignoramus," and Boebert calling Greene an "uneducated loudmouth."

If stupidity were painful, Poppy would be in a coma

Growing up, Homelander dreamed of working at his local Vought A Burger. Recently, his wish came true, as Vought shut down a restaurant and staged pre-selected customers, so Homelander could “serve” “people” “food.” Thanks, Homelander, for showing everyone how you’re a true man of the people!

@Raffurie @xgigglypuff My mom would tell me about her Norwegian and Swedish grandparents eating klubb, which she described as a ball of potato and flour designed to just fill the belly and take forever to digest. Is that real? Can't find anything on it except for recipes, nothing about its purpose

@xgigglypuff our ancestors here in Sweden used to mix tree bark with bread to get it more filling during bad times. The fact that the bark was actually filled with good minerals and helped alot more than they knew at the time was just a bonus, I dont get how anyone can attack these people.

In Appalachia, our cultural foods have evolved in the way that they have because our ancestors were poor and starving. Poor, white southerners ate foods that were cheap and calorically-dense. This is why we now eat biscuits and gravy, grits, and local vegetables cooked in leftover animal fats. They were lucky to have had things like flour and grease to make gravy. My grandparents regularly only had this to eat, and even then, the food was scarce. Cuisine that has evolved from poverty is not exclusive to another race or another country. Americans, Europeans, white people in general — have all struggled with poverty, and many of our cultures adapted and survived eating scraps, like these people are doing now. You are not genetically superior because you are blessed with abundant resources. You are lucky to have been born into the abundant wealth that America has today. Using these peoples’ suffering as evidence that Haitian immigrants are an inferior people is mind-blowingly cruel and ignorant. If you want to look down on Haitian immigrants because people in their homeland are starving, then I guess you should deport all of us in Appalachia and plenty of southerners whose ancestors worked hard but still spent years doing things like this to SURVIVE. You are the entitled elite that republicans claim to hate so much.

@KaranEsch @emilyann1031 @CGSportsfan @jwindy78 To be fair I barely know my account either, haha

@emilyann1031 @CGSportsfan @jwindy78 @DivineMuffinMan Dang it! We follow each other, I just couldn’t remember. 😂

So many fun people at the game tonight! Loved seeing my friend @jwindy78! Congrats on your retirement!!! And, @emilyann1031 and I can hardly ever manage to get together in STL, but we found a way in MN. And Mike (why don’t I know your X account?) gave me tons of good MN tips!

Today 20 years ago, Pirate Bay response to legal threats from DreamWorks

Outnumbered at least 6 to 1, the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry suffered 82% casualties when they heroically charged headlong into enemy forces to shore up a gap in Union lines during the Battle of Gettysburg on this date in 1863. The role these brave Minnesotans played in preserving the United States of America cannot be overstated. General Winfield Scott Hancock said that "no soldiers on any field, in this or any other country ever displayed grander heroism," and insisted that "there is no more gallant deed recorded in history." In a speech in Cannon Falls, MN on the Fourth of July 1928, President Calvin Coolidge said these men's heroism that day entitled them to the rank of "saviors of their country." Think about that next time you see a Confederate symbol displayed on Minnesota soil. The next day, the survivors from the 1st Minnesota helped repel Pickett's Charge and lost another 17 killed and wounded. Minnesota is in possession of a blood-stained, bullet-pierced Virginia battle flag captured July 3rd. Virginia has been asking for it back for over 100 years. Governor Jesse Ventura's response at the White House in 2000: “Why? I mean, we won. … We took it. That makes it our heritage.”

was informed my rent is increasing in October so i asked why and they said “we increase the rent every year because the cost of living goes up every year.” my brother in christ YOU ARE THE COST OF LIVING

It’s so weird, President Biden hasn’t tweeted once about his son’s “sham verdict.” He hasn’t attacked the judge or the jury, hasn’t called it a hoax, or vowed retribution. He’s not even standing outside the courtroom with stacks of printed-out articles from fake lawyers. It’s almost as if he understands that we are a nation of laws or something and that the justice system worked the way it’s intended to, even if he doesn’t like the outcome. Crazy.

Please read & share all of this from POTUS just now: "The American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself. It was a state case, not a federal case. And it was heard by a jury of 12 citizens. 12 Americans, 12 people like you. Like millions of Americans who served on juries, this jury is chosen the same way every jury in America is chosen. It was a process that Donald Trump's attorney was part of. The jury heard five weeks of evidence. After careful deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous verdict. They found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts. Now he’ll be given the opportunity as he should to appeal that decision just like everyone else has that opportunity. That's how the American system of justice works. And it's reckless, it's dangerous, and it's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict. Our justice system has endured for nearly 250 years and it literally is the cornerstone of America. The justice system should be respected, and we should never allow anyone to tear it down. That's America. That's who we are. And that's who we will always be, God willing."

Omg this is going to be good

"Don't you people have jobs?" -- Me yelling at everyone for driving around on a Tuesday afternoon while I'm driving around on a Tuesday afternoon.

@emilykmay My dad played basketball every Monday with his office friends. He was in great shape for his 60s, but discovered he had bone cancer when he broke 3 vertebrae while playing one day. Unfortunate way to retire

my dad is fifty-eight years old and has been playing basketball with the same 10-15 guys every wednesday morning since 2001 and in the last year they've had a broken rib, a broken hand, a torn bicep, and today my dad has a black eye. he works in finance.