pick up the nearest book. turn to page 42, post the second sentence "We could well have ignored its requests and placed the property elsewhere." ("Voices from Krypton" by Ed Gross)

Saturday: The Two Towers Wednesday: Design for Living

Funniest part of all this is seeing randos on bluesky saying they didn’t believe the story was real until they saw the videos, meanwhile we’re all like “this isn’t even necessarily the craziest thing that has happened to the duck”

Welp.

One constant I've observed throughout this year is that when Trump does something really bad, or takes a position that decent Republicans know deep down is wrong, you'll magically see that "Don't Know" number shoot up among his voters as an escape hatch from having to acknowledge the truth. 2/2

Remembering DeForest Kelley on his birthday #botd

The worst politicians in America are about to quote Martin Luther King Jr. You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.

Weather like this, it's tempting to just let Fido pee in the house.

Party of fiscal responsibility right there

forbidden knowledge like this is the reason conservatives try to defund the humanities

The internet was not a mistake, actually, because r/geography could not exist without it.

You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well. Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country.

Share a television show that raised you:

Hey Boston friends: start Super Bowl Sunday with me with a singalong Fauré Requiem! Join the Back Bay Chorale & the choir of Trinity Boston for a big free community sing at Trinity Church, or just come by to listen to a free concert in an epic space! Rehearsal starts at 2 pm; should be done by 3:30.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

The past decade of US politics can be summed up by liberal pundits persuading themselves that radical leftist sh!itposters nowhere near the levers of power in the Democratic party represented such a threat to liberalism, it was better to put radical far-right sh!tposters in charge of the govt.

As the spouse of a church organist, I would like to ask the weather to snow literally any time other than 6-10AM on Sunday.

Honestly all Denmark needs to do is to withdraw all Ozempic exports to the US and Americans will finally revolt

“Fellowship of the Ring” time!

Can't wait for the cut-up student on "Starfleet Academy" to order a hyper-pizza to be delivered during Federation History class.

Our devotion to brands and franchises — rather than to the artists who create the stories we love — has turned fandom into a seemingly inexhaustible resource to be consumed forever by a class of corporate Doomsday Machines. I’ve decided to re-examine my attachments.

For those who have never heard of the MOVE bombing

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Air Fryer pork chops were a hit!

Trump carried Bucks county by 274 votes out of 400k in 2024, this dude ran on cancelling the ICE 287(g) contract, so pretty close to an "abolish ICE" platform. He won against the incumbent by 11 percentage points, or 25,000 votes. Dem strategists are idiots.

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Exactly like how, in 2023-24, there were way more articles about how the Democrats shouldn't nominate Biden than there were about how the GOP shouldn't nominate Trump.

There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.

"Let's not keep these assholes waiting."

I actually was a big fan of Dilbert in its early days, and I think one lesson it teaches us is the value of knowing when to call it quits... to go out on your own terms, leaving your audience wanting more, rather than hanging on way past your welcome.

Who the hell pays attention to Third Way at this point? (Yeah, yeah, I know, the usual suspects.)

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

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hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

And this is why nowhere beats living in #Philadelphia 🤪 #ice #eagles #winning #resist #notinourcity

Work-issued laptops and phones feel personal, but they are often managed by employers. Personal data—like tax forms and financial records—can remain on devices, even after you think they’re gone.

twitter is the core tool of the global export of fascism not that many people use it, but it's rapidly indoctrinating journalists & other elites

Anyway, if anybody has favorite air fryer recipes or cookbook suggestions, please share.

You would think receiving an air fryer for Christmas would be a nice thing, but in fact it is precipitating a mini-crisis regarding the amount of counter space in our kitchen, with several downstream challenges.

I have a switch that's dropping its uplink and having really high CPU usage every few days, but so far, only during off-hours. Of course, now that I've involved the vendor's tech support (who have given me a list of log files to pull the next time it happens), it's worked perfectly.

So your medical bill doesn't have a web site, just a QR code, and when you open the QR code and try to pay it, it won't take the payment because it's not a valid patient account no., but there is actually no field for the acct. no. (just a statement no.). And then when we give up trying to pay

"That security vulnerability isn't a real vulnerability because you shouldn't be using that package in that context anyway" thanks guys, appreciate the help

And here's the storyline.

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I’m old enough to remember when people reviewing my book on divorce wondered why I wrote it since women had choices and marriage wasn’t expected anymore *lights cigarette*

A time to log on and a time to log off; A time to follow and a time to unfollow; A time to like and a time to DM; A time to reply and a time to scroll; A time to share and a time to block; A time to post and a time to refrain from posting.