this is why we choose the bear

there is actually nothing less natural than a farm, by default. unless you are aware of some natural process wherein mammals are surgically castrated at such high rates

You will be visited by three spirits.

It’s the South rising again, as promised.

gonads and/or strife

I’ve got no dog in this fight, but this is too funny.

One of the sequelae to covid is MCAS, and one of the big symptoms of that is acquiring exciting new allergic reactions to random things. You can suddenly behave allergic to deodorant, soap, wheat, chocolate, garlic, milk, cheese (and anything what contains histamines, such as leftovers), etc.

There’s a good chance that when it finally happens it will happen on camera and you’ll get to enjoy watching it over and over and over for the rest of your life, and while that’s not much, it’s not nothing. We’ll have that.

It's interesting that people just totally forgot that masking in 2020 literally drove one strain of flu extinct. It no longer exists, because people wore masks. And, that after a bunch of covid infections, they find it very hard to understand why you'd mention masks when talking about the flu

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

This is the frustrating thing about "AI" arguments for me. There are some fascinating use cases, but the big names are largely using it to push fraud on a hitherto unknown scale and its biggest proponents are grifters. The backlash is real and justified, but poisons any nuanced debate on real use!

ME: (shivering, stripped naked and tied to a chair) Drag queens have pretty privilege… CIA AGENT: Again. Do another. ME: Please, I can’t, I— CIA AGENT: (dousing me with a bucket of ice water) Another take! Hotter! ME: (sobbing) Dating someone who needs glasses is a predatory power imbalance…

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

I, for one, am learning a lot about the Roman Empire today!

Idk wtf I was thinking lol

Killing 18F is one of those events whose ramifications will be felt for years to come.

Imagine logging on to arguably the most trans-centric of the social media platforms and posting this Sexuality 101 basic ass take.

Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.

check. mate.

The kids are alright. Genuinely. bsky.app/profile/itsa...

popularism is dead; long live rizzology

really looking forward to the meltdowns from everyone who thought Daddy Trump would dress down the big bad socialist instead of hyping up his new best friend the Cool Mayor how do you not know how this guy works by now

banner day for woke 2

Look alls I’m saying is that if anyone is playing 4d chess here it’s probably the guy who went from obscure longshot to undeniable winner in a matter of months, not the guy who is senile and sundowning.

Noting the congressional pension is based on service time, it kicks in at 5 years and her retirement date - Jan. 5, 2026 - will be the first business day after she passes five years since her first swearing in. bsky.app/profile/heli...

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History of American Politics, 1865-2025

Possibly the funniest day for this headline to come out.

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

I haven’t seen Trump this happy since Shinzo Abe was alive.

They targeted gamers. Gamers.

This rare burn generator is getting used so much I added an admin panel 🤣 Now you can suggest new insults! A bunch still need to be edited out or improved, but - COME! Defeat your online enemies with snark!

Darkly funny that him causing the 2008 financial crash as directly as an individual can wasn't the dealbreaker. And that it took him remaking "Hitch" but with the world's biggest pedophile to make it happen.

So now that I've heard TCW labeled "Wa-Luigi Coates" I'll never think of him any other way.

Does @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com take rotating requests?

What I want to know is, why is it a HARD no??

Hey, since Patton Oswalt was reinstated, maybe Bluesky moderation can reinstate someone who was banned for doing the exact same thing.

I swear it feels like we went backwards since 2020.

also when you see how all the rich guys write you immediately understand why they saw chatgpt write a plausibly human sounding email and immediately invested $10832457B

i can be trusted with vintage typography equipment

I know it's hardly the top priority, but could is there any way we could add "mandatory headphone jack on every smartphone" to the Woke 2 agenda?

If any one of you is dumb enough to fall for her crocodile-tear-stained change of heart, you let me know and I’ll drive right over and unleash several decade’s worth of scorn right into your bland, credulous face.

I was curious about this so I went ahead and visualized it because everyone needs a hobby, folks Anyway, these were the top Google searches each week since the beginning of the year, in the US and then globally. It's not a super deep dive, but I think it's pretty interesting.

literally everyone needs an editor E V E R Y O N E

OH WELL WHY NOT

It is such a joy to share this trial with the Long COVID community! We know the second 500 will be tougher to recruit & we'd love your help to finish enrollment quickly with as much diversity as possible longcovid.scripps.edu/locitt-t/?ut...