For my birthday dinner with the family, I got to make whatever I want and I think I outdid myself with hot pot this time.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Burning building casts doubt on flame-retardant building materials

The way the media is parroting MAGA on autopens is ridiculous. Autopens are just a form of e-signature, and courts and statutes have accepted e-signature for decades as valid and permissive. If anything, a presidential autopen signature is more authentic than just e-signatures.

If anyone is skeptical about the way leftists eat their own, just hop on the Internet and look at the way they treat Hank and John Green

Isn't it unconstitutional to run the government (i.e., White House renovations, soldier pay) through private donations? This seems to both clearly undermine Congress' power of the purse and also opens a huge opportunity for corruption and authoritarian oligarchy. What am I missing?

I guess he doesn't have anything better to do, right? thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thehill....

I love how Young Republicans will try to convince you that racism doesn't exist anymore while also trying to out-racist each other on the private chat.

The fact that no one in the Trump Administration is willing to answer the question of whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 in cash makes me think Tom Homan kept the $50,000 in cash.

Not the biggest issue, of course, but what kind of half-assed signature is that?

I see you, Connections.

After letting Texas National Guard to be sent to Illinois, Governor Abbott should not be allowed to talk about states' rights ever again.

Pam Bondi and her Department of Justice are the biggest abusers of prosecutorial discretion I can recall. Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources - ABC News abcnews.go.com/amp/US/centr...

I kind of hate that Hegseth brought the generals in just for optics and the NYT rewarded him with this photo. It's like they just couldn't help themselves.

What if the rapture happened, but no one was actually righteous enough to get taken up to heaven, so nothing changed?

I have no idea how NFL overtime works anymore and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

Has the Duolingo owl ever considered getting meds for mood regulating?

I didn't even know he was running.

Dinner time.

When you wanted to make mango sticky rice, but none of the mangos at the store were ripe, but you had blueberries. Blueberry sticky rice.

What is even going on with broadcast TV these days?

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Sometimes Connections really sucks. Like today, for example.

How about they appoint Gavin Newsom to be the official Democratic shitposter, but nominate someone else for president?

Today's Sunday dinner: chicken kofta, hummus, muhammara and tzaziki. I made the dips from scratch, but did not make the pita.

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As an employment lawyer, I can't imagine anything but termination in this case. Did the employees think they wouldn't be fired? www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc...

I'm generally pretty empathetic, but the amount of concern I have for Burning Man participants during bad weather cannot be measured with the most powerful microscope.

I keep seeing promos for the new (last?) Downton Abbey movie, and it's really become a parody of itself, hasn't it? I remember how good it was in the first couple of seasons, but now it's all just inside jokes with posh English accents (and northern accents for the servants, I guess).

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This is very niche me, but the mocktail flavors of Crystal Light are actually pretty good.

If anyone is going to completely disregard Supreme Court precedence, it's us — Justice Gorsuch

Was just going to make a side of broccoli for Sunday dinner, but then got carried away and made this.

I think it's obvious she got rewarded for not implicating anyone.

The big advantage to the old Cracker Barrel logo was it worked for the illiterate. There's an old cracker sitting next to a barrel.

I swear I've heard people on podcasts say they like propofol and, like, how would you even know? The only times I've had it, I'm unconscious almost immediately. I didn't get a buzz or anything, it was just lights out.

"Me patients usually are able go back to work the next day" seems like a statement with a very low reliability rate.

First, Texas. Very smart geniuses in Washington DC and Austin think up to five more Republican seats can be squeezed out of the Congressional map. Princeton Gerrymandering Project to geniuses: It is already gerrymandered. The piggybank is empty. gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistrictin...

The absolute privilege of internet poseurs who think Home by Edward Sharp and The Magnetic Zeros is the worst song of all time. They must live in a comfy little bubble where Bro Country doesn't even exist.

I watched The Accountant 2 on the plane (despite never seeing the first one). It was ... fine. But it got me wondering. Will we ever see these autistic heros played by actual autistic people?

Maybe controversial take: I ate at Din Tai Fung for the first time tonight, and it was okay, but I've had better at mom and pop Chinese places in the Texas suburbs for half the price.

Found this hidden gem in Vancouver

Squirrel says hi

Summer salad and some are salad

All the needle drops in The Bear are pandering to me so hard and I love it.

I haven't gotten a ton of stuff done at work today, but I did just smash a mosquito that's been buzzing around my desk, so I'm feeling okay about my productivity.

I was looking up a recipe for marshmallow sauce, for whyever, and this recipe is annoying in a very American recipe way: a volume, a standard measurement and a metric weight, and only 3 ingredients! What are we doing, people?

Just me at home for Sunday dinner today, so I made myself shrimp and grits with a side of mustard greens and Hood River cherries.

Binging The Bear and just started Season 2. I can't tell you how shocked I was when I discovered that all previously-not-seen members of Carmey's family are celebrities.