“Oh this is a great deal! I’ll make so many batches of cookies with this bag” One woman’s journey into eating four and a half pounds of chocolate chips, fist by fist, alone

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

was the mother in hush little baby on a bender? first you get your baby a mockingbird but if it doesn't sing then you get your baby a diamond ring? oh but if that ring turns brass(??) you get you're baby a looking glass? then a billy goat??? then a cart and BULL(?!) what is happening here

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Changing my New Year’s resolution. Now it’s: to take our clothes to the wash & fold service at the laundromat whenever we fall behind on laundry

Why didn’t Trump 1 force this grappling already, I wonder

All I want for Christmas is for online gambling to be eradicated

Santa brought my kid a gift I hate but she loves. I have no one to blame but ….. Santa

“It’s because of people like me! Ahahahahahaha. Merry Christmas.”

Did not finish my Christmas crafting goals, at all, except for this Christmas set for my baby

There are certain circumstances where AI-created is totally irrelevant to me, but for a lot of art the knowledge that a person made it (or that a video really happened) genuinely is integral to the enjoyment. Feels like some people are intentional obtuse about that

So glad I came back to this website

Last night somebody stole a bag of human feces off my porch. At least karma was most likely swift

I’m starting to genuinely hate how the administration and media are using the word “pause”

the idea behind “trump derangement syndrome” is it’s absurd to think there could be such a thing as a very bad man

we built our country for a different century & apparently it's anti-American to want to build it any differently

Whenever the unreasonably stupid fans of Pluribus start expanding their speculation to linguistics it makes me want to gouge my eyes out

"This story doesn't need a sandworm" This is almost always wrong. Arguably, EVERY story benefits from adding a huge subterranean worm with quasi-mystical or semi-supernatural powers, or equivalent (similar to Moby Dick). Obviously the bigger the worm, the more literary quality it adds.

I am outright triggered by “germs are good for your (newborn) baby” nonsense, how did we all get so stupid about disease

I... had no idea there were Gregor Samsa truthers

Reminder: it is not correct to refer to Conway as a "Never Trumper." He was, in fact, a Trumper before he became a not-Trumper. He was literally a top pick to run Trump's DOJ in the first term. He was absolutely a Trumper.

tl;dr Bernie stopped the bill since he thought if everybody wants to save kids with cancer so much it’s a good opportunity to force through some other legislative goals he wants instead

her initial claim to fame is full of deranged medical misinformation, for example. she's always been like this. she is mad about <something> and she will just lie incessantly about it

I’m going to deactivate tonight I think, so as not to spend my family’s weekend away even tempted to be a posting gremlin

Pretty sure this guy has a degree in microbiology from MIT

“Everyone loves architecture criticism until —“ Yeah I’m gonna stop you right there.

yeah the "look cancel culture is coming for you" angle

imo it plays into the anxieties of the NYT reader base. the notion that a person’s life can be defined* by their worst moment^ (even tho this happens to poor people quite often) is a terror to many. *debatable, many find a way forward ^double debatable this was the only bad moment

We should just start using this excuse for anything until everyone gets it out of their system. From the trivial to the serious. Someone wants to know what you want for dinner? Your spouse wants you to go to couple's counseling? Well that's not going to liberate you from capitalism is it.

Nowadays youths are especially attuned to genocide, I keep hearing, because social media is showing them the whole wide world the olds would turn their back on — okay, so how are they taking Sudan?

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

I think next year I’m going to learn how to actually style my hair

try our new black IPA. it's black because we ground up a gun and put it in there

You’re honestly not going to convince me that the American public cares about politicians being too old or whatever when this happens regularly on television to no outrage whatsoever

It took a while because of the baby and all but I’m moving up in taiko classes! 🥁

Interesting!

More and more I genuinely believe that this site needs to copy twitter's community notes because that actually ended up used a bunch to put huge corrections on Straight Misinformation that goes viral like this, tbh

"I am motivated to destroy this politician and will straight-up lie to do it, and similarly motivated people will spread the lie because that's what they want to believe" is, uh, a bad practice. And far too easy to pull off these days.

"Yes, hahaha... the 'failure'... That definitely wasn't something I... I mean someone else... did on purpose! It was definitely someone else's fault & not say... a Chief Justice of the United States!"

A small subreddit I follow has a libertarian neopagan who’s just starting to figure out this administration is anti-him

It’s so cool how we all are watching the president slowly die, day after day, and all that we can do is try to figure out the best way to deal with it

I know it sucks they’re airing his speeches and refuse to air ours, but if he’s going to act like a confused, confusing, addled maniac I actually do what that broadcast into as many American homes as is possible

Right now, one way of reading public opinion, you might even say a popularist understanding, is that the public is pretty unambiguously calling for a Volcker-style recession, and yet color me skeptical that an actual recession that brought prices down would be very popular.

We’ve all seen this lie by now but ngl this is depressing me because it’s so easy to spread propaganda like this *even though the law exists*. People who appear to care deeply about the issue don’t actually have any idea what the real laws are or what Newsom has done in real life about them.

The problem with having a creative pursuit as a hobby is you will feel like dogshit about yourself a fairly significant amount of the time. You are choosing this! Feeling like dogshit will sometimes feel like it is your hobby

This is one reason I have quit teaching! I am not about those feedback forms after somebody had to listen to me talk for eight hours straight ok

"hideous excel files are the backbone of civilization" honestly let's put this on t-shirts.

OTOH it's disastrous policy on every level OTOH anyone who's given birth with an epidural could say they used WMDs in the delivery, so whose to say if its bad or not

We need to have enough regard for those voters to believe them when they tell us they hate cities & LGBTQ ppl & immigrants & women & *that their votes reflect that as an expression of their main priority* & not do the Thomas Frank thing of "well thats just displaced anger over materialist issues"