When someone has a “Trump” sign on their car or in front of their house, do they not realize that everyone who sees it thinks “pedophile supporter”?

Fascinating stuff. I’d heard that sometimes reminding it about tokenization fixes letter-counting errors.

When you try to classify voluntary harmful behavior as a mental illness, you both excuse the person engaging in the behavior, and further stigmatize people with actual mental illness. Don’t do that.

Heard a US American show use the phrase "dingo ate my baby" to refer to a wild and implausible story earlier today. The show is a few years old but I feel it's time to reiterate that the eventual finding in the "dingo ate my baby" case was that a dingo did, in fact, eat her baby

Finally tasted Jujube’s wet food, something I’ve long wanted to do, and I gotta say, it’s not bad. It pretty much just tasted like stew, which since its lamb stew flavor seems appropriate. Could use some salt — dogs need less than we do — but I could eat it.

Most of the things people call eugenics these days are really not eugenics. That doesn’t mean they’re not bad, they’re just other types of bad things. The huge majority of things that hurt people are not actually eugenics, which involves specifically targeting people deemed *genetically* undesirable

Doesn’t have to be Talarico (or maybe it does, idk I’m not exactly up to speed on Texas politics rn), but I really want someone to do this. And, like, ironically, not cause they’re RFK Jr. or something.

agree with nick here, and I apologize to talarico for his heart, but i do not trust texans and am going to need him to carry a brisket around to chew on periodically through the day like people do with water bottles now

I’m obsessed with these mini books now. They’re ridiculously overpriced, so this is probably not ideal. At least they don’t take up much space, though.

Y’all wanna’ see the worst company car in America?

This may be one of the most pusillanimous, and disingenuous, bits of writing on the right's attempt to destroy the humanities in the US.

To any parents out there. Please take an active interest in your child's education. Don't just place everything on the teachers. Even reading a book to them before bed and having them try to read for 5 mins helps a lot. I've been an educator for over 10 years and I can absolutely tell which parents

My GigaPets pixie finally evolved today (it takes 3 days)… then it informed me the battery was low, and, of course, changing it caused the whole thing to reset, so now I’m back to day 1 🤬

People talk about the value of a college degree. Why don't they talk about the value of a college education?

I'm waiting for Trump to fake his own death, and then resurrect after 3 days, to convince us that he's Jesus.

An East Tennessee school district has reversed its ban on “Roots” by Alex Haley, after weeks of community backlash, board member pressure, and statewide criticism

Every serial killer documentary is presented like "Oh, this dastardly guy outsmarted the detectives with his 11,000 evil IQ" and then you read the reports and the cops are blundering around getting fooled by fake mustaches and whoopie cushions.

"an immigrant who...applied for a green card after marrying a U.S. citizen might come under greater scrutiny" A friend, not Indian US citizen, married an #Indian national, who got #greencard through his marriage, not his work- as an interventional #cardiologist. Who TF needs those in US, amirite

Unnoticed by whom?

So much of the magical whimsical world in the Harry Potter books was actually just British shit. Boarding schools with houses? That's just a regular thing. The quirky money system with knuts and sickles is exactly how British money worked before the 70s. Quidditch is cricket

Trying to convince my children to get a pet frog named "Croak Monsieur"

Really proud of myself for refraining from saying something interesting and relevant that I knew would cause unnecessary stress for the person I’d be saying it to. It’s a struggle though. It’s such a good fun fact 😂

Zuckerberg Docks Annual Salary of 1,400 Laid-Off Meta Workers in Seattle: tinyurl.com/yc8kwpu9

I really feel like it shouldn’t take half an hour of active participation from me to print one single page.

Either men are the only group fit to lead humanity or they can only feed themselves by attacking and eating live rats like an entire gender of sideshow attractions

I for one love the idea that to get a man to eat you must bounce and dangle his chicken nuggets in front of him like he’s a cute widdle kitten

Why are printers still so freaking high maintenance? I really feel like we should be able to make printers that work on the first try by now.

A local elderly man has been keeping this puppy alive for 2 months since it showed up in his area. I'm not sure if we can save it. Some sort of brain issue for sure. Our vets are on the case and said the best thing it can have now is time.

Jujube: Is pill in my food. No eat. Reader, the pill was crushed to a powder and mixed into liquid. She did eventually eat it, but omg, my dog should not need coaxing to eat wet food 😂

Got sick of answering the same questions over and over in Duolingo video calls, but still had to do another “call” for my dailies, so I switched from Spanish to French, and she asked me the same damn question in French. 😭

I did not have braces for 2 years for a beautiful smile; I had them so that my teeth are perfectly aligned when I bite into someone's bicep

9/ Her family was outraged by all the obstacles in her way. “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment,” her stepfather said. Her sister Rowe wracked her brain for ways to help. Then it struck her.

Tried this on Juju and she pretty much just ignored me. Found her head smells pretty nice, though.

The dog froze like: I hope I pass inspection 🥹 TT: @bee73247

i genuinely hate how internet culture has become so normalized and widespread. i do not want a white house deputy chief of staff saying "it's white boy november" or a secretary of state tweeting that he's "locked in for this banger." grow up.

My GigaPets pixie needs to be bathed like 15 times a day, and it’s kind of annoying.

Hearing lots of sirens, trying to figure out what’s going on. In an act of curiosity-fueled desperation, I even checked X, where somehow searching for the latest posts containing “Concord” managed to turn up weird religious crap 😂

Identity theft protection is for people that believe in the future

"We found 222 compromised passwords" No you didn't you found 1 password that was compromised 222 times

no they don’t & no you haven’t (at least in a legal or clinically appropriate way). absolute fucking freaks obsessed with youth genitals to a terrifying degree.

When Covid quarantine happened, prices went high, but most understood. Thinking that prices of food would return to pre-COVID, was foolish. Getting accustomed to profits in end stage capitalism means, prices won’t be lowered unless corporations, boycotts ect… Force them to stop Gouging us.

I am so sad that people have made this a portion of her childhood. She is rocking it, but should not have to be.

Love when my disability support person asks if I can meet later cause someone else needs more time, I say I actually can’t today, and she just… gives part of my time to someone else. Like no, you need to tell that person you can’t stay late today, not me that you can’t come on time.

"Forty-nine votes were cast against the new rules, whilst only one vote was cast in their favour", yet still they went ahead with the ban. Clearly, women's opinions do not count!

I can't stand it when the digital sample of a book only goes as far as the table of contents. Can I at least have the first page to see if I enjoy the writing please?

you still don’t have to “hand it to” hitler

Sorry if I don’t think “good” is the appropriate adjective to describe accidentally shooting a random person who was just driving past. 🙄

I’ve mentioned my first pain specialist before who listened to me cry about doctors telling me the pain was all in my head and she laughed gently and said “of course it is. That’s where the brain lives. Connected to your nervous system. That’s how pain works.” It was very validating.

Trying to twist the meaning of the word “antisemitic” or claiming it’s not a real word and/or concept is, in fact, antisemitic. Stop doing it. It’s a well established word, with a specific meaning. Your hot take on the etymology of it is actually quite offensive.