He mean as hell but can cook!!!

It’s amazing how much life sucks right now and when you dig down into it is because people are lazy and have no sense of pride in their craft

Kind of amazing that outlets are still saying the student cited the Bible in her essay - she didn't! The essay is incredibly short! You could just read it!

Zoiks. That’s real bad.

It’s one of the things I find terrifying about the current very weird shit some of these people believe. Like, no wonder they don’t care if a million people die of something. They’re talking themselves into not believing in other people in a very real, actionable sense.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

In the 80s and 90s, every family sitcom did a Christmas special. The most insane of which was the 1990s family sitcom Dinosaurs (basically a combination of Roseanne and Growing Pains but everyone is a dinosaur) which, for obvious reasons, didn't have Christmas, so they celebrated Refrigerator Day

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

Raising your parents is not for the weak

That’s a goose maybe A duck… in the fast food drive through

Professionalism is a mixed bag sometimes

i wonder how many people saw Jacob Tierney and hockey and they're watching Shoresy instead

Having an ambiguous carrot and stick is far more effective than making explicit demands. It result in people self-censoring far beyond what legislation alone could ever hope to achieve. Be it out of fear of crackdowns, or to curry favor with the ruling party. The outcome is still the same. 2/3

Tonight Ketkrókur (Meat Hook), the 12th of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He loves meat and uses a long metal hook to steal mutton hanged up in rafters for smoking. Children leave their shoes out in the window, he gives the good ones a small gift, the bad ones get a potato.

Per the SNL skit, please send my body down the slide because I spent my last moments getting on up there, don’t awkwardly carry me past all those kids!!

incredible that these guys make more money than they could ever dream to spend and THEN decide that the most important thing in life is spreading their genetic material as widely as possible. buddy you talked yourself into having the same life goal as ragweed

Not trying to be a dick, but I could support more publications if they had $5/month subscriptions

Anil is spot on here! The usefulness of LLMs is not how they are being sold currently by the CEO’s and it will inevitably backfire,sure BUT they are still going to end up being very helpful down the line in some more niche ways with data synthesis tasks etc This is a simple baby bathwater scenario

a nice thing about dogs is they don't know anything going on in the news

God I love these lil guys

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

I ruined someone’s attempt to happily surprise me when we were awkward tweens and watched her slowly and sadly drift away. Neither of us handled it well, but I did learn a valuable lesson that goes right along with how sometimes it’s not important for everyone to know that you were right

Stop being so good at reading people that you forget to let them surprise you

I appreciate people who invest in our civilization, our infrastructure, our community, and our dignity. It got to be a topic of discussion a while back about rich people “laundering their reputation” with charity, with the Sacklers being the worst modern example. But honestly, it’s fine 1/

the hive to carol

It’s freaking awesome to be the wife of a man who is a total pro at making Lefse. Every thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, buttering up the pieces, piling on the cinnamon sugar nom nom nom

Not every problem but probably 60-70% of the problems online could be mitigated by understanding that people you don't know/don't like are still capable of kidding around.

Between AI humping videogame execs and “Draft Kings presents the NFL” it really seems some days like all forms of recreation are on a mission to make the fun thing not fun anymore when the fun thing was already perfectly profitable.

“They laughed at me at the Academy” is my favorite old timey supervillain/mad scientist motivation. And now it is what runs the government and a lot of the “discourse.”

Ever since my husband forced me to face the fact that I was starting to become a crank in my 40’s I’ve been so grateful for being challenged to not take that path. I wish everyone had someone like that in their life who will turn to them sideways and raise one eyebrow and say “So, hun…”

But instead people are saying, "don't build alternatives, try to convince people not to want the thing that they want." And that won't work. It has already failed, in fact.

Yep. Been thinking about that a lot. You know what's interesting? Almost *all* of the tools for generating AI video and images set metadata on the media that indicates it's synthetically generated. But none of the apps or browsers do anything with that metadata! They could be signaling it to people.

The thing that irritates me the most is that this is the kind of passive aggressive bullshit my mom will say when I get busy with my life and don’t talk to her Some of us aren’t retired, mom Some of us don’t want to debate, some of us would rather do art with the flowers we dried over the summer

Great piece about my dear friend Melissa Hortman. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Public Domain Day 2026: works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 open to everyone on January 1, including Betty Boop, Blondie and Dagwood, Animal Crackers, and so much more https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/...

Dunkelman: “The problem stems from today’s progressives lacking a clear theory of how public authority is supposed to work.” "Unitary executive theory - but for good” is a theory of power, but one contrary to accountability. Progressives who care about democracy also need a theory of accountability.

Once you take away the false claim that authoritarians offer “brutal efficiency” you are just left with the brutal part. Authoritarianism might seem like a hack to get things done, but is a system of govt that ultimately fails for the reason Trump is failing. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/democrats-...

you think the wise man who brought gold was all like "you brought myrrh? that makes no frankincense" and then they all hi-fived all the way to the manger? i do.

"a president that maybe wasn't watching" would have been Gerald Ford, because Venezuela's nationalization of its oil industry happened in 1976

Think of how many "Trump is the peace candidate" dipshits we never have to pretend to take seriously again.

Funny (not funny) thing is that Trump first gained power because the GWB administration made a war out of thin air. Criticizing the Iraq war was largely how he separated himself from the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates. If only he was able to remember this.

Trump is busy eliminating every support from the statement "actually Bush was worse than Trump".

and that does feel like a knee-jerk response to the tyranny of a "moral majority" that's turned out to actually be a shockingly, vanishingly small number of people. and all of us are poorer for it, and you should seek out outsider artists doing weird shit because it's rewarding and good for you

yeah pretty much