I can never remember which countries eat marmite, vegemite, or thermite

OK which foxnews clip did he misunderstand this time?

Show them how much you care. Say it with a Brassica™️

henceforth the 9th of every month on here is "drafts day" where you have to post a draft that's at least a month old

me, on the topic of bluesky introducing drafts

the introduction of drafts is going to dramatically curtail my posting frequency now all the bad thoughts that I have to type out and can't bring myself to delete will have a more appropriate home than y'all's timelines

illegal to copy a question to your brain

Like, this was stated in the terms and conditions for taking the test. They're claiming it's illegal to copy a question to your brain. And if you want to take the test, you have to concede that as true

I knew dogs could snore but I'd never heard a cat snore before now

Someone offers you a job doing whatever it was that 5-year-old you wanted to be when you grew up. What job is it, and do you take it?

oh sweet, I migrated to Northsky and it took all of 5 minutes!

my only question is, how does all of this affect the Mets' chances this year?

hey google, what time do I need to be asleep to avoid all things football tonight?

I feel so sick reading this. She dedicated her life to helping her immigrant trans siblings, finally got the medical care she sought her whole life, and then a year later ICE tricked her, kidnapped her and used her postoperative status as a weapon to destroy her health. CW for basically everything

given the evidence it's looking like the dinosaurs did a better job ruling the earth

A vermin-supreme type of guy should run for the presidency, on a platform of public transit accelerationism

give it a minute and transphobes will invent gender divisions for lotto scratchoffs to exclude trans people from

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Just because it's important, that doesn't mean it's news.”

My son was hospitalized at 2 and a half for respiratory issues and it was *terrifying*. I cannot fathom the level of fear these parents feel for this child being put through this in such a vulnerable state. Every day, a new heartbreak. This horror must end!!! Abolish ICE and stop this nightmare 💔

Well sure the damage is done

The youth are gonna be like "yeah, that's Grandma. She hoards expired HRT because she lived through the Great Repression"

In a year or two: "SpaceX delays moon plans to focus on, idk, like, Antarctica"

"best I can do is naming a sewage treatment plant in boise after you, mr president"

"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong

girl who had breakfast for breakfast, junk food for lunch, and then breakfast again for dinner

Scary interaction with a dude who was insisting he was going to follow me home and wasn't taking no for an answer. I had to lie and insist I had a man at home to get him to leave me alone

employers should start offering naptime as a job benefit

you've heard of "fan fiction," now we're innovating with "foe fiction"

totally different thing, but this reminds me of the guy who called the newsroom irate on a Friday evening demaning to know where his Saturday paper was

how have I had the same sore throat, cough and sinus congestion and drainage for 5 weeks straight? It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, it just feels like a low-level cold all day, every day likely not environmental since I moved to a new town a couple weeks back

what makes him so remarkable is that the words he chooses to emphasize, the emotions he conveys, are not ones that would occur to me. And yet seeing his performance, it is evident that there could not be better choices, he has internalized the message in its purest form and is sharing that with us

I started in the newspaper biz in '97 and exited in '21, so I saw most of this decline, I felt it. Saw dozens and dozens of talented, committed, passionate colleagues give up in disgust and move into other careers And I've also had to see what this exodus did to our country. Nothing good.

"a man (not sure who he is)' is very funny when it's Illinois Congressman Jonathan Jackson

My friend Richard Prince notes the Washington Post, based in a city which is an important Mecca for Black folks, now has no Black journalists on its masthead, w/the highest ranking Black journalist leaving and its race/identity reporter also laid off. https://loom.ly/m2NtaSk

A note to PR professionals: If you are reaching out to @washingtonpost.com journalists whom you do not know simply to update your internal media tracking databases -- have a semblance of professionalism and stop.

I still do but that's about needing to always have full situational awareness as a trans woman in this society

I used to think I was ridiculous (/derogatory) but now I know I'm ridiculous (/complimentary)

me, for the past 15 minutes: I should go get a glass of water, I'm thirsty, but I don't have the energy to walk to the kitchen also me, that entire time: [is sitting next to a full glass of water]

Some journalists enjoy the freelance life, but MOST, the vast majority, find the uncertainty and chaos of it unsustainable and unnerving Even steady, ongoing freelance work can suddenly dry up without warning. Invoices get held up or ignored. Rates get slashed. You have to figure your own benefits.

aaaaaaand they canceled the procedure due to a burst pipe, so I fasted for nothing

having to fast for a procedure is especially cruel for me because I'm very good at eating, really elite level at this point

my surgeon has forbidden me from eating any solid food today and in protest of this, I've begun a hunger strike

I still think what's mostly likely is that Jk Rowling is not in the Epstein files, but the yacht logs deletion suggests that she is worried about scrutiny in connection with *something* and I think that's very interesting

"hmm, this evidence seems pretty thin now that I think about it" [jkr acts *extremely guilty*] "ok you know what let's take another look at that evidence"

the continued existence of superyachts in a world where hunger and disease and deprivation still proliferate is really gross and weird how can anyone see JKR as a voice for common people?

this may be tough to believe, but I remember a time, many decades ago, when temperatures in the DMV got as warm as 40 degrees Fahrenheit and there was somewhat less snow

We can't all be the leader of antifa. Some of us have to the the HR department of antifa, the valet of antifa, the executive assistant of antifa, the intern of antifa

Punxsutawny Phil qualification exaggeration scandal when?

we could have a world with no measles, no covid, no HIV, no cervical cancer, so many other diseases we could wipe out, and we're just … choosing not to do that we know how to do it, it's not a secret, the methods and strategies are well established. But we just won't

the common thread between ICE continuing to terrorize schools in Minneapolis and the trickle of Epstein news is that our society continues to have deeply toxic ideas about children, how they should be taken care of, how they should be protected we continually fail to treat them like actual people