bullying works!

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

honeydew melon a good, ripe honeydew is delicious, but they’re so much more often underripe, flavorless filler in hotel breakfasts’ fruit salads

high school band Stockholm Syndromed me into genuine enjoyment of Domino’s pizza

Robyn Adele Anderson’s jazz cover of Bowling for Soup’s “Girl All the Bad Guys Want”

oh my God

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the kennel did a great job capturing my dog’s personality today

my driver’s ed teacher provided his own color commentary if he thought we couldn’t see clearly enough what was happening in Red Asphalt, and sent us home one Friday evening right after telling us that more teen drivers crash on Friday nights than on any other night

such a piece of shit that she needs two bidets on one plane

this is why I highly recommend the book Backyard Ballistics for anyone with kids aged roughly 12+ it’s all much safer than DIYing incendiaries or shooting fireworks at your friends, but you still get to use soup cans and naphtha to make a mortar that’ll launch tennis balls a good 50 yards

just once, I want to sleep this well

today in “the Fullcast has never told a joke”: the US men’s bobsledding team does, in fact, have an Aggie, with the most stereotypical Aggie name you can think of www.usabs.com/profiles/boo...

post a tree you photographed

and gentlemen, if you want to take me to the Ren faire and buy me a sword, my number is 972…

likewise quoting to emphasize: this goes for ALL your cancer screenings mammograms are awkward as fuck, but if starting them at 33 helps me avoid a mastectomy, chemo, or radiation, then I’m all for it

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells @thebarbedwire.com he spent years burying radioactive fracking waste, which melted the bones in his neck and jaw. Then a residential community — and an elementary school — was built on top. 🧵 thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/11/a...

feeling very creeped-out and disgusted and angry that this guy was requesting funding from Jeffrey goddamn Epstein to host a conference about rape, which was mandatory attendance for the students in his course about rape, while I was at UT

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

we have got to come up with better names for electronic scammery “phishing” sounded dumb enough, and “vishing” and “smishing” were worse, but the cybersecurity folks really outdid themselves (derogatory) with “quishing”

Biscuit hopes all y’all have a great day

I love that UConn has embraced Ennui Husky so enthusiastically

@charlottegov.bsky.social, why isn’t this intersection eligible to request traffic calming measures or pedestrian safety devices?

happy King Taejong Fell Off His Horse Day!

- Gruene Hall - the Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax - home games at App State and Western Carolina - PVAMU-Grambling in the Cotton Bowl - a Belgrade Derby at the “Marakana”

always be Kirby

sometimes, you have to take matters (and a shovel) into your own hands

Big Virg 🤝 the dog I named after him knowing when someone really needs a hug

like Lady Macbeth, Ochoa and Gutierrez can scrub and scrub until their hands are raw, but they’ll never remove the stain of Alex Pretti’s blood from their souls

shoveling snow is such exhausting work I have mad respect for all y’all who have to do this regularly, and I see why it’s such a huge faux pas to take a parking space someone else shoveled

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

GOT HER ASS

this is why, when we see heavy snow in the forecast, we DON’T FUCKING DRIVE if it’s at all avoidable

what is this Amarillo bullshit doing in my North Carolina

I’m so disappointed by what’s become of the university I was so proud of, and what’s happening to the professors who cared so much about their students and yet, I still wear the ring, because I want to be an example of what I think A&M *can* be

an innocent angel who couldn’t POSSIBLY have gotten into a scrap with a Malamute three times his size over a chunk of ice they both wanted to play with (neither dog is hurt, don’t worry)

Ki-Adi-Mundi lookin’-ass

cani-dudes rock

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

between being raised a Gator fan in the reign of Steve Spurrier and watching way too many blown halftime leads under Mike Sherman, I know one thing for sure: now is the time to RUN UP THE FUCKING SCORE

🎵 Karaganda by mornin’, up from Jezkazğan; everything that I’ve got is just what I’ve got on 🎵

GO ON, GIT

REINDEER

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

BULLYING WORKS

There’s video floating around. You don’t want to watch it. News feed will be updated continuously. No paywall. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇