I thought it was just my gym's app but I just tried with another app and had the same problem, so does anyone else know why iOS just....stopped adding things to calendar when you tell an app to add things to calendar? It lets you go through all the motions but then the thing never appears on cal!

Remember when we thought Daenerys having a Starbucks was the laziest thing a beloved franchise could do and now apparently we have S5 of Stranger Things written by multiple tabs of chatGPT? Guess I'm glad Netflix keeps kicking me off my mom's account

Have anesthesiologists and researchers ever considered that the reason there are only "nine documented cases [of Foreign Language Syndrome], all male" is because nobody writes about women or people of color in medical research, not because it only happens to white dudes?

I love when my macbook refuses to recognize I've plugged something in but it still yells at me to eject it properly when I unplug it

Lots of talk about how all microwaves have a popcorn button yet all microwave popcorn says DON'T USE THE BUTTON. A lot less talk about how they sell pizza pans yet every frozen pizza says DON'T PUT IT IN A PAN.

I have been waiting my entire life for anybody in real life to say “shrink” the way they do in TV and movies when talking about therapists and I have yet to hear it. Did Hollywood just make it up?

Hello, plesiosaur

17-year-old Hannah, who had never been laid anywhere and certainly not in this town with or without some pointy fucking shoes, is DELIGHTED with this find at the record store today

Not interested in hearing from anyone flat chested enough to wear cotton camisoles or elastic bands they pretend are bras, but Jesus Christ my full bust sports bra decided to spring an underwire leak halfway through body pump and the wire has almost reached my armpit now and it hurts so very much

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

Love when I get to use my kidlit degrees/nostalgia at trivia. Now I’m mad that our VHS of the animated film is probably lost forever to time

My neighbor just told me I have Jennifer Grey vibes, particularly Dirty Dsncing and Ferris Bueller, and I’ve never been more flattered, offended, AND read for filth

Different professional environments have different cultural bases, which is why whenever someone working in them doesn't come from the same cultural background, they will be deemed insubordinate, weird, unprofessional, or unfit. They're not, they're just from a different culture and

Whenever I listen to Selena, I find myself singing the half-Spanish, half-gibberish lyrics I mondegreened as a child, even though I know Spanish and know the lyrics now. Apparently I do the same with Eydie Gorme y los Panchos, because what do you mean it's not "I need you green" on DESPERADAMENTE?

I’m sorry how did I just realize tonight that Chet Baker singing sounds like Caetano Veloso?!

Can a single editor at a trad publisher please explain to me why you let obviously British authors write in British English while setting the story in the US and populating it with purportedly USian characters who speak British English?

nothing, just here to brag about a book panel I have coming up in 2026 that is ENTIRELY BROWN and ENTIRELY QUEER and the panel subject is NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS

yo, Hayley Sharon/Susan/Pollyanna Mills is in TRAP!? I'm dying

You guys, what’s the name of those mints that came in pastel colors, were not individually wrapped, and melted in your mouth instantly? They looked like little marshmallow pillows

I love being a desert rat who will forever be like, “I can’t sleep because my house is being pelted with hail? Right on” and “plans canceled due to rain? Best day ever.”

“If you defund the police, the streets won’t be safe!” The streets and the police:

wild that as a child you're told that being smart means reading books that aren't intended for you and magically intuiting calculus, then you grow up and the real differentiator is understanding how four-way stops work and seeing through tactics like "compliment sandwich" for the insults they are

I know exactly who needs to see this but also don't know who *else* needs to see this but if you have received an honorary doctorate because you spoke at a university commencement program, you do NOT get to call yourself "Dr." Full stop. No exceptions.

"hey, app that summarizes books for people who want to pretend they are literate: tell everyone I read a lot! on the website for your app, which summarizes books for people who don't read at all"

What did spotify do to their desktop app to make it such trash in the last month and how do I get it to stop sucking?

I JUST had it confirmed that there were TWO Graham Greenes and I am SHOOKETH this explains so much confusion about ideologies and points of view omg

Can monolinguals please for the love of all that is holy learn the fucking difference between wary and weary?

I am once again asking writers to stop treating diacritics like fucking glitter and understand that they are NOT OPTIONAL. Just because your monolingual ass thinks all other languages are playthings doesn't mean they are to the people who actually speak and read them

please will a chemist or biologist please explain how it is possible for my rhinovirus-ridden body to produce a new gallon of mucus every five seconds when it's not like my body can produce new blood that fast

George W. Bush is to Donald J. Trump as John McCain is to Meghan McCain: very lucky to now seem entirely fine in comparison to their unhinged, weird, and annoying successors

Excited for New York and Virginia and sending my deepest fuck yous to the Democrat establishment that will learn absolutely fucking nothing from this

Can somebody explain the tweens with gigantic rusty saws? I’m too old to understand costume references, apparently

Just announcing to you all I made a Halloween playlist for Pilates tonight and it’s apparently the first one in the history of music not to put the Cranberries in there

what person who has never been on the internet before decided that "update my preferences" should be something that allows you to change your name or email and not anything to do with updating your email preferences?

wild that there's "no slavery" in the United States except prison labor and also air traffic control

okay now I need someone to tell me about lead and cadmium when it comes to the collagen powder I put in my coffee and also the premade protein shakes I buy from GNC

There is a reason SNAP requires you to work a minimum number of hours, something no true welfare program does — it’s designed for people who work full-time and still can’t afford to eat. There is a very clear group taking advantage of this system and they sure aren’t the ones at risk of starving.

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

My favorite part of the flight is when nothing is happening in the boarding area so they ask people to volunteer to gate check their bags now to save time & everybody is a Special Boy or Girl & doesn’t, then those same Special Boys & Girls slow the boarding line bc they have to gate check their bag

man, ranitidine was so great why'd they get rid of it (i know why they got rid of it)

I just got an email from netgalley trying to entice me to read a book described as "radically moderate" and I never thought I could hate publishing nonsense speak more than I hate "voice-y," but there you go

The worst part of Netflix introducing Americans to the word QUEUE is that everyone had a collective stroke and forgot that CUE is still a word! Just saw an instagram account using the abomination “queing” and wanted to punch them through my phone

The Black Phone is just The Lovely Bones with boys

The Delta customer service agent just had a typo in our chat and I've never been so relieved to see proof of human interaction

Just realized ANTM and Biggest Loser had the same Aboriginal elder, Uncle Max, as their cultural welcome wagon, and now I'm wondering the back story of this man as American Television Cultural Attaché

What definitely literate metadata genius at Abrams Books decided that every single picture book on their 2026 list should have ": A Picture Book" in the title and that that should feed into goodreads, edelweiss, and more? I just want to talk

I wear long sleeved shirts for about 8 weeks of the year (and with climate change that window is rapidly shortening; it's still been close to 100 degrees here lately) and to this day I do not understand how to fit or style them. I just always feel like a big lump with no body & no sense of fashion

I just broke the necklace I was wearing in a cinematic way. Like fully just snapped it but nothing looks broken??? I think I just need pliers to fix it??

When I was a journalism cherub at Northwestern 19 years ago, they told us, "When people in power say something stupid, *always quote them*" and even though I'm not a journalist, I remember that all the time. This week I got to use what I now see as a corollary:

I just spoke at @pimacc.bsky.social board meeting to urge them to join the COE lawsuit against the fascist DOE illegally canceling Upward Bound. I’ll say it again: you can be a coward in the face of bullies or you can do your job and defend your students: threesonorans.substack.com/p/pcc-board-...