Listen, I know you all are Bean Kings, but today I made refried beans for the first time and sorry to my children but that’s the end of canned refried beans in this house, I will make us Bean Gentry if it kills me.

“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup

I just saw a real estate listing for a house with its own ropes course, does it belong to a motivational speaker?

It’s 45 and raining today or you get a knuckle sandwich.

A Few Good Men (1992)

She'll have more time now to skin puppies for coats

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

I hate to be that person but every time someone says to save money by shopping at Aldi I want to scream that the closest one is 900 miles away, stop lording your Aldi privilege over me. (We have Winco, which is different but still cheap and great)

There are toilets everywhere for those with the eyes to see

Because this stupid asshole only really cares about being racist and harmful at home, that’s why he’s going to sit at SCOTUS and scowl at everyone. What a useless fucking waste

FYI she’s the one in the middle

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

To quote a local musician WHAT WHAT WHAT WHAT

yes

My 14 yo tried to teach me about Hey Ya tonight. Don’t try the old magic on me bro, I spent 2003-2005 drinking Arbor Mist and smoking Camel ultra lights to that album at every party.

I got my tubes removed in 2019 because I didn’t trust the government and I was correct. Another pregnancy would have sent me to grippy sock town, and I knew this was coming.

Llama: every move you make is pissing me off 🤣

Bury me with this gif on my tombstone

Minnesota still needs your attention

Well, despite the flu shot, oldest has flu b and apparently it’s running rampant in our town— I asked in a local FB group about his symptoms and the first eight comments mentioned flu b. Usually there’s at least one person saying it’s not a big deal but everyone was like “go to urgent care now!”

My neighbor has that sheet of programmable LED Christmas lights still Up over his garage door, and today he programmed them to say GO CUBS. We live outside Seattle but I love his dedication.

shut the website down, this is the best thing i've read on here since 2023.

I said months ago that Platner reeks of that type of leftist who is only vaguely progressive when it suits his oppositional defiant disorder, and here we are Fetterman 2.0 may honestly be generous

I did it, I paid for Mariners TV so I can get into baseball this year (I listened to games last year, I’m upping the stakes)

If folks are in a place where they think antisemitic conspiracy theories are normal to share, they need leave for a different place.

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

I truly love that Defector has carved out a Reacher beat over the years, starting with this @brandyjensen.bsky.social essay that was one of the very best things we published in our first twelve months. defector.com/my-year-with...

Twenty-five years ago today, an unlucky dove met a Randy Johnson fastball 🕊️

I love that my big discovery of my mid 40s is that I really love bar trivia. I mean, I love trivia but I found friends who want to go every two weeks and we are really good at it and the waitress knows my drink.

counted 25 ICE officers (most with ERO vests) during my 26-minute wait in the LGA Terminal C Touchless line this morning. every one of them was either standing doing nothing or slowly walking the length of the line doing nothing. at least four were in masks.

Go take the time to see Project Hail Mary on the biggest screen you can, it’s completely worth it. What a lovely adaptation of a great book, and a change from the run of Best Picture nominees I just watched in the last couple weeks.

Ed Ruscha, "The Music from the Balconies," 1984 www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

I am begging you from the depths of my sad little librarian heart to please stop hotboxing the library’s downstairs bathrooms. We can all smell it and the ventilation isn’t great.

Me to Lindy after reading Koul’s piece and this email

YOU ASKED FOR THIS! Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

Whoa whoa whoa. WSJ reports that Trump *personally* pushed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation. Several sources for my NYT column speculated this was the case. The Journal says it's a fact. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

come ON DUDE

Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society

WHOA. Lewandowski is accused of demanding fees from a private prison company to steer them ICE contracts, at a time when he was widely known to be running DHS on Kristi Noem's behalf, then punishing them when they didn't pay up. Congress should conduct a full and bipartisan investigation into this.

Thanks to Cam Rogers on Facebook for articulating exactly the issues around the new animated Firefly that's been announced.

I HAVE PERSONALLY EXPLAINED THIS TO YOU DEBRA

Call your House Rep, tell them to OPPOSE HR 7661. ☎️ Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121 (2/2)

The US flag code states that the American flag should never be used as an article of clothing, but what most people don't know is that there's a subrule that states it's okay if you look fly as hell

Every single thing named after Cesar Chavez should be renamed for Dolores Huerta

Me to my 11yo: yeah, I saw a new duck when I was at the park today, it was a Barrow’s goldeneye. 11yo: wow, they’re doing all sorts of stuff with ducks now, huh. Child, don’t mock your mother, you’ll watch birds when you’re in your 40s too.

We really shouldn't have to bloody do this but INDIE AUTHORS, opt out of Ingram selling your books to AI companies: www.ingramcontent.com/page/ai-opt-... #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #WritingCommunity #BookSky #SelfPublishing #IngramSpark #Ingram