My daughter just started college and we can't even call the GI Bill Hotline due to the shutdown to find out why she didn't get her student verification email for September. Luckily, she's got enough in scholarships and grants that she doesn't rely on the GI Bill 💯, but it would be nice to have.

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[letter to vitamin company] So your ad said that this supplement "helps with memory loss" but I'm still remembering stuff

Our government is full of petty assholes. I just got this very unprofessional email from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Post a concert photo you took

Autism is not a "horrible, horrible crisis" and neurodivergent people are not the government's guinea pigs.

That would be my doctor.

This is all I’m hearing today from Arizona

For the love of all that is holy, I swear, if they touch a hair on Seth Meyer’s or John Oliver’s heads I will lose my shit. It what do you want to bet that Jimmy Fallon is the only one who’s going to survive the purge.

Bluesky right now ...

Artist: @sillynubcat.bsky.social

Being alive is "great" and all, but every day?

Twitter is a safety hazard. Delete it if you can. I bet you can! Also, abolish "A.i." as much as you can from every aspect of your life and community/

I know that Americans suck at things like geography and meteorology, but this is a whole other level of stupid. 🤦

Relax, Guy.

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Dealing with chronic illness is like: It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Fuck this. Fuck that. Fuck you. Fuck my life. *goes apeshit* It's fine.

I miss old internet in the Before Times. Back when stuff like this was funny. SEMPER FI!! ROFL:ROFL:LOL:ROFL:ROFL _________|________ L / [] LOL====== [] [] [] [] USA \ L _____________________| | | —————————–/-/

Some of yall can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

I guess direct communication (phallocentric) means being a dick on your own platform and then reading what the other dick says on his platform.

I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.

😢

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

This show got me through the 90s and I miss those weird times. I'd forgotten all the cultural references in the show because they were just normal things that were happening at the time, like Beavis and Butthead and Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I've got three medical appointments this week and I'm already tired of people asking me how I'm doing. The answer is always the same.

Reliable online support groups for chronic illnesses are hard to find. I just visited a forum for people with #ME/CFS and the first post I saw was about how the NSA was distributing nanobots through soda, the COVID vaccine, and chemtrails, and then activating the nanobots to cause pain. 🤷

I just realized that today I've been cancer-free for 19 years. I was diagnosed with Stage 3 malignant melanoma that had spread to my lymph nodes in April 2006 and on May 24, 2006 I had my third and final surgery to remove more lymph nodes. The 5-year survival rate for this melanoma is about 50%.

another masterful gambit sir, this is sure to send your popularity soaring

I really love The Onion! Wait, what? Satire is dead?

I’m not a religious person but I was baptized in an Episcopal church when I was a kid. Glad to see them do the right thing. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

The world just hates disabled people so fucking much. They just want us to not exist. They don’t want to see us or know about us. We’re just completely worthless to them and worse we’re a hindrance. They just want us to disappear. There’s no room for us in the world.

hey

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475% tariff on using “alot” as one word

As a lifetime member of the DAV, I have to agree.

I’m only halfway through this and it’s just fucking embarrassing to have things like “woke” /“radical leftist” / “Green New Scam” in an official government document written by purported adults.

the average American has three friends

Are all rapid slides into authoritarianism this stupid and weird or is American fascism just its own singular species at this point

US/Canada border=artificially drawn line US/Mexico border=NONE SHALL PASS!

cutting out the middle man by gaslighting myself

Them: Hi...nice to meet you. Me: You may want to reserve judgement on that.

Turns out it's a company in St Louis, Missouri but one of the webpages on the company site says St Louis, Minnesota. And the HQ address is in New Braunfels, Texas. The whole thing is sketchy and there's nothing I can do about it right now. Corrections requests can't be made on current records.

Ahead of hurricane season? How about in the middle of tornado season? We had nearly 600 families in FEMA housing after the Joplin tornado who would have been homeless otherwise. There was no available housing at any price because we lost over 8,000 buildings.

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

Very excited for this year's RiotFest aka Geriatric Millennial Live Aid.

How I arrived on Bluesky