This is your doomscrolling rest stop, please enjoy.

Absolutely amazing numbers of people on this app who do not appear to know that voters living in the District of Columbia do not have a governor or voting representation in Congress.

It’s amazing that so many institutions see numbers like this and decide “the message is clear, let’s obey in advance harder”

The howl I let out when a friend dropped this in the group chat.

I bet they did

Another bad day to be capable of experiencing empathy

I still think the Good Place should have had a breakfast diner called The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes.

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

I just finished Expedition 33, and I have never wished harder for the ability to remove a game from my brain so I could play it for the first time again. It needs to get 9,999+ awards.

you’re laughing. the largest antebellum plantation house burned down & there are brides who will not get to spiritually absorb the poisoned spectral energy of the land for their big day, & you’re laughing.

A Pope that will finally do what's right: declare ketchup on hot dogs a mortal sin.

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

I am just... feeling a way that the two fanfiction ships that have broken through to traditional publishing are actively more regressive than their source material, pairing a female protagonist with her fascist-coded antagonist, often introducing reactionary gender essentialism not in the source

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs 📽 (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

The SINNERS discourse is great because to normal people "Ryan Coogler movie with Michael B. Jordan" sounds like a money printer but to weird rich racists in Hollywood it's a niche Black film for Black audiences only, and they're mad they didn't foresee it is, duh, a money printer.

The AI bubble is going to burst because they cannot sustain the amount of money they are losing for much longer. So all of these chatbots are going away or will cost more than you're willing to pay. And then what do you have left except having told the world you aren't able to think

The year is 2006. The housing market is about to crash. You fire up Oblivion on PC. The year is 2025. The housing market is about to crash. You fire up Oblivion on PC.

Two browsers, one phone, and a lot of screaming later, I successfully convinced Ticketmaster to let me buy a ticket to see Mumford and Sons for the 4th time on my 44th birthday.

The artist of a generation.

ME, with a private Discord with 20 close friends: I still don’t talk about details of what I do for work, even though it’s not confidential or classified, here, because my employment contract says not to share operational details on socmed. Better safe than sorry THE US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: anyway,

They’re gonna start WWIII in a Discord server aren’t they

If Obama and Hillary discussed anything over Signal Republicans would demand public executions

I am an elder millennial. We were the last generation to drink from the hose. We played Nintendo and the loser would drink from the hose. We got summer jobs, earning $5 an hour drinking from the hose. We had no cell phones; if we were out late our parents had to trust we were drinking from the hose.

If you have phone anxiety like me, fear not: you get the option to leave a message without having to actually talk to anyone live.

There. Is. No. Ethical. Use. Of. GenAI. It cannot be fixed or improved or only use licensed data because it relies entirely on the volume of stolen data. It is FUCKING POINTLESS to talk about it in games and you are only PLATFORMING THEIR SHITTY ARGUMENTS and giving it legitimacy it does not have.

Time to tune into the Philly police blotter

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

Tiktok also had a pretty massive community of disabled folks, many of whom can't leave their homes. For many, it was their only way to socialize safely

A lot of users on this app have a grating self-righteous vibe. Some folks on here are just so proud of themselves for… using BlueSky, convinced that ONLY they are doing the internet right. It’s counterproductive if your goal is actually to bring folks together for something better.

Folks trying to act cool and aloof about the TikTok ban sound genuinely idiotic. If you don’t get why it’s a devastating and dangerous precedent, that says way more about you than the people lamenting its loss. I learned so much on that app. I saw the funniest shit of my life there. Shit sucks.

This is why I've been sticking with comfort movies and novels with happy endings. I just need stories where I know the bad guys will lose right now.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford Medicine have devised an influenza vaccine that prompts immunity to ALL four major flu subtypes AND shows potential against bird flu, indicating a significant advancement in flu prevention and a potential increase in vaccine efficacy. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

Blue canarye yn the outlette by the lighte swicche Who waccheth ovir thee Make a litel dovecote yn thy soul

This is not the "V for Vendetta" Alan Moore wrote, but it is the one we deserve.

can't stop laughing at "Mangione played a game about assassins called Among Us". hope if i ever snap there are headlines like "she played a game about killing the pope called Final Fantasy XIV Online: Heavensward"

Oh no, I'm feeling terribly ill and need to leave work and take a long drive to MA.

I need the person I drove past today with the "SUBAUWU" license plate to know they turned my whole day around, I hope they have a truly blessed week.

Yeeeees, love to see it!

Why are my friends and progressive posting acquaintances ending their posts with 'Looking For Group'? Do they want to have a Discord chat about this? Are they comparing the presidential race to a Destiny raid? There are actually lots of groups they could join to help if Oh. Wait. Different LFG.

by the by, for anyone thinking of participating in or donating to #NaNoWriMo this year, they went from over 900 volunteers to 0 in 3 months, the entire staff quit, and the Young Writers Program has been cancelled indefinitely so... maybe don't

Who designed the NYT Tiles game today? I just want to chat real quick. 😇

Dang it, yet again I haven't turned into a zombie. When will it be my time? 😭