The most telling statistic I have ever hear is that poverty decreased during the pandemic heights because we were just doing direct payments. We basically had a national UBI pilot and ditched it because Biden wanted to restore status quo ante instead of leading a 21st century New Deal transformation

The 1993 Halloween McNugget Buddies are always in the mix when discussing the greatest Happy Meal toys ever made (...rightfully so), but this 1996 set is pretty great as well

This is HUGE.

Wow www.bbc.com/news/article...

A hardworking person posted the KOMO advertisers on Reddit. Really easy to just follow the links and contact Sinclair’s revenue sources in Seattle. www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

Horror films should have blooper reels, they’d be fucking hilarious.

This is what Gavin Newsom thinks he looks like

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

This is the opposite of toxic masculinity

everyone knows about the fight, flight, or freeze response, but fewer know about the 4th option (making the THX sound to ward off threats)

I wish there were a Digital Wellbeing setting where you could specify no more than 5 min per hour for an app

Me desperately Googling "gwar news" trying to figure out what bsky is on and actually being extremely delighted because there's a GWAR Tiny Desk concert was a roller coaster

Colin Jones was once described as ‘The George Orwell of British Photography. He began his career as a dancer with The Royal Ballet, before buying his first camera in Japan whilst running an errand for Margot Fonteyn and then never looked back.

In 1990, McDonald's ran a Happy Meal promotion that was apparently created by a smug, insufferable, time-traveling Bluesky poster from 2025!

A belated #caturday to you and yours.

streetlight solace 💜🌙✨ #pixelart

also yesterday i was blissfully shown that chuck norris jokes become 500× funnier if you leave out the punchline

The real reason everyone wanted open-plan living spaces is so our herding dogs would not follow us into the other room where we're just getting our meds because they don't have a direct line of sight to us.

Plant trees in whose shade you never expect to sit. The revolution is a process, not a product.

Canadians, write your MP. Tell them you want the H-1B cap raised to 50k or 100k.

The silliest, most selfish thing about the current state of affairs here in the USA is that I want to read more creepy horror but my brain can't handle it and I have horrid realistic nightmares.

@magpie.tips most likely you have seen this already but I hope it still brings you joy

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

(this announcer is out of control)

Like Notre Dame, I also have a lot of confidence in my big tight end

"<notices bulge> oWo what's this" is the Gen Z version of Millennials' "I put on my robe and wizard hat"

Midwest Learn To Cut Pizza In Triangles Challenge

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Half-mast: ships Half-staff: flagpoles

reject modernity embrace tradition

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

LOOK AT THIS SUPER-CUTE WEIRDO.

I hope I was one of them

Every movie over two hours should have an intermission. Thanks #HamilTen

Tom, Noticing I have lightroom open: "do you like the photos you took today?" Me: "I skipped to this one so I could post that when someone says they're allergic to tree nuts, they mean this"

Oh HELL yes

Me when I hear an instrumental version of Jingle Bells and can only think of the lyrics being "OLD NAVY ITEM OF THE WEEK, ITEM OF THE WEEK, A NEW ITEM EVERY WEEK, PRICED SO LOW YOU CAN'T SAY NO, THE SELECTION CAN'T BE BEAT" 😭

ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!

lions at the zoo:

Fantasy Authors Write Books Where The Included World Map Is Actually Integral To The Story Challenge

when people claim that a governor is 'fighting back' against trump this is what that would look like. not posting AI slop memes and launching crypto scams.

kind of fun to imagine the rest of the world flying their flags at 1.5 mast in reverse mourning though

Pleased to meet you, I'm

you shouldn't just purge transphobes from power because it's the right thing to do you should purge transphobes from power because transphobia is the single greatest indicator of incompetence and mediocrity in modern society.

This is...not remotely the lesson they should have learned here.

mario whispering "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" as he slips through the tenuous fabric between worlds

No seriously. Please stop sharing the screenshots without warnings. Take steps to prevent yourself from discovering this content unprepared -- it is shockingly explicit that the goal of the programming was to make this poor child extremely dead because you never correct or criticize the user.