the washington state department of licensing’s phone menu is available in 10 languages and it turns out the 9 that aren’t english were just english with an accent of the language you picked. so press 2 for spanish and it was just english with an accent

I just love all the trans people in my life and want them to be safe and happy!!!!!

Record scratch sounds at 300% volume

On Bandcamp Friday, I got this awesome song about the singer trying to cancel her dad's gym membership after he died, only to discover he had to come and cancel in person(!).

Hmm, I wonder what horses did with all their freedom once they didn't need to pull carriages anymore. Probably just relaxed, had a bunch of kids and enjoyed an easy life. It'll be the same for people with AI, I'm sure! *record scratch* Oh, oh no.

Made these instead of actually doing the writing I need to be doing.🤣

7 Books That Reveal How Capitalism Is Coming for Your Corpse ⚰️💰These authors examine the absurd, expensive, and tragic reality of navigating the death industrial complex electricliterature.com/7-books-that...

SCOOP: IL-9 congressional candidate and current state senator Mike Simmons had police called on him in Buena Park while canvassing for votes. No arrest was made. Here’s the video of the interaction @senmikesimmons.bsky.social recorded and shared with me.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

We love a media-trained hero:

The night after I read this article, I had a dream that everyone knew whose teeth these were, so the community discourse was like, "They're not creepy, that's just what Greg's teeth look like."

AHHHHHHHHHHHH 🌿🪶 (This is telephoto lens + harsh crop to maintain a respectful distance!)

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Hatoson-kun, a stately pigeon with a top hat and monocle, is the mascot for Ito Yokado supermarkets.

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

We’re horseposting post your horses Not my horse but one of my all-time faves by Sarah Andersen of Sarah’s Scribbles and you deserve its cute lil face

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Gen-chan the Japanese river otter is a mascot from Ehime Prefecture who plays the saxophone.

One of my friends' ancestors died because she got poked by the price tag pin on a piece of clothing and died from the ensuing infection. DIED. FROM A PRICE TAG.

The single greatest quote from a juror ever:

There’s a deli in Albany called “food near me” and I just think that’s beautiful.

One of my friends' ancestors died because she got poked by the price tag pin on a piece of clothing and died from the ensuing infection. DIED. FROM A PRICE TAG.

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

NDA clause 2.1 (a) (iii): I can reveal A Few secrets if it makes a conversation more interesting

Brennan Lee Mulligan DID say if your ass touches the toilet water, it's a portal to Narnia.

and yes mo co park system correct

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

A Presidents’ Day poem from me, at Michigan City Review of Books. Enjoy. mcrb.neocities.org/timetraveler

Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it

Roses are red Vice is inherent

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Overheard while in Marshall's today Guy 1: Well what does she like? Guy 2: (clearly a little stressed) I don’t know, beef jerky

I've been to this building lots of times to pick up marriage licenses (just off to the side of the row of counters in the video). Always a treat seeing everyone dressed up and happy 🩷 #genealogy

my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026

I was just saying this in another thread. It feels like the level of difficulty has maybe reached a point of inefficiency:

I loved Mikhail's program and was like, "I really hope the guy from Kazakhstan gets a medal" and MY WISH CAME TOO TRUE

The History Channel loves to be like “did Hitler store 10 billion dollars Nazi gold in this Pennsylvania house?” and answer that question as demonstrably “no of course not” and then make 18 seasons of “Pennsylvania Hitler House”

Roses are red Kidman starred in The Others

@nikhunder.com Could you walk me through how to access the local air quality numbers, specifically the pollen levels? I remember you said at one point it was possible to see all the levels by type (pine, birch, elm, etc) in the same table(?) as the AQI, and would love to take a look.

Zach Wheeler had a rib removed and kept it in his closet. Totally fine and normal spring training headline.

Hey if you want to support the Merchants House Museum (the one in this video), which is under threat from developers next door, please consider throwing them a few bucks. Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.

I got given someone's old German Harry Potter book, and I'm enjoying turning each page into a print of a cat licking its own arse. Considering selling these and donating everything to trans healthcare ventures for poetic justice...

Hey if you want to support the Merchants House Museum (the one in this video), which is under threat from developers next door, please consider throwing them a few bucks. Also their programs and historical lectures are awesome, you should check those out, too.

Me: well this should only take twenty minutes *montage: hunched over my computer, wiping beads of sweat from my brow, a wastebasket slowly filling with crumpled paper, pulling at my hair in frustration, the sun rising and falling rapidly outside as weeks go by* Me: yeah 20 minutes sounds about right

Amazing thread. Read it all!

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

No Kings includes Draft Kings

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