Made some soup :)

My hobby is slicing my hands open with vegetable peelers apparently

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?

Happy 80th Birthday to Ernie Hudson, whose many acting credits include HOLD IT, THIS GUY IS 80? WHAT????

This is the lamest thing I have heard in a while

I'm not gonna put a random stranger on blast but if your instinct is to immediately look at the WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF and say she's got "trauma brain" because you relate to her as a former upper middle class conservative woman, you are perpetuating sexist stereotypes at best. Power is power.

For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit. The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.

After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering. MN deserves the same action. www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...

I think about this quote every year at Hanukkah.

This is a powerful image.

there’s a level to this story independent from the corruption and the desecration that already feels very familiar to some veterans of a home renovation catastrophe

The University of Arkansas spent $36,000 on balloons last year. After seeing what they got, we think it was worth every penny. In FOIAball this week, we EMBRACE THE HOG. www.foiaball.com/p/college-fo...

That's what actually makes "affordability" a terrible platform for Democrats almost everywhere. "Affordability" has to be linked to actual material policy that helps consumers, *ordinary* ones not ones like Democrat insiders, and that's the one thing Democrats hate most: actually doing something.

Didn't we already do this one like five years ago

kinda broke my brain the other day when i realized that wrestlers with championship belts can technically be called award-winning actors

There should be a constitutional mechanism for removing a president. Not impeachment, something that actually works, maybe like a catapult

Tag yourself I’m the Toronto Blue‘ns

How to fix soccer: 1. The field is too big, shrink it. 2. Too many players on the field. Limit it to two. 3. Paint the field in a black-and-white grid. 4. The ball is replaced by pure positional advantage. 5. Pawns everywhere.

let me suggest that the impulse that leads someone to run to compact magazine to complain about DEI — "they took my job!" — probably does more to explain professional failure than DEI

how i wake up after sleeping with the wrong pillow

hey

Whether it’s trans rights, or genocide funding, or all sorts of corrupt corporate laws, there’s only so many times you can fuck over your voters before you make yourselves our enemy. It’s madness to think you deserve unconditional support just for sometimes being a bit better than actual Nazis.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

randomly thinking about how they took a character best known for killing dogs to turn into fur coats whose name is literally Cruel Devil and tried to turn her into a sympathetic working class lady just trying to take revenge on evil dogs that murdered her mom

I'm glad my team at work is rowdy because I just said, "but I don't want to" like a whiny toddler out loud to my computer about doing something that is very much one of my core responsibilities

luckily, elected institutions are dripping in trust and also bessent is elected

I am increasingly fascinated by the Sinemas and Cuomos of the world who had real power, gave it up in a series of remarkably embarrassing choices, and now think they can just slot themselves back into playing politics. Like, how oblivious do you have to be to not know that EVERYONE hates you?

Lotus is a good word, nice mouth feel, flower, short but not TOO short. I get why it's popular I'm not jealous. - Chartreuse Chrysanthemum

there was never any “deal” they just agreed to keep talking, and talks have, as talks tend to do, hit a snag

one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable

The trouble is that the laughable weaknesses of major economies are always linked to their strengths. Germany has all these rules but it is never short of state capacity.

fuck right off with this too please. Chomsky has been quite clear that he doesn’t think his relationship with Epstein is anyone else’s business and we can and should draw adverse inferences from that. sorry he wrote some things you liked; bold thinkers can be monsters too.

I do not myself say “globalise the intifada” or similar but even if I did, I would regard that as a lesser issue than working determinedly to provide diplomatic and political cover for brazen crimes against humanity.

i’m wheezing

I do not want Gaston backstory, I do not need Gaston backstory, I reject Gaston backstory he is a fully formed oaf, consuming eggs by the dozen in one of the greatest villain songs ever written, and that is all we need of him

There are only ~20 people in American public life

Kind of darkly funny that the government's defense of the well thought out plan for Trump's bigly beautiful ballroom looks like this storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i feel like if you want a 7th year of eligibility you should have to be in an actual phd program on dissertation track.

Been looking at this all day and saying it in a Barenaked Ladies voice in my head.

like I say, MISERY (1990) wastes no time, none at all, we get the first Annie Wilkes meltdown just 17 minutes in, every Annie Wilkes cuss in this entire script, every last one, is so bitchly iconic

Apparently our new favorite treat is orange slices

Yeah we get it, other countries have functional governments. This isn't a topic anyone in the US is confused about, we are all aware that everyone else has gun laws that actually get enforced

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

drop out of college for a career in tech only if a silicon valley billionaire has already secured at least two war criminals to serve on your startup's board

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

unilaterally cutting off the possibility of contact with entire demographics is not actually a workable boundary. on top of that, what most people want from others isnt advice or help but friendship and communication and human warmth. stop treating others like theyre parasites!

18/20 - never used a phone booth, and my mom had a powerful and deeply rooted hatred of water beds as a concept, which is a great tragedy of my life

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

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