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Yes, the whole electric grid is down

New Year, who dis

Looking forward to 2026

So long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu!

Olen’s is holding her coin at a rakish angle

Wild article. This sentence stood out for me: “They opened the World’s Largest Public Bathroom, a multi-building themed edifice meant to give the park a certain international status.”

Making apple pie just to peel something

O, Spelling Bee! What about tufa? Mott? Toff? And, from an earlier puzzle, gauntlet?

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Jerry’s day is numbered

Is there any legal recourse?

You have to be smug as well. Are you?

Where is this? I once walked into a Burger King bathroom in Ohio where there were 2 stalls. To get into the 2nd one, you had to go through the first.

Almost all pizza. Lunchroom pizza muffins are the worst, but maybe they are sandwiches, not pizza

Whoa. Palau gets paid to receive slave laborers. Human trafficking pays well. Disgusting, horrifying, and illegal.

Alas! It is 31 years since the world was deprived of one of its more colourful culinary characters: Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey – better known as double bigamist, child abandoner, amphetamine user, dangerous driver, and celebrity cook Fanny Cradock

I keep boosting this because today's been rough and it helps

If you didn’t see it: I wrote something very silly this week, about all the different versions of “Jingle Batman” that I accidentally collected in the comments on here a few weeks ago. It’s fun, and comes with a completely mad graphic. You might enjoy it! If you did see it: give it a share maybe? 😘

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Occasionally I wonder why Trump doesn’t emulate Putin by getting Botoxed

It is slowly becoming clear to me that cats and dogs are not the same.

With a pneumatic tube that shoots you to the Trump Kennedy Center

A month ago I adopted a one eyed hamster from my local animal shelter

Airports are like Dante’s Divine Comedy, Part 1.

the weather report: Snow in my face Wind at my back Dog on a leash Ice below

Kaylan is a fighter for our community. Help her out.

I woke up at 4.20 a.m. thinking, I am the future of my past.

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Yesterday Trump boasted about the largest fentanyl bust ever—3 million pills. “Think of that: three million pills. It’s amounted to billions of dollars’ worth of drugs.” Let’s say the street price is $5 per pill (it is much lower most places). 3m x 5=15m, not billions.

TH @serrata.org

Deep dive into a dystopian Handmaid’s Tale marketplace.

Doesn’t it make sense for any party to embrace Medicare 4 All? Everyone wants it, it would save vast amounts of money, anyone who could get this done would be beloved. What kind of bribery and corruption is preventing politicians from doing this? It would be wildly popular w/ MAGA people

Words can’t express my rage. At least 2 students on lockdown at Brown University already survived mass shootings. Zoe Weissman survived Parkland in 2018. Mia Tretta was shot in the stomach in Santa Clarita in 2019 and watched her best friend be murdered. And now…again.

Wait until those blockbuster ratings come in. (As in the defunct video store.)

Substitute “Kat” for “Spot” and keep on running!

Solid 8.5 in mental gymnastics for the Fox team. They did not quite land the segue from Biden was a muppet to bruises prove Trump has stamina, but a bonus point for effort.

You can do this right now: Think of a person who wrote a paper you love, whose work influenced or helped you, or has made your professional life better. Search up their email address. Shoot them a quick email of thanks. It means so, so much. This is a rough time of year, share some joy.

I apologize, but this leapt to mind. Small gestures count.

What actor’s facial expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

If drive-in movies count, I was crammed into a car w/ 4 sibs and 3 friends, watching Jaws. A friend, about 13, started screaming and batting at her face. Her glasses had shattered and she had shards of glass in her eyes. Memorable.

The translation of relics

Bonkers, irrational, childish, destructive. Homer describes this in his depiction of Apollo in Book 15 of the Iliad: [Apollo] toppled the Achaean wall with the ease of a child who builds a sand-castle by the seashore and then playfully destroys it with his hands and feet.

Couldn’t find an actor for the erotic interest

Does anyone know what is depicted on Trump’s FIFA medal? Is it a replica of the statuette?

In a powerful moment, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey made clear he will NOT back down to the Trump regime's efforts to terrorize Somali immigrants. This is powerful.

Two clicks and @boltsmag.org has $2 of support coming their way. Imagine how much that multiplies with more people doing so.

Spelling Bee (I don’t think this is much of a spoiler), why captcha and phat, but not Mach? It is an acronym but is now used as a noun.