oh shit speaking of frogs what's up with the unresolved thread slash possible social commentary in wayward, the tv show about all the frogs in a town w/o children where most of the people seem to be LGBTQ? and was it about alex jones also the brie, what was up with the brie

a community of like-minded people i can talk to about a thing that's taken up 5 to 50 years of my life!! wait, they're asking about 1st-time stuff here instead of googling, well i can share my experience as an elder… oh lord, people ask the same 1st-time question EVERY DAY? —the reddit experience

pun of the day

coincido con gabriel garcía márquez, quien, a su vez, parece coincidir conmigo: "no se le había ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se había inventado para burlarse de la gente, como le demostró álvaro en una noche de parranda."

— imagine your first day on the message boards hi hello i just learned how to log on because i'm barely old enough to type i'm made of meat and i like music here's my address

— trying things out or am i the only one who feels the header is too close to the body on posts in app?

. trying things out or am i the only one who feels the header is too close to the body on posts in app?

. trying things out or am i the only one who feels the header is too close to the body on posts in app?

. it's true i youtubed oh my soul while sitting on the toilet and chair danced

here in california, we're seeing a lot of ads speaking directly to gavin newsom to prompt him to veto a couple state bills like why am i seeing them, what do they want me to buy, there isn't even a CTA and do they not have his address

a thing i'm learning myself about growing old and i'm not even that old is that when i say i did something and someone asks me when, i always discover the answer while in the process of saying it person woman man yesterday last year 5 years ago woof

it's not bias! it's ~confirmation~ bias!!

unfortch the current state of things isn't going to last it did seem like it'd be the same skirmishes for a long way out so we entrenched to hold yesterday's line against the same force tomorrow but the force has already grown in mass and acceleration even today

this is no time for darkness at noon to be missing/unavailable from the local library but seriously, all those books that in college seemed incomprehensible because of the—not quite allusions, but—references to a prevailing mood that i couldn't access at the time

website technology is making your search query appear as the title of the page with your hit ~that's~ why the first subhead in every page about your specific question about XYZ says "what is XYZ?" they can't predict what query will become the title of the page, so the content hasta answer them all

i'm not saying things are great or anything over here in the US but has the pro-dictatorship president of the country gotten up on stage to do sweaty covers of anti-dictatorship anthems (to claim they're his)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgiN...

@jamieloftus.bsky.social am baiting a sixteenth minutes coda (if you can be tempted and just 'cause it's timely) www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

weimar-a-lago, © AV 2025 this is my phrase don't steal it!

the solution is inside the fucking problem©™ #09476 dear gov newsom, create the Well-Regulated Militia of California today an armed force to protect CA from the US and make enrollment into it a mandatory requirement for gun ownership in the state (the thought exercise alone might fry 2A brains)

... with the irony of course that america is a spanish word

yes like it's never happened / hasn't been telegraphed again criminalized cohort —> legalized suspension of human rights —> private prisons —> (en)forced labor —> the new old slavery —> factory, field, house labor (real cheap! the more the cheaper!!) do you doubt this is the proposal

i'm perfectly average which just means i can't be the only one who looks at every post from greg sargent and thinks there must be a point in there somewhere but all i see is a gray stack of self-mitigating clauses like the difference between a sharp accusation and one over-honed into dullness

wait i think i found the problem

looking for a dictionary of clichés and all the results are a dictionary definition of the noun cliché

who knew a news-laundering site in india could provide such devastating political commentary (using nothing more than a single image)?? www.jagranjosh.com/us/explainer...

here comes "i am a water-drinking expert," been drinking it since birth, i study water & except drowning or other academic hedgings & unlikely counterarguments that i'm compulsively mentioning to keep things footnote-ready, water is probably safe to ingest (of course i'm not talking about water)

hitch 'em so good it's right up there with dewey cheatum and howe

a google doc of project 2025 where each item is crossed off when enacted IRT to show how one-to-one it describes our devolving present

i asked WOPR—the computer from wargames—if it was interested in a quick round of fuck marry kill after trying all the variations at lightning speed, it said: how about a nice game of global thermonuclear war instead?

the oppressive mindweight just thinking about going on social media to check things out like tedium, but active a permanent balled up flinching against, oh god these thoughts people have that they feel are necessary to share

should i write it down? i kinda want something to point to when the prediction comes true. just... don't wanna put it into the universe is the thing but here goes they're lining up enough ducks to declare the democratic party a terrorist organization and criminalize it

maybe but at least we won't look like such fucking douches* *term of industry for person who can't for the life of them tell if eyewear fits or not; also, a douche

for perspective lee harvey oswald's casings woulda said: DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT $200

the released photos reveal, the shooter is every. single. guy. on. reddit. with. this. avatar.

i feel bad for the guy from burn notice

wonder if sergio romo is still proud of his teeshirt

tryna read the menu does that lettuce-tomato salad really come served with epstein island dressing?

i need to know if the new yorker magazine would tall-cap (as an initialism) or small-cap (as an acronym) the medical title: OB-GYN please @newyorker.com when you reply, be specific about the reasoning.

the uncritical way the NYT is credulously chugging this BS was particularly exemplified by this morning's hardfork, the tech-news podcast where @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social speak in toggle case as they read the press release to each other before moving on accepting vibe-based answers

you wouldn't know it from newspapers, but it's in the basic rules of journalism not to report on events in the future things that haven't happened yet are in the same category as things that haven't happened or, how do you fact-check the future? and, who's your second source to confirm it?

the way people online misread a headline and rage against whatever content they imagine would be below it (without reading the content, of course) has nearly made me defend AI today TWICE

birthday today double nickles on the dome i guess you could say

it literally means "cheese" it ONLY means "cheese" you're not saying ANYTHING OTHER THAN "cheese" it's not a recipe, it's not the name of a dish, you probably left the relevant word/s out!! and you're right next to mexico, you USED TO BE mexico, how do you not know this??? fucking texans omg

tool at the scientology centre

ok i gave y'all 4 years and you still haven't come up with the connection so, serving it up on a platter donald trump named his social media site after "pravda"

my favorite part of bluebooks were the special instructions given by the prof at the beginning of the test to make sure you didn't bring a bluebook already filled in with the answer "cross out the first page, put your name in the middle of the 2nd page, start writing on the 3rd, but upside down"

sorry but a woke rebrand wouldn't be just about the logo it'd insist on changing the name to northwestern–european-emigrating people experiencing early-exit education and low economic outlook who caretake lands unceded by the chickasaw, cherokee, cree, et al barrel

slavery vis-a-vis progress is the project of white supremacistisism bsky.app/profile/thea...

he stands in front of the mirror practicing the goebbels fingerpoint tell me you doubt this