Makes me proud to be an Allentonian 👏

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

Pilkey’s personal story begins, in part, at a Pizza Hut in northeast Ohio. It was there, while working during his senior year of high school, that David Pilkey Jr. ... became “Dav” thanks to a name tag made with a faulty label maker. The spelling stuck. I've always wondered about this!

The image of the blood-soaked airbag next to the glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals is going to stick with me for a very long time.

This is an incredible piece of multimedia journalism that really captures the horror of that day And these people have been pardoned. I will never get over it.

Can you imagine living in a country where media literacy was not only valued but taught this early? A dream! What a different place the U.S. would be if we had this.

PSA: It’s not too late to get your flu shot, as the record-breaking flu season will continue for several months. While this year’s shot is not a perfect match for the current strain, it will still reduce your chances of getting infected and help protect you from getting seriously ill. Do it now!

we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind

It’s fucked up that trad media is barely covering Jack Smith’s testimony, but if you want 8 hours simplified into 1 thread, I got you. And please share so it gets the coverage this deserves…🧵 I'm going to write this as plainly as possible so people who aren't deep in the political sauce can follow

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

I feel this so hard. I never understood the line "mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again" until I became a parent. The lack of routine, the frenzy and then letdown of Christmas, the cold/dark limiting everyone's desire to burn off energy outside ... wake me up when December ends

Email from work: "The wind literally ripped the roof off of the communications building." A sign that it's time to take a holiday break!

Please enjoy these free and festive mp3 mixes. The 2024 one has a lot of rage (ex: "Christmas, Burn It All") so that's the one I most recommend so far.

Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.

Are you SERIOUS

Every time a child vomits in my house I look up this New York Times article to try to save myself and every time I read this New York Times article I remember that resistance is futile and I'm doomed

As parents are helping their kids consider colleges, this is my perennial reminder that state schools often have lower price tags, yes, but private schools, including many small liberal arts schools, often have better aid packages, and are thus often cheaper in the end (but may be more competitive).

You will be visited by 3 spirits

A norovirus outbreak at your workplace ought to be a "work from home if you can" kind of situation (My building is largely removed from the epicenter but it just takes one immediate coworker being less cautious than I am to bring down the entire office)

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. (Hard mode is not hard for me; none of those is my jam.)

The one that made me fall in love with @theonion.com

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

When your second grader essentially controls your Spotify account

Working on a website rebuild. Just discovered that when we migrated the many dozens of stories I've written, the em dashes all got turned into hyphens. HYPHENS God give me the strength to resist taking an inordinate amount of time to fix every last one of them

Tiny office Christmas tree, activate! (Mug for scale.)

If you want to buy gifts for a kid in your life, may I recommend sending some ideas to the parents and saying "any of these work?" or just guessing and providing a gift receipt? I have my own shopping to do please don't make me do yours too 😢

Enshittification! "Rather than remember the recipe, we just remember how to Google it. For this to be a successful way to remember, the sources and means of access to information must remain reliable."

I have lost my mind and am considering bringing children (pre-K and second grade) to New York City to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. And it's all because of this freakin' school worksheet

He will tell anyone who will listen what he thinks is at the root of the deterioration of American democracy: a conservative media ecosystem that traffics in disinformation and feeds the “cult” that is MAGA. “I realized Fox News is completely full of shit, and that you can put on the record." 👏

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

This was an interesting one to work on and not just because we got to print the word "enshittification" a bunch of times

Olivia Nuzzi was doing journalism the right way. by Ezra Klein

🚨 @alyankovic.bsky.social is coming to Musikfest! Yes, Weird Al! At Musikfest! 🚨 I saw him at the casino several years ago and will absolutely be seeing him again. You'll never see so many costume changes! What a show!

This just means he's managed to redact/otherwise bury whatever he was so worried about before, right?

"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...

YOU ARE CONFUSING EVERYONE, PLEASE STOP

Me in 2013: "I won't let whooping cough derail my marathon training! I'll just take some hacking breaks as needed!" Me in 2025: "I've sneezed a lot today and I feel like I'm getting a cold and it's windy and chilly. I think I'll take yet another rest day."

Y’all I have multiple juicy and important stories on my plate for @autonomynews.co but I also have rent to pay. And I’m about to lose the extra tax credits for the Obamacare plan that I already downgraded to save money. Your support makes the difference in us being able to write these stories

Grateful that you all have read through this trove of completely incoherent emails to find the relevant stuff so I don't have to 🙌

Attempt to rewrite the bulk of a website that's been Frankensteined together over 20+ years and you'll find some really high quality prose Today I learned that one space on campus can be rented and used for "a variety of various events"

I have been thinking this too. Feels like they're sending emails on flip phones using T9

Repost with an iconic fictional band

either he didn't notice what was happening or he chose not to even pretend to care and both are bad

Threw away some old cauliflower in the office kitchen and everyone thought the stench was a gas leak. I'm That Guy, I guess

Will never get over that Zucal's slogan was “Let’s bring Allentown back to the all-American city together.” It's MAGA but verbose

Great thread. Did not occur to me that this would be the case but I see now why it might be. Good news either way — keep the current maps or redraw them to (hopeful) GOP peril

I long to feel the excitement and hope about a presidential candidate that I felt in 2008. Zohran seems to be replicating the excitement and hope part in NYC...