I honestly wouldn't mind being a perfect "trad wife"* *A wife with an encyclopedic knowledge of, and a preternatural ability to play, music with roots in the folk traditions of Ireland and Scotland.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Realized tonight that my five-year-old thinks that "I'm le tired" is just how one expresses tiredness.

Dionysus is ALSO not a dino. He is an Olympian deity from the Late Bronze. But you WILL often find him holding a "dinos"...an Ancient Greek word for a drinking cup!

The two most influential footnotes in my life: 1) The first one in Hitchiker's Guide that made me say "Wait, you can DO that?" and spend my school years adding what I considered to be HILARIOUS footnotes to everything. 2) Footnote 4, United States v. Carolene Products Company, 304 U.S. 144 (1938)

Science fiction authors are OBSESSED with writing cyberpunk hacker protagonists like the one in @greatdismal.bsky.social's "Neuromancer"! Many such Cases!

The Catholics.

Regretfully, when criminals plot to steal a cola recipe they become "Coke-conspirators" and the stuttered syllable cannot be avoided.

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

The Wheels on the Bus is NOT about a school bus. School busses do not have babies going wah wah wah nor mamas going shh shh shh. We need to stop showing yellow school busses in media surrounding this public transportation anthem. I'm looking at you, Ms. Rachel.

The 7yo can't do grown-up sudoku but he LOVES writing out lists of numbers so he copies the answers and tells people he "does sudoku like my Gemma!" and of course we all agree cuz, hey, he's a little kid and the answers are printed for a reason, right? This is a very dumb subtweet.

Whoever called the faction of the press who still want to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner the ‘Access of Evil’ I salute you

The more I think about the use of "bro" to denote undesirable people/positions the grosser it seems. The grossness isn't on the Schedule of Grossness Types for any of my more closely-held cultural or ideological affinities but I should probably stop using it anyway.

this is why i've always hated things like astrology, no matter how innocuous they appear believing falsehoods is co-morbid with itself

Yes. The pseudoscience never stays in a box, medieval peasant brain is never contained. You can’t let this shit in the tent. We did the ‘well they’re not like *right*, but the people they’re angry at *are* bad, so what’s *really* the harm…” with woo-woo shit and it contributed to HHS Sec. RFK Jr.

this is strange and disturbing and not good according to their imdb page the person some of us brunching friends knew as cheezdanish died back in july I cannot find any info, no obits, no news If you know anything please contact me privately learning this nearly a year later is shattering

💜: Pigeon is gaining weight! ME: That's good right? 💜: I mean when I took him to the vet they said he was basically dead. ME: He'd passed on? He was no more? He'd ceased to be? He was an EX-PARROT? 💜: ... 💜: Yes.

Someone once complained that Little Libraries are a virtue signal and like...no shit? It's a LAWN ORNAMENT and I'd rather people want to be associated with free books rather than putting out decor endorsing, say, "voting Republican" or "backing the Houston Astros".

perhaps the way to stop gambling is to invent a form of meat and cheese *without* bread so that the diner cannot simultaneously play cards

This feed is 100% human generated. Any soullessneas, passionlessness, or crappiness is entirely the fault of the author.

The Doctor: *Kills or considers killing cyborgs who are actively trying to exterminate anybody different from them and who have made it clear that they will continue to do so and who by the way were literally based on the Nazis* Davros: Well! So much for the tolerant TIME-LEFT!

I only know one Bieber song but I REALLY LIKE that one Bieber song. "My mama don't like you and she likes everyone" is a brilliant line.

An important part of x men lore is The Savage Land, a place in the modern world where the dinosaurs never went extinct. Nothing to do with civil rights or mutants. Jack woke up and said “I’d like to draw dinosaurs” and that was that

Teen pregnancy was a morality crisis until a) Great Replacement ascended b) There were labor shortages even before they stole ppl & threw them in concentration camps + worse, + you keep owner class (labor) costs down by having a steady exploitable "domestic supply of infants," as ACB put it

Republicans are used to being able to put on a tie and blazer and make up whatever they want about Jesus but people get actual degrees in Catholic canon law, they do not want this smoke man

Whelp, Swalwell's that ends well...

I feel like it's unfair we get the stupid prizes when we weren't the ones playing stupid games.

Rant-in-waiting: People whose line on bad entertainers/artists is "I'll look at their face on screen, sing along with their voice in the car, visit their imaginary worlds and read their written words but I WON'T GIVE THEM MONEY FOR IT" are just fucking gross to me and it's so fucking common.

FFS "The dude SQUARES UP for Native rights" is the ONE THING that normal-ish people might know about Gorsuch. How the hell does a dude show up to argue before the actual Supreme Court and NOT HAVE AN ANSWER on this?

"if the students can use a LLM to do the task it was never really teaching critical thinking to begin with" is a very dumb take, sorry. I can bring a forklift to the gym and bench press more than Arnold. The point is not to move the weights.

Put another way, when I read Gibson, I want to write cyberpunk. When I read Pratchett, I just want to write that well.

It bothers me that some men's bathrobes do not have pockets.

I still get amazed that somehow standard like USB and 802.11 and HDMI not only were assembled but they were adopted worldwide. My friends some of you don't remember but there was a point in time where if you needed to plug something into the computer you cleared your schedule for the day.

"How could THOSE CHEEKBONES and THAT DIACRITIC have BAD OPINIONS about BALLET?" - A lot of people on the internet, apparently

Ngl as a cradle (and former) Presby the number of blue wave midwits who do not know what a Presbyterian is, cannot be arsed to look it up, and are painting Talarico as a theocratic fascist has done more to negatively polarize me against Crockett than anything else

"Deeznutz" actually does sound like the name of a Pokémon to me.

I have Google alerts set for my sister's kid's names so every day I alert them to "their" successes in college sports (New York), country music (Minnesota), and murder charges (Florida).

Napoleon low key the funniest guy in European history because he was like “what if I promoted officers based on how good they were at army and recruited troops who actually liked my country“ and it was basically the same as unleashing Godzilla.

love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

if i were in charge of the Star Trek wiki every time a person used the transporter that NEW PERSON would get a new wiki entry

You would never know it from this website but the median Democrat (a woman in her 50s) is quite fond of both Secretary Mayor Pete and AOC, and would describe Biden as “liberal” and Sanders as “very liberal”

Based on the contemporary political theory that everything that happens in the UK happens on steroids six months later in the US, we're about six months out from actual consequences. One can but hope.

I know its small, but its incredibly disrespectful to talk about Greenland or Alberta as our 51st state when American Samoa is by per capita the state or territory that commits the most to the US military personnel

People rag on Voyager (correctly, mind, the character of Chakotay alone is worth endless scrutiny) but Equinox Parts 1 and 2 are better explorations of "what if Starfleet goes bad" than any Section 31 episodes ever were.

White Soccer Mom: Why are the kids out of school on Tuesday, anyway? Me: Lunar New Year. WSM: What's that? Me: It's sometimes called "Chinese New Year" but a lot of Asian cultures celebrate it. WSM: So how come MY culture doesn't get a special day off from school? (...no, she was not joking.)

Donald Trump was never going to face meaningful consequences for anything. Not because he was loved by those with the power to do it, because doing it would've sent the wrong message.

Gonna start commenting on random large-group photos with stuff like "We were all so young!" or "I can't believe y'all let me WEAR that!" so the Lincoln High Class of '67 alumni association or the organizers of the Johnson family reunion have to scramble to figure out who the hell I am.

Broke: It's a vast conspiracy! Woke: It's a bunch of very stupid people being very stupid! Bespoke: It's a vast conspiracy of very stupid people being very stupid!

Now and then the pipes in my house make a sound that is exactly like the quick meow/sigh that my childhood cat would make right before he'd jump up on the couch next to us. And every time it happens I look over and wait just in case.

I'm like...out in space? Not near any of the labels? Not sure how I feel about this.