When, as a society, we talk about true heroes, we really neglect talking about the old dudes on YouTube making videos about how to fix very specific plumbing or HVAC issues.

Introduce yourself as a TV character

No men in women’s sport you say?

Even if you are misdiagnosed as autistic -- even if -- what is the problem? When I got my diagnosis all that I got was understanding myself better. Every autistic woman I know was 1st DXed with anxiety and most were medicated heavily for YEARS despite it not helping at all. That seems worse

This is fascinating. Goddamn it. Don't show an autistic woman a fascinating thing at 4am.

I cannot hike in most national parks anymore due to the extreme anxiety I have watching white men climb over the guard rails in flip flops so his bros can get a pic of him at the edge on one foot pretending to fall into the grand canyon.

with Chicago Pope we should have known it was only a matter of time before he'd face bad faith claims about crime

Even just rewatching old episodes of ER is like seeing frontier surgery compared to a lot of what we have today, and people already take it for granted

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

I hope I raise my girls this well.

among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.

This thread is a wild ride

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/

I sincerely hope that every MAHA dipshit out there is weeping into her beef tallow today.

When my brother won’t let me be a pedophile even though mum said he had to

In 1850, in America, 40-50% of all children born died before the age of five.

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

Its almost breathtaking realizing how fucked our society is when our government is actively targeting and persecuting people for being kind and neighborly. Forceably stripping from communities the best humans among them.

I wonder if this was more or less embarrassing than all of the times he's gone to bars and struggled to get up onto the bar stool until someone finally gave him uppies.

I need to find a way to make every lawyer I know read this with their eyes forced open, Clockwork Orange style, so I never have to sit in a meeting about AI tools again.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

If your verification is "we asked AI if the video is real and it says yes" then you haven't actually authenticated shit.

My greatest fear is that someone will accidentally step on him without noticing and be slaughtered for it. How do you even prevent that when there's more than a foot of snow on ground?

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

It's -1F/-18C in Chicago. The wind-chill is -15F/-26C. A man who appears to be roughly 70 years old just came into this diner wearing shorts to grab some breakfast. Things are bad. Very bad. But they picked a fight with people who fear nothing.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

The main thing I learned the day I became a mother is that I don't know a fucking thing and it's wild that we send people home with babies at all. Like, the first few months is basically flailing wildly on 3 hours of sleep a night and praying the baby survives your own ineptitude.

Plot twist: the ficus is also a Communist.

what a legend lmao

I feel like this, on a tshirt, would be a hit with my autistic community

My family-friendly, pedestrian-heavy neighborhood with outstanding access to at least three public transit options has recently had some minor traffic calming measures installed to try to make it slightly safer and the amount of Facebook wailing about it makes me want to outlaw cars entirely.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Every woman I know has been on a date with a man who talked about himself the entire time, never asked a single question, and then decided he was in love with us by the end because of who he had decided we were. It really is time we stop letting men do things.

This is one of those things that shows, to me, how different all autistic people. My family, for instance, has several undiagnosed cases where a lobotomy couldn't change their minds, let alone a liberal conspiracy like "facts" or "objective reality"

I am pretty sure this was a plot point in the Expanse series and honestly I'm increasingly uncomfortable on this planet

10/10 take. No notes.

It’s another day. Are you passing the Ms Rachel test?

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/t... 250k Chicagoans is 1 in every 10 residents. 10% of the population. That's *huge*

#NoKings #Chicago

I didn't feel safe taking my six year old to this downtown march due to the size of the crowd but even the family-friendly sign making send-off event we attended had over a thousand people at it this morning. Chicago is showing out for this.

HAPPENING NOW — Thousands gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park for the “No Kings” rally before marching through the streets of downtown Chicago. Chicago joins cities across the country in today’s action condemning the President Donald Trump administration. 🎥: The TRiiBE

Okay witches and warlocks, psychics and demon summoners, it's time

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”