“It’s possible to write a history of stupidity only because new kinds are always being invented.” Joshua Rothman

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social CURATORY is not in word list.

Make it stop. Twenty-fifth amendment. The man is a drooling idiot and the toadies actually running things are no better.

Not promoting this product or business; not familiar with it. But the graphic is cool.

On-line form for the doctor today. Really tempted to select “Middle English.” No Beta testing no good.

Excellent.

Good morning, Bluesky, here's a nifty arrangement of an ubiquitous holiday classic. youtu.be/2Bl9Kx3uCrg

The dude that gets paid 6 figures to change HBO to HBO Max to HBO every year is currently sitting at his desk scribbling and crossing out words like "NeHtfliBxO" and "Maxflicks".

When trying to avoid drowning is "staying in the fight."

What the HELL have we become?

Essential reading for North Carolinians.

Doesn’t seem great that all the animals are turning to booze.

We made a comic about the Hulk.

It’s my hope that the ICE goons will find it very hard to find employment when the regime goes down. Spend (and save) that bonus cash wisely, buddy-row.

Like many of you, I've been concerned by Trump falling asleep in meetings. But fear not, I spoke to Mike Johnson and he assured me that the president is a powerful psychic. When Trump sleeps he enters the dream realm, where he wages war on evil Antifa nightmare creatures. He also has a magic sword.

Please show this to your young people tempted to outsource all their thinking to AI.

Oxford’s 2025 word of the year is “rage bait.” New one to me, so what qualifies it for word of the year, especially since it’s TWO words? Can’t wait until an entire sentence gets to be word of the year!

New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

Dear @pnh.nielsenhayden.com and @malf.bsky.social, I am writing feverishly on the novel but am encountering some technical difficulties, I hope to have them resolved soon

Another travesty of justice. Every. Single. Day.

Apparently this year will be the first since 1966 with no new Madonna stamp. I guess “keeping the Christ in Christmas” is less important a year-end motto for the regime than “buy, buy, buy.”

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Dino Cat Blanket. Paleontologists theorize that dinosaurs and cats had a symbiotic relationship. Dinosaurs would provide transportation, hunt to feed their feline friends, and protect them from predators. In return, cats would sleep all day. collabs.shop/skiwwl

💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢

That makes sense.

Perfect.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I don’t treat turkeys this way (eat them) but if you do, enjoy!

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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social AROAR is not in the spelling list.

Apparently you couldn’t pay young people to watch old movies. But they’re the closest thing we have to time travel. Here’s a gem of an artifact from the first few minutes of the 1956 film Autumn Leaves: the Remington Line-a-time, made for rewriting: americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

Nudging my sleeping wife this morning: “Babe? Babe, wake up. The pro wrestling lady says your engineering masters is no longer a professional degree.”

Does anyone else see this painting as a twist on the medieval cadaver tomb, with the skeleton on top instead of below? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver...

A horrifying account of what is essentially a death cult operating not far from me—and making big money from it. Such appalling indifference to these mothers’ pain! Yes, there are unethical obstetricians, but history is on the side of medicine: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Um, is this picture really showing Lolo at his best?

“I’ve got to find the women who are ruining the workplace…I looked in the Pentagon, but if anything, fewer of them seem to be working there lately. I looked in the White House, but the women there just seemed to be behind podiums making excuses for the men.”

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Polish writer Ryszard Kapuscinski on what reading history can teach us. 📚💙 #History #Classics

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Who knew? Apparently in the forties children could read books featuring both their real and their fictional heroes. www.abebooks.com/Betty-Grable...

Horrifying. Hate that these goons are violating my former city.

Apparently Apple is forcing its AI into everything now. Even third-party apps like Scrivener that DO NOT WANT IT.

A sad new spin on “be bear aware.”

So depressing. Can we put tariffs on crap, please? Put an end to fast fashion for once and for all? Wear the same dress to the office more than twice? Stop giving children the latest plastic toy so they can break it within hours? We are drowning in useless goods and wasting the earth’s resources.

I know a family afraid for their children’s safety—not because they aren’t citizens, but because they’re adopted, and children like them are being targeted for their skin color.