Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Waffle House Garden Flag. "It's not a Waffle House, it's a Waffle Home" is my favorite Walt Whitman quote. Pure poetry. collabs.shop/cuk7r8

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day

Here it is, your moment of zen.

Read this sentence slowly: “Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Jesus tapdancing christ…

God, I wish that were me. (Only halfway joking.)

A little over 100 years ago diarrhea was one of the leading causes of death

I love Jane Goodall.

Conservative and reactionary centrist media is trying to set up a narrative in which GLP-1s are some kind of existential threat to body positivity and fat activism. It's bullshit. If you want to lose weight, go for it. But not everyone can or wants to — and they deserve equal treatment regardless.

Someone once called him President Livia Soprano and holy fuck it’s the perfect description

Livia Soprano lowkey one of the most diabolical TV characters ever written

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Every Winter Olympics, I miss SSX Tricky so much.

Didn’t realize Olympics Slopestyle was on this afternoon, so I obviously had to pull up a playlist of (non-“Tricky”) tracks from the SSX games to listen to instead of the announcers.

4 Ms Pac-man, at a Pizza Inn, where it was set up next to the cigarette vending machine. (Didn’t get my first dedicated home console until our NES at Christmas when I was nearly 8, which came with the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet combo cartridge.)

This was Wes Anderson *as hell.*

If you are in the market for some good Iraqi food in TX then Pita Shack Grill blew me away

GUESS WHO JUST WON BRONZE AGAIN

Taxpayers paying for the wreckage monsters make of people's lives while doing a job that taxpayers pay them to do. The "officers" should be paying for the millions that get paid out either in their money and or prison sentences.

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

[in this specific regard] he's just like me fr

Spencer in a Norwegian (?) accent "I wish to apologize to the love of my life for my appalling behaviour in the sex hut"

if you played sonic the hedgehog and put down the controller, sonic would look at you and tap his foot impatiently. this was proof that sega genesis cartridges had souls. the decision was made to make the storage cases a lot larger than the cartridges so they would have room to move around in there

I have stopped yearning for the days when we had a government not made of LEGO and started yearning for the days when we had a government made of regular LEGO as opposed to Duplo

I guess the El Paso thing is settled enough for rn let me see what is going on in Olympics news—

Well if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck...

I have a soft spot for politicians who obviously hate the political press lol

"Oopsie-daisy, accidentally burned all of our family photos in a fire!" but as a terminal command.

*new* from me: As pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, three front office staffers spoke to me about helping Latino baseball players and their families navigate an America ravaged by ICE raids. They say guidance from MLB has been “minimal” so their teams are getting creative.

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

if you wanna cry go search up the videos of people from smaller latin american countries crying that they saw their flags on the super bowl, it’s so fucking awesome what he was able to do last night.

absolutely loving this cycle of "national security mom" dem candidates, very cool

lol, a new "omg my account was hacked!" excuse has been added to the rolls.

Seeing this bogus stat credulously shared by people who should know better and it's driving me *berserk*. Whatever you think of TPUSA, Kid Rock, the supposed need for a MAGA-friendly Super Bowl halftime show, etc., the TPUSA show has been viewed millions of times. Why lie about that?

Amen. A good chunk of us then-college aged kids smelled that bullshit for what it was, and we saw that manure truck rumbling down the road well before it dumped off its shitty cargo on the rest of the American public.

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

Oh, good, what a trusted corporation, I'm sure my biometric data will be secure with them- oh, wait a moment, I'm getting an update: arstechnica.com/security/202...

Go birds.

As another Olympics gets underway, I am thinking fondly of the Paris 2024 logo. No one will ever rock a chic bob while also giving shampoo brand/dating app while also being a literal flame quite like she did

Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Has been since I found it at age 18.

And others of us call grilling either "a cookout" or "cooking out". (But yeah, my brain can understand what a person is going for with a few more context clues, and, as a bonus, I don't have to get my panties in a twist about demanding they use whichever term I believe is "correct".)