Understanding the Sunk Cost Fallacy gave me back 90 minutes of my life this evening when I realized that I was HATING a movie and left the theatre in the middle. I would unwatch the first 45 minutes if I could. Have them expunged from my memory!!!

My most recent batch of croissants melted instead of rising and I am sad. That was a lot of work for something not as good as a Pillsbury crescent roll. 😕

they should invent a 2026 planner that does the things you write in them

I don't understand how we are still stigmatizing people for wearing masks during respiratory virus season in 2025. Really, people?

"According to a 2018 study, the percentage of trans people who end up regretting vaginoplasty is about 1 percent, significantly lower than your average knee surgery. The most common reason for regretting trans-affirming surgery, in fact, is inadequate surgical outcomes."

Sorry... why would there need to be an emergency indoor inauguration on January 20, 2029 with bulletproof glass and protections against civilian monitoring tech? Oh, that's right. Martial law is coming. I keep forgetting.

Saw someone talk about materials literacy and I can’t stop thinking about it. Its the thing that has made people believe all tshirts are the same and should be $5

Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”

No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.

I once sat behind the band from the show I had been at the previous night on an airplane. It was sufficiently minor that I don't remember what band it was.

Lisa Edelstein and I met at an art gallery opening and talked about her favorite, most comfortable shoes to wear to art fairs

The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.

The sale price ended at Barnes and Noble (which I linked to in the previous post) but the book is still $6.99 on Amazon. a.co/d/2lgY0A1

I've had cool interesting jobs, good relationships with decent men, a bunch of kids that have become lovely human beings in their own rights... And I can tell you that to this day, where *I* feel most fulfilled is standing on a cliff looking over a large body of water at the end of a hard climb.

"don't regulate us or force us to pay taxes or install ANY ethical guard rails whatsoever or you'll never see magic space utopia" is the repeated lie, propped up by a shit press

Sometimes I say, "This is the stupidest timeline," and then I wonder how much stupider other timelines are.

No. They won't. This is ridiculous. Just because you can say, "Pink elephants will dance on the moon," and it forms an image in people's heads, it does not mean it will happen. Nothing Sam Altman says follows from ANY of the current trajectories.

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

There is no situation in which I need a random recipe site to be allowed to send me notifications. None.

How can someone who says that a stone cold racist and trans-exterminationist Charlie Kirk “did politics the right way” have the nerve to tell us why “we” are polarized? The gall.

I don't want them dead, of course - that would be un-American! - but I want to see them realizing that their ideology will remain a curse, a warning for the next generation or more and like Babylon 5's Vir, to 'look into their eyes and wave, like this.' It is not the best of me, but who is perfect?

'Heritage American,' noun. 1) An American insufficiently committed to the founding values of the United States. 2) An American actively betraying those principles. 3) A white supremacist euphemism used by [2] to mean 'white people.'

"Solve poverty by giving me all the resources in the solar system."

Because again the core issue wasn't actually jobs in these fields going to people 'because woke' but that there were no jobs to be had at all.

Like, I cannot stress this enough: I am not academically underemployed because a non-white candidate or a female candidate or an LGBTQ candidate took 'my spot' (tbh, the jobs I wanted most, I was edged out by other white men!) but because 'my spot' didn't exist. It was not there to be taken.

And the update:

White House administration unveils designs for the world's first all-marble battleship.

"You can predict the future!"

So when Jax Beer aired a commercial with Black people as normal consumers, it quietly broke a barrier. No stereotypes. No “roles.” No wink‑wink racism. Just people at a party. Representation didn’t arrive with a marching band — it slipped in through a beer ad. (cont)

I never thought of this. It tickled around the edge of my brain. I knew that people get into situations where a corporation can just say, "Well, we'll bankrupt you before you can prove that we're in the wrong." A right to an attorney is irrelevant if you can't pay them.

Saying that a universal right to counsel would increase reliance on lawyers and therefore prevent abolition is like saying universal healthcare increases reliance on doctors and therefore supports big pharma. It's a non sequitur. I believe in universal representation BECAUSE I'm an abolitionist.

Something that's getting lost in this story is that the "instructor" in question is not a professor with a PhD; she is a Graduate Teaching Assistant, meaning the University of Oklahoma has thrown one of ITS OWN STUDENTS under the bus to appease a right wing grifter who tried to dunk on a trans woman

MELIA is spending her second Christmas at the shelter. Lets end 2025 with a bang! By finding her a forever adult only home with no dogs. Cats are ok. Shes an amazing, smart, beautiful dog. Please adopt her Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

The floods kept coming. He needed to grow a crop that would thrive in water — or to quit. Published Sept. w/ @capitolnewsil.bsky.social, Saluki Local Reporting Lab

Mr. Cuban sir I have the answer to all your questions but if you will not engage with the peer reviewed literature I will be forced to unleash my Coterie of Christmas Hauntings

you indeed cannot make art or class struggle if you're dead, which is why I await support for my class development grant proposals on "History of Agricultural Practices 1500-Present" and "Sanitation Work in the Byzantine Empire"

Took a picture of this painting at the museum this afternoon because it looked (to my untrained eye) surprisingly modern for the 1650s. Notes on the painting: phoebusfoundation.org/en/agenda/pa...

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid. Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.

Tech Bros everywhere: If we can't use our power to create a totalitarian surveillance state with no oversight or regulations, what does freedom even mean?

Wishing you all a safe and Merry Christmas. 🎄❤️ (I’m logging off and you should too)

I think we need a new talk show. Get trump voters, cabinet members, ice agents on there, let them share their views for five minutes. Then the host simply nods and asks, "The fuck is wrong with you?" Arsenio Hall or Wanda Sykes would be top choices for hosting.

"just about everybody else in America" I feel a No True Scotsman argument hiding in there somewhere.

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Amazing how the solution to poverty always seems to be, "Give us all the money."

Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

I suddenly thought, "We need an old lady bar where we get together to do crafts and drink beer between rounds of karaoke and ecstatic dance, but with, y' know... Quiet music." I tried to search on that, and the top results were all about where to find cougars...

Some of the most gorgeous and interesting nonfiction books I’ve read this year. First — Bonnie Lander Johnson’s Vanishing Lancscapes: The Story of Plants and How We Lost Them I’ve never enjoyed a nonfiction book this much. I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived in. The world feels different now