If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Always be reskeeting Cask of Amontillado jokes.

LOL

The dog (lovable idiot) has convinced herself that if her ball rolls under the television cabinet she can get at it by constantly banging the cabinet door open with her nose in spite of this never working.

the dorms in college were the former atl olympic village. my freshman year a friend and i shared a "suite" with two guys we didn't know. one of those guys once drunk barfed on his bedroom floor, locked the door behind him, and left it there for a week. he works at the white house now.

Someone: "You can't haul that on your bike" Cargo bike people:

That lamp looks PISSED.

The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸 @theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk

Saw the Zohran campaign sign generator on Instagram and had to get this out of my head. Ok goodbye again.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Somebody should ask a Republican senator something like “if you say you’re not gonna budge from what democrats are demanding, and you have the power to change the rules so you don’t need their votes, why are you doing this? Why is making them vote for your agenda more important than people hurting?”

The modern conservative movement is more opposed to America’s WW2 actions than they are to literal Hitler

Again I am asking trans people to share something good that is happening in your life. Can be something really small or even the absence of a bad thing! Hearing the good things in your lives gives me life and hope.

Fundamentally the thing that makes this specific conversation utterly useless is that water is cheap as shit where there is a lot of it, and always will be*, and it is very expensive where there is not a lot of it, and always will be.

We need to be alert about this because lots of institutions are going to turn belly up and go Newsweek on us. Genuinely quite worried about the media landscape in the next 2-4 years

ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars' e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

SpongeBob donated $500 to the Harris campaign, calls her Momala. Squidward is a Log Cabin Never Trumper who subscribes to The Bulwark. Patrick registered as a Republican in 2009 but has never voted. Sandy voted Trump because of “energy independence.” Mr Krabs spent $10M on Rust Belt Super PACs.

amazing how quickly Bezos has turned the WaPo editorial page from a well respected institution to a low rent clownshow that somehow makes the WSJ editorial page look sober and reasonable

this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division

I repost this only to show the principled pro-Palestine left that accusations that Zohran might be an antisemite, while wrong, come from a dynamic that actually present in the real world: there are people on our side that support Palestine for their own antisemitism more than anything else.

I’M A DIRTY SKUNK? I’M A DIRTY SKUNK?

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

Manages to trifecta hit the first amendment.

whoops, bar had a leak, guess the only thing to do is fill it back up again fill that bar, folks, maybe we can hit $60K

Tonight was a night for melancholy. Here's hoping the best for all y'all.

SHIP STUCK SHIP STUCK SHASDHSDAUSDFHIP STUCK!!!!

Um sir, The Hurl of Sandwich

I think one thing that is worth restating from time to time is that we (Democrats/the broad left) don’t want there to be a shutdown for the sake of having a shutdown.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Every time the media presents Kevin O'Leary as a good business person I like to remind people of how he got rich, by selling a sketchy software company to Mattel (who did no due diligence) for billions they had to write down a few months later. archive.is/HL67I#select...

He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

If you care about craftsmanship, then this coat is on another level. It's fully canvassed from shoulder to hem. It also has domette and haircloth at the chest for additional shape. Much of the work was done by hand — sleeve and collar attachment, buttonholes, pick stitching, and pad stitching.

democratic congressional leadership are not the harlem globetrotters, but the republican party has decided to play the washington generals, anyway

Nobody tell me anything problematic about Niecy I love her.

Agreed. My 15/15/70 theory of institutional values requires it. In any institution, 15% of people are there for the right reasons (service). 15% are there for the wrong reasons (power). 70% are just pulling a paycheck. The moral arc of the institution depends on which 15% have the greatest sway. 1/4

From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.

10/10 take. No notes.

This whole thread is why in retirement I am going to wind up in the copper cage from Enemy of the State.

My initial reaction to pretty much every project is, “Neat, I wonder if I could jerry-rig something that works like that for myself with Obsidian and random python scripts so I don’t have to trust somebody else with my information”

Just saw A Guy on Facebook complaining about business regulations in California and how he needs to keep all his cash in the bank to be ready for whatever hairbrained stunt the Democratic legislature passes that might increase his costs $28,000 in a year and make him declare bankruptcy.

No, because Johnson already went all-in and he cannot change positions now without losing his job.

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Everybody thinks "corruption" is a binary state but what you are worried about is the continuum.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

all your thoughts are valid. in therapy. among friends. in a safe space you've constructed in some social manner they are not always valid in public. not EVERYONE has to validate your thoughts, and in fact, sometimes your thoughts are bad actually

Expected by whom, the guys who insist that this will always turn out fine and are surprised every time that they have been hit in the face by rakes?