Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

Capitalism is not compatible with empathy

I'm angry, but I'm also afraid. It's ok to be afraid right now.

He is clearly signaling his intention to commit mass murder on an unthinkable scale. Those who could stop it - could TRY to stop it - and don’t will have it forever on their conscience.

It's not been a great day. My next door neighbor was murdered in his home last night and I spent the afternoon dealing with the police in my front yard. Found footage of the suspect's vehicle on my doorbell camera and sent it to the police. East Charlotte lost a pillar of the community today.

Today's my first day of walking without my ankle immobilization boot and it feels WEIRD. My arch has never been higher, some specific muscles get tired very quickly, and getting back into bending my knee when walking is taking some time. Finally getting to the end of this recovery 🎉

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! This amazing art was made by @wuna.bsky.social, who is a wonderful ally and one of my best friends! Much love today 💙🩷🤍🩷💙

Charlotte NC #NoKings

'tis the sneezon

Honestly when I see or hear people using these, I treat them like they have a Nazi tattoo. You don't get to use Nazi language and not be treated like a Nazi. You just don't.

I don't even have me figured out and I'm pretty sure my therapist is confounded as well, so good fucking luck to whoever thinks they've got this.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

lol, the writers have given up on subtlety

us markets have been stubbornly cool-headed about dozens of crises and mounting precarity over the last year and i am shall we say Concerned about what all that coming to a head at once is going to look like

I knew this would do numbers on Reddit.

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now! Trump is announcing his nominee. That's it. If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now. And that matters come November.

He struck a different tone in a close N.C. Supreme Court race in 2024. | Opinion

Frankly, I expected better from a FIFA Peace prize winner

Happy National Crab Rangoon Day to all who celebrate

North Carolina early voting starts today! Pick your party's candidates for the fall midterm elections, and if you're Unaffiliated, you can ask for either party's ballot or one with only nonpartisan offices (if available in your area). Info for Charlotte & Mecklenburg County voters below: #ncpol #CLT

Discord users are furious about plans to require all users to verify their ages through video selfies or government ID. "This is how Discord dies," one reddit user said. Others pointed to data breach of 70K user ID images late last year therecord.media/discord-age-...

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap

Ankle surgery update: had my two week follow up, got the cast off and stitches/staples out. No putting weight on it for another month though, to give the microfracture procedure time to regrow cartilage. Still very little pain, mostly my calf muscle hurts now that I'm moving my foot again.

It's a hot chocolate kind of day today

They kill us for their sport.

If you really want to punish the NYT, hit them in the pocketbook and post alternatives to their games. www.puzzmo.com/today/

Ankle surgery recovery day 2: nerve block finally wore off last night, pain is only mildly stronger than before surgery. Honestly I thought it would be worse. Up and moving about more today. Need to get used to crutches and stairs while not being allowed to use one leg.

Ankle surgery is all done. Took 2 hours instead of one and apparently there was a fracture found while inside that didn't show up on the X-ray or MRI. At home recovering, the nerve block is still active. Currently my lower leg feels hot, but that's the only thing it feels.

Wendell Berry, from A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997. (This excerpt from 1991, during the first Gulf War.)

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Here's to another year of life getting better because I'm getting better at it. Happy New Year, folks.

My hottest end of year take is that brown sugar cookies (toll house without the chocolate chips) are the best cookies and it's not even close.

Just finished my annual Christmas nap. It's a lot like my daily nap but this one only happens once a year.

You will be visited by three spirits

Gotta say, I did not expect to ever spend Christmas morning sitting on my front porch drinking coffee without a coat on

Over 30 selfie thread 42 in a couple weeks

Happy longest day of the year to all who celebrate interesting tricks of physics

@parents.blue fyi looks like the private school labeler custom domain has expired

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

I firmly believe that having a Facebook style laugh reaction in addition to likes would prevent a lot of quote dunking on this platform

I agree with all this — sick leave is essential to a healthy society. While we’re working on that, though, we need to make it a general norm that if you MUST be around others while sick, you wear a mask (preferably a good one).

if you think that terminally ill people being able to opt for medical euthanasia sounds horrifying it is because you have not seen the types of natural deaths that people die

Senate Republicans Surprise Schumer By Having No Interest In Extending ACA Subsidies

The Border Patrol's enforcement surge in Charlotte, N.C. lasted just about a week. Residents picking up the pieces in its aftermath say doing so is going to take a lot longer than that.