I’ve used it a lot to yell into the void. Including this thread tbh. I enjoyed that outlet. Thinking, thinking, thinking. It’s been part of my life for almost 20 years. So much positive stuff has come from it. Is the age of social media coming to an end? To be replaced by something else?

Crap, that's the step I skipped!

Does anyone REALLY want a government big enough to regulate your underwear shopping choices?

Affordable Care Act subsidies are about to expire leaving millions unable to afford health insurance. This is an excellent time to start wearing a mask. Keeping yourself and your community healthy is an act of resistance. Millions of people literally can’t afford to get sick.

Hey so serious question: Given that 👮 fucked Constitutionally-founded procedures hard enough that evidence is getting tossed in *Luigi's* case, which they knew all eyes would be on, What are they doing to *everyone*, and how do they ever convict anyone of anything?

It used to be that I longed for public health groups to urge people to take precautions so things wouldn’t get worse, but today when I saw CA’s Department of Public Health encouraging travelers to wear “a high-quality mask” I thought to myself: things must be worse than we think.

FYI, @firefox.com is joining AI Slop Club. Jumped back to Firefox a while ago as part of cutting back on Google, but for this I can pivot again... going to try Librewolf with Floccus for bookmark syncing (and already using Proton for passwords). Anyone with me?

I have heard that in Canada doctors are “alarmed” about this mutant flu, and I have heard that in the UK doctors are saying this super flu is “beyond catastrophic,” and here in the US public health departments (and even the CDC) are quietly saying you might want to wear a mask.

1) Don't proselytize non-consensually such as places, like work, where people have no choice but to be around you 2) It's not the religion that offends me, there are reasons that would be especially weird, it's the framing of it as mainly relevant "if you die tonight"

nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

my name is cow and wen its nite and when a star is shiyning brite and three wise men give me the nod i walk up close I lik the God

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

The way I figure it, whatever percentage of your problems are walk it off problems, you're that percent lucky. I am *really* lucky right now. Oww oww oww.

Me: *yell at TV that a character needs to lawyer up* Husband: "How would she know she needs a lawyer?" Me: "She's in a room with cops and their lips are moving."

TFW your phone seems possessed but actually your fold-up Bluetooth keyboard just got its power switch bumped in your bag

Goddam why does 1918 go so hard

I'm no fan of Trump nor interested in setting green stuff on fire, but the Schedule 1 list is factually a "one of these things is not like the other" game, so...OK sure, I don't hate this.

Semester accomplished! Y'all know what time I'm getting up tomorrow? NEITHER THE FUCK DO I.

I'm not sure I could list every email address I've used in ten years.

Welp, guess that one coworker had an end of year fire insurance sales goal she's short on.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

This... could work.

On the one hand shit's fucked, But on the other hand, Light-up electric kettle to make hot water for tea is an option

I can't be the only one who actually specifically prefers a corded generic-dremel or other drillish thing (being able to unplug it to guarantee stuff won't go wrong when I need to mess with the spinny cutty bits is a *feature* dammit).

OK listen, this *might* be a poorly-labeled opportunity to get some Right to Repair legislation pushed through. Given that the rest of this clusterfuck is happening either way, "you own your stuff, not the huge-ass corporation you bought it from" on the books would be an improvement.

Everyone's gotta die of something.

What's more likely, that the C in E=MC² stands for "the speed of light", a term which doesn't even contain the letter c, or that it stands for "cheese", a word that is widely known for starting with c?

There's a skills gap, but dammit, anyone can offer to stir something.

But they don't say that. They say "be uncomfortable" like they've never heard of pointless, destructive discomfort before. Autistic people know a lot about discomfort but we're less familiar with this supported, opt-in version the theatre kids like to pontificate about.

TFW your pastor invents the word "reverbegating" mid-sermon Pretty sure it's a mashup of "reverberating" and "propogating."

“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.

Not pro-life as in "uteri are public property," But pro-life as in "let's not have babies catch hepatitis from chew toys or playground scrapes."

"Just do it the right way"

what the fucking fuck FUCK

It was decent. Would be even better if I cut up a string cheese stick to throw the pieces in to get melty.

Picking up groceries on lunch break, and, if this frozen lentil zucchini pasta in marinara sauce turns out any good, I may have a new "cheaper than takeout and easier than thinking" food.

the economy is understimulated because people aren't buying things to counter this, we should stimulate the economy with stimulus checks in order to bring stability, we should keep doing it consistently, perhaps every month, for every person, universally it's quite basic really

Hey I think my across the street neighbor lost her pyramid scheme pink car that she'd had (or its predecessor) since at least 2009; is the economy fucked harder than it's been all century?

If anyone needs a library:

/BEGIN LONG TEACHER RANT/ A significant negative trend we've developed societally has been the idea that "skills" are the be-all and end-all of education. "Skills" is better than "facts and figures" as an educational model, but it's still sorely lacking if our goal is to create functional people...

How is it not quite 7 local time? It looks and feels like the middle of the night. Fkn time change+winter...*grumble*

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

Picky Orca Calf Won’t Eat Rich Unless Cut Into Little Yacht Shapes: tinyurl.com/2uwf6ezp

People do not exist for the economy. The economy exists for people.

Not pro life as in "uteri are public property," But pro life as in "what if we *don't* feed babies botulism?"