I turned these around and thought “now why does this look familiar” and it’s because they look like those little strawberry candies that no one ever buys, they just appear like they spawn from thin air 😂🍓🧶 #knitting

Those of us with immigrant grandparents in the last 100 years have strong odds of having at least one of them not meeting the “rules of the time” when they immigrated. Family lore is full of stories about grandpa Luigi giving the family’s last $5 to get great uncle Louie because reasons

you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

I just want "no added sugar" to mean "not sweet" Not aspartame, not the ragweed juice known as stevia, not monkfruit or whatever ridiculous fake sweetener is in style this week.

gathering bits and pieces of that 'editors exist to destroy the self confidence of their authors' thread and holy cow does that come from a bad and broken place.

Why upsize? Although mom is like I'd like a house that everyone could stay at and I'm like your house is already too big

This and the repeated Boar's Head contamination events make it clear that public safety cannot be entrusted to wealthy self-interested individuals, because without an outside party forcing them to not be a goddamn sociopath they will prioritize money over society.

bilbo baggins: frodo you can collect crystals and jewels to gain power frodo baggins: [nods] bilbo baggins: if you double jump and then press the action button, you can perform a ground pound frodo baggins: [nods]

Sysco’s products reach restaurants, hospitals, schools and other food-service providers across the country. Freshpoint, its premium produce distributor, claims several major restaurant, chains and hotels as customers, along with providers to convention centers, retirement, homes, and colleges. 2/2

the SPEED at which I ran to my drawing tablet-

Ai stole from us. it looks like our art because it is stealing OUR art. And now we get to add mitigation of ai blowback to our list of things to manage as artists. 🙃

I also want to point out that cyclospora in the lettuce means people. Fellow human beings. Were working in and alongside conditions where human feces was present somewhere in the supply chain, and that is a HUGE red flag for labor violations and worker abuse at Taylor Farms.

Why is Sony so intent on killing off what is left of physical media? Sony has always been a hardware company with culture at its core. Its current leadership is turning it into a literal shell of its former self, with all culture reduced to cold data doomed to evaporate in the Cloud. Shortsighted.

i've seen military recruiters and Monster energy drink at anconvention but this is a new low

BREAKING: Taylor Farms pulls all iceberg lettuce sourced in central Mexico from U.S. market in cyclosporiasis investigation. AND Sysco, a huge food supplier, has stopped distributing Taylor Farms processed iceberg lettuce products frm Mexico. Our story. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"she was refused prescription pain medication for her IUD removal and replacement. Instead, she was given socks emblazoned with the words “inhale” and “exhale” to wear during the procedure." "fuck" "off"

People have a weird bias towards clean packaging, like ooo if a company did this, it couldn't be too dangerous right? Friends, I'd snort an unknown white powder out of a punk bar unisex bathroom before I'd touch this shit. Read the trip reports below.

Saw something driving Elissa to work this morning. Had to stop and take a picture.

I watch a lot of anime, and since we're halfway through 2026 I thought I'd write about a few of my favourites. So here's my mini reviews for Killing Bites, Yatterman Night, A Centaur's Life and New Game! Please let me know what you think, especially if you're a fan of any of these series. 😀

ANIME OPENINGS AROUND THE WORLD: once again, I came with way too much material and had to skip a lot of good stuff. I also need to make sure I make good subtitles for everything next time, because not enough people in the room could understand how hilariously on point most of the Italian lyrics are.

Even more funny: There is no such thing as a US ambassador to the Vatican City - this guy is US ambassador to the Holy See (i.e. the Catholic Church).

It is incredible to watch one member of this administration after another try to well-actually very clear condemnations from Rome, when the option of saying "I think we all want a peaceful world, and I appreciate the pope's efforts to bring that about" and simply moving on is *right there.*

Hard to say which is funnier: "the pope is WEAK on CRIME" or "the pope was speaking as the ruler of the Vatican City State and not as head of the Catholic Church."

Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

Hi everyone, trying to raise for laundry detergent and quarters, I think $25 would do it if anyone can help. Thank you

The internet is full of people performatively fighting small marginally negative stuff solely for clicks and ego while true evil gambols away, unchecked, just out of frame, torching the planet and everything that’s magic or holy.

I've been getting back into painting so I should probably have a thread to show off the results, even if they're embarrassing. First up, finishing off Dungeons & Doggies! Here's Freya the German Shepherd Druid. Her rainbow vines came out only so so.

TODAY: @lauriewoolever.bsky.social on the book "How To Stop Time," an account of heroin addiction that "could not be farther from the histrionic and self-aggrandizing nostalgie de la boue typical of celebrated 20th-century addiction memoirs." flaminghydra.com/r/edb41ae6?m...

Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.

Gotta reup @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's reprint of the section of my book on politicized mourning and who is granted dignity in death, for no particular reason.

I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

Colored pencils on black paper #bookmarks #prismacolor #jellyfish #art #drawings #coloredpencils

I drew Andi from knights of guinevere #KnightsOfGuinevere #Andi #Art #drawn

Ok I'm back. Apparently people without stable working hours and security don't have the time or bandwidth for 3 hour movies and are watching vertical dramas on their phones

Imma check this out and report back

maybe my house is haunted 👻

So much energy to engage with what life has to offer. I bet a lot of kick ass things are happening right now but I'm sleepy

My favorite way to put this, as someone who studied Classical History in actual college (not just on Twitter): If you told an ancient Roman or Athenian that his culture had "more in common" with a German or Briton than with an Egyptian or Ethiopian, he'd punch you in the throat.

man even with the air purifier crankin this isn't so great INSIDE either

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Every one hour of an audiobook takes three hours of work. You burn hours trying to drink away mouth pops, redoing too loud or too soft lines, and forgetting how to say “penguin”

It’s understandable at the moment. No produce seems to be safe right now

Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

This is exactly it -- if you make a kid use generative "A.i." or an LLM, you're telling them they're not good enough. That their own minds and ideas and experiences and abilities are not enough. That's a terrible, thoughtless, cruel thing to do. Shame on Kaepernick and everyone involved in Lumi.

I also enjoy that 30% of the time it’s like some actual point about culture and 70% of the time (like here) it just reads as some nerd dunk. “Don’t you see Naruto is the antagonist of the series 🤓 I have referred you to episode 1223 😡 but you’re not capable of processing arguments like that are you”

It used to be if someone was stupid, maybe 10 of their buddies or at most a few hundred people on a forum would know. Now algorithmic social media shows the most annoying people first

when I was a teenager I got to listen to a bunch of comic shop nerds talk about the Empire Strikes Back "I love you"/"I know" scene flatly as evidence of Han Solo Being A Badass and I realized I might've been the only person in the room who knew how to pay attention to and derive meaning from a film