Holds up

why are we still taking commentary from this guy

"Beef frosting" sounds like an extremely gross sexual euphemism that is still, somehow, less gross than this actual thing that exists

palate cleanser / diversion for the language nerds

TIL that the L, 2, and 8 are in three different typefaces, and I'm not going to be able to unsee that for the next two years, goddamnit.

*paula cole voice* I don’t wanna work

happy 13th anniversary to all who observe

And in the darkness bind them.

Stop telling workers to get a better job, and start telling greedy CEOs and corporations to stop exploiting workers.

the number of clients I’ve had sheepishly admitting to using ChatGPT between our therapy sessions just makes me sad. I just want better for people. I want people to be able to trust themselves instead of turning to other sources as authority figures, most especially over a glorified autocorrect.

we see much the same problem with applying this approach to medicine (and every other field where causality matters) it turns out that two things which frequently appear together can be related by different mechanisms, and knowing which one is actually pretty important

Things that should have prevented any political career and sent the subject fleeing into the mountains.

One of the slightly insane things about the official American narratives of history and politics is that "everyone agrees" that segregation was an abomination and the dominant political force in the South for a century, but you're not allowed to suggest that it has any remaining influence today.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

I understand the instinct to donate to orgs that are helping trans folks flee red states but let's not forget about the orgs that are still fighting for trans folks in red states.

There should be outrage and backlash over the Kansas government invalidating citizens’ driver licenses. Katelyn is trying to do something to help. Please do so if you can.

I'm all for trans people getting away from areas that are unsafe for (if not actively hostile to) them, & donated to TCP, but I hope it goes without saying that no one should have to MOVE to ANOTHER STATE because the gov't ghouls RESCINDED THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSE--contorting the law to do so, no less

please help trans kansans and their families, if you’re able. everything helps.

The case for abolishing gender markers on legal documents is stronger than the case for including them, so why do they persist?

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

on a related note *screams*

“We don’t have a government that’s properly staffed,” she said. “All of these things [federal workers do] are really part of making life a little fairer, a little safer for the public. We’ve lost that.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/n...

Has it ever occurred to these geniuses that the customer experience becomes less pleasant when the workers are afraid to say the wrong thing because a computer might stop allowing them to have money?

sobering read, but essential for anyone who works in or around academia

call me a bleeding heart but i do not think the state should have the power to invalidate trans people’s identities and effectively imprison them. if you can’t legally drive in KANSAS how the hell are you meant to get anywhere

"Transgender activists" is a fuckass term for decent people

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Department of Streets and Sanitation today announced the winning names for the City’s fourth annual “You Name a Snowplow” contest. The six winners are: Abolish ICE Stephen Coldbert Pope Frío XIV The Blizzard of Oz Svencoolie Caleb Chilliams

*February* 2014 was 12 years ago. But March 2014 wasn’t, and I’m confident it never will be.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

One thing that’s concerning about this (beyond the obvious) is that anything you dump this many billions of dollars into necessarily creates a massive and well-funded political constituency for its own perpetuation.

love to have hard drives full of labeled folders containing thousands of digital photos so that I can download the versions I uploaded to facebook 11 years ago because it would take literal days to find them otherwise

I wish the New York Times hated rich pedophiles as much as they hate trans kids.

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

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iambic tetrameter ass stick

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

get weirder 🫵

i did it. time to close up shop

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

okay, this is funny, though

200 years ago, photography was invented. This made a lot of people very angry and was widely regarded as a bad move,

The way I do Google searches and end the date window in 2021 lmaooo

Sen. Warren was a professor of commercial law and bankruptcy law at Harvard (where she was the highest paid professor). She is one of the leading scholars in those fields. No one in Congress has her expertise on money and debt. If Warren says the tariff money is owed, it is.

I know there is a lot, but this really does break a part of me. It is so lawless on so many levels — and each individual boat strike is a choice.

producing snappy government videos that might actually inform citizens on what to do in response to a dangerous situation is Good, Actually

The thing people also fail to understand, is that the Pinto was an error amplified by regulatory confusion handled badly. Ford used the same tank placement as *everyone* did at the time. The Cybertruck's design wasn't fit for purpose even before it left the drawing board, and obviously so.

The Ford Pinto wasn't just infamous for catching fire and killing people during a crash; it was infamous for the leaked memo where Ford said the $50million to pay off survivors was less than the $121million to recall and retool, so the deaths were an acceptable business issue. The Cybertruck is...