The same administration that killed actually useful tech products - like free digital tax reporting - is directing its tech resources to impose a Trump propaganda app on federal employee phones

Actually yes, it completely makes sense that Lower Adirondack Pride would have a country singer guest (who is a gay) as part of their Pride Month celebration

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

I realise that this isn't a hill worth dying on but "enshittification", once upon a time, had a very specific and useful meaning, it didn't mean "thing used to be good: now thing bad", I know it's a fight we've all lost but still

Who would have thought it was a bad idea to start a land war in Asia

Don't you just hate it when you're trying to do a quick war in the Middle East for the content and then it just won't end like it keeps going and going forever

I said I'd get up and go swimming today and then go hiking tomorrow...which means I actually need to do that

Deserved.

I can’t excerpt, every word is perfect

So the US and Iran are about to sign a deal which Iran claims keeps Hormuz in their control and the uranium in the country, but Trump says will see the uranium shipped abroad and Hormuz reopened unconditionally. Haven't we done this exact thing before?

I cannot stress enough how vital this is to understand with the Nordics in particular, extra so if you need any kind of medical care. I have Swedish citizenship, I'm fluent in Swedish, I know how it all works, and I'm fairly certain my HRT would *still* be a major obstacle to moving back

Once again I say: the places a lot of people want to "flee to" are facing the same problems, and when you land you will face them as an immigrant, without any of the blessings of citizenship and with all the challenges created by the xenophobia that marches alongside all the anti-trans hatred.

Well, well, well, wellllll. So, the Nordic utopian social democracy is enshrining a caste system so they don't have to give non-(white) Swedes the same social benefits as "native" Swedes. I wonder why now?

Look, I get the history of tipping and I support it's systematic abolition in favor of higher wages and I'm a cheap fuck, BUT The moral economy of the US service industry is still based around the assumption of tipping and if you can afford a $621 steak dinner, you can afford the $120 tip

So now is the part of the cycle where the deal gets leaked and Trump realizes that he'll get torched in the press for it and then he turns to the military solution again as its a risky gambit to solve all problems rather than the incredibly painful medicine of the surrender

a straight reading of the facts sounds like conspiratorial slander

Meals on Wheels still exists. No you are not going to get a ton of options. But it also isn't going to send you into crippling amounts of debt.

Martini, gin, dirty

Hmart rules. Overcrowded parking lots implies people like the inventory! These people just don't like living by Asian folks and are back-rationalizing. Anyway, that reminds me I need to pick up some black vinegar

this is one of the dumbest things about that dumb piece, the idea that working class people don’t drink “fancy” beers is fucking absurd if you actually know any working class people, that’s an idea that’s at least two decades out of date and was wrong from the beginning

Despite its seaside attractions and reputation as a surfing destination, the city is seeing its population decline.

Trump can’t remember when he was president.

like, the whole band?

This motherfucker has such bullshit plot armor, we're all clearly living in a fanfic and Donald Trump is God's shitty OC

"You can thrown pronouns at the enemy" is the modern version of the old argument against women in the military "you can't throw sandwiches at the enemy!" It's Archie Bunker-level "wit" based on desperate sexual insecurity posing as hypermasculinity.

Based on my decades of personal experience, you absolutely can! And then just sit back and watch them lose their damn minds about it and have a meltdown. Also, pronouns are a renewable resource with no known environmental impacts, so it's quite sustainable.

the drunk should fuck off ❤️

Reminding myself I've lived here a scant 2 months its okay if I haven't gone to all the places, done all the things or unpacked yet Its actually really quite good that I got rid of the mouse problem as soon as I did and I have friends I can do things with and I've gone on hiking trips

anyway the best cheap summer beer is the modelo michelada tallboy, i have researched this extensively.

I know it feels like a betrayal, because it is a betrayal. I did two tours in Afghanistan and poured my heart and soul into Victory. And I saw it get traded for a handful of magic beans. Shit sucks, you gotta keep on keeping on.

There are people who will tell you that this is not a complete surrender by the US Navy. But it is.

well, this was a problem that everyone has known for 20 years wasn't solvable without putting forces ashore, which is why every CENTCOM plan for anything Iran related included a Phase 4 that was "okay whatever we did this for State had better terminate the conflict within 2 weeks or we're fucked"

The reporting and interviewing on On The Media are consistently better than most. This series is essential listening.

If this deal goes through, I wonder if news media is gonna have the spine to cover it as the humiliating loss for Trump that its pretty clearly poised to be

Lots of terrible things happen in every war but I’m not going to soon forget the dozens of little girls killed in the opening salvoes of this war. The recourse to war—even “just” airstrikes—should be regretted by leaders and citizens because every war kills innocents.

Remember the "pallets of cash" attack Trump tried to use against Obama?

Theyre pointing out that Trump is an impotent old man who shouldnt be taken seriously as a way to rub salt in the wound

One thing I suck at is boiling eggs so I'm trying out the boiling egg device

generally think that if your response to "this is loser shit" is "are you triggered?!?!?" then you're just demonstrating the truth of "this is loser shit"

It bothers people who have actually been part of the working class for academic elites like Harper to fake nostalgic for something he never was a part of I think this is why champagne socialists bother some of us so much

my thinking is nobody eats enough fiber anyway and doubly so on vacation and fruit has hella fiber. it also has hella water in it and planes are mega dehydrating. it's delicious and much more fun to eat than vegetables. they might have weird kinds where you're at too

Does this guy actually make more money doing this shit than being a professor? Truly, does anyone have any actual data because I feel like he likely took a pay cut to beclown himself in such a public manner.

Make no mistake, Kennedy is working tirelessly to destroy our vaccine infrastructure, including presently engaging in a p-hacking witch hunt spearheaded by his cronies to link vaccines to conditions they repeatedly have not shown any association with. www.nytimes.com./2026/05/11/h...

I did a second mouse proofing of the apartment so hopefully this will make a difference, I'm also going to put a screen over the heater just to be sure

I still feel very few people have seen the housing scarcity endgame. Key West, Florida is pretty much the perfect specimen. They made it so no new building could exceed 4 stories & height must be changed by public referendum. The state limits the number of housing permits based on evacuation models.

The most elitist person you know: I am a simple man of the people. My gustatory experiences are quotidian.

Every generation, elite magazine writers send one of their own on a luxury cruise so readers can see how much they hated it. It would be interesting to read TAH’s contrarian pro-cruise take.

I wonder if the essay mentions PBR

I read this article out of morbid curiosity, and, spoiler alert 🚨: Tyler Austin Harper is the guy who was chasing “novel gustatory experiences.” It’s okay to like what you like, dude, and if you need to write a whole article convincing yourself you like Miller Lite, it’s pretty clear you don’t.

lmao, imagine quitting your job as an environmental humanities professor at a fancy liberal arts college to write faux contrarian takes about Miller Lite