Do we (normal people) have anyone on the inside (as it were) of MAHA? Someone please whisper the next target of health scaremongering into RFK jr's ear: sedation and anesthesia—for adults. Come up with something credible-sounding for why people under 25 are unaffected by [problem]...

It seems that in China, current beauty standards include small faces with protruding ears. Why, I don't know, but maybe I've found my people. (Just kidding, I have none of the other requisite features.)

Earlier today I got a notification that someone replied to a comment I left on a comic a couple years ago referencing a relatable experience described in, wouldn't you know, a book over 50 years old.

It's been a while since I made a cake, and right now I am apparently unable to whip frosting. My plan B failed even more spectacularly than my plan A. I have no idea what's going wrong 😭

Whenever an otherwise relatively chill song features a drum riff that goes hard, this comes to mind:

They should declare a century of Dog Jubilee, where every purebred dog gets to breed willy nilly, completely erasing purebreeds, completely muttifying all dogs

Seems odd that I haven't seen any crossover of the anti-seed oil concerns and the anti-"forever chemical" concerns converge to raise concern about the polymerized seasoning on cast iron and carbon steel cookware. I'm not a chemist, so I don't know if such a concern would be valid...

Plus: you'll never guess which celebrity makes a cameo cycling down the sidewalk on Beverly

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

VENEZUELA MENTIONED Thank you, human Powerline

Looks like Mamdani's Anger Translator is on easy street so far

Libraries are so fuckin cool, y'all.

Pleasantly surprised that all the news outlets I've seen/heard so far are straight-up calling last night's Obama slop what it is: racist. Usually there's more weaseling. Now listen, I know what everyone means, and obviously it's not the important part, but...

Michael Harriot writes the best threads.

Bluesky has noticed that I enjoy dogs, so photos of them show up in my Discover feed. Plus posts by puppygirls. PSA: dogs and humans who identify as dogs are not the same thing, for the purposes of browsing the internet

Left social media for a week to visit Canada. Hope I didn't miss anything fun!!

a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.

Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles

Me when I leave LA to spend a week in a place that gets an inch of snow

"Geezer" feels like an apt name for a Gen X magazine. I remember back when I first heard of Weezer as a kid and I thought, "They must all be really old" (conflating the band name with the insult)

Omg I totally forgot about a brand called Prequel (which I might at some point have publicly pleaded with to have lip balm?) and They have SPF lip balm (apparently it launched last spring) With the same active ingredients as the one I used to use, and a similar mintiness And it tastes FINE!!! 😭🥹

I hope the takeaway is the opposite: ICE will drag you from your car, pepper spray you, flash bang your children, and shoot you whether you stand up to them or not, so I guess you may as well stand up to them.

...Never before considered that a bus driver might hold their passengers hostage

After spending a weekend among more old white people than usual, I feel better about not being able to figure out time signatures e.g. what exactly is happening in this video

Today I learned: the FDA has a flickr account

At THIS point (I lost the least offensive of the balms I listed in this thread, and after experimenting with stick sunscreen over lip balm, I have been living in misery) I'm experiencing the level of frustration that entrepreneurs describe in their companies' "About Us" pages

Los Angeles! ICE is staging in a parking structure in the Fashion District and has been seen around Santee Alley / 12th and Maple area @ 11:30am. 🧊

There's a "Frankenstein" exhibit literally walking distance from me and I didn't know about it until passing by it just now and of course it's sold out 😭 Why didn't @realgdt.bsky.social notify me, personally, of an event in my neighborhood??

My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?

Thank goodness they can't know what the fuck is wrong with the world.

These are not distractions. These are additional crimes. A distraction would be Medicare for all. A new national park. A sea exploration program. Anything that might make someone forget that they despise that man and are 99.9% certain that he's a pedophile for 5 seconds.

This makes me want to start making stuff out of clay. Do y'all think a Color Me Mine franchise would be willing to fire some lil guys they didn't supply pre-made?

Anyone who 1) likes Gavin Newsom 2) said it was “too early to worry” about who’s running 3) believes, like Gavin suggests, that the Democrats lost the election for being “too woke” Is: wrong

Yo can we get a based mayor in L.A. to come inspect my parents' house?

Curious! web.archive.org/web/20260103...

Need a welcome mat that's like, "No shoes, no meat, no genAI"

happy excuse to drink some martinelli’s day fuck I love that sparkling apple juice

CIA bombing of Venezuela is also a war crime. I know it's largely symbolic but the Dems need to introduce articles of impeachment for everyone involved. It's literally the lowest bar for an opposition party.

Perfection.

Daily bunny no.3182 never looks down

How often do people mix up dreams and real memories? It's...not uncommon for me. Today, I'm trying to remember if an image was real. It was a photo (torso-up) of a buxom woman superimposed with the text "ABSOLUTE [line break] CINEMA."

Idea for staying in touch with family—instead of trying to keep up with social media (among all the other accounts one follows), group chats (too many notifications!), or actually personally corresponding with a bunch of people individually (who has the time??): personal newsletters.

Was thinking about it this morning and I realized that a lump of coal would have actually been a decently valuable gift to get from a mythical being. "It's winter, here's a dense chunk of energy you can use to stay warm and cook food."

You don't REALLY love Christmas unless you've worked at least two consecutive "holiday" seasons in a service/retail/entertainment shift job with a Christmas soundtrack you can't turn off and "blackout dates" you can't take off. If you still like Christmas after that, congratulations

On this Wikipedia list, there are enough horror movies about, involving, or set during Christmas to watch at least two (and a half) per week for a year. (Lenient, tbh; it includes "Psycho.") More than Halloween! How many Hanukkah horror movies? Three—two of which are holiday anthologies.

Truly annoyed that the tech bros chose "AI" to market everything so it's impossible to tell if people are talking about some kind of very cool machine learning thing or an LLM or a random algorithm that isn't actually any different than it was in 2013 but sells better if they rename it lol

If you have someone you love who has a substance abuse problem, then you *might* understand. But if you don't, then you really can't understand.