There is zero change that this dude actually cares about the length of a woman's philtrum, but he has spent a lot of time on forums where women are called ugly for not having the proper length philtrum, and he very much wants to impress those guys.

I do not know if you are a "true New Yorker" because I have never lived there. I did grow up in Clearwater, Florida and so I can say that you can't be from there if you can't recognize when you have walked into some secret Scientology recruitment situation.

I just finished rewatching Law and Order: Criminal Intent and I highly suggest everyone do the same. It is equal parts clever and stupid and then Vincent D’Onofrio just giving the best line readings ever.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

My weird theory about this is that diaper technology is TOO GOOD, to the point where parents need to change them less and also toddlers have a harder time "feeling" wetness which makes it harder to perceive the "need to pee" feeling.

Everyone I know (who isn't in tax policy) thinks that Capital Gains Taxes are some HIGHER tax than ordinary income. They are like "gotta avoid those capital gains taxes" because they have heard rich people complain about them for years and assume they must be some sort of "sin tax".

I have somehow ended up overly competent in a job I love that I’d also an incredibly niche area of the law and it means I get to be as weird as I want and nobody can stop me because nobody wants to learn what I do.

I truly miss public access TV. Yes, it gave us Alex Jones but it also had so much delightful weirdness and genuine local oddities. You Tube can't bring it back fully because the point is that you aren't looking for mass appeal. There are no metrics. You are just making for the love of the game.

Narcissists don't like going to weddings other than their own. It is one of those events where everyone is focused on someone else. Trump will do a drop in on a wedding at his golf course but he isn't a GUEST. Hope that helps.

My only addition to public transit salary discourse is that I suspect some of the people who are cheering for transit workers to make over 200k per year would be furious at their tax dollars paying similar salaries for secretarial and admin “email job” workers.

I’m generally ok with my state of “exceptionally single because men find me terrifying” but every once in a while I wish I had a big giant oaf sized boyfriend who could cuddle with me. Like, a real Shrek of a man.

He plays a character named Buck Cashman on Daredevil: Born Again, which is like if someone had to do a gender swap Miss Moneypenny and had 20 seconds to think of the name.

Law and Order Criminal Intent is the greatest television show ever made because it merged ripped from the headline stories with payoffs from Columbo and then let Vincent D’onofrio do this shit.

There are a lot of things wrong in this but, like, I'm sort of stuck on "OpenClaw decided he wasn't drinking enough water." Like...was it right?

Thinking America is, and has always been, the most evil Nation created is also a form of American Exceptionalism.

It feels like Dems are suggesting tax cuts as a solution to an affordability crisis because the actual solutions to the affordability crisis will never be able to pass Congress. (50% top tax rates, treating long term cap gains more like ordinary income, etc.)

Miami but I’m from Clearwater so it isn’t inexplicable.

Just to be pedantic (and to give credit where credit is due) it is specifically the Florida House that told Ron to fuck off with the vaccine mandate. The Florida Senate passed it twice (once in regular and once in special session). House Speaker Perez has been consistently pushing against DeSantis

We need to replace the gas tax long term because EVs are basically free riders in the current system. That being said, the answer isn't "taxing profits" since it is unconnected to the actual expense. We will probably need to have a mileage tax tied to car registrations.

I know I am a deeply annoying person but it is annoying in a way that is overly enthusiastic and helpful and makes it hard to actually hate me, which is even more annoying.

Had a wild conversation with a friend who does hiring at a mid-sized law firm. They are now using AI to such a degree that they are not hiring any 1st or 2nd year associates any longer. They only want people with 5+ years experience.

I am someone who fucking WROTE STAR WARS FANFIC for years. I did not kill myself because I wanted to be alive to see Episode I. (Then I was like...can't kill myself now...it would look like I killed myself over Episode I and that is dumb). I have zero interest in Baby Yoda movie.

It is interesting what jobs are supposed to be permanently protected from change in this country. If your grandfather was a farmer then you should be able to be one but if your grandfather was a journalist you should learn to code.

In case you wanted to know where we are in antisemitism, an author is getting canceled on twitter on booktok because they have a minor character from Israel who is a nice person. tribune.com.pk/story/260613...

I live close to work. So close that there are no grocery stores between work and home. That means that even though I really would like to go buy lemon so I could make a great pasta sauce, I will die before I drive past my house just to get a lemon.

One sort of interesting thing in the whole Florida redistricting fight is that the likely Republican candidate is a Black man which might keep some of the racist whites at home.

The lack of Daredevil (TV) fanfic for Wilson and Vanessa Fisk is gonna force me remember my Ao3 login and start posting stuff.

I do not need any more "median voters talk about Trump" articles. I need articles following the median voters in their lives so I can try and understand how they manage to function in the world when they seem incapable of reasoning and have Memento disease.

I like how, canonically in the Daredevil TV show, Wilson Fisk personally planned his wedding by himself when Vanessa was out of the country. Just blackmailing FBI agents and then picking out flowers.

I think the thing that people should learn from the success of Michael isn't that people love shitty biopics. It's that people enjoy the experience of listening to music with other people in a distraction free environment. Just start having record listening parties (like Taylor Swift did).

I’ve been rewatching g Daredevil: Born Again and Succession so… Logan would have been against Fisk for Mayor. Doesn’t like being left out of the political power play but does like Fisk as a self-made man. Honestly, the only person I see being for is Tom but that is because wife guys solidarity.

I refuse to find the episode, but This American Life had an episode that was all about 70s radicals and what drove them to political violence and it was never violent rhetoric and always feelings that the systemic mechanisms of political change no longer worked.

There’s too much news these days. It’s like the MCU. I liked the news fine when it was just big events every few months but now…

Can we get a better source than the worst celebrity Jeopardy contestant in history?

I know that there is always a lot of misinformation with breaking news but one would think that fact would be mitigated when the news is breaking in a room full of reporters!

Florida is supposed to be doing a redistricting next week but the House and Senate has both said that they won't be making their own maps and will only consider a map from the Governor (who called the special session). The Governor has yet to provide such map.

Similar sentiment to arguments that we shouldn’t increase the pay of public sector workers because it would attract people just there for the money instead of because they love serving the public. Serving the public doesn’t pay the rent.

I see masculinity discourse is happening again and wanted to add, as a cis woman who has never been successful at dating (like, I can count the number of times I've been asked out on one hand) I have spent my life watching men I have crushes on complain that all women hate them.

The Governor has called a special session to try and force the Florida House to adopt an AI Bill of Rights and an anti-vax bill that they rejected less than a month ago and I see no reason why the Florida House would play ball. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

The Lt. Gov of Florida is posting messages to twitter that end with "Molon Labe" so things are going great in this state. (The context is speculation that he was going to drop out of the race for Governor because not even Ron DeSantis has endorsed him).

This is the first time he's hearing this.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

I was talking to someone about going to law school (I did at 31) and he said he didn’t see a point unless he made big law. My own salary working for state government (90k, with a pension and student loan repayment) was deemed “pretty much poverty”.

Yeah, but we all know she won’t ride the bus because she’d have to sit next to “those people”. (People who ride the bus)

One of the most expensive cable news ad buys is Fox News channel in Palm Beach County. I’m not joking.

Guys, nobody tell them about murdering the Pope. Not for at least a few days. Let them get caught up on The Pitt first.

Oh, the video is from Miami? Does this mean Trump might be gearing up for a Minneapolis style crack down in South Florida because…oh man, that would sort of ruin my…life.

I was born into a family of mentally ill alcoholics. One of my first memories is of my father accidentally shooting a gun hole through the wall when he was trying to build a weapons cache in the couch. I have had a weird life. This week is one of the weirdest.

Jones, Carlson, Owens, etc, are at war with Trump because their audiences are turning on Trump, and they have to follow their audience or else the $$$ stops coming in. They helped get him into office TWICE, and until they express contrition for that, their turn on Trump is just brand preservation.

I'm sorry gang, if your dog hates to be alone and you often need to leave your dog alone then maybe your shouldn't have that dog. Or that dog needs training to be secure while being alone. That works too.