always find a local angle.

Something that i've asked multiple who are hikers, and have never gotten a straight answer is, "At one point does going for a walk change into going hiking?"

I feel like in my 20s, I could have done one of those big steak challenges, and now the ability has passed me, like sand pouring past in the hourglass.

here we are more than a year later and i have another lost dog hiding out on my front porch?

kind of relatedly, I've seen different people describe being Spider-Man as being a release for Peter Parker, it lets him be the cool charming guy that he isn't in his personal life, and also that being Spider-Man is a tremondous burden on Peter Parker, that he clearly suffering while doing so.

my cousin's husband is in Rabbinical school, and also basically went crazy Zionist since October 2023. like i try muting the guy or telling facebook that i want to see less of this, but he posts so often that my FB feed frequently just becomes him. anyways this stuff in Minneapolis is

facebook's stupid algorithm just showed me an ultra left wing meme page genuinely malding about the "cringe maoist larper vs. chad resistlib wine mom" and it is first time FB's dumb algorithm succeded in showing me something i like from those types of pages

a democrat says something i like? better make up another democrat to shit on!

jamelle really doesnt like the jeopardy dude

i sometimes think about a conversation i had with someone i was friendly back in 2016. he didnt vote for Trump in the primary but was planning to vote for him in the general. he said something like "well you guys called Mitt Romney a fascist" i pressed him on this and his response was...

Lincoln has the Salt Creeks, which aren't a river, and you couldn't put a boat on 'em, but its the closest it got. (I have to imagine Lincoln in's the top 10 or 20 cities in America that doesn't have a river)

My sister was friend with someone who knew the founders of instagram, so her insta-handle is "@firstname" and back when she had it public, every post she made, the comments were just "PLEASE SELL ME YOUR HANDLE!"

Y'know people describe having a nightmare of "Going to a class, realizing there's a test and you haven't studied for it?" My junior year of college, I ended up withdrawing due to depression for the semester because that happened to me. I was depressed, missed class for a month, felt a little better

Starfinder 2e has deity of memes, the internet and pop culture, Lambatuin, whose anathema includes unplugging from the infosphere (Starfinder's internet). This is maybe the most evil deity I've seen in a tabletop game.

I think y'all are whiny babies, especially if you are cis. I'm not saying I'd live everywhere in all these states, but there are definitely cool places to live in basically all states.

I kind of think the people pushing back on "Avatar has no cultural impact" are getting over their skis. The cultural impact thing is at this point a cliche and not that interesting, but it is unusual for a genre movie to be as big as Avatar and not have a line or a moment that gets referenced.

we had this on in the background and on mute because Trump said he'd resign if people liked him hosting

I'm a grad student at UNL, in actuarial science, so I'm taking a lot of stats class, and the dumbest thing is they've spent the last 5-8 years expanding the stats department. Hiring new professors, luring professors away from other new schools.

not totally relevant, but back when subway baked its on bread on-site, when I was in college, there was a good subway, and a bad subway on or near campus. I only went to the bad subway maybe 3 times in 4 years, and twice, the guy behind the counter said "Sorry, we forgot to make bread this morning."

I'll be honest, I don't entirely know the breadth and extent of what a US Secretary of Transportation does, but I am pretty certain it is not to be a middle school principal for the entire nation.

hey look an excuse

Blue and Black Unnamed Goldfish

a random thought, as a child of a Kenyan national and American national who spent their formative childhood years in a majority Muslim nation, Barack Obama and Ororo Munroe are eerily similar.

I can feel my brain rejecting some of the stuff in the emails as part of a self-preservation mechanism on how the world works. there was a newscycle in the last year of the Obama administration about how he was in the same hallway with a security guard with a criminal record, and the secret ...

since Elon has pissed off anyone vaguely left of center, and no one right of center will buy an electric... are we going to see internal combustion Teslas

This Emmett Johnson guy's really good.

When my dad was a young lawyer the local D party tried to get meetings with basically every young lawyer in the county who wasn't a registered R to try to talk them into running for county commission. My dad didn't take the meeting because he knew the pay was shit. The lawyer they got to run later

"I meet so many people who can't wait to tell me they're from Chicago and when I meet them, they're living anywhere but Chicago" - Jed Bartlet

school of business is throwing an event for free lunches to SoB students, and its a Nebraska school delicacy, Chili and Cinnamon Buns, and i overheard someone saying "no, in chicago, our schools served... normal food"

Sexy Gumbel Distribution

IS TEAM ROCKET BEHIND THIS

my hot take is Ditko is pretty overrated. good at character design but real lazy about backgrounds and action scenes

i am beginning to think that @beijingpalmer.bsky.social wont make it through his game recommendation

if it was a road trip, my dad, it was either Springsteen or the cast recording of Les Mis

I always thought it was a weirdly revealing flaw about Trump that he freaked out about like, Alec Baldwin's Trump impression. It is the easiest lay-up to make yourself look more likable. SNL is not super cutting satire. Just be like "Oh yeah, its cute." GHWB did it, Sarah Palin it.

kinda weird that trump ended his rant against the late night show with "I am Quaid Army, though."

i generally think that "classic" names usually sound better but after working as a searcher in title insurance, i officially give really common last names a dispensation. you really dont want to be liable for every judgment every Tim Smith in the state has

I mean, maybe he is telling the truth, but what the fuck is that preamble

well this political assassination situation seems very serious. thank god we have such a steady hand on the tiller.🤗

well this poland situation seems very serious. thank god we have such a steady hand on the tiller. 🤗

okay, the strategy that i see most often advocated here for the midterms is "make no concessions on policy or rhetoric, let thermostatic backlash to Trump' policies get you to the end zone." under that theory, then Trump Tariffs getting struck down is a bad thing for dems, isnt it?

I am genuinely losing my mind. What? Is Pritzker super popular in Illinois? And again, Zohran is running in one of the most democratic cities in the country; he'll probably win big because he's facing a divided opposition filled with clowns, but what he's doing not going to translate to Iowa.

driving through iowa, one of the on-air personalities in des moines is from England, and has a British accent. Its not liverpool or scouse so it sounds relatively posh to me, but whatever, I don't know. But wow, oh wow, is the british accent not equipped not to say the words "wal-mart"

this is supposedly a painting of an early 19th century american wife and mother but she clearly is a modern girl. like this face has a favorite youtuber

I mean, Zohran is running for mayor of NYC, and Gotham is clearly in New Jersey across the Delaware bay from Metropolis, and Bruce Wayne doesn't care about any politics besides local Gotham politics.

You muthafuckas thought this was a joke?

The local Top 40 station played Avril Lavings "Sk8r Boi" this morning and I am still shook by it. I probably haven't heard it since the year it was released. That song definitely wouldn't be released as a single these days. Also, why the hell was a top 40 station playing a song easily 20 year old?