I have bought tea from these folks. It is REALLY GOOD TEA, if that’s a thing you care about.

🎶Reeeeeal talk: indie 3rd place edition🎶 While Pride is typically "2nd christmas" here at the West Coast's Gayest Tea Shop, that was NOT the case this year. Everyone's numbers are down and summer is always a tight time for the specialty tea industry anyway, so we're *struggling*. (1/🧵)

With apologies to Dickens:

Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI

This is an extraordinarily blunt and definitive statement from the Maine Democratic Party—they say Platner has been trying to influence the process of picking his replacement, and they've shot him down cold.

I wish I could get management on board with this (though that would require changes to the board, I expect).

You’re laughing NOW but someday, you might need a physical dick for god knows what reason and Sony will be all, “Not THIS time, player!”

Again, I ask, did I miss a rule change or something? The Pirates scored 12 runs. The PIRATES.

Sick. Awesome. Thanks for that. Really preferred this to funding a Blade game by the Dishonored people or people at Obsidian having jobs.

That's what they've tried! Folks may know already about South America's inbred cocaine hippo problem, which - I'm sorry, I loved the movie Cocaine Bear, but Cocaine Hippo is the sequel we're all waiting for.

Look, at this point I just want a classic typewriter for the same reasons I want a grandfather clock.

If you care about retaking the Senate, Platner's given us extra work: If Maine falls short, we need to hold MI and GA and take NC -- and then we have to pick out 3/4 out of AK, IA, OH, and TX. Please pick a race you care about and donate/volunteer if you have the capacity. Some links to follow...

I have come to appreciate that you can make a great many cocktails from a reasonably supplied home bar, because most of the best cocktails are extremely straightforward. Like, say, the daiquiri.

back when i worked at petco i would always say "goodbye [dog name]!" in a sweet voice and one day i did this for a big biker lookin guy walking away with his pomeranian and he turned around and walked back very serious and stopped and (gently) grabbed that dogs paw and made her wave goodbye to me

I love the book but that’s a tough one to adapt. Almost think it’d be better as a limited series.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves a story

Country's got a real joy deficit above everything else. Knicks win, World Cup going well until Trump ruined them is proof of that. Just create constant excuses for celebrations and parties. We need excuses to hang out more than we need maybe literally anything else, economically.

I kind of need to know when Rowlf was dressed (respectfully) like a pimp.

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him

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Since folks are bringing up their "Klip is an asshole" story, here's mine. Four years ago he co-authored an Intercept story that was just... wrong. On almost every level. And helped kick off the MAGA obsession that the Biden admin colluded with social media to "censor conservatives." I called it out

Will this set off another wave of generational trauma if the Fox and the Hound song (which I don’t even remember) loses?

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Best goddamn ballpark in MLB. Yes, I may be biased. But no, I am not wrong.

Holy shit. Nuremberg is as good as advertised. I don’t know whether to feel hopeful about it in the current moment or the exact opposite.

If a company has to lay off 10,000 people, the executive team should be fired, because they clearly weren’t businessing very well.

I don’t understand how people can run for office knowing they have insane baggage and/or crimes. Like I spent the entire campaign expecting AIPAC to somehow dig up my middle school livejournal fanfic account. I prepared my family for it. I’m still amazed it didn’t happen.

Imagine watching Messi's 2026 World Cup and Cristiano's 2026 World Cup and concluding that these are peers, competitors, guys of similar stature and quality.

Love this joke on the heels of, well, all the other takes on various teams, as well as the entirety correct “It wasn’t slaves” replies.

I'm mad that we keep having arguments over stupid shit. Had a Nazi tattoo? Conversation's over. Sex pest? Couldn't BE more over. That's that. There is nothing *to* argue. Fuck him.

this is also where the idea stuff is "cringe" comes from. a lot of great, memorable stuff in childhood is cringe! EMBRACE IT! you only get to be young once and what is cringe now will become nostalgia later!

Good news! We have invented a digital homunculus by combining phrenology, polygraphs, and your school bully. Its output is 48% reliable and each time you use it three hectares of rainforest gets burned and a billionaire gets significantly richer. This is now built into everything.

Pointing out the hypocrisy of your position does not automatically mean endorsement of the opposite position is a concept a whole lot of people are finding hard to grasp these days. More than one thing can, in fact, be wrong at any one time.

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

So… guess I rely on the games I own, then.

Trump was convicted of sexual assault, but hey, whatever, man. You do you. But do you while staying 1500 feet away from any schools, churches, or child care facilities. And people. You know what---just stay away from people in general, you freaky weirdo racist nazi taint.

Oh hey, I know all about this one! (Once had that slogan on a t-shirt.)

Nope, that’s on me for forgetting the cardinal rule here: block, don’t engage. Especially when they are willfully missing a point.

Nate Silver who famously got his start doing baseball analysis, a sport where it's generally accepted that while fans are allowed to kvetch about umpires making bad ball/strike calls, players and coaches are not.

That the U.S. appears to have completely visibly given up after a catastrophic own goal fuck up is a little on the nose.

Less FIFA more FAFO.

Used in a sentence: “Blessed are the cheesemakers, for through the holy mystery of rendling they transform humble lactage into curds of glory; yea, from the vat cometh fromage, and from fromage cometh gladness, so let us bow our heads in praise of cheeses.”

Oh hey, that reminds me they also basically told him to go fuck himself last time around, which is another reason to root for our women’s team.

This game was a real flemish on the U.S. record.

If your answer to this is going to be “British Empire BAD” I have unfortunate news about the history of many of the countries in the World Cup.

This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...

In other sports news, what the heck is going on with baseball this year? Or does it just seem like scores have been higher?

At a certain point, you start to think all sports should have a mercy rule. At the very least, the ability to throw in the towel.