seeing everyone else's aurora photos and wishing i could see it too

Singing coach, decades from now: "you did it, Tess. You finally have the range and vocal control to perform 'il dolce suono', I'm so incredibly proud of you 🥲" Me: "great! ☺️ (clears throat, perfect male register) Is Dexter ill today? (perfect female register) No, Mr Kirk, Dexter's in school!"

More than two-thirds of A-League Women players were in psychological distress last season, including experiencing disordered eating, alcohol misuse or disturbed sleep, per the PFA’s annual report. Story with insights from Tameka Yallop and Dylan Holmes: www.canberratimes.com.au/story/910969...

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it. All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference. Tanks

Guy seething with jealousy: Well, I think the normal sky is already pretty cool

A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword

pulling a long curtain out like the tent at a horse race to shield the audience when i put the robot out of its misery

Why did DEWR outsource "independent" assurance, giving Deloitte access to its own AI tools to spit out slop? Because all it ever wanted from Deloitte was justification to keep MOs punishments going I have FOIed a bunch of Ministerial briefings & the theme is the same: We must keep the system on

tfw when I'm not allowed to see the aurora borealis

how come there's a southern cross station but there's no southern happy station

Why do bash “dead-beat” T&S for not being there for their journalists but we never question if the journalist has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

the choice to never publicly talk about mod decisions (which is common policy of virtually every corporate social media platform) has been catastrophic for the legitimacy of content moderation. users don’t trust/understand policies, forcing them into a necessarily adversarial position towards mods.

Your windshields should be absolutely covered in a sticky mess of bug splats/insect carcasses every time you drive across open country forcing you to stop periodically at gas stations to use their wet squeegees to try and clean up your view of the road at night

An agency that can't competently exercise its exisiting powers should always be given more. It just makes sense.

a new #ALeagueWomen report released today has some shocking stats, including that over half the league experienced sport-related psychological distress in the 2024-25 season. the PFA is urgently requesting change as the league slips further behind. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Wife visibly recoiled when I said the phrase "my college improv troupe"

In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

for overseas readers: this particular cycle is neo-nazis being allowed to hold a protest by police then the police claiming they were powerless to stop them (when they could have just not approved the protest) so now the police need more power

king dipshit at the fuckup factory after his friends pissed away their only leverage: “we will hold your enemies accountable”

Today.

She Din on my oša til I mulberry tree

books have no tech tree, no fog of war

The contrast could hardly be sharper. My friends and neighbors, armed only with whistles and voices, spend their weekend fighting off heavily-armed paramilitary goons. Meanwhile, these jagoffs capitulate, but not before securing another $1 billion for their own security.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

an excellent and accurate use of alt text here

Democratic senators voted to make sure that there was more money for ICE to harass your community

Guess I’ll just keep fucking taking to the streets in the cold and the snow for the next 3 years while these dipshits play with themselves

I found out recently my husband has been emailing me at the wrong address for over 4 years

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

A quick litmus test to understand if you're part of the dominant demographic as holds power over other demographics- Are you allowed to argue it should be illegal for you to be excluded from their spaces? And you are also allowed to argue that you have a right to exclude them from your spaces

poppy!

well that wasn’t the card i was expecting

lowe too high :(

I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it. Threading several of these pieces below.

"but doctor," pagliacci said, "did you even read my chart? the name's right there at the top"

not good enough at body language to know which player the ref was madder at

“claudia just steal it off her!”

i love watching live sports because it’s a chance to play my favorite game, “is that an airplane over the stadium coming through the TV or has my dryer motor broken”

I feel so seen right now. theonion.com/duck-quacks-...

it’s been probably about 5 years since this guy took it over, i would love to email him and ask him how i can help get it back up a second time

trying to get this back up AGAIN. can someone smarter than me PLEASE help? the whois/ICANN info is redacted so i have no idea how to reach back out to this guy and maybe transfer hosting again

UR has released 73 videos of 45 Minneapolis Police body-worn cameras from the mass arrest of over 646 people on Nov. 4, 2020. Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers represented in this release have killed community members while on duty. View all videos, full story, & media guide at our site.

across all wikipedias in all languages, vietnamese wikipedia's "game boy" article is the only place that uses the public domain shots of hillary clinton as a tetris addict taken on air force one

5 hours 37 minutes. lol. Good luck, everyone

CBP/ICE was supported by the FBI this morning in Little Village, with reports of plainclothes feds seen in vehicles across the area. This also included using Chicago FBI HQ for staging. Bovino is seen here doing rock paper scissors with another agent for the DHS cameras, as people yell insults:

[on my quarterly earnings call] ok good news, bad news good news: its the largest ever by a tech company

i put balatro on my oscilloscope

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position