sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients link: mysnapmap.com

Similar horror story here. We have a major surgery in our family coming up and have to decide whether to be financially devastated now or later.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

something many political wonks fail to comprehend is that living a good life is a feeling, and that feeling is not determined solely by access to material goods, but a relative sense of where we're at within our society, community, and social circles, and right now, everyone feels like fucking shit

no, but there was a period in history where my dad could land in Canada with no money or formal education, get a job at Nortel as an electrical engineer, go over to a rail signalling company, stay there for 36 years, riding up to a reasonably high-paying position, with defined benefit pension

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Just finished Fantasticland by @mikebockoven.bsky.social A theme park is stranded by a hurricane, the story is told through interviews with the survivors. I was surprised how upset I would get when I'd read "he was a good guy" about someone who I knew to have done terrible things. (1/2)

‘It takes a lot of energy to be an asshole’ Steven Soderbergh knows the score. Interview by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/2017/11/stev...

I know it's not new but I'm increasingly disturbed by people walking around with beliefs that have absolutely no connection to reality. We all have our blind spots but people are walking around with real jobs assessing situations, making decisions based on stuff they pulled out of their own ass.

This is so unnecessary. What are they "training" these thugs to do? Who's in charge here, and how fast can he go to jail?

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

Had an excellent Easthampton day yesterday. I stopped by @kellylink.bsky.social 's shop to get the newest vampire book by Tigest Girma, then to Corsellos for their make at home meatball dinner, which I can't recommend enough. Best spaghetti and meatballs around. Also recommend the vampire book!

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

The Sandwich Guy is a Free Man!

I have a data entry project and started re-listening to Welcome to Night Vale from the beginning and guys, I love Cecil and Carlos's love it's so sweet. I had forgotten how mad Cecil got when he had a haircut.

The. Great. Khan. Has. Spoken! ⚔️

dwelling too much on 2024 will make you go insane, but dropping the "weird" attack was such a huge own goal. it worked because it got at this exact dynamic perfectly

They're not booing you. They're saying "boo-alroom."

Republicans need to stop talking about bathrooms and junior high volleyball teams and start focusing on issues people actually care about

Weird, it's almost like most of the pundits are all hanging out at a white supremacist's social club for angry incels and having their sense of what's "real" wildly distorted.

What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

Dearest Martha, Today we endured the most fierce fighting yet in our just endeavors. There were projectiles everywhere and regrettably I was struck squarely in the chest by one. The explosion was immense. But, Almighty God protected me, for though I smelled onions and mustard I persevered.

Vote in your local elections today!

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

Trump's incoherent answers to Norah O'Donnell raise new questions about Joe Biden's mental fitness.

She's in mourning the same way Scarlett O'Hara was.

something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste

Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally. Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"

Never mind that one of the most vulnerable parts of our society deserves to be protected in and of itself, history will judge us harshly for discarding them because they're inconvenient. #transrightsarehumanrights

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

let it go klingon version

These are all novellas under 45k words (some under 20k!) so you could definitely read them all over the weekend. Bite-sized queer horror, perfect to creep you out just a little bit right before bedtime.

Everyone keep using the incorrect plagiarism machine, though. It's the fucking wave of the future, dawg.

That's the dumbest fucking thing to say, JD Vance is a fucking weirdo. Also this thread is good.

i want someone to ask mike johnson "should we be worried that you are always learning the news at your own press conferences, which is exactly when you are supposed to be answering questions about the news"

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

In case you missed the news, The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell is available for preorder 🎉 Preorder now, available June 23, 2026! buff.ly/SvZQ82W

People aren't struggling, they are experimenting with frugality! 🧑‍🔬🔬🧪

LOST MY SHIT www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

They have tear gassed a parade of trick or treating children. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/26/f...

One of the founational issues I struggle against is believing that other people think like me. So OF COURSE they will admit when they are wrong. And OF COURSE they will change position when they are wrong. And OF COURSE they only care what is true, right, and always just. Yes, yes, laugh at me

Finished this @stephengrahamjones.bsky.social book last night. The tension of imminent death accurately parallels the excruciating tension of the house being a huge mess and The Parents are almost home. Like yeah okay I might get murdered but Mrs Wilbanks is gonna be *pissed* about the couch.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."