Hmmm so I'm sure as a professed Catholic you will urge prosecutors to not seek the death penalty

I like Washington state for the most part but the people who grew up here are a different breed. All the transplants (like me) are kind of sad right now, days are getting shorter, the weather is getting chilly, the big dark rainy season is right around the corner. Meanwhile the ones raised here:

Every time a Singin' in the Rain video pops up in my TikTok feed people always comment about what a jerk Gene Kelly was to Debbie Reynolds (true) and how she was just as good of a dancer as him (100% false, you know nothing about dance if you think this)

Still the best no-bean chili recipe I've ever made.

When he was in the military he probably got irritated that he had to shave while a bunch of mostly black soldiers did not have to since this skin condition primarily affects black people. It's a toddler throwing a tantrum because he perceives something as unfair.

Beginning to think the New Orleans Saints are not a very good football team.

Bro has to be having an allergic reaction or else they stumbled across the most potent jalapeño on earth (To Reddit's credit, 90% of the answers here were "dude, go to urgent care)

Absolutely 100% the hardest part of the normal, every-day parenting issues is sometimes I just don't want to be touched for an hour or so.

Internet people "why do people think the ending of Midsommar is happy, it's so fucked up that Dani is brainwashed by this cult" Me "oh so now it's a crime to want your new found family/murder cult to ritually sacrifice your wishy washy boyfriend whose worst crime was that he was passive aggressive"

The whole "oh no one was really ever canceled by the left" thing I think needs to come to terms with things like how that one woman was hounded off the internet due to a mass harassment campaign that specifically invoked woke-coded language over the crime of making her neighbors chili.

According to the locals who follow this stuff on Facebook, this is the first time anyone can remember J-Pod going south of the Tacoma Narrows since the era of orca whales getting captured for aquariums back in the 70s. (Some of the other residents pods and transients go South, but J-Pod hasn't)

Would you all like some cursed knowledge about something that's about to be Discourse

So we're demanding the Afghans give it back to the Soviets?

I‘d actually very much love to live in a world where I didn’t feel obligated to Vote Blue No Matter Who because there are multiple things I’d change about the Democratic Party if I could, but every presidential election for the rest our lives is a referendum on whether Groypers should have nukes.

2025 version of Bo Burnham's "White Woman's Instagram" but it's *crocheted* tiny pumpkins now

I saw a video on TikTok this week of a girl sobbing her eyes out because she just worked her first ever shift at a 9-5 job and couldn't believe she had to do that for another 50 years or whatever and I wanted to tell her to quit and go work as a sharecropper or something because girl what.

Damn fire has been burning for two and a half months because of some idiot's 4th of July fireworks.

Boycotting Starbucks like "Okay I'll try that local shop" "No that one's owned by a transphobe" "Okay that one then" "Owned by anti-LGBT people" "The one downtown" "Some guy on reddit said the cashier was racist" "Ok I'll buy my own beans from the grocery store" "That chain donated to Trump"

Veterans Affairs: your doctor has requested you get a mammogram which is not available at VA facilities, please call XYZ civilian clinic to schedule Also Veterans Affairs: Once you get the test please call your local VA mammography department to confirm at 555-1247

Sorry no one is allowed to protest unless everyone in the crowd reads my syllabus first

New "do-re-mi" for Gen Alpha just dropped

The thing about signing up for email lists is that every single meaningful political effort I have been involved in, even tangentially, on the state and local level has organized itself through email lists and/or Facebook.

I tell my toddler a lot to not do things like run away from me in a parking lot "because it's not safe" and now as a result any time he doesn't want to do anything he tells me he can't because it's "not safe".

*spits into a dip bottle* okay well how 'bout you go honor Charlie Kirk's legacy by sweeping the motorpool, high-speed

Okay so what I am getting here from earlier in the thread is that there is a slight increased risk of febrile seizures from the combined shot and 85% of parents are already opting for the MMR and Varicella vax separately at 1 year old (full disclosure, I think I also chose this option)

They have changed the para in charge of my school's car pick up line so now it's the super chatty and friendly para in charge and it has been an absolute disaster for car pick up efficiency.

Beware the people who say it's impossible to do anything, and ask yourself who benefits by you believing it.

Bluesky is wild man...

A military helicopter crashed last night near JBLM and the local news is still reporting today that it's unknown how many people were on board, which seems weird to me? Do they not have to file trip reports for training flights?

I am a white woman in my 40s and it is fall so my kids are in despair because I am in full-on butternut squash mode. Time to go see if my local public library's NY Times subscription includes recipes.

First doctor appointment after turning 40 "so have you ever had a mammogram"

No, we get out of this by starting at home and building up our local and then state political structures, and to do this you have to organize with the people local to you who agree with you politically. It actually does matter who is on your school board and who your sheriff is.

We will retake the tuna bridge or die trying

Any meaningful opposition to Trump is going to require organization. The Trump administration also does not have the resources to prosecute millions of people. If a vague threat of "we will investigate you" is enough to sway you from meaningful opposition, I have to question your actual commitment.

Imagine being Catholic and thinking the priest is going to say something interesting or relevant in the homily.

I forget if it was Gawker or Jezebel but one time an author made a post that basically said "This is a post. I am going to ban everyone who comments on this post." And then a ton of people commented on it and the outrage was great when they did, indeed, get banned. Anyway that's my theory for this.

It has been a sad and scary sign of the times that Owens chose to attack Macron for being trans, something that's highly unlikely, instead of the highly likely pedophile accusation.

When I made this two months ago my oldest complained that it was unseasoned white people food. The recipe used fresh onion, garlic, dried basil, dried parsley, salt, pepper, and a bunch of in-season, fresh local vegetables. Like maybe I am just old but not every dish needs to be spicy.

Looking at Jimmy Kimmel like

Made a white chicken chili in the crockpot, mixed up some corn muffins from a box mix, and an apple crisp for dessert. Looking forward to my children hating all of it.

Absolutely not the most important thing going on right now but man did Melania pick an ugly dress for the state dinner in the UK today

They are now coming for milspouses. Have known of several families that had to move off the installation due to the conduct of a family member. The BIG difference was that conduct was always criminal, not protected speech.

What those big normie-core protests *are* good for is voter registration booths, sign-ups for get-out-the-vote efforts, and boosting enrollment in state and local political organizations, all of which are desperately needed to help organize local efforts to fight back against MAGA.

There are two ways you can consume this: “Obama is a weakling who is tacitly endorsing Charlie Kirk because he’s not using the language and tone I would,” or “a professional communicator is making a point, I may not be the audience, and his primary aim may not be my personal emotional needs.”

Uggghhh I don't even ship this, why is this edit getting to me 😭

I think it’s bad that there are people out there who believe you’re gonna get black bagged for signing up for an Indivisible protest with three million other people. That feels like people are afraid of the regime in a way that both overestimates its power and grants it more power.

They had to split up Italy into 5 sections to keep it from blowing out the field.

That feeling when someone who's been blocking people all day posts "They're all blocking me. Lol." Okay girl.