Making the leader's birthday into a big public spectacle with games and performances has been the hallmark of despots and autocrats since at least Nero. It is not the behavior of a republican head of state.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

“Separating the message from the messenger” or laundering information from its source is such a huge, huge problem

“circumstances pertaining to the government” is my new excuse for everything I want to blow off

"<X> salad sandwich," when X is a named ingredient, is always a meat. Therefore, eggs are meat.

Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us. This is a post about trans kids.

Carry on, my wayward son. There'll be chest pains when you are done.

Just heard Steve Inkseep refer to Trump's 2025 tariff roll out as "Liberation Day." There is no reason for NPR to repeat this kind of propaganda without qualification. How are y'all still stepping on rakes this many years into this mess?

People will describe what the bad people want to do with a technology and will state it like that's what the technology inherently is.

no I don’t want the sparkly little icon to bot-splain to me how to write an e-mail, leave me tf alone

Hey, Georgia, this is your reminder to go vote today.

Tech Bros Utopia existentialcomics.com/comic/655

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

I like that the Internet validates me collecting lots of trivia by creating novel juxtapositions. I hate that the Internet provides proof that my collection isn't particularly niche. This is a personal failing.

It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a seven year old girl They'll treat you like the evil, hard bitten criminal scum you are

More of this.

Yes, this weapon that requires 15-20 seconds to reload while remaining almost entirely motionless during that time is the exact same kind of threat as my semi-automatic .45 pistol with 12 rounds in the magazine that can be exchanged in under 3 seconds.

I don't want a battle of ideas. I want wealthy people and businesses to pay a fair share of taxes because the wealth does not trickle down and we're all poorer for it, and I want racists and transphobes to stop having undue influence of government policy.

Don't assume that I don't know how to read merely because I've massively misinterpreted what you wrote. I actually understood it perfectly, I'm just also annoying

Ticking away The moments that make up a dull day

I am "radically pro-transgender" in that I believe that every human being is entitled to autonomy, agency and self-determination in all aspects of their lives - legal, romantic, personal, medical, and aspirational.

My kid was mocking the CGI in Warehouse 13. I said "Yeah, all SyFy shows had that look then." Blank expression on my kid's face. I think for a sec. "I mean from the cable channel." I realize we've been off cable longer than they've been alive. Oh "I mean it looks like Stargate." "OH YEAH! IT DOES!"

The other thing is the robots are stingy with the porn and drugs. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

I remember a time when "crypto-fascist" used to mean a fascist hiding their bigotry. Now it means a fascist, open about their bigotry, and funded by crypto.

LOL. LMAO, even

Also, we collectively agreed smokers shouldn't subject *other* people to your secondhand smoke. But obviously collective care has taken a large hit since covid.

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

I'll remember him for making a TV channel he could turn to, day or night, and there would be a movie he liked on, and it would run without commercials until the end, and he made it so anyone with cable could get it. Rich people would be easier to sell if more of them shared their toys like that.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

i should probably print this out and pin it to my monitor to save me the trouble of a lot of online arguments.

I wish Daniel Dennett was still alive so he could die laughing.

there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!

Me, 20 years ago: Shows doing bumps to commercials are neat. Me, 5 years ago: bumps are dumb if you're bingeing, the interruption is annoying. Me, now that streaming has commercials: oh, yeah. Bumps are neat.

If you were born after (roughly) the year 2000, I don't think you can comprehend what public spaces smelled like prior to indoor smoking bans.

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

They should serve meatloaf.

They're doing an art opening of paintings of lighthouses. Yeah it's called The Rocky Harbor Picture Show

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

As a former pack-a-day smoker, do not bring back indoor smoking. When I smoked I had no idea how bad it was to smoke around people who weren’t also smoking. Like on the STREET it sucks. Don’t do this to other people

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

wishing a happy "please don't let 'skeets' stick" day to those who celebrate