Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

I think abusing your position at a think tank to fix the outcome of a gambling contract on a real life war by altering a map is immoral, but tbh probably less immoral than genuinely gambling on what's going to happen in a real life war is?

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

My sole employer to have followed federal wage and hour regulations was a huge law firm that represented corporations who had engaged in nefarious behaviors. The nonprofits didn’t even understand that they weren’t supposed to ask the intern to stay til 9 pm.

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

I named my fists Bert and Ernie because one’s a little bigger than the other. Wait. That’s my boobs, not my fists. My bad.

It's so funny when someone writes a song to try to get someone to have sex with them. That's what a bird would do!

Red Canyon, 11/29/2025, 10:25:20 AM

Much of our current timeline would be dinged for being unrealistic

Ahead of launching a war on Venezuela, the US would like to announce that no one in Venezuela should help US forces, it'd be stupid to do so, the US will denigrate you and screw you over no matter how much you help, and blame you if even one Venezuelan who also helped the US ever does something bad.

I mean obviously we all already knew, but still. Between that and Vance etc ir's almost like someone at the Kremlin just decided they needed to publicly burn a bunch of assets for budgetary reasons.

My mother had a very hard time buying gifts for her sons-in-law and used this technique for my older sister’s husband—every gift for 2 decades somehow involved a depiction of a wolf. When my husband and I married, he denied liking any animal, even a little bit, to escape the pattern.

It’s going to be cool when Trump hops on Air Force 1 to go golf for the weekend while everyone else is checking to see if their flight was one of the canceled ones.

Some people might ask, who reads poetry really? Well, judges do!

Amelia Bedelia was an outlier adn should not have been counted

33. All the great stories are about loneliness. Because that's the most relatable thing. 34. Only a very small number of friendships are evergreen. But deciduous friendships can still be beautiful, important, and unforgettable. A chestnut tree isn't a broken pine tree; it's just a different thing.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Nobody ever wrote a song called Fuck the Fire Department

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

"look, Pope, the two natures of Christ are kind of like the two teams of Chicago, you wouldn't want anyone to confuse them, would you?"

If only they’d been proclaiming their love of Hitler, they could count as children well into their 40s.

The destruction of the WH East Wing is a tragedy and travesty, but my heart sang when I saw this picture of my favorite backhoe attachment, the multi-processor. indeco-breakers.com/wp-content/u...

It feels like the biggest group that is writing off men are the people who treat being straight / cis / masc as an impairment on the level of dementia or major brain injury. "Oh, he gets Nazi tattoos sometimes---it's not him, it's the disease. Tragic." We can actually live full, rich lives!

I can't bring myself to hit that like button, because it brings such a sense of revulsion. That shit is insane. This is all insane. Why am I still grocery shopping tomorrow when this is happening? America too big sometimes. Too easy to isolate events to a state 1000 miles away.

I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.

this is not a russian tie. it's a sign the person inside can cut your hair

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

When you are geolocating at the protest based on inflatable animals

Jesus bible. Adult sized. Never read.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world Founder2: ok that works

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Wyoming has already begun initiatives for Woke 2...

US conservatives under Obama would sometimes wistfully post training footage of Russian special forces, like "look at what the real manly countries are doing instead of our woke baby military" and then all those VDV guys got annihilated within the first 3 days of the Ukraine invasion

Possibility: this whole year is Make a Wish for a deeply awful person with a terminal illness.

@dchealth.bsky.social, are you testing dead birds for #birdflu? Found one on my steps yesterday but when I called your office I was referred to a non-working number.

so was the guy whose job it was to remind cabinet members to not talk about their personal friendships with jeffrey epstein a federal employee who's now on furlough or what

It’s going to be funny when Whiskey Pete sends them to Maine instead of Oregon

I once figured out where every spice in my spice cabinet fit in the plant evolutionary tree

I do NOT buy that the primary threat of political violence is from Trump’s opponents. But if you want to make it less likely, do everything to make political discontent easier to express. Stop gerrymandering, limiting voting, punishing blue cities. Silencing peaceful opposition encourages violence.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe

I like to remember that the united states wouldnt exist if we hadn't imported a man who was too homosexual for the Prussian army to whip our army into shape. We paid him in twinks

Great time for the U.S. to raid a battery plant construction site in Georgia and arrest 450 people, including executives of the company building the plant!