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Copy editor (ProPublica, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN), baker, cross stitcher, cat furniture. she/her
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Surely an affogato will cure what ails me.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Have a sip of sunshine and watch the mist sift down

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

Hello, I’m the guy who decided that every hotel room has to have a flashing sensor light within eyeshot of the bed. I’m sorry, I just really wanted to find out what Superhell was like.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Ever order a fancy-sounding drink and get its even-fancier older cousin?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Face of a man who chewed a hole in the tubing for the other cat’s fluids

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I tried to get the cat tunnel out the way so I could clean, but apparently this was just an invitation to Table Crimes.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Took my cat to the vet, where everyone told him he was pretty and where he got mad at a stool because he couldn’t get on it without jumping and he forgot he knew how to jump.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Mr. C wanted to watch a submarine movie and I wanted to never watch a submarine movie, so we compromised on a different movie where a metal tube full of people is under many tons of material: “The Taking of Pelham 123.”

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

A Michael’s employee saw me checking out with just a single skein of embroidery floss, an item that costs 84¢ after tax, and asked me if I wanted to buy a bag for 50¢.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Editing catch of the day: pixilated ➡️ pixelated "Pixelated" relates to pixels in a digital image, while "pixilated" derives from "pixie" and is used to describe things as whimsical or dazed. #AmEditing

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

He was so good in this. Every time he came on screen you knew it was going to be a good time.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Handsome supervisor

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

The reason news outlets are very reluctant to use the term “murder” is that it has a legal definition and a killer who is not convicted of a murder charge could go back and sue publications for saying it was murder.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

That’s not the rule and you know it.

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments