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i saw yoda fall off a bar stool and when he hit the floor a box of good & plenty candy under his robes went scattering everywhere. he was crawling around trying to pick it all up and the bouncer was yelling at him thinking it was drugs but stopped once he realized. everyone just kinda watched

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

We need more bookstores.

Never forget this.

This is the story over and over again. Lots of people tell themselves stories about Trump being a world historically effective leader who commands fanatical devotion by everyone in the party and it’s just never been true.

Lol this is just the saddest bunch of shitheads ever to do it. Hall of fame level shit.

A leading pediatric cancer group 2 days ago celebrated the child cancer research funding 👇🏽- until President Musk & VP Trump demanded cuts… and it came out of the bill. 💔

dave: i’m going to open an arcade dave’s mom: you have to include buster

Shot down one of those drones today.

if we rebranded cajun seasoning as american seasoning we'd move up like two tiers on the global food rankings overnight. something to think about

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

zaslav cancelled Sesame Street, if you were like. waiting on one more straw to break your camel’s back wrt to hating that man and all he stands for

Periodically check to see if my favourite Amazon typo remains, the one about the slippery Sith Lord, Darth Tryanus

So... working at Baen, during orientation, they actually show you a photo of Jim Baen testifying in Congress during one of Newt Gingrich's corruption hearings, because he had a book deal with Baen. It's a company horror story. "Don't make us testify before Congress, and you'll do fine."

I think MAGAs and their oligarch supporters really haven’t fully reasoned through “we’re going to make Americans as poor and desperate as possible to turn them into peasant vassals, but we’re also going to make sure they can still get lots of guns.”

All jokes aside it's really fucked up to see so many people on here celebrating murder. No one here is the judge of who deserves to live or die. That's the job of the AI algorithm the insurance company designed to maximise profits on your health and no one else

“There are things you just can't say to your spouse. I would tell all my girlfriends, for instance, who are in long-term marriages, that if there's a thought you don't want to share with your spouse, get an AI friend.”

Protesters in Tbilisi made a machine gun out of fireworks. Dang, lads.

american schools: on the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims and native americans shared dinner to celebrate their peaceful coexistence in the new world 😊 me: that sounds nice! what happened next? american schools: uhhhhhhh. dessert

When you have the brain of a dog

Happy Thanksgiving! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/b...

Did…did a minotaur write this

just incomprehensible how this fucking asshole is spending the last few days in office before handing the presidency to Trump. the only part of his legacy that will last

her: did you spend all afternoon editing kevin james into that norman rockwell painting? me:

(twenty minutes into a video game) ah hell this is one of those you have to get good at fuck this

Long distance relationships (I drew this one a while ago)

The other exploding area of dark money in politics is the crypto lobby. They have dumped insane sums in elections in both parties (Dem primaries + GOP general elections). It’s pretty bad

If I take a step back and think about it, it actually makes perfect sense we would end up with a right coded social media platform and a left coded one.

It’s all in the telling.

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s

Unfortunately for weirdos on Twitter, there is no letter you can replace with a * in the word “Bluesky” that doesn’t make you look like a comical dipshit

My teenage daughter confessed to getting high but said it “wasn’t worth it because of the hangover.” Okay, pussy

I was skeptical of the “X is slowly cooking your brain” discourse because I don’t think my ideological worldview has shifted much, but having now experienced both Bluesky and X I think the big difference is I got used to fighting/provocation as the standard “tone” of posting without realizing it.

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