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I know this is not news, but there are two times a year the mental load spikes to an insane level for those of us default parents: the entire holiday season (including summer camp planning, which is usually late December/early January) & May, when end-of-year events & recitals join the party.

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What sounds will your kid never recognize or hear? Things like the dial-up modem sound.

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Just realized my kid will never know the ping sound of a car door open when the keys are in the ignition because I sold my last truly "keyed" car when she was a baby. Most cars seem to have a push button start at this point. What is the word for being nostalgic about really random, strange things?

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Trump and all these EOs is giving Filch hanging up all of Umbridge's declarations at Hogwarts.

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Something stupid I'm mad about is that my grandmother hasn't come to visit me in my dreams. It's been over a year. I just want a slice of lemon meringue and a cup of tea together. And to make her laugh again.

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To all the people watching from outside the US, look at the election in NC currently being stolen from Alison Riggs for an example of how "you voted for this" is unhelpful. We definitely haven't hit rock bottom yet.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

When the dentist texts you an appointment reminder for your ex, five years after your divorce was finalized. 🧐 Sir, I am not your secretary. This is not a service I provide.

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Everyone cries when their beautiful daughter practices her lyrical dance in the living room, right? Especially since she's dancing to "My Tears Ricochet." I blubber. Need to remember to bring tissues to the recital. Lordt.

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CBS News journalist Sara Cook writes that today, U.S. presidential special representative Vitkoff will meet with Russian representative Dmitriev at the White House. She also noted that the U.S. Treasury temporarily lifted sanctions on him so he could travel to Washington.

submitted 77 days ago • 20 comments

Am I ever going to stop crying over people's dogs on the internet?

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Hakeem Jeffries sounds so defensive on NPR. Your constituents want to see results, my man. That's the point.

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SPOILER What stuns me the most about the storytelling of Mark's journey in S2 of Severance: at first he's DESPERATE to help his outie save his (their?) wife. In the end, iMark does the "right" thing, which tracks. But he has his own life now. Orpheus saves Eurydice, but chooses Persephone?

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Some of y'all don't know what Pittsburgh looked like in the 1940s, before the EPA, before pollution regulation, and it shows. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Do we think DJ even has a driver's license? Maybe that's why he's such a fan of crappy self-driving cars. Does he even know how to drive anything other than a golf cart?

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Amazing. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT24F3JQo/

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My vet posts a photo of a chalkboard with the day's patients on it and I am DYING to see the pets that match the names. Today's standouts: Ms Elinor Bacon, Rogelio, Eric, Potato. WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE.

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BREAKING: The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University has reneged on their commitment to host the @sciencewriters.org annual conference and withdrew their entire financial support. The National Association of Science Writers is now looking for a new venue, sponsors, and partners.

submitted 104 days ago • 328 comments

The utter exhaustion of watching humans' actions show, over and over, just how little they care for anyone who doesn't look, think, or exist the way they do.

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This is next level! 💥

submitted 104 days ago • 832 comments

Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.

submitted 105 days ago • 810 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 104 days ago • 1568 comments

Listening to my daughter try to convince the man who whined when I didn't come to his adult club baseball PRACTICES to come to her chorus performance.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Are we at "throwing Teslas into Boston Harbor" yet?

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

2025 does not feel like the time for 1950s-inspired fashion.

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 115 days ago • 294 comments

The last thing my grandmother said to me was, "You're so beautiful." I will never, ever forget it.

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@dieworkwear.bsky.social just saw a tiktok about how short JF Vance's pants always are and I really need your take on why he makes this choice to display full sock and tiny shin when he sits down.

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I'm not convinced McConnell will live to SEE next year, given his obvious health issues. Why is him not running again news? The man ought to have retired years ago.

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Could Budd's or Tillis's canned email responses to constituents be more patronizing?

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The country that claims gun violence is a mental health issue now wanting to ban antidepressants is a special level of hypocrisy.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 121 days ago • 2238 comments

We won't flee if we're afraid to fly, I guess?

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First guy writing alt text: There are some handprints, outlined in red, on a limestone cave wall. Not bad, considering there hasn't been art before

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Cancer research paused

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Y'all realize that the government not making efficiency top priority is a feature & not a bug, right? That would mean rural people don't have access to essential services like police and fire. They wouldn't have hospitals or schools. It. Isn't. Efficient. Sometimes what's RIGHT isn't cost-effective.

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Do Americans want safe food? Which Departments are responsible for food safety? USDA HHS -> FDA and CDC Commerce -> NOAA (fisheries) If one Department is disabled, we don’t have safe food Enjoy your dinner 🍲

submitted 125 days ago • 291 comments

This administration is whinier than my daughter was when she was 3. Someone please call a babysitter to the White House. Naps are needed.

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Who wants a sitting president to be the chair of a board like the Kennedy Center? Please focus on, I don't know, avoiding global conflicts, or something. Go apologize to Canada. Or Greenland. Or Denmark. Or all of Europe. Or Mexico.

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11yo, watching Mamma Mia: You know what bothers me about middle-aged people singing? They sound. But they don't LOOK. Like how does she sound like that but look like that?

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Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover DOGE-related expenses.

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A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

submitted 130 days ago • 1096 comments

Gotta love living in the US when tiktok is a threat to national security but a bunch of uncredentialed baby tech bros can fire the entire CIA for fun on a random Wednesday.

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