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Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way theonion.com/forward...

submitted 93 days ago • 63 comments

The Democratic party has spent years working overtime to make sure everyone knows that they’re the fucking hall monitor nerds that raise their hand to tell the teacher that they forgot to give us homework because in the long run it’s good for us and they wonder why they always fucking lose.

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's adolescent energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 107 days ago • 680 comments

Ann Telnaes resigned after the Washington Post editorial page killed her cartoon. It’s worth a share. Big Tech executives are bending the knee to Donald Trump and it’s no surprise why: Billionaires like Jeff Bezos like paying a lower tax rate than a public school teacher.

submitted 121 days ago • 96 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

submitted 121 days ago • 333 comments

Some unalloyed good news. A fast, reliable blood test will make life easier for so many women, who currently have to have a diagnosis confirmed surgically and can wait as long as 8-10 years to get to the point where a doctor refers them for it.

submitted 126 days ago • 3 comments

An amusing little short story thread. Read to the end 🧵

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Very sad. Our national goodness average just took a measurable hit.

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

From the Carter Center, an article about Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center's long campaign to eradicate guinea worm disease. I believe there was only one known human case in 2024, down from 3.5 million cases/year in the 1980s. A better world is possible. www.cartercenter.org/health/guine...

submitted 127 days ago • 3 comments

Deep condolences and sincere sympathies to the Carter family. President Carter will be remembered as a great humanitarian.

submitted 127 days ago • 32 comments

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

submitted 127 days ago • 58 comments

Jimmy Carter was a true public servant and peacemaker. Our country is a better place because of him. My thoughts are with his family.

submitted 127 days ago • 227 comments

Rest in peace to Submariner LT James Earl Carter Jr, USN (Ret). Carter, the only U.S. President to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, leaves a legacy of service. The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), a Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine, carries his name in honor of his dedication to our nation.

submitted 127 days ago • 548 comments

New year, new ways to save money.  Starting in 2025, people across the country no longer have to hand their money over to TurboTax to file their taxes.  Instead, you can file your taxes online, for free with the IRS.  See if you're eligible at directfile.irs.gov

submitted 128 days ago • 114 comments

“Madison agreed, and the painting of a man voluntarily giving up power rather than becoming a dictator hangs today in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.” Letters from an American by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 133 days ago • 12 comments

Over in the other place, the billionaire owner is threatening to fund ‘moderate’ (rightwing) candidates in heavily Democratic districts too. This is what oligarchy looks like. It’s the biggest threat to democracy today. Not ‘cancel culture.’ Not trans kids. Not college protesters. Oligarchy.

submitted 134 days ago • 332 comments

Yes okay it works youtu.be/66M8NwkRmew

submitted 137 days ago • 59 comments

20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

submitted 483 days ago • 184 comments

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

submitted 139 days ago • 2160 comments

When we talk about infrastructure, we talk about things that help people get to work—like roads, bridges, & transit. I want to make a plug for something else that helps people get to work: child care. Child care is basic infrastructure. And we should invest in it accordingly.

submitted 139 days ago • 13 comments

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

submitted 140 days ago • 874 comments

20 years ago I knew a guy who worked part time, minimum wage, as a dishwasher. He was able to afford rent and a car (both shitty but functional), concerts, weed, etc. It's interesting to think of how that kind of dirtbag lifestyle is mostly just gone.

submitted 140 days ago • 155 comments

People with homes are so rarely cold at night that I just don’t think homes are necessary anymore.

submitted 142 days ago • 258 comments

It’s funny because it’s true 👇

submitted 143 days ago • 436 comments

I am coming around to the idea that about 80% of our problems in America could be remedied by “it’s ok to make a good amount of money on something instead of all the money”

submitted 143 days ago • 39 comments

In 2013, a Syrian military police deserter, codenamed Ceasar, smuggled out of Syria 53,275 photos of tortured, abused and murdered prisoners. It is thanks to him that we began to know. Now Ceasar reveals his identity: Osama Othman. A hero in every sense of the word. Incredible

submitted 144 days ago • 4 comments

jesse welles is that dude www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_sw...

submitted 145 days ago • 2 comments

I just wept and wept and am still weeping. Watch this, and don't be afraid when they see a blanket, it's ok. My heart.

submitted 144 days ago • 6 comments

Good Morning SKIES of BLUE I was one of these beautiful children VACCINES WORK... SCIENCE WORKS... PLEASE inudate your SENATORS DO NOT CONFIRM RFKJR Totally Unfit to be in charge Our children deserve better

submitted 146 days ago • 469 comments

Unboxing photo: the new compilation editions of The Murderbot Diaries coming out in January. Art by Jamie Jones, cover design by Shreya Gupta, published by Tordotcom, edited by Lee Harris.

submitted 146 days ago • 28 comments

Hello, Please be reminded, that on the list of things that snitches get, "Paid" appears very infrequently. Please plan your day accordingly. Customer Support

submitted 146 days ago • 7 comments

“The politics of stupid” is a winner. I plan to steal it often

submitted 146 days ago • 18 comments

The Pizzable Zone is the region around a star where the temperature is ideal for cooking a pizza (450-500°C). Inner boundary: too hot, pizza burns instantly. Outer boundary: too cool, pizza won't cook properly.

submitted 151 days ago • 11 comments