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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

submitted 14 days ago • 451 comments

After 8 years at Vox Media/SB Nation/Secret Base, I have been laid off. Thank you guys for supporting me throughout the years and I hope you join me for whatever is next. Secret Base will continue to make great things, I honored to be a part of it.

submitted 17 days ago • 296 comments

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

submitted 26 days ago • 136 comments

A lot of people don’t super get that we’re not in the “riffing on the news era anymore

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

What's everyone doing with their impending sense of dread? I'm playing World of Warcraft, and I gotta say - Not helpful.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

"Gambling on sports has been going on as long as there's been sports, but you could not go to your local bookie 20 years ago and bet on a random player's 'Under' for rebounds in a game."

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 30 days ago • 3792 comments

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submitted 34 days ago • 550 comments

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 36 days ago • 451 comments

Everything really went downhill after they discontinued Shicktarts btw

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck YOUR feelings”. MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

submitted 37 days ago • 75 comments

Don't cry over it don't cry over it don't

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

way too many people still see follower count as a status symbol of prestige or importance when it's really better understood as the unfortunate, burdensome side effect of trying too hard to make like 8 specific people laugh

submitted 37 days ago • 113 comments

In so many ways, the Trump years have revealed how many people really have no firmly held values whatsoever and are happy to throw their beliefs out the window if they think they can benefit from it.

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

shoutout to the dudes who insisted that a vote for harris was a vote for endless war. you crazy for that one!

submitted 39 days ago • 166 comments

when u make a silly joke on this platform

submitted 40 days ago • 252 comments

Alright let's do this thing youtu.be/2_CYG2hGOIc

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Here is the thing about this—The people at The NY Times know that there will be political investigations (not “inquiries”). They know there were in Trump’s first term. But they feel the need to play the game. Bondi will be powerful as a prosecutor and as a source in other stories.

submitted 44 days ago • 92 comments

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

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TREBEK: Feel free to ask these diminutive spirits for sexual favors, but don't say "guten Tag" -- they're not actually German! me: who are the slut gnomes of false berlin TREBEK: Bizarre little men. You're still in control of the board

submitted 65 days ago • 43 comments

They’re coming after one of the last bastions of well-researched factual information. Wikipedia needs to be defended by all of us.

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I love kiss cams idk what to tell you. Makes me smile, so what? Get a life.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else

submitted 57 days ago • 408 comments

I'm just here for the unsolicited answers to rhetorical questions.

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

Them: Wow you cook every meal that's so healthy Me, making eight gallons of chili: Yeah it's really a form of self-care you know

submitted 57 days ago • 83 comments

Given the terroir of Bluesky replies since the election, I created these helpful warning signs to attach to anything you post. “Stay safe out there” - Stella

submitted 57 days ago • 88 comments

What if the moon suddenly transformed into cheese? John Scalzi’s new book has an answer

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

SHOUT-OUT TO SOUP

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

im just glad jimmy carter stuck around to watch season 2 of squid game

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

You know it's past noon on Christmas Day when all the marketing emails in your inbox have "Get the gift you REALLY wanted" in their header

submitted 65 days ago • 21 comments

Commentary: AI? Ai-Yai-Yai! By Jean Teasdale theonion.com/ai-ai-yai-yai/

submitted 70 days ago • 49 comments

When the last of my Micro USB devices finally goes, I'm throwing a big party where I toss all the old cables into a fire

submitted 72 days ago • 93 comments

True luxury is found in the simplest moments.

submitted 72 days ago • 433 comments

...Aaron Rodgers is only 41? That seems both entirely too old and entirely too young to be that much of a stupid bitch

submitted 73 days ago • 312 comments

The biggest threat to Bluesky isn’t bad moderation or getting acquired, it’s too many posters with incurable Riff Blindness poisoning the replies.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

real problem i'm calling "Riff Collapse" lately where you make a little joke about something and people just use it as an opportunity to give you their little take about the thing you're riffing on.......a fragile riff ecology is at stake here

submitted 73 days ago • 29 comments

Don't think I've forgotten how a million of y'all pretended you listened to Kate Bush your whole life when that song got popular.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Man Says ‘Fuck It,’ Eats Lunch At 10:58 A.M. theonion.com/man-says-fuc...

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