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Don’t you dare “circle back” on January 2nd!!! We gonna ease into this mess as a COMMUNITY.

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours?

last christmas i gave you my harp the very next day you gave it away what the hell you expressed interest in learning concert harp

Don’t worry, they’ll cancel season 2 as soon as they find out about all the gay characters.

woso fans of a certain age getting forced into radical acceptance by all the retirements this year

Always loved this quote from Becky Sauerbrunn a few years ago: “I would say that I would hope that I am remembered, but that I’m not missed. Because if I’m missed, then I didn’t do my job. But if I’m remembered, then I had an impact. And I would be just fine with that.”

in fairness this guy does look almost exactly like the kind of person who would cancel Sesame Street

It's getting hard to keep up, people

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

It’s the last ‘Read The Room’ Recommends of 2024! Whoop! Contributor Amber shares with us her highlights from the year (and one from 2023, shhhh) including our first video game recommendation! Nice one! readtheroommagazine.com/read-the-roo...

We’re close to losing Sesame Street, a show that was started to provide free educational media to marginalized kids in our country. That’s not an accident in my opinion and it’s just one more example of how Capitalism robs our society of the sweet and good things we build to care for one another.

Remember, corporations steal more through wage theft than every thief in America put together.

why is this gif five minutes long #OneNight

Al Jazeera cameraman Ahmed Al-Louh was killed in an Israeli strike, making him the third journalist killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours aje.io/a90xq1

“If you’re against violence, be against it when it affects people with less than you.” 👏👏👏👏

Luigi got them shook.

I love this. It's what many 13 fans have been saying for *years* and it's nice to have it stated so succinctly in a publication like DWM. #DoctorWho

Grocery prices are out of control. 1 in 4 NYC kids isn't getting enough to eat. Local government must act. Today I'm announcing a major new proposal to lower costs and tackle price gouging: city-owned grocery stores. More at @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...

They never wrote articles like this when Kyle Rittenhouse murdered two people. Remember that.

Yikes A new world?

It took a murder to get this discussion on Good Morning America

This guy sucks

EW

“Tell Cersei it was me”

Flux 2.0 may be over, but there’s still time to grab the digital download and help our causes! Here are peeks at the exclusive download art. Check out the shop here ⬇️ Donations close Dec. 15th. Proceeds to Goma Actif and BeLoved Asheville ✨ t.co/QlDExrhHFN

I went to a pop-up holiday market and this white lady selling hand made ceramic earrings was proudly displaying the political message left by an assassin on bullet casings after a successful murder so that’s a bit of a data point for Where Things Are

Healthcare CEOs aren't all bad. Without their hard work to screw over the US population, we never would have gotten Breaking Bad.

the rich people pushing AI on everything are going to be the same rich people who will brag they can afford to send their kids to a school with human teachers

As of yesterday booksellers at The Strand are on strike. Solidarity with them. Don’t cross the picket line, even virtually.

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"

see, this. when a show had 22 episodes and was scrambling with actor availability or logistics or ideas, sometimes greatness resulted! Imagine Breaking Bad without Mike??!!

We wanted to understand what’s going on in South Korea. So we talked to three Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby’s in Harrisburg

Apropos of nothing, thru my spouse‘s job we have “ good” insurance. 5yrs ago, I had knee replacement &they made me jump thru 1 million hoops ofc (& we were out of pocket $$$$ too). 1 month later, they sent me a 5-figure bill for the full amount. They *retroactively* unapproved it & demanded I pay up

Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world. 📸: Alexa Wilkinson

It’s a testament to the peacefulness of the American people that a country so awash in guns and so crippled by sadistic and obscene inequality does not experience more assassinations.

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