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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

Just a reminder that the neither the U.S. Digital Service (which has been converted into DOGE) nor OPM has any legal authority to direct every single federal government employee to give them a job summary. Literally no such authority at all.

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

“This 130-Year-Old Italian Spaghetti Sauce Is So Good” [insert obvious joke here] I’m very tired

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

them: "How are you?" me: "Oh, you know, living the dream!" also me: [quickly wanders away before they realize that I'm talking about the dream where I'm generally unprepared for everything ever]

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

you’ll have to pry these hash browns from my cold, dead, somewhat greasy fingers honestly, it probably won’t be difficult given that I would be dead plus all the grease

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 1 day ago • 571 comments

taking out my brain and punting it several hundred yards

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

me: good morning Killbot killbot: good morning sir, shall i kill you this morning sir or prepare a smoothie me: smoothie please killbot: excellent choice sir i shall try again tomorrow

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

no more breaking news, put it back together

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

[sucking on a chili dog] i just got an idea for a song

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book

submitted 1 day ago • 155 comments

"I trust this guy. He’s not like the others. When the government tracks you, that’s tyranny. When a billionaire does it? That’s innovation."

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Oh dear. The ABA industry's at it again. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... is a chapter of Brand New ABA 2025, in this breathtakingly expensive handbook. This'll be a thread. Brace yourselves, friends. I do a standard check of such papers:/

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

the surest sign it is getting warmer is the sudden irritating appearance of stink bugs

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I’ll have what she’s having points at little girl having a tantrum

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Not having to pay taxes on making $1 billion is an ENTITLEMENT. Getting Medicare and Social Security that you initially paid in for is an EARNED BENEFIT.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

coiling yourself in knots to act like you don't recognize a sieg heil gesture because you're worried about the blowback from the "terrorist fist-bump" people is some worm hall of fame shit

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

when I think about the number of people who have told me I’m a cat throughout my life…it’s not a small number

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I don’t want to go to sleep yet so here’s how the Greek Gods feel about cats, a non-exhaustive list.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Brunch won't start at all on Rocky Top Dirt's too rocky by far That's why all the folks on Rocky Top Get their brunch from a jar

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I was thinking about this the other day because it is an absolutely tremendous insult!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I was feeling a little down until Five asked me if I knew what her “passtoad” for the Xbox is.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

what my mental health needed was hours and hours of cold, howling winds they abruptly stopped while I was typing this and the sudden lack of uninterrupted sound is startling

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I assembled a giant doghouse for Not! My! Cat! today to accommodate her favorite basket in which she spends all her time weather permitting. It’s also obviously a safer, wind/rain/snow-proof home. It has a porch. It’s pretty great. It eases my anxiety about doing right by her.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Some of DOGE is retribution, some is corruption, some is incompetence, some is a mix of those, but this is destruction for destruction's sake. It's undermining American science, industry, and commerce just because they can.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Others have remarked on this but the resurgence of the R word across the political spectrum is really wild? Like did I miss a memo about this? I expect it from some people but from others, you really can't come up with a better and more interesting way to describe people you don't like?

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

As soon as our tax refund comes in I’m heading over to the farrier to have my hooves done

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

got some decent sleep for the first time in a week* and now all this energy is being wasted on goddamn anxiety because everything is shit *54 years

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If you are tired you should probably drink a large glass of water if you want to add frequent urination to your list of problems.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments