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Midwestern nerd, weird animal person, dad, things of that nature. he/him
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submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

I visited a relative recovering from surgery in a rehab facility today. The common area bookshelves were full of stuff like books by James O’Keefe and “The Real Anita Hill”, a 1993 hit piece later disavowed by its author as fabricated. I need to get these poor people some Animorphs or something.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

I’d feel bad for the people of Alabama, but if this clown were to become solely their problem rather than all of ours I would definitely owe them a cookie bouquet or something. There’s only one football coach I can think of that I’d consider voting for, and he’s fictional.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The website Craig’s Lost Chicago has a great collection of images of former Chicago area restaurants spanning back decades, but whenever I visit it I’m surprised by the inclusion of another place I had no idea had closed. www.craigslostchicago.com/lost-eaterie...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

“Chocolatey Hollow Lamb” is upfront about the two distinct kinds of disappointment it delivers. Perhaps three if you were hoping for a bunny.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I was at Menard’s to get some fasteners and I remembered we needed tortillas, but I couldn’t bring myself to ask staff if they had them, because it’s a hardware store and it feels like a truly stupid question, but they have milk, eggs, and frozen pizzas, so is it really?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I heard an ad for a dog toy subscription box last week which said “…and join by April 20th to get this month’s special 4/20 themed box… heh heh you know what we’re talking about” and I immediately pictured a box full of Hitler themed dog toys.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Oh my god

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Besides being a nice explanation of why preferential or ranked choice voting is better than the First Past the Post style elections we have in the US, I appreciate that the artist drew the explainer koala’s hands/forepaws with the weird ass double thumb configuration actual koalas have.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“Look,” I explain to the dog that is absentmindedly smelling things and appears to have forgotten why we’re both standing out in the rain. “I can go back in and change out of my wet clothes, but you’re wearing what you’re going to be wearing all day.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I’m disappointed to learn they no longer use a ceremonial silver hammer to verify the death of a pope. The Vatican chamberlain would strike the pope three times on the forehead with a special hammer while calling out his baptismal name. If he wasn’t dead, he would presumably say “Ow” or something.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I was in the old neighborhood over the weekend, and the former Blockbuster Video is now an urgent care clinic with a sign depicting a cartoon koala wearing a white coat and a stethoscope, because they provide “koality care”. Nature is healing, I guess.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Willy Wonka's in-house counsel and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (via @joepatrice.bsky.social) abovethelaw.com/2025/04/will...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 6 days ago • 819 comments

Joke’s on him, without my ADHD meds I can’t labor for shit.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Looking forward to the confirmation of Secretary Upturned Mop With a Bucket For a Head.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, so apparently Pope Francis did meet with JD Vance before he died. The last I’d heard previously was that the Pope had said “nah, I’m good” and sent a subordinate to explain compassion to Vance, which sounded like a good place to leave things.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

submitted 6 days ago • 636 comments

Happy Easter

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

I want to get all my New Testament recaps from Paul F Tompkins from now on.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

You can get Ripple for kids at Woodman’s Markets, insert Wisconsin joke here. Personally I was more of a Boone’s Farm kid.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Today I learned that the Sweetgreen storefronts I’ve been seeing around are not, in fact, weed dispensaries.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"I guess it really is a Big Tent" I yell over the sounds of breaking glass caused by David Brooks throwing a metal trash can through the window of a Starbucks to distract the police while Bill Kristol spray paints NO SYSTEM BUT THE ECOSYSTEM on a cop car

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

I don’t doubt that some of these are getting vandalized or burned as protest, but I feel like there could be an alternate explanation for why unsold Teslas might be getting set on fire…

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment