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Cancer: Scientists have discovered a link between depression and being you.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

check out this 🔥 essay from 1973 which already makes all of the same points we are making about how hollow and undesirable a car-dependent society is.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

The Trump administration plans to reduce the USAID workforce from over 10,000 to around 290 positions. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s staffers are now at FEMA, accessing information on its grant programs.

submitted 28 days ago • 166 comments

NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”

submitted 28 days ago • 189 comments

I’m back on lithium and I can tell it’s starting to work because now I have the bandwidth to be angry about everything going on instead of crying all the time. Yay, progress.

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"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

submitted 40 days ago • 294 comments

I agree no one will know how to read or write in 20 years but unclear why millennials think that because of this they'll rule as philosopher kings. What about the trajectory of the world makes you think these skills will be valued. At best you'll have a Gen Alpha boss who keeps you as an amusing pet

submitted 74 days ago • 79 comments

Schoolkids traumatized by lockdown drills and those who survived actual school shootings were then urged to "tough it out, school shootings are just a thing that happens."

submitted 80 days ago • 75 comments

Carolers: 🎵jingle bells🎵 Batman: i love Christmastime Carolers: 🎵 batman smells🎵 Batman: what the heck

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments

my family crest is a mackerel shoved in a landlords mailbox

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

I’m only a failure by human standards. if I was a children’s book badger in an apron I’d be like “whoa this house is massive, and I own so many cheeses and jams.”

submitted 91 days ago • 25 comments

they used to give us bread and circuses to stop us revolting, but now the circuses cost $20/month and the bread is full of chemicals.

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

CHESTER BENNINGTON (chorus) I'm Elmo's 𝗗𝗔𝗗 I'm tall and 𝗥𝗘𝗗 MIKE SHINODA (quietly) Tall and red all the time still I can't believe the son is mine

submitted 117 days ago • 13 comments

Indie bookselling tends to be romanticized as ‘cause work’ which is used to argue that booksellers should tolerate grossly low pay because it’s just so cool and fun to sell books! To be this wealthy and not invest in the workers who make that possible is actually not cool or fun.

submitted 88 days ago • 9 comments

For some random reason I can't put my finger on, I've been thinking a lot lately about the jurors in the Martin Shkreli trial harpers.org/archive/2017...

submitted 88 days ago • 51 comments

Elon never spends time with his kids but the day after a CEO gets shot in the streets he's father of the year hanging with his little human shield.

submitted 90 days ago • 37 comments

December is somehow both only 45 minutes long and never ends

submitted 89 days ago • 21 comments

Not the first time it's been said to me

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

You are chapping my hide like an arid wind right now bro

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

The trick to garlic bread is to make at least 5 times too much of it then eat it all hunched over in the corner of the basement like a rat

submitted 110 days ago • 437 comments

I work in vet med, so I’m very familiar with the concept of propofol as a sedative. I got a mix of that and lidocaine at my endoscopy on Tuesday, and HOLY SHIT. I was down for the count in 3 seconds. My last thought was “so this is how the animals feel,” and then I woke up 20 minutes later.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Omg.

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I got my bloodwork results back and read them before talking to the doctor, since it’s Sunday and she’s not in the office. I have some kind of infection for sure. I’ve convinced myself I’m dying.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Not to be dramatic, but I would die for Sergei Bobrovsky.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

[yelling over club music] Do you think we’re ever truly forgiven

submitted 117 days ago • 49 comments

Watching the Jets/Stars game, and wow are my Bolts ever doomed next week.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

I talked to my therapist about my post-election depression today and how helpless I feel. I was trying to dance around some stuff to test how safe the space was, and things look good. 👍🏻

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

If the world disappears and all that is left of human civilization, somehow, is this microblogging site, I would like the aliens reading this to know that a large number of us thought Cybertrucks were the dumbest shit ever

submitted 117 days ago • 243 comments

I said STOP THE CAR

submitted 244 days ago • 18 comments

I went to the dentist & she had a screen above chair w/Netflix, which suggested Bridgerton & I thought why not check it out and WHY DID NONE OF YOU WARN ME THAT THERE WOULD BE A TEN MINUTE LONG STEAMY & DETAILED SEX SCENE RIGHT AT THE TOP THAT I WOULD HAVE TO WATCH WHILE SHE DRILLED MY TEETH

submitted 244 days ago • 64 comments

Francie is here with a BLEP vs. MLEM tutorial. A blep is when the tongue is just hanging out at rest, stationary. Mlem is an action word for when the tongue is performing a licking motion - hence the name which is an onomatopoetic interpretation of the sound it makes.

submitted 244 days ago • 25 comments

idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task

submitted 246 days ago • 39 comments

George Washington was a slave owning English landlord son of a bitch and even he said “i aint no king don’t even try hanging that shit on me”

submitted 248 days ago • 5 comments

It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

submitted 257 days ago • 96 comments

Do you need something to be mad at all the time? Want an excuse to bully people and start fights? Instead of taking this desire out on social media might I suggest an alternative: It's called your local city council meeting and we actually desperately need that energy there

submitted 256 days ago • 26 comments

Honestly if money were made unnecessary to live we would almost certainly be getting more art out of people, not less, let's make money superfluous to existence and find out

submitted 256 days ago • 48 comments

I once saw an erotic MAS*H fanfic titled "Radar Love" and I will never stop thinking about it

submitted 256 days ago • 11 comments

Remember when she walked through an actual field of landmines in Angola and visited with landmine-injured patients to advocate for them being banned from use globally? Like, again, fuck the monarchy, but if these are the choices you make when you become aware the whole world is watching you...

submitted 256 days ago • 6 comments

I'm no fan of monarchy and it would be awesome if the UK one spontaneously disintegrated, but I'm pretty sure most people under 30 or so have no idea what she was called "The People's Princess" and so beloved. She SHOOK HANDS with a HIV+ man in a time when some hospital staff refused to treat them.

submitted 256 days ago • 29 comments

I was driving to work all sad as I listened to a Taylor Swift song that helped me get through my cousin’s sudden death. Then I remembered I listened to that album while I nearly passed out from the pain of getting my IUD in, and I lost it laughing. evermore is a very versatile album for me, I guess.

submitted 380 days ago • 0 comments

I’m going to try to be here more because the relentless AI ads and bad takes in the Other Place are getting exhausting. But I also don’t have much to say or many people to follow, so. 🤷🏻‍♀️

submitted 425 days ago • 0 comments

The Onion would like to congratulate its owner, G/O Media, for standing firm in its return-to-office mandate, as we can think of nowhere more conducive to best-in-class thought leadership than a fluorescent-lit room populated with the abandoned desks of terminated colleagues.

submitted 426 days ago • 48 comments