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Nothing proclaims Late Stage Capitalism quite like a drop-shipped protest tee shirt.

It's just one of those days when you don't wanna wake up. Everything is fucked, everybody sucks.

This article is paywalled, but yes, SCC has public health care, and yes, it was always this good. www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/11/s...

Dad: What about that time machine you said you found? me: I haven't said that yet!

MS: "Our verification text didn't reach you in time, now you have to reset your password." me: why don't you just take a comfy seat downwind of a tire fire.

Another delicious horror story prompt: www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

If it were just possible to like, maybe, STAY asleep, that would just rock so hard.

Step 1: Fire everyone b/c you've replaced them with AI. step 2: Everything goes directly to shit b/c AI runs it. step 3: Shit spiral continues downward b/c your recruiter is an AI hiring applicants that don't exist.

All known Deep Sea Muppet species! Can we identify them all? #muppets #marinelife #art

Mozilla: we don't need AI in Firefox. What we need are more add-ons & extensions for blocking & fucking over AI.

Mmkay, so if we're having a mass exodus of major CA cities, why do housing costs only ever go up? I guarantee you, fash media, it's not the state hiking up rent/house prices.

When Michael Whelan finally posts a portrait of his ttrpg character, I will weep tears of joy at his social perfection

Learned last night that the manager I frustrated The Most during my training now looks forward to working shifts with me. ✨

I have seen a Rivian in the wild: it looks like Cadillac saw the cybertruck & went "No, that should be a SUV." It also demonstrated that the largest demographic for electric vehicles today is still self-centered assholes.

Today I wrote a short story 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘵

"Look, all you need to do to get your laptop out of that reboot loop is some shit you just can't do because it's stuck in a reboot loop. Easy, right? Was this article helpful?"

Word of the day is "gnostistic," which sounds to me like a deep trance state condition

Learning that Dad isn't reflexively union-hostile was a refreshing way to start the day.

Ending your review column with "no excuses; what are you waiting for" just perfecly invalidates everything said before it.

In other news, James Comey ruins it for everyone. 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. Go back to your corner & don't fucking come out this time.

The other reason Ura Baito needs an anime is because it's also a top-rate buddy comedy for women.

By "communes must make a comeback," I mean: if we can't form group living situations to mutually ease the economic strain of what we all know is coming, many many more people will die. Capitalism isolates us to extract all it can, & this parasite load will kill.

This is Daphnis, one of Saturn's moons. This image shows its unusual gravitational effect on Saturn's rings

Random croupier in the cafeteria yesterday: "We're just talking craps."

If you're fash, & want to erase the works of women & minorities, you only need to join the gov't & start firing people & deleting everything. If you're leftist & want to erase the works of women, minorities, & all who fought for them, just say "America was always like this."

Dear Spain & Portugal, now is the moment for widespread neighborhood barbecues. You got this

Important correction: this suicide hotline is specifically for trans/NB people to speak to a trans/NB hotline worker. It’s also the Canadian number. The US number they offer is 1-877-565-8860. And it is, again, not a general suicide hotline.

At Vons today: