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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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The worst part about having an OC is knowing no one is gonna care about your specifically curated playlist of songs for them as much as you are

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Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

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Surely I'm not the only one getting this vibe from the Switch 2's joycons:

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Happy birthday, Joan Baez. The legendary singer-songwriter turns 84 years old today. Photo by Selin Alemdar / Redferns

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Kon Satoshi only directed four films and one TV show in his all-too-short, nine-year directorial career. While most are thrilling, mind-bending psychological masterpieces, one happens to be among the best, most crowd pleasing Christmas films ever. Learn more, in our video below.

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Everyone’s mad that Trump has appointed almost all billionaires but you have to understand that billionaires are a good choice because they are immune to the temptations created by things like empathy or recognizing other people as autonomous human beings rather than objects

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Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. 911 Telecommunicator: WHERE IS THE CUP NOW

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Every time I’m cooking with corn starch.

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It says a lot about our imagining of the past that in the video game Oregon Trail, you can die of cholera or typhoid or dysentery but not of consumption, even though consumption was the most common cause of death in 19th century America, especially among westward travelers. In this essay I will

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I’ve never heard any of her music but I kind of like Sabrina Carpenter because in every photo of her I’ve seen she looks like she might be about to pull out a knife and start stabbing and stabbing

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BUT THE CARMEN SANDIEGO INTERACTIVE SPECIL HAS THE CAST SING THE ORIGINAL ROCKAPELLA SONG AS AN EASTER EGG :(

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Vampires kill people and raise them back from the dead (as more vampires), and are therefore Necromancers. Werewolves have transformation sequences, and their stories usually revolve around self-discovery and are therefore Magical Girls. In this essay, I will...

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RIP Rick, you would have loved Bluesky. 💔

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We are once again offering "candy and/or a potato" this Halloween, and I'm VERY pleased to report that one mom just asked her kid, "Is this the potato house you were looking for?!"

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John Marston watches Neon Genesis Evangelion in a movie theater, circa 1911

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Really loving the "Let the past die, kill it you have to" energy coming with the latest round of artists moving from Twitter to Bluesky.

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This app is the definition of Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing

submitted 132 days ago • 155 comments

I hate when I put something off for ages and it looms over me until it takes on this horrible ultra-menacing quality for weeks and then when I finally do finally get it together it takes like fifteen minutes and is super easy

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disney movies don't have traditional villains any more which is fine but does mean that nobody sings a really sexy song about murdering people now

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I wish being drinking enough water didn't mean I had to pee once every twenty minutes for the next three hours. it just doesn't seem like something I should be punished for

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PSA: Did you know you can support your favorite writer without buying their book? Get it from the library! We still get paid - and often the library will get the book if you request it, which you can usually do on their website. Spread the word!

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This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

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