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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 4 hours ago • 122 comments

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 112 comments

A Sandhill Crane coming in hot to land on the nature trail and trumpet at other Sandhill Cranes (looked like a territory dispute.)

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

TO: <ALL STAFF> Please respond to this email confirming that I am cool and funny. Failure to do so will be taken as confirmation of the same.

submitted 7 hours ago • 51 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1422 comments

If the GOP wants to eliminate the Civil Rights Act of 1964, introduce a bill, put it up to a vote. Campaign on it. Say it, cowards. Stop hiding behind the illegal DOGE “DEI” chainsawing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Me (pretty sure i'm right): Well I could be wrong here but Guy I'm arguing with (never been right in his life): Listen up and maybe you'll learn something you idiot child,

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

Celebrating my 60th birthday with a half-price workout at the gym (seniors' discount).

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

literally stop volunteering to be incubators for this fucking deadbeat

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

[old blues man voice] 🎵 ohhhhhh i'm woke lord ohhhh lord i'm woke, ohhhhhh 🎵

submitted 170 days ago • 6 comments

A female Belted Kingfisher — females have the rusty belt while the males do not — watching the river. After a bit she flew further down to look for a better fishing spot.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 997 comments

become ungovernable

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 4 days ago • 787 comments

A Black-capped Chickadee waits for sunflower seeds and peanuts to be offered. For these birds, starting in the Fall, the part of the brain that is responsible for spatial memory gets bigger in order to help Chickadees remember where all those sunflower seeds and peanuts are stored.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

not getting on another plane unless they bring DEI all the way back. the captain has to open with a land AND air acknowledgement. every attendant gets an ASL interpreter. allowable emotional support animals now includes Blåhaj

submitted 5 days ago • 31 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 4 days ago • 1217 comments

AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

submitted 4 days ago • 270 comments

granting the premise of this, how would you know what questions to ask?

submitted 5 days ago • 410 comments

going on-record like this is pretty brave imo www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT4u...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

I voted for Trump because he said he would make planes fall out of the sky every day but I never thought he'd actually do it

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon is leaving the falconer on read; The falcon didn't sign up for this shit; She has been doomscrolling, Hearing a lot about a blood-dimmed tide, And mere anarchy loosed upon the world "Not my problem," says the falcon.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

(explaining bugs bunny to a girl) ok the thing you gotta know about this guy is hes basically never serious. He is always clowning on others

submitted 6 days ago • 141 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

Eric Adams’ law-breaking and shady alliance with Trump have destroyed his mayoral legacy. by Rudy Giuliani

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

We need to push back really hard against this rapidly coalescing “backlash” narrative that places the agency solely with traditionally marginalized and "activist" groups who are therefore ultimately at fault for causing a supposedly inevitable reaction, a predictable, near-automatic response.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

This is horseshit. If you fear protests will lead to martial law then you already live under martial law — and you’re the one who declared it. Plus, it won’t lead to a declaration of martial law and the fear misconstrues the nature of the threats we face.

submitted 6 days ago • 187 comments

Our military will soon be asked to make a very stark choice. There will be mass unrest in this country as these disastrous changes take effect. Trump will invoke the insurrection act at some point. You will be ordered to inflict violence on your fellow citizens. Think through this before it happens.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

Solo Surf scoter “plowing” through the foam in rough ocean. 🪶

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Happy v-day. “I love” any clip of (Arkansas native) Al Green, especially when he plays guitar. youtu.be/ieCX2-zW9Pg?...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

When I ride my cargo ebike with my kids on, most drivers are safe and kind around us. When I ride on my own, drivers aren’t as safe. While I’m grateful they value the my kids’ lives, I wonder why my life is treated as more disposable

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments