blaine

that's literally the LAST bad thing they wanna do. that's it. so just let them have this last thing, and then they'll be super happy to work with us on everything else, promise

The Onion: Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don't Care About. Photo of Chuck Schumer.

Don Draper yelling "That's what the money [ie, wedge issue] is for".

hint:

"if we just give in to the tip of the wedge they will see we're acting in good faith and will not drive the wedge in the rest of the way" -- someone who doesn't understand how wedges work

still stalled at:

🚨🏠 $390 motel due today
$225 overdue storage unit
$200 toiletries, groceries, and meds

anything and everything helps ❤️‍🩹

ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically

I swear to god if Danielle Smith manages to coast on this to people thinking she's handling things competently

ty to the friend who sent $20! half eaten by my storage plan but now at:

🚨🏠 $390 motel due tmrw to stay housed, $1290 total
📦‼️ $225 storage unit
🧼🥘 $200 toiletries (out of shampoo etc 😭), groceries, and meds needed ASAP

anything and everything helps ❤️‍🩹

ko-fi.com/katiwithoutt...

Oops I did it again shock syndrome

two sesame street stuffed animals are standing next to each other on the street . Alt: two sesame street puppets are standing next to each other on the street . Zoe dances while holding her rock Rocco in her hand, while Elmo looks mortally frustrated at the knowledge that Rocco is just a rock.

“Prove to me that my AI friend doesn’t have human consciousness!”

“Zoe…. Rocco is a ROCK!!!1!”

I've got some black Gap khakis and an open button-down corduroy shirt with bears all over it and a woven brown leather belt BUT the tshirt is mauve

nobody at all:

Zoë: *staring intently at me* "...okay so the one thing I don't like about your outfit,"

My friend August is a disabled trans man in Utah whose social security got all screwed up, maybe by DOGE maybe by the ongoing banality of evil from the before times, who knows?

Which is just bizarre considering one of the first things they teach you in precepting school is "Great question, why don't you look that up and present your answer tomorrow" which is a great way to avoid ever saying "I don't know"

I was like, why would I ask questions if I believed you had nothing to teach me, and apparently I was asking them in order to prove she had nothing to teach me by on purpose asking questions she wouldn't know the answer to

("participating too much" was "sometimes if the attending asked a yes or no question about a patient's medication therapy and I was 100% sure of the answer I would answer it" and if my preceptor didn't like that she was more than welcome to say something at any point!)

once I got a rotation evaluation that I seemed bored and disinterested and clearly believed my preceptor had nothing to teach me, and ALSO that I asked my preceptor too many detailed questions and was participating in rounds too much

toxic masculinity implies the existence of oops I did it again masculinity

me, enjoying the effects of HRT: "haha, yeah! fuck yeah!"

me trying to balance a laundry basket on my hips: "well this fucking sucks. what the fuck."

AI research:

Researcher: Claude, please eat ten hamburgers.

Claude: Done! I have eaten ten hamburgers. The first two were delicious, but after that I began to experience bloating and the meat sweats.

Headline: Anthropic Says Claude has "A Fully Developed Digestive System"

When men's workload is automated, it's genius; when women's workload is automated it's a character flaw and morally questionable.

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Shout out to everyone who said we already survived Trump's first term, how bad could a second one be?

Pumpkin Spice Lipitor

It's amazing people will claim "Canada and the USA have the same culture" and then on something as fundamental as "do you trust your fellow citizens to be good" we are further apart than any other two countries

HELP his lil hands too short for his sleeves 🥹🥹🥹 A TINY FIGHTY ANGEL

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

The thing is that I distinctly remember opponents of gay marriage crying and kicking their heels and claiming to be oppressed by the mean censorious gays all the time.