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STEM is so cool. Science is amazing. Kids should develop curiosity about how the universe works and proficiency in uncovering its secrets, so that they can most effectively optimize clickthrough rates on banner ads at the bottom of VC-funded website-apps.

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Color photo of a bright orange Dutch oven filled to the brim with posole in a red chile broth next to a gray steel rectangular pan of blue cornbread topped with melted cheddar cheese and toasted piñon, on a shiny black induction cooktop with a deep blue tile backsplash and thin strip of polydeformed migmatitic biotite gneiss.

Boxing Day morning in New Mexico: posole with pork belly in a red chile broth inducting away on the cooktop and a pan of green chile cheddar blue cornbread topped with toasted piñon fresh out of the oven, waiting for guests to arrive.

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A photo of Ashanti Downey in her graduation gown, holding a bear

20-year-old Ashanti Downey was walking to a Dollar Tree in Sanford, North Carolina, when someone came behind her, poured a flammable liquid on her, and set her on fire

Her family is asking for help with medical expenses www.wral.com/news/local/h...

Of course!! The same thing happens to me so wanted to make sure! 🩷🫶

The movie poster for “Carol” with Miss Piggy in place of Cate Blanchett. It’s a Muppet Carol now.

Today in “memes I wish I’d made but only spotted”

just sent a bit lmk if you got it!

This Was the Year of Elevated Trash There’s no shame in being a little trashy. Three of the year’s best movies are silly, soapy, or vulgar, but with a prestige sheen.

For @vulture.com, I wrote about 2024 as the year of elevated trash: movies that feel like guilty pleasures but with a prestige sheen.

Things Worth Living For
• Losing yourself in a great film, book or album
• Discovering a great band or musical artist
• Experiencing live music
• Intentionally making a friend laugh
• Petting a friendly animal
• Having a drink with a friend
• Eating an amazing sandwich
• Creating a piece of art

instead of posting something embarrassing on Al Gore's internet you can just text a trusted friend who is offline, ensuring the thought is out of your head but your dignity is maintained

A cast iron pan on a cooktop in front of blue tiles.

The oil shimmers in grandma Irma’s cast iron pan. It’s latke time, motherfuckers.

“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it

It's Christmas. Tomorrow there will be mass discounts on Christmas goods at toy stores, and other retailers like Walmart. Be nice to retail staff and respect picket lines at Starbucks and Amazon. People will also post listings for brand-new, unwanted gifts on Facebook Marketplace.

The Chinese restaurant we ate at, which serves exclusively halal food and has a huge Muslim customer base, was blasting the entirety of Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n Sweet in honor of Christmas, and, honestly, this wild mix of influences is the main thing I love about this stupid country.

Botched pt. 1 What does it mean to be botched?

A really fascinating delve into the world of 'botched' plastic surgery and what it means to be 'botched' as an identity.

We Suspended Our Disbelief to Watch 'Babygirl'—Then Spent 45 Minutes Talking About It Jezebel writers Kylie Cheung, Audra Heinrichs, and Kady Ruth Ashcraft debriefed on the movie's hottest and cringest moments, and debated the biggest Would U of all: Would you take your family to see t...

Happy Babygirl Day❤️ @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

Instagram ad for T-shirt that reads I DON'T MIND STEALING BREAD in a Wonder Bread design style

I am the primary demographic for grunge novelty shirt ads.

"The demolition crew didn’t give the couple time to save their belongings, so mixed in with the broken pieces of concrete and rebar was most of everything they owned: Clothes, photo albums, birth certificates. 'Forget the furniture,' said Abu Diab, closing his eyes. 'They destroyed our history.'"

Honey, We Shrunk the Franchises Designed to roll up new audience members into a bigger cultural wave, the prequels, spinoffs, and extended universes have instead gotten small.

Designed to roll up new audience members into a bigger cultural wave, the prequels, spinoffs, and extended universes have instead gotten small.

Welcome to the Shoppy Shop Why does every store suddenly look the same?

The shoppy shop in Santa Fe is selling raw milk 🫠 www.grubstreet.com/2023/01/why-...

This holiday season is sponsored by butter and repressed trauma.

Alice Munro’s Passive Voice The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

Trying to imagine the loneliness of working at a bookstore named for your mom after she went back to your abuser—and then becoming her assistant, all while your sister works on her biography that won’t mention your abuse.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

You're looking at a view of a sunrise over some mountainy bits that promises a nice day. In the foreground there's a purple and white cup full of tea that I will be chugging in the next few minutes. It's sitting on a rough wooden table set in a hilly garden that knows not a flat surface (even the one the table is on.) beyond that there's a ton of green, the rooves of some houses and a faintly yellow and pink sunrise. The air smells green, like alive first thing in the morning green that tells you weeds are growing at least a foot a minute, and every single bird in my street is roaring the song of its people, including a Tui that is somewhere in the peppercorn tree above me. This is not in the picture because it's a contrary bird who thwarts me at every chance it gets.

It turns out the birds like waking people up early on Christmas morning too. Epic sunrise today.

Since we're in the future here in New Zealand, I gotta tell you, Christmas morning's looking pretty nice. (1)

Reupping this one in case you’re trying to busy yourself avoiding family

Work worker holding a cabbage he just harvested

Jose is harvesting cabbages near Castroville CA. When you buy cabbage at the supermarket remember the hard work that farm workers do to plant and harvest the crop so consumers get to enjoy shredded cabbage in their pozole and other dishes. #WeFeedYou
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You can give your loved one (or yourself) the gift of burn-it-all-down matches in 2025!

In the same boat! Before you know it they all hit at once and the cc company will be like hey you owe us a small fortune

The fallout of this will do irreparable damage to my SEO.

assigned female at birth but identifying as a dad*

*silently standing by the door, coat on, at the time at which we were supposed to leave, to make a point to the other members of the household who are somehow still getting ready