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Credit to Tara and Johnny, who do a lot less of this

Watching curling and I feel like Estonia would dominate if this was played online

The Brutalists' most vicious rivals just called them Concretins

The Brutalists' most vicious rivals just called them Concretins

The operative word in the right's insistence that "facts don't care about your feelings" was always "your"

This story was mentioned in the NY Times exactly twice through all of the 20th century; both times obliquely:
The articles covered a dispute between the NAACP and the IWO over funds raised for the family

RIP to the inventor of the Negroni

It ate at him, the guilt. It ate at him like a dog eats a sausage

Pigeons can't be trusted in positions of political influence because they might try to start a coo

You know you're watching a program of the highest quality when you hear the phrase, "Ya got that darn-tootin' right, Puppet Andrew Jackson!"

inventing a drink called The Susan Collins. to make it, you say "I'm very concerned about this" and then you serve gin and bleach to an 11th grader

Pigeons can't be trusted in positions of political influence because they might try to start a coo

Ever tried boiled pasta? Not as crunchy but still good

Optimist: cup is half full

Pessimist: cup is half empty

Excel: cup is January second

"I'm not here to make friends"
—Quaker woman who's on the pill climbing into bed with her husband

My favorite part of a date is the sweet, seedy flesh. Wait, sorry, that's my favorite part of a fig, I always get figs and dates mixed up.

90 years ago, when my grandmother was 5, her father was taken away and imprisoned. (He was actually shot, but she didn’t know that.) It was a pointless act of cruelty by a totalitarian regime trying to meet a quota, and I’m sure none of the people involved gave it a second thought past the next day.

QTing to remove context

A giant neck tattoo that says “thinky part” with an arrow pointing upward.

Maybe it’s akin to the old engineer-on-a-guillotine joke (“I see your problem”): some people are just so committed to the pursuit of their own cleverness to the exclusion of everything else.
“Your inability to see it as anything but open-and-shut only increases my interest in proving you wrong”

What can we do?
To some extent, nothing. What has been done has been done.
But also, everything. I have deep respect for the way the local community is organizing to minimize the impacts of this hideousness.
May this terror end soon.

This is what I think about when I see the photo of that poor 5-year-old in Minnesota.
This bit of thoughtless cruelty—a bunch of dudes following orders so they can cash their recruitment bonus—is going to have ripple effects across multiple generations, across decades.

For the rest of her life, my grandma’s relationships with men were … complicated. I have always imagine being torn away like that had something to do with it.

The emotional reverberations had a huge impact on my mother, a slightly lesser impact on me; probably even affected how I raise my kids.

90 years ago, when my grandmother was 5, her father was taken away and imprisoned. (He was actually shot, but she didn’t know that.) It was a pointless act of cruelty by a totalitarian regime trying to meet a quota, and I’m sure none of the people involved gave it a second thought past the next day.

We don't need a liberal version of Trump.
We don't need a liberal version of Musk.
We don't need a liberal version of
Rogan.

If your political instincts aren't any better than "the shittiest people alive, but with a different color tie", go jump in a lake.

My friends describe me as way too yabba-dabba and not nearly enough doo

"This news is so terrible"
"And the portions are too small!"

Oh no; that is devastating. Thinking of you and your family, and sorry that you are going through this