Stephanie Lucas

I’ve said that very thing every time: no way this was designed by a woman. Period, full stop. Then I start thinking about male exam machine options, but I’m nice, so I let that go

Alexander Graham Bell? Alexander SPAM Bell, amirite?

Nothing pleases the citizenry like when the President is showing off his grand golden ballroom plans to a Saudi prince

I have this self-dialog every morning with my Fetterman coffee mug

aNyBoDy gEtTiNg a Succession Finale Flashback

If H‑1Bs “took jobs,” you’d expect lower wages for U.S. grads. The best available studies show the opposite: 1990–2010 H‑1B inflows raised wages of American college grads by 4.2% and non‑college by ~2%, with native employment unchanged.

Think complements, not substitutes.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation It works. Try it out, Bob Iger.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat

they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization

“The twin announcements were made as OpenAI’s plan…faces increasing pressure from…experts who worry that it has become too focused on becoming a tech industry giant while abandoning its early promises to focus on the safety of A.I. technology.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/t...

If you haven’t had time to follow the Internet crackdown and subsequent violent upheaval of govt in Nepal, here’s a recap.

In addition to being an awful story about real people’s lives, it’s also an amazing microcosm or synechdoche or something for the bigger picture.

Christopher Blair, A.K.A. Busta Troll, a man who has made a career out of trolling conservatives on Facebook by tricking them into liking and sharing fake content (that often got picked up and repeated by spam networks, influencers, etc.), just posted this.

The brakes are completely off at Meta...

(My favorite essay besides “Decorative Gourd Season” is “The Implausibility Of The Death Star Compactor.”)

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

If you haven’t heard of McSweeney’s, look up their very funny essays like “Decorative Gourd Season.” But more importantly, read their updated list of Atrocity History about our current president.

www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest...

So, we want to return to cabin fire catastrophes is that it

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

Didn’t CA and other Northwest states start this during Covid? They need to kick that back into gear

That’s kinda basically all Americans right

Henry Gibson was brilliant casting

A ‘MAHA Box’ Might Be Coming to Your Doorstep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to have a plan to ship fresh food directly to Americans. Well, sort of a plan.

Periodic reminder that when Michelle Obama advocated for fresh fruits and veggies over junk food she was pilloried by the right. It’s such a mystery why.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Just imagine if any of us were to join a meeting wearing a ball cap embroidered with “[my name] was right about everything!”

I feel like we might be met with something other than deference

At least eggs are cheaper amirite

Nobody ever seems to question why the Beast’s family home had jail cells built in it

This story is wild, but also this job title is definitely from a Wes Anderson screenplay

Not sure if it’s still a thing but I was furious when SiriusXM gave her a talk show

Yeah, get out of here with yer boring demands for actionable details

Past time for the corporations who the daily abductees work for to begin speaking up on behalf of their workers, gig or otherwise

Guy turned in a masterwork in “Spotlight,” but all anyone apparently remembers him for are the slapstick comedies

It is increasingly clear that the majority of federal law enforcement officers do little or no real work, hence having the time and resources to do what they've been doing under Trump.

Whole agencies need to be zeroed out, with employees sued to pay back salaries and benefits wrongly obtained.

Can we just go back to the time when the most existential question was whether Kermit and Miss Piggy would get married