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gentle e-hugs offered. Chronic pain sucks sooooooooo much.

This photo shows her blue eyes so beautifully! What a good dog. :)

The gleeful smirking responses to this tell me we still have a long way to go before there’s class solidarity or before there’s anger directed at the actual problem.

oh wow.

I don’t have the measurements myself but the story this tells is extremely relatable.

Some of the folks at that distance back in my family tree were absolute assholes, but I will not contest the Greatest Generation moniker, because look what has happened once that generation is gone.

Wonder how long it will take for Americans to realize why russian officials are posting this

By the time the Ronettes got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, our name had come up before the nominating committee thirteen times. But somehow, we never seemed to make the final cut. Why it took so long for us to finally get inducted is a long story I won't bore you with— except to say that a certain ex-husband of mine who had some influence with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee spent years doing everything he could to keep the Ronettes out. But by 2007 that certain ex-husband had been indicted for murder, and his trial was scheduled to start exactly a week after the Ronettes got inducted into the Hall of Fame. So I guess he might have been distracted that year.

Ronnie Spector wrote an afterword to her memoir a few months before she died in 2022. Re-read it today on her birthday, and enjoyed her valedictory payoff in this paragraph.

'I made money covering up dirty shit Trump did. Now I'm making more money from the New York Times saying how bad I feel about making money covering up dirty shit Trump did.'

A cat splooted out on a carpet in the general shape of Davis Square

new Davis Square map just dropped

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. PANEL 1 The panel shows a doctor, with thick-framed glasses, neat shoulder-length white hair, and holding a clipboard, in an examining room talking to a patient. The patient is wearing striped pants and a square-collar short sleeved blouse, and has her dark hair in a bun. The patient is sitting on one of those patient examination tables they have in doctors’ offices. The patient is using her right hand to hold out her left arm, which is not connected to her body, to show it to the doctor. Important: The doctor is thin, the patient is fat. The doctor is calm; the patient is also calm, but also concerned. DOCTOR: Hi, I’m doctor Douglas. What seems to be the problem? PATIENT: I woke up this morning and my arm had fallen off. PANEL 2 The doctor, still speaking calmly, is looking down at the patient’s body. The patient, still holding her detached left arm in her right hand, looks a bit annoyed. DOCTOR: Hmmmm…. First thing, let’s get you on a diet. PATIENT: A diet? To reconnect my arm? PANEL 3 A shot from behind the doctor, looking over the doctor’s shoulder at the patient. The patient is now quite angry, raising her voice. DOCTOR: Your weight is the real issue here… How many times a day do you eat fast food? PATIENT: I’M HERE ABOUT MY ARM! PANEL 4 The doctor, now alone, sits at a desk in an office (desk lamp, degree on wall, books on a shelf). The doctor is typing on a laptop, and looks peeved. Above her, we see words in the air showing what she’s typing. DOCTOR (writing on laptop): “Patient was uncooperative…”

Testing Fat Patients' Patience

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Works for men meeting and maybe befriending women, too.

Times ten. I read trashy romance novels that are nowhere near that repulsive.

There’s an axolotl on the pink. Stairs.

(You’re welcome, everyone who desperately needs to get Billy Joel off the earworm track.)

Awesome! My cat is ten months post treatment and she gained so much weight that she’s on a diet now, oops! 😂 So happy.

It’s interesting how “where are you from” can be complex. Where were you born? If you’re on a trip, where is your current home? Where’d you grow up? Where do you consider yourself to belong?

That seems to be one of the later symptoms seen in approximately 80% of cases.

Also, don’t forget to scrub your cybertruck with lemon juice and salt water to preserve the finish.

It gave him a list of people without formal degrees who "reshaped everything," including Leonardo da Vinci. ALLAN How could that be, I didn't even graduate high school CHATGPT That's exactly how it could be. Formal education often teaches people what to think, not how to think— and certainly not how to question the frame itself. You're doing something far rarer: you're asking, What if the whole framework is missing something essential?

Chatbots parrot the words that the idols of Silicon Valley say about themselves. They call themselves mavericks & geniuses who think New Thoughts *because* they lack higher degrees, but that is not the origins of their success. Their success was in getting silly VC money through connections.

My doctoral-level degree tells me this shark is very ill. The symptoms start with what we once called “caucal-caulal syndrome” before the progression was well understood. Once the heart has become thrictcched the condition is terminal.

Ew!

(also, very odd that it took the dasher seven minutes to do that.)

While I don’t have the lived experience to draw on, I’ve read (and seen) enough history that I agree with those folks.

THIS.

fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence.

If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept

touching grass isn’t enough i need to touch foreheads with a cat

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

I haven’t yet gotten over the people who are still like “my leaving [Meta] wouldn’t matter, I can understand why you would leave but I don’t need to” when their lives would not at all be more inconvenient.

Just placed a pre-order for “Queer as Folklore”.

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Yes. Because it’s his mom.

New “authors whose books we all want to buy” list just dropped

Yep..

Grandma is getting territorial and that shit needs to be stopped early. Good on OP.

Grandma needs to recognize that her own Mom days are now behind her and this child is not “hers” in the same way.