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Can confirm is same texture do not ask how I know

People have been so happy on social media the past few days I think it might be the first time UnitedHealthcare has ever helped with mental health

It really is quite touching.

I haven’t seen something bring people together like the UnitedHealth CEO assassination since the release of Pokémon Go.

Also this stuff too:

- Trains are still really cool
- Fireplaces
- Polish and Bavarian food
- MTG questionably evil group hug decks
- Computers smaller than a breadbox
- How It's Made style videos

Updated because I thought of some more stuff.

- Destiny is actually pretty neat now that I think about it
- Cosplay, also Destiny Cosplay
- Helldivers 2, especially the Autocannon
- Nightwish
- Powerman 5000
- The Protomen

my grandpa was Swedish, but his family was very insistent on assimilation when they came to America, so he never taught us much Swedish, but what he did teach us was “just add the word fart to everything. Entrance is infart, exit is outfart, there now you know Swedish”

if you went to a 10am screening of Wicked you missed an entire coup

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

Scientists found the cure for fascism. Scientist holding a bat.

Base(d)ball.

Massive away win for the little fella.

"My mommie protects me because she loves me."

Pillars of creation by JWST but with googly eyes

New #JWST image just dropped 🔭🐡🧪

Oh this is very good 🔭

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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An Advent Calendar except every day you get to punch a different Nazi

A good outline of the guardrails we have to throw sand in the gears of what a new Trump admin may attempt. (IMO the piece puts too much faith in institutions & systems that keep failing us & got us to this place. But they’re all we’ve got, so we must push for them, full-force.)

Paywall-free link:

Just fluoridated another conservative child by blowdart. I can do this all 4 years

Spice the cat napping, with her paw extended out of the cat bed.

Spice wishes to share the good news about The Paw

Chicken crispers

Margarita

So @kaylapekkala.bsky.social and I have this thing we do we call the Tour de Mediocre where we go to every fast-casual chain we can. Today's entry: Chili's

"You've played for 1965 hours, would you like to recommend this game?"

"I'll just check this game out real quick, not let it take up too much time so I can still do other stuff..."

I think I have it. Bluesky feels like a huge personal party, where you can wander around, meeting great people, making friends, at your own pace. If people are freaks, you can have security escort them out. It's FUN and FOOLISH and SMART. I think this is what social media is supposed to be. SOCIAL

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015

Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?

I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.

"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism Jewish anarchists weigh-in on how people can organize and act in the changing terrain. For a zine PDF, go here. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it. ...

"As diasporic rebels...teachings compel us to lean on the community of others to live lives worth living, whether we are mourning or celebrating, or grappling time and again with what liberation should and could look like." itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

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