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Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness.

I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Japanese people being silly.

Oh my

Yep. And those popcornmeter ratings _include_ all the reviewbombing by haters.

Okay so a small regional art museum near where I live landed the most stunning traveling show of Alphonse Mucha art and art nouveau stuff on general that I've ever seen. These are inclusive of Michael sketches and some of the EIGHT FOOT TALL theatre ad prints he did.

Just, wow. 😳

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The freedom to *checks notes* shit yourself to death

I'm glad I still get to write a convenient and civilized paper check for rent, instead of buying money orders every month like most folks around here. Find a store where the MO printer isn't broken, convince your bank to let you make a large purchase, pay the fee, fill out six separate forms...

Also gender is a fucking scam. You should be able to present how you want to present and do the activities you want to do.

High femme AMAB who likes carpentry? Go off! Super masc AMAB who also enjoys wearing makeup? Have a blast! Let people enjoy their fucking lives!

A lot of people think of moderators as eldritch entities that are bound to the exact words of the spell and if you don't speak the exact words, you cannot be moderated! Whereas in reality it's a bunch of very tired and overworked people going "are you fucking kidding me with this shit"

In my experience many youngish people are stunned that there may have been a big (or several big) books delivered to your home which listed your name, address and phone number.

I see what you did there.

THANK YOU. As soon as I read that stupid tweet, I knew I'd seen the idea long ago, as a little kid reading my dad's SF collection. But I never in a million years would've remembered the title or author. (Still remember the ending, though. Good story.)

Congrats to him! That's not an easy thing to achieve at all, from what I hear.

STAR TREK IS REAL

I still remember going to the travel doc for malaria pills.

DR: This pill causes occasional psychotic breaks, and this one causes bright colorful dreams.
ME: I’ll take the happy dreams…? Why would anyone take the first one?
DR: Oh, insurance doesn’t cover the other one.

critfailmemes on threads (!) "Okay so to keep the poor from rioting you give them bread and circuses" "Got it. However some of them were sneaking into the circus on their friend's login so we stopped that" "No you... you gotta give them the circuses" "We're ending the free bread program, too much of it was going to the poor"

Scarleteen has been doing sex ed for ALL since 1998 and is there with sex ed for ALL, to the tune of some five million visitors a month. The people who do this work deserve health care. I am so proud to support their work, and know many of you ALSO believe in sex ed for all, SO now's your moment.

“We are disheartened to learn that Lord Killdude has broke his promise and has been shoving people in the volcano. If the murdergooner party is as moral as it once was, then they will publicly disavow Lord Killdude’s actions and work with us towards a bipartisan solution to the volcano problem”

Democrats there, hearing that Donald Trump has hit a historic peak of being hated by the nation, and feeling a twinge of competitive instinct for the first time in years. "Hey," they wailed. "We can suck too."

Wait, is THAT why I have to stop myself multiple times a day from seething in rage at the cruelty of humanity instead of getting work done?

It feels like at least once a month I find out yet another thing that's not a unique defect in myself but a trait other ADHDers struggle with.

We should send in a journalist! (I propose Thiessen from the NYT. Worst case, we end up with a piece claiming that 111K votes for Mamdani need to be thrown out since the spiders did not pay property taxes. Best case, Shelob is in there.)

(Yes, I know where the cave is. Wouldn't matter.)

we did it, we found spiders georg’s cave

This is one of the reasons as a humanist who does not believe in the supernatural, I am still not anti-theist. Everybody needs different frameworks to deal with the curse of consciousness and motivate right action, if it gets you over here on Team Decency, we can argue about the terms as we go.

Juicero pelican mouth good place for baby

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That surprises me, because The Good Place was very funny indeed as well as thought-provoking. It's a brilliant show. And yes, there's thematic overlap with the Hellaverse.

It's silly to disparage either one by comparing it negatively to the other.

Watch to the end

James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97 Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks

Excuse me, @theguardian.com, I'd like to report an error in your headline; this should read "James D Watson, who co-discovered Rosalind Franklin's notebook showing her discovery of DNA's twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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