Kathleen by day

I did JROTC in high school, and you can get 14-year-olds to march more in sync than this with an off-color marching song and an hour’s practice. This is malicious compliance.

Are you a ‘super hearer’? Why some women can hear electricity, ticking clocks and their neighbours chatting from four doors down

Cute how they keep inventing new names to help women not realise they’re autistic

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

this was one of the more bizarre arguments during COVID, where people were claiming it was "mostly old people" dying

I have friends who say that your 30s are your 20s done smart, and your 40s are your 30s with resources.

In my house, this is called Mama X’s Rule of Relationship Reciprocality because of the time Mama X unsuccessfully advised her daughter against marrying a man who left his wife for her, and 7 years later Daughter X’s young son described being left to stay in the car while daddy visits his girlfriend

The hobbies are pretty likely to be, especially if you pick something rustic. And they are one of the best ways of finding more friends of all ages. So, solid advice.

You know you completely dote on a toddler when you learn to play Baby Shark on the fisher-price xylophone

American women couldn't get a mortgage, a bank account, or a business loan in their own name until 1974.
Single + married women had no right to birth control until 1971.
Entire generations of women were lost because they didn't have the legal right to control their own money or their own body.

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

The “don’t worry he can’t do that” to “don’t worry he’ll never do that” to “nobody thought he would do that” to “don’t worry here’s why doing that is no big deal” pipeline.

California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."

Live your life in such a way someone can't spend 24+ hours cogently explaining why you suck.

gleefreshing

every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain

Not being allowed to hand water to people in line to vote no matter who they are voting for, while being allowed to hand people million dollar checks to get their vote, is the most American thing ever.

Did you catch Gavin Newsom's interview with the Grand Moff Tarkin? Lots of common ground on droid rights.

American exceptionalism is the bill of goods they sold you so that you wouldn't realize that other countries give workers rights, reasonable minimum wages, and health care that isn't job dependent.

Please listen and share—this is a very serious situation. This is extremely alarming! The Trump administration, across two agencies, is considering bringing criminal charges against employees simply for doing their jobs.

“Do people have responsibilities to one another that are not reducible to the weak owing everything to the strong” is the most salient political issue

Can't get over how confused this kid must be, how often do you get fired for the exact same reason you got hired

My best, most hilarious realization of the last couple of years is that I enjoy being a software architect because I really like telling people what to do. And it’s best to do so in a context where either people want my advice or their bosses want them to have my advice.

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

"Virtue signaling": a phrase invented by those who've smashed their own moral compasses and are pissed off that others' can still find north.

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

A lot of the “free speech!” people seem to think their speech stops being free as soon as someone else is free to call BS

I firmly believe that only a tiny percent, less than 1%, of people are terrible. But OMFG are those ones terrible.

The party before us at our table at the original Cafe Du Monde stiffed the waitress. On a morning when she woke up to find that someone had driven into crowds killing people a couple of blocks from her work, in a state where minimum wage for waitstaff is $2.13 per hour.

Also great for being kind to your partner if your morning/evening routine happens while they’re sleeping in the same room

“Being mad isn’t activism” is something that basically everyone on social media needs to burn into their brains.