Magpie

I get it that it's hard seeing people on food lines and watching so many people out of work. But 40 days later and the only thing received is a promise from the lying GOP is a complete disgrace.

I feel like the MILLISECOND Halloween was over we were in full Christmas lockdown, like…even more than previous years, no one gives a shit about Thanksgiving just…at all

A smiling cowboy labeled “an unexpected musical number” leaning towards a concerned looking woman labeled “A seemingly realistic movie about the soul crushing bleakness of prairie life.”

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.

The entire point of social media is being able to surround yourself with people who start posts with sentences like "Hi, shipwreck autist here!"

Don’t Ask Me for A Fucking Dime in Zohran font

New leadership or

This is like saying, ‘We should get rid of unions so YOU can negotiate your OWN salary with your boss!’

(We should absolutely not get rid of unions & you should absolutely not have to negotiate your own salary solo…)

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

at the end of the day no official merch can compete with the fandom merch made by insane fan artists fueled only by the love of the game and homosexuality

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low polyamory

A togglable "I'm an adult with kids and a job" feature that assumes you only get to play once a week, and dumps a summary of what you were last doing/your current objectives in a corner tooltip on loading a save.

get mad and, instead of quitting, elect better democrats

it’s possible

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Paperwork burden, stigma and stress are common for SNAP and increase food insecurity. Many (most) recipients are children, disabled or older, while many already work, if they can. Not letting people go hungry should be a fundamental function of government.

AUTHORS!!

Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?

Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.

More here:

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

SEATTLE CURE YOUR VOTES PLEASE

depsidase: cubosh: realization: the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in earths history 1800oxycodone: "average rock kiss 2 birds" factoid actually just statistical error. average rock kills 0 birds. chixulub georg, which killed 3/4 of all life, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

Dozens of tiny white collared parachute mushrooms on wiry black stems grow like floating balloons over dead leaves on the forest floor. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

what color would you say the skeleton suit is? a sort of light green, yeah? wrong! it's firmly grayish yellow haha. what color is jason's coat? gray-blue? wrong! also grayish yellow!

The legendary cat meme that started an era

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger

Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

My kingdom to have someone ask him how he enjoyed Goncharov.

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Schumer is entirely capable of failing to lead all on his own

[Haunted House Flippers] 27 - Into the Night 🅴 #hauntedHouseFlippers
podcastaddict.com/haunted-hous... is back, doing a reboot with all they learned and just told off Lee while using their pronouns, so I'm a happy camper. Yes "it was all dream" is a trope but it gives them room to improve dialog

Men embracing reading is the absolute worst thing to happen to manosphere influencers and hate groups. They don't know how to pivot to take advantage of that. It's not like Andrew Tate is going to be able to lead a YouTube discussion on Watchmen.

Thread on transphobia

I’m going to be a HUGE asshole