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I love that SO MUCH

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

yes I think I have to write something about 'failing quietly' vs 'failing loudly'

when the electricity in your house goes out, that is failing loudly. you know at once.

when an AI fails, it mostly fails quietly. the bad incorrect answer gives no warning that it is different to the good useful one

The founding fathers were rich slave owners so I don't fucking care about what their vision was for the country.

Once again I have seen Pluribus discourse where people are saying the show is designed so you can’t tell if the Hive or Carol is the good guy, and once again I have to ask what the actual *fuck* Soylent green have people been eating.

Toronto harold satire site headline: "Canadian Olympic hockey teams to bring back silver medals to home country that has healthcare and stable democracy"

okay, this is funny, though

Who knew that car horns could break from constant use?

if gavin newsom wants to stop talking about pronouns then he should stop bringing them fucking up, jesus christ

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Stray thoughts from occupied Minnesota:

After 30 years in the workforce, I can tell you the volunteers in my community defense groups are the most dazzlingly hypercompetent coworkers I have ever encountered. Just thunderous excellence 1/x

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE

then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"

and i was like.
oh!

my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual

Image of fake newspaper headline "here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that inconveniences rich assholes" by some rich asshole.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

me (writing an essay about a breakfast sandwich): man the dutch really do not get enough smoke for how fucking brutal they were as an empire. god damn they sucked they were terrible

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.

Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.

small brain: "the elves frown upon human-elf relationships because they are hidebound reactionaries"

large brain: "any elf that has sex with a human under the age of 100 is a disgusting pervert"

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

Can’t believe we are still doing this

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

I love mine from Columbia! I also have some winter boots with that lining (also from Columbia) and I haven't had cold toes once in our first MN winter.

industrial sign on a wall: NOTICE AVOID CONTAMINATION WASH YOUR HANDS

roses are red
violets are grand

Roses are red
And I guess love is nice
But I’ll feel much better
When we get rid of ICE

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here