hey man, this sucks

having assessed that only one in several million of those people will take the trouble to murder their CEO (and won't wage a broader campaign against them as well), UnitedHealth's board shall etc etc

Ramstein: dü

Aretha Franklin: do right
Bob Dylan: do unto others
Lou Reed: do doo-do do-doo, doo do-doo do

Tom Waits cover of Passionate Kisses would still be less wrong than the Scarlett Johansson cover of "Anywhere I Lay My Head" which is a real thing that exists and has yet to draw due ire from law enforcement.

"The Bug" works perfectly in growl. "Passionate Kisses" less so.

walking my friends' dog to the bar while singing Mary Chapin Carpenter songs in a Tom Waits voice, AMA

anything that takes more than 3 clicks is a thing the tech company actively doesn't want you to do. more than 5 clicks and they're hoping you'll never find out you can even do it. they hate you and laugh at you. they want your children to die poor, lonely and in front of you. they should be jailed.

From the GooglePixel community on Reddit: Any way to remove the AI icon from the search bar? Explore this post and more from the GooglePixel community

you can't long-press on the search bar to open a settings menu to disable it. perhaps knowing you'll want to, Google have made it take 8 clicks to access the disabling, and you've gotta rely on reddit to tell you how: www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixe...

"ai," which sucks ass in every single consumer-facing application I've encountered even as researchers I respect say the paid trainable versions are genuinely useful in their initial-stages work, is now opt-out jammed into the home screen search bar of every pixel phone.

nonfiction people, what are your nastiest mental conceptions of fiction readers? (to make this a good prompt I should have one ready in reverse, but the truth is we just don't think about y'all at all. with your lil facts.)

(I'm bummed Chuck Mangione died)

bad things come in threes when I'm aware of them. otherwise, bad things just like, come at their own cadence, in ever-largening number, to everyone everywhere. but! when two bad things affect me personally? ooh BABY am I ready to handle the next one via culturally inherited narcissistic aphorism!

not that there has been zero stupidity in my career of course, but working at NGOs with total headcount ranging from ~20 to ~250 has probably meant some significantly more stringent hiring decisions went into shaping the teams I've been blessed to be part of over the years.

that's not meant as a diss to the legislative professions, which are full of brilliant people some of whom get groupthink'd into taking positions they're smarter than. this is a large-numbers thing in part-- thousands of roles to fill on the Hill, you're gonna get some sand in the engine.

raw stubborn stupidity of the sort captured in this blind item quote should be disqualifying in professional politics. I'm constantly baffled that it isn't (which may sound naive, but my 15 years in have zero Hill or party committee experience and those seem to be where stupid sneaks thru most).

Trump Demands Reporters Stop Talking About Him And Epstein In New White House Scrum — Claims ‘I Have Nothing To Do With The Guy!’ Trump demanded that reporters stop talking about him and deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein and offered a list of other topics.

In general, if the opposing offense is begging you to stop running a play, you keep running the shit out of that post. www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Ally McBeal reboot where it turns out every time somebody sees the dancing baby it's actually Pennywise and hallucinating a dancing baby is their brain's fawn response

For Whomst the Bell Yeets

yes, even when I disdain a given bit of IP it still infiltrates the pun machine

[Karma Kameleon voice]

Kwisa Kwisa Kwisa Kwisa Kwisatz Haderach/
The spice must flow/
The spice must flooo-ow

"She thought about not paying the bills. When Dalmon [storage unit company] finally unloaded the stuff (there must be auctions for such things, an entire culture based on the commerce of the dead or bankrupt, what did they do with what they bought), it would be like they were selling John Henry, not her father. This argument never got very far in her head. It was her father. She paid the bills on time and stopped eating out as much."

six years from colson whitehead publishing this paragraph --> the 2007 writers strike. another three from there, and the reality TV boom the studios used to break the strike gave us "storage wars."

colson whitehead is delightful as a reader and slightly demoralizing as a writer. because I know I'm capable of sentences like "it was a time of woe for mildew" in describing a character going on a cleaning jag, but like, he then also writes the whole excellent book to go around it? and i just Post?

lmao

Lord, please let me never do anything in my life that will cause that preacher to start a thread about me.

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances.

It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

don't think i didn't notice that sitting on the bottom rail of Parker's piece, and don't think i didn't do a grateful little Robert Redford in JEREMIAH JOHNSON grateful smile-nod in your direction

some of yall have never verbally shortened the phrase "the other" to "t'other" and it shows

excerpt from piece linked in previous post: The disability rights movement has a motto: “Nothing about us without us.” It’s a simple principle that Democrats have completely abandoned when it comes to trans issues. Instead of talking to us about our lives and needs, Democratic strategists talk about us as an abstract political problem to be solved. If Democrats actually bothered to have these conversations, they’d discover something Emanuel and his allies seem incapable of grasping: we’re not asking for much. We’re not demanding special privileges or radical restructuring of society. We mostly just want to exist in public without harassment and access the same healthcare everyone else takes for granted. By and large, trans people are not demanding (who even asked for this?) that people announce their own pronouns or whatever corporate/HR nonsense Democratic politicians think trans people want. Talk to trans kids and their parents, and you’ll hear the same themes repeatedly: They want to use the bathroom in peace. They want to play sports with their friends. They want their teachers to use their names. They want to go to school without being bullied. They want to see a doctor when they need to. These aren’t radical demands. They’re the baseline expectations of any child in America. Talk to trans adults like me, and the asks are similarly modest: Keep our jobs without discrimination. Update our driver’s licenses to match our appearance. Access medical care our doctors recommend. Walk down the street without fear. Again, these aren’t special rights. They’re basic dignity.

one hallmark of good Seriously Yall Rahm Sucks Ass Stop Listening To His Shitty And Often Evilly Motivated Advice writing is that it expands out to encompass the broader party & show you that the people actively listening to the shitty stupid bad man are harming their own aims:

How Rahm Emanuel Got Trapped in the Bathroom The former Chicago mayor says Democrats focus too much on trans issues. He’s wrong about which party is obsessed—and about everything else.

as an inveterate consumer & creator of Rahm Is A Dipshit Monster content, loved this from @parkermolloy.com: "The man who ripped away schools from 12,000 mostly Black children now wants to lecture Democrats about focusing too much on bathrooms instead of classrooms." newrepublic.com/article/1979...

(before you yell at me just know this could've been way worse, idea first emerged as First *Tuck* No Plums: a doctor's guide to avoiding burnout and overexertion, and that's a joke that asks people to make the leap all the way to the folksy phrase "boy, I'm just plum tuckered")