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my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

I will repost this forever.

i am grateful and our system is so broken

a two panel comic by Kate Beaton, originally published in her long-running webcomic "Hark! A Vagrant" -- a dress-wearing person sitting on a park bench, surrounded by leafless wintry trees, throws breadcrumbs to a duck, while the duck says "aw yiss, mutha fuckin bread crumbs"

when your unemployment benefits card shows up in your mailbox

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY. If you want to help me celebrate, please tell me what you are doing to make the world a better place!

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

degrowth larry summers @nkulw Great time to be a hater, many things suck and many people are stupid 8:56 PM • 2/10/22 • Twitter for iPhone

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A screenshot of an emoji search on social media, where I have typed in the word "salute" to find the salute emoji, and the only emoji result that comes up is the salad emoji. Which is certainly a slant rhyme with salute, if I'm using the phrase "slant rhyme" correctly, but...

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comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting
the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude — WIRED Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.

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I'm reminded of when the Free Press wrote about a mother who said she was "bullied" by staff at a gender clinc - only for her kid to get on twitter to dispute the story www.them.us/story/trans-...

This (in isolation AND as part of a great thread re: Bari Weiss)

Additional caveat that I love my perfect, beautiful kitten. He is a snuggly boy who only knows three emotions: love, hype, and FOMO.

Caveat that I took it worse than most people for a variety of reasons (mostly neurodivergence and trauma). But I know it's bad for everyone.

I would like to know why more people don't talk about the horrible, traumatizing hell that is the first week of pet parenthood. My theory is that New Parent Hormones makes people forget. (I will never forget.)

support worker-owned media and leftist independent journalism while you still can

Going with a less expensive one actually but I will not be deleting that post

My monthly pet insurance bill is $68.92, can I get a "nice with rounding" in the chat

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

stop telling me it’s not surprising that, as an author in the forties, Asimov didn’t include many significant women in Foundation. the latest research indicates women may have existed since at LEAST 1922

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

it looks like the only way to have honest media is directly support them. i currently subscribe to WIRED and rolling stone, and about to subscribe to 404 media. any other WOKE and antifa media orgs i should support?

Don’t tell people not to joke about serious shit. It’s a coping mechanism for some of us. It’s how we aren’t constantly screaming.

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Spiritually, I am here*

*Betgh