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I stopped watching sports because I hated feeling like this

Used the extra heavy bar for squats because it was already set up on the cable machine & had to bike several extra hills due to bike share parking limitations

And man I'm feeling it now, absolutely thrashed myself

Average anti-Bluesky op-ed: this app is solely an echo chamber for left-wing politics

Average Bluesky post: baseball has taken everything from me

finally. baseball is over. we can only hope it has been defeated forever

Social Skills Training By Solmaz Sharif Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. History is a kind of study. History says we forgave the executioner. Before we mopped the blood we asked: Lord Judge, have I executed well? Studies suggest yes. What the fuck are you crying for, officer? the wire mother teaches me to say, while studies suggest Solmaz, have you thanked your executioner today?

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Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Four years to renovate what city records claim is a 2,916-sq. ft. structure. It's budgeted at $10.7 million, or nearly $3,700 psf. Shameful that we accept this kind of waste as a city. legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/atta...

At a Lebanese halal place in West Springfield, Massachusetts waiting for shawarma shoulder to shoulder with a bunch of white people with horrible western Mass accents and Iraqis. I love America

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Could you vote for Mamdani on both places he shows up on the ballot or is that invaled?

I often quip "Japan as a failed conservative utopia" (although that works better for the UK than US).
Japan 1980-2010 pretty much tries "no migration, no 3rd wave feminism, no deindustralisation, no-European style high tax-high welfare social compact".

TFW you were in any way plugged into the rat community

Exactly!

the amount of naked contempt for the intended audience we see in both politics and business is pretty wild lately

Marci Robin @MarciRobin I bought a car today, and the dealership had me check off — with a pen, on paper — that I'm not a robot. Matthew @genoforprez *sweats coolant* 🤖

London has fallen.

They hate their constituents too much to not hurt them

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

re: Glasnow

We can only hope

impressively ruthless politicing tbh, Dems finally have a fight they are comfortable with

It really also needs the subreddit model to work. The front page has been various kinds of sewer as the site has evolved, it's the subs that make it work & keeps things tolerable even as admin gets worse

If you're ever in an Irish speaking part of Ireland (Gaeltacht), and you see a mother with her child, tell her, "Ith an páiste." It's a beautiful way of saying, "Your motherhood glows with radiance and grace." There is no English equivalent for this so give it a go! thepenguinsaurus last time i trusted an irish guy i walked home at 4am with my bra in my handbag so lets see *google translate screenshot* "Ith an páiste ➡️ Eat the child"

A lot of these involve splitting the party but that's often downstream of losing the fight & enemies use their position to pin down some of the party & prevent them from helping each other

I had one group surrender to Strahd in a fight I think they could have won but in their defense they had a truly horrendous string of luck, some suboptimal decisions, and didn't know that Strahd was not committed & was about to leave

Or the DM is tunnel visioned on something and is bending the rules so we're either in a fight that's way too hard for our level that we didn't have the opportunity to dodge or we're taking big DM fiat penalties

This has variously been playing around with very dangerous magic items when the party is begging them not to, playing suboptimally (usually not remembering any abilities or tunnel visioning on random shit) so we're basically down a man in a fight balanced to be hard for our current comp