Nebraska

I live directly under an O’Hare flight path and it’s so creepy how little air traffic there is today.

Weird Al should do My Generation but about jury nullification so then everyone will know what it is

This could be a fun new way to crowdfund independent journalism.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight and reclaim what they’ve taken from you

Plexamp pretty much does this, but you have to use your own music library since they no longer have the Tidal integration

Oh, come the fuck on.

Gonna make Thanksgiving my whole personality. The cornucopia is getting set up in August and anyone coming to my house in November is going to have to listen to the Glee version of Turkey Lurkey time

Small Soldiers holds up super well. You got anti-colonial messaging, David Cross, and it’s rated PG-13 because despite looking like a kid’s movie it’s not for babies

How Israel Used My Father's Name to Cover Up Ethnic Cleansing The awful truth dawned on him: "This forest in my father's name was not planted in the desert but on the destroyed orchards of the previous inhabitants."

My father in law is a Holocaust survivor and has been writing about Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing in Palestine for decades. His latest article was just published.

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This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

This year!

Today a guy showed to my Orange Theory class wearing his medal for the marathon he ran YESTERDAY. Good for him / I’m mad.

Google Translate has always used AI. When it was launched it was powered by Statistical Machine Translation which basically means it used predictive algos to look for patterns in massive amounts of existing, human-translated text vs relying on dictionaries and grammar rules.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

happy invasion day Chicago!

I live in Chicago ~ 3/4 of the year and in Portland the other 1/4 and am starting to feel like the president is personally bullying me

The majority of alt texts scolds seem to have very little idea of what the best practices actually are

All my friends should be made to live walking distance from me. I don't care if this massively upends their lives

i think it says a lot that after the assassinations in Minnesota there wasn't a lot of ink spilled over the concern of retributive political violence

My MIL was at Kent State when the massacre happened. Her father was working at Chrysler and one of his coworkers said that the hippies deserved it.

We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.

Holy shit it worked

The toy in the lower left hand corner is like if I had a little naked man on all fours that I pulled around by a string

Sleepy time bear

It's Friday night baby

I never actually read The Secret, but I am pretty sure this is a group project that we're all working on at the moment.

7-11 playing opera to discourage loitering but those fucks don’t know this is my favorite libretto

I was running to catch a boat and a 17 year old boy shouted “run Forest!” after me. Super cool 30 year old reference!!!

Just saw a guy light up a cigarette in a Nordstrom’s

We go through this rigamarole every few weeks; what people are objecting to is not the behavior or rhetoric of individuals politicians, but the broader nationalization of politics and cultural/educational polarization, which nobody actually knows how to fix.

Oklahoma will test some incoming teachers with ‘America-first’ exam Oklahoma will require teachers from California and New York to pass a test on civics and gender before they can teach in the state.

As usual, orders of magnitude worse than anything blue states did during the "left wing illiberalism" panic