Rebecca!

exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things"

betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

I also hate this cartoon. Edgar Allan Poe, famous hater of subtle symbolism.

He wrote The Raven because he was mad at Dickens for putting a talking raven in a book just because he (Dickens) thought it was neat.

Poe wanted the raven to mean something to the story!

MPD is already trying to lie about what happened. City of Minneapolis official account also reposted them. As long as Frey is Mayor we will have a police department ready to assist ICE and then try to lie about it. Look at the thread to see what MPD’s cooperation and assistance led to today.

"Federal law enforcement officers on the scene declined to say what the purpose of the raid was...Some declined to identify which agency they were with. Most wore masks."

It's almost like the police are trying to be...secret.

The sigil was drawn in salt and ash, the candles lit at the pentagram points, the incantation declaimed.

There was a shimmer - a demon appeared.

"Curious. What ritual is this?"

"I got it from ChatGPT. I included all protections in my prompt!"

"I see," the demon said and stepped out of the sigil.

Literally everyone deserves to go out for dinner, buy coffees, wear quality clothing and have fun experiences whilst also being able to afford rent, groceries, bills & have a little left over for savings no matter what job they do. Why is that so absurd to some people?

spam text that reads: ‘My friend, not hearing from you for so long, have you been singing or engaging in sports lately?’

it may not be the splashiest spam text nor the most invasive. but it is the one that cleaves closest to my heart

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

This is fantastic work by @milesklee.bsky.social documenting the way ChatGPT can cause users’ mental health to deteriorate quickly into catastrophic delusions. This technology never should have been released to the public and that was obvious from day 1
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.

Take care of your neighbors and friends, you're going to need community more than ever.

i'm still crying at "Tallow n' Tesla", it's just so transcendently gross in ways i can't adequately describe

Chucking globs of congealed beef fat at passing Cybertrucks does sound like a good idea tho

Vivian Wilson on the cover of Teen Vogue, with the headline “Introducing Vivian Wilson”. It’s a close up shot of her looking at the camera in a black suit jacket and blue button down

Teen Vogue presents: Introducing Vivian Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social

In her 2nd-ever interview, the 20-year-old tells @ellayurman.bsky.social about going viral, protecting trans youth, her “pathetic man-child” estranged dad Elon Musk, and more @teenvogue.com
www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

Keep yelling. Show up at the town halls and make yourself heard. ❤️💪

watching the total lunar eclipse and contemplating how shadows always pass eventually is self-care

Jorglyporf

Recommended this a friend recently. They texted this morning to tell me that they made their first-ever call to reps using this app. If you've been scared to call, this can help. If you know people who are scared to call, suggest this.

It's never to late to start and we're gonna need all of us.

Hoping to revive mammoths, scientists create 'woolly mice' Hoping to bring the giant, ancient animal back from extinction, scientists have created a far smaller woolly creature. Woolly mice have some of the key traits of mammoths, including their thick, hairy...

I have major unresolved questions about the value of species resurrection research and also, I will walk over hot coals to acquire Wooly Mousemoth, I contain multitudes

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

out of nowhere my kid laughed and said "I'm having a great time with you people" which might be the funniest thing you can say in a room containing only your parents

For all the USPS's faults, Americans have to realize: It's one of the best postal services in the world, even after being kneecapped by DeJoy. Fight for our postal service, guys. I know I will. It is an essential public good.

There is a lot less body horror than I was expecting actually!

Aye.

Y’all need to stop infantilizing racists.

No, they weren’t hoodwinked, bamboozled or led astray.

They are grown as people making decisions to harm everyone they don’t like.

Perpetual systemic inequality isn’t magic. You don’t accidentally stumble into oppressing.

You choose it.

@midstpodcast.bsky.social homemade bread in a can!

Kitty Mammas (2020) ⭐ 4.2 | Comedy 1h 33m

@flophousepodcast.bsky.social I just watched Kitty Mammas and I would love to nominate it as a Smalltem(vem)ber watch. m.imdb.com/title/tt9614...

Look I don’t have much dating advice to give but I would not date topless Lincoln, topless Lincoln has the exact vibe of someone who will ruin your life and credit score

tweet from @digitalurn has anyone talked about how there was a pf changs at the burbank mall and this new restaurant just reused then han part of the sign??? attached is an image of what clearly used to be a pf changs but all the letters except HAN have been removed and under it says korean bbq house. han also means korea.

sry i've been laughing about this for two days

Are you also having a terrible February? It’s going around!

PANEL 1: A shirtless tattooed wizard in sweatpants walking to a mobile home. WIZARD: "What's this now?" PANEL 2: Wizard in closeup. WIZARD: "Problem is most people have tangled up their idea of wizardry with a pastoral never-was England." PANEL 3: Wizard in medium shot, smoking. WIZARD: "But, well, Indiana needs wizards, too. An' maybe it ain't the worst thing in the world if we had more wizards who c'n change the oil in a car." PANEL 4: Close up side view of the wizard's face, still smoking. WIZARD: "Like ev'rybody *loves* Gandalf. But Gandalf'll never teach a local kid how to shoplift baby formula to help his momma." PANEL 5: Wizard in medium shot, looking down. WIZARD: "Nah, people don't like magic around. Reminds 'em they *could* have a different way of doing things than the one that hurts em so bad, an' lotsa folks can't handle that."

wizard interview

Call your senators and ask them to hold this line too. You can do it, I swear. Enter your zip and this site will give you numbers and scripts of what to say! They need to hear it. Say it for yourself--I promise it feels better than doing nothing 5calls.org

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.