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Every once in a while, I check my son's Steam reviews.

I absolutely love how cats sometimes just decide to give you a guided tour of the premises

tiny black kitten wrapped up in a scarf being held by a passenger

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US.

Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.

Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie curled up asleep in my lap. On top of her a dollhouse miniature of a sleeping white cat on an orange and white tiny crocheted cushion has been very gently placed, the cat mimicking Francie’s coloring and sleeping position exactly.

Vintage dollhouse cat from my collection. Pictured on Francie for no particular reason at all.

Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed’ "Defendants have indicated that some video between October 19, 2025 and October 31, 2025 has been irretrievably destroyed and therefore cannot be produced on an expedited basis or at all."

The government claims two weeks of surveillance footage from Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and won’t be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there:

www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...

Please enjoy 2 minutes and 19 seconds of Kittens Playing with a Paper Bag.

man good luck hosting a world cup or an olympics, let alone something like a sxsw

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

A vending machine with a snack called minis, and the brand is Leibniz.

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

an orange cat is on a blankie upside down with some of his teeth showing strangely

You always ask me “Jorts why are you so wet?” but I never ask why your phone is at 7%

"The Hobbit to LOTR pipeline is hilarious. it would be like if 20 years after Stuart little was published, EB White slammed down 1000 pages about how Stuart's nephew killed the devil."

Best literary analysis ever

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath

50 reasons to want more walkable cities.

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png

INNOCENT

a “Space Force”, if you will

An orange and white cat is rolling about like a clown

in tribute to @charliebrowntc.bsky.social , a king among cats, let us have a thread of Great Departed Cats, to show the angels that are now greeting him.

this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d Join Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved. Al Expectation We are reviewing claim #& submitted on 09/28/2025. Our records indicate the claim was filed under diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while the corresponding prescription and referral history list treatment for lumbar disc herniation (back pain).

Re: Incorrect Diagnosis in Record Hi Thank you for reaching out. We have reviewed your visit documentation and can confirm that the notes in question were generated using our Al scribe system. It appears the Al tool assigned diagnosis code F32.9 (Depressive disorder, unspecified), while your visit notes and treatment plan reference lumbar disc herniation (back pain). Per compliance policy, certain Al-generated fields cannot be manually updated by clinic staff and require vendor correction. We have escalated this to our vendor support team and opened ticket # . We'll notify you once we receive confirmation or correction from the vendor.

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and 26 when he died. He couldn't afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies, so he tried to stretch the doses.

Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance

Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26

He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums

He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance

Coworking on Discord with friends outside of the US is always a fun little cultural exchange, where I get to learn what a kookaburra or different species of magpies sound like, and they get to learn how to differentiate a car backfiring from a gunshot

A young woman on TikTok recently posted a video speaking about how she will die without the insulin she will no longer be able to afford. How she won’t be able to stockpile it forever. How heavy it was to consider that as a young person full of dreams and potential. My heart breaks for her.

An elevator button panel with the numbers 12 and 14 next to each other and no number 13

Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...