Meg

I grew up in a family with 4 Margarets and 4 Thomases and no one called any of us the names on our birth certificate except the government. (Yes, my family is very Irish.)

If queer stories are your jam @kjcharleswriter.com has an EXTENSIVE backlist of "romances with a body count" both historical and supernatural. I recommend starting with the Will Darling adventures.

They have them, but in 18 months of breastfeeding and flying at least once every two months, I never found a goddamn one of those things that was actually in service. More power to you if you did! I'm just saying I found them a poor substitute for a dedicated room.

The Jays' stadium team did an excellent job of marking the attendees with the best "dead behind the eyes" faces for just this moment

My vote is Anish Kapoor. Currently makes bank, but treads lightly on the public consciousness.

Catullus was MADE for early 2010s Tumblr. No side blogs, just pages of relationship drama interspersed with occasional blindingly beautiful meditations on grief and shitposts about other blogs

Carry on my wayward puuup
Don't eat that, you will throw up

I had a similar conversation with a friend who works at the company that's doing the "resurrecting the wooly mammoth/direwolf" stuff. The "resurrections" are good for publicity, but incidental to the bottom line IP development.

Original: The Man Comes Around. Covers: Hurt, with strong honorable mentions to Sunday Morning Coming Down and Boy Named Sue. (Johnny Cash really was the king of musically rolling up and stealing your girl.)

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Rob why are you so infuriatingly good at your job

Friends, today is the feast day of St. Frances Cabrini - the first US citizen to be canonized, and the patron saint of immigrants. She's a saint worth noting, regardless of one's religious persuasion, but her life and work - and its implications for today - hit differently in these troubled times.

#virtualpicketline alert

From your perspective, what's the most important difference between bad product managers and good product managers?

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As someone who has cleaned flood gunk, that's not as good an idea as you'd think. Cloth towels absorb more, but you now have another thing to clean, requiring power and water to do so. Hanging them to dry and reusing them isn't practical because your stuff isn't just wet, it's filthy.

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There are some very strong contenders here, but I have to put in a word for the Buttslide. deadspin.com/every-glorio...

The power of video

Screenshot of the Nike App permissions list, with Advertising ID Permission highlighted.

To generate and manage valuable consumer data.

I have discovered a truly marvelous concept of a plan that this margin is too narrow to contain

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?

Almost all (60 to 90%) of mergers destroy shareholder value (i.e. the owners would be better off if they didn't merge). BUUUT in the short run, you can make it look good enough for all your executives to get their next gig lined up.

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Two panel King of the Hill meme. Top Panel: Hank Hill on a lawn mower. “It’s already 110 in the summer.” Bottom panel: Hank angrily pointing at Dale. “And if it gets one degree hotter, I’m gonna kick your ass.”

In retrospect, King of the Hill figured out the messaging we should have used with climate change.

Seconding Samsung Health for unlimited customization and optional time-based reminder notifications; I'm using it while nursing. Other trackers I've used incl. Fitbit, which lets you customize your target up to 338 oz but not your cups, and Google Fit, which has no target function.

Some men don't want the stress of being their family's sole source of income (valid!), but don't recognize that that also means their wife doesn't have to be the sole source of domestic labor. They want their wife to do all the work of a SAHW as if she were dependent and also earn money.

It's not a spoiler to say it's a twist on The Goose Girl fairy tale, so I feel like it's not a spoiler to say that things do not go well for the horse.

Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

GOD DAMN THEM ALL!