Jared Gilbert

I think Dracula could defeat Frankenstein but I don’t think Count Chocula could defeat Frankenberry and that speaks to the richness of the characters

a clip of James Acaster on the Great British Back off saying, "Started making it. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite." as he presents a dish to the judges.

living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this

I...I just want to stay signed in. I want to be remembered.

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This is assault.

Text SIGN POALGB to 50409 to sign my petition with @resist.bot .

@MichellCClark: they made healthcare a commodity, education a debt trap, and housing a speculation market-then told you that poverty is a personal failing. they privatized survival and called it freedom.

That last line hits hard

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Why does my scraggly ass face refuse to grow a beard? In my youth I looked like a perpetual McDonald's trainee, now I look like a perpetual shut-in.

Did our best to teach our son that not all roads lead to sex.

In this playbook, you're never safe: merely useful.

Becky, from Ottumwa My friend's cousin's name was Becky. She lived in Ottumwa, wore sneakers and a ponytail. Each summer she'd ride the year-end school bell into town, radiating an aura of balloon races and farrowing. Once, I think, she touched my arm. 'Cecelia' reminds me of her, still. Not because she broke my heart, but because I made her laugh.

Becky, from Ottumwa

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This meeting that was an email and another meeting and a Teams chat and and an idle question could've been an email.

Interstate rest areas are the canaries in the coalmine of the United States health care system. So, you know, get your affairs in order. Or at least eat a salad once in a while.

Well, that was a weird damn dream.

Don't announce that you have a question: just ask the question. If it's question time, don't make a comment. If we're discussing the forest, don't ask about the trees. Are you truly curious or passive-aggressively showing off how much you know?

What's the point of Friday tho?

'Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak.'

/ Howard Thurman, 'Jesus and the Disinherited'

an older man is wearing a red vest that says the outlaws on it ALT: an older man is wearing a red vest that says the outlaws on it

Been in my Steam library for years! Guess I'll take a look.

Damned if I'm going to pour my beer like a peasant. #aldi

Great. Now I'm picturing Elon and Don in pajamas having a pillow fight.

...can we build the parts, tho?

#Netflix giving my heart a stress test when I'm just trying to chill.

It's not my fault if you show up late to the meeting, or if you don't pay attention. I don't care how puffy your vest is.

AI is the quiche of the '20s.

What's one more dish to clean, spill to wipe, errand to run? Another ache, another twinge, another throb? If bad things come in threes then you've stopped counting, which God tried to tell Job but Job had other things on his mind like flaming sheep and absconded camels, not to mention his son's leaky roof. And this was before ultrasounds and MRIs and sinister masses, so what else should we expect except mounting, increasingly specific woes?

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