M Asks Why

Screenshot from US google maps with a label of gulf of America

Screenshot of US Apple Maps with a label of Gulf of Mexico

Screenshot from Austrian google maps with a label Gulf of Mexico, with Gulf of America in parenthesis.

google simping for fash

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

the ball to move down the field right now is not getting a Ohio swing voter to think trump is bad, it's getting the people who went to the march for science and women's marches in 2017 to show up again.

We’re all gonna die because people with some power to do something were worried about whether trying to save us made them sound histrionic 🤡

These are so good!!!

"We have to allow this [org/shelter/hospital/school] to erase the trans community and comply to save everyone else"

Absolutely not.

I will not allow my community to be jettisoned to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too.

But we are all in this together.

We revamped our US Politics channel on our discord for 2025. It locks up at night so people can't doom post, we don't allow "here's a terrible thing just to be upset" unless it comes with an action item, and this week we've started sharing our 1 Joyful Task & 1 Spiteful Task of the day.

THIS IS IT

Shoutout to Wellbutrin and fluvoxamine for some HEAVY lifting this week.

Is it an alien abduction? The beginning of a murder mystery? The start of a choose-your-own adventure? Portal to another realm? (Take me please) Or a mom who got distracted with her kids coming home from a family event and ugh dinner is late and her spouse is nowhere to be found? We’ll never know.

So there’s a car across the street when I got home in the middle of the night, sitting with the driver’s door open randomly, all the lights off, and it’s just odd.

As a Naturally Anxious, I have created multiple spiraling scenarios in my head to explain it.

lemon: mix me with sugar for a refreshing summer treat

lime: spritz me over some tacos to add an acidic punch

grapefruit: i'm in your cell walls. i'm fucking up your lipitor

Right??? Like put my mental health first 😂

Part of me wonders if this is an unhealthy amount of time diamond painting and the other part of me says well it’s not doomscrolling.

Unfinished diamond painting laying on a desk of a decorated fireplace with a Christmas tree and a sleeping dog

One row left on this one, drill by drill.

I’m powering through as part of @menckartsandcrafts.bsky.social Lunar New Year DP-along! #diamondpainting #diamondart

Orange fluffy cat curled up sleeping on a brown leather desk chair

Seat thief thieves again

These grants fund the work of thousands of individuals working to prevent and treat cancer; lengthen lives by eliminating deadly diseases; and make each and every American and person on this earth healthier. And none can be awarded now.

We just had this whole election cycle about how inflation is the unforgivable political sin, which no other widely felt benefit can counterbalance, and it’s discarded two days into the new administration.

Conversation summary The comments overwhelmingly criticize the notion that context could change the perception of Elon Musk's gesture, which many interpret as a Nazi salute. Commenters argue that Musk's history of supporting far-right ideologies and parties, such as the AfD in Germany, reinforces the interpretation of the gesture as deliberate and not accidental. They express frustration with attempts to rationalize or excuse the gesture, emphasizing that it aligns with Musk's past actions and statements. The comments reflect a strong consensus that the gesture was intentional and should not be dismissed or downplayed.

prayers up for megan mcardle who was brutally owned by the AI summary of comments on her own column

I know he’s not really your brother @lwci.bsky.social but kind-of I think you have a half-brother here in the US! This is Barnacle 😻

shout out to cognitive dissonance for some really remarkable work today.

Now that I’ve seen the actual clip, some of y’all are telling on yourselves. No way he didn’t know precisely what he was doing with that hand.

if it helps - and it genuinely has for me! - try thinking of everything you do to take care of your heart, mind & body to ensure your own well-being as a tiny way to steal his life force, eat up one of his last days on earth and give it to yourself, because you MUST OUTLIVE HIM to dance on his grave

What level of impulse dopamine shopping are we at pals? Don’t want to break the curve.

This TikTok whiplash is rattling me in a way nothing has before. Really seeing the propaganda so blatantly kinda wakes you up to how a dopamine hit algorithm is way less benign than I wanted to believe.

HELLO yes so many of those things. I just posted about my sourdough starter, and am also into lots of housewitch-not-tradwife hobbies

This is Hullda, my sourdough, and I care for her (as well as other beasts) but in like a feral crooning way, not the tradwife way.

I’m M, I’m a hobby collector, Pisces, terminally over educated, and I say “whoa” when I see big animals. Want some sourdough?