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I'd forgotten New Mexico is the land of the 86 Octane bait-and-switch. Sigh.
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Greetings from New Mexico, where it is blessedly 56⁰ (13⁰C) and there isn't a soul for miles
December 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Anywhere else, this would be headline news
ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl.

Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist.

They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed.

Another horrific story.

More details below.
December 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Good morning from Kansas, where the sunrises are no-filter-needed pretty, but boy do you have to earn them
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Achievement unlocked
December 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Just one gust of wind, God, and I'll spend every day of the rest of my life in church
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The way I'm having PTSD flashbacks to corporateland conference calls
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Can't take him anywhere
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Google Photos couldn't have picked a better photo to sum up this past year
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'm shocked—SHOCKED—that Baby Trump is a manosphere douche bag
WATCH: New reporting from the New York Times reveals Andrew Tate’s release from Romania—where he faced rape and human trafficking charges—may have involved powerful allies, including Barron Trump. Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Megan Twohey joins to discuss.
Barron Trump's ties to accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate exposed in NYT report
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December 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Adorama sent me a stock notification to let me know that the item I've been waiting for ... is still out of stock.

That's just cruel.
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UwAoY7/

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY ASSHOLE DOG
So Spiro ran off. Again. #thisfuckingdog
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December 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Seen at an Ohio rest stop bathroom.

These sound be standard in every rest stop bathroom everywhere.
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Circular Polarizers: not just for taking pictures of water and windows anymore.

(They're also great at cutting out screen/light reflections on glasses during Zoom calls!)
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
My dashboard tree needs a single red ornament
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The administration of unnecessary cruelty
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 5d
The department under Blinken in early January 2023 had switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, saying this was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did not have the decorative angular features and was the default in Microsoft products.
Rubio orders diplomats to return to using Times New Roman, ousting Calibri | CNN Politics
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move, according to an internal d...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I wonder how much Corona beer invested in their shadow campaign to get everybody to call it covid
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I read the note first and genuinely, with no hyperbole, no smart aleckiness, thought it was some cute note from a child. It was only when I checked the post text for a transcript of the illegible note, that I realized it came from an adult human male.
This was the official objection, from Maxwell Rice, a former Republican candidate for #IL09, who filed objections to several candidates this cycle

The hearing was this morning at 9 a.m.
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Tip to anyone looking to sell a car to a dealer: "Carvana offered me $X" is a simple way to get them to offer more.

Dude offered me $12500. I said thanks, but Carvana offered me $14000. He said hold on let's talk. I said meet me at $13700. He did.

Dude never even asked to see the Carvana quote.
December 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
IT IS DONE!

After a month of bureaucratic hell and countless runarounds, I've sold my father's car, the last of his affairs that required me to remain in the frozen tundras of coastal Connecticut.

Just need to wrap up some last bits and we're back on the road later this week.

Cali here we come!
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This game cover went so hard. You legit felt like a Bond villain playing it.

Wordle ain't got shit on Mastermind.
"If you put a kid on the cover, you’re telling buyers it’s a kid game. If you put adults on the cover, you’re telling kids it’s a gateway to adulthood. This is basic aspirational psychology. They’ll feel like tiny professors. Or tiny villains. Both sell."
The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?
- - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi...
buff.ly
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Welp. Time to walk the dog!
December 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This has to be AI-generated rage bait

Someone tell me this is AI-generated rage bait
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I just love the little preemptive chastisement in this "Eulogy Protocol" doc the priest sent us
December 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Look at this puffy lad! Look at him!

#squirreloftheday
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM