Carol Balkon
cranescall.bsky.social
Carol Balkon
@cranescall.bsky.social
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Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death
WASHINGTON—Warning that even the slightest dent, knick, or scratch would henceforth be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that Raymond Pratt, a 5...
theonion.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Reposted by Carol Balkon
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Angles matter.
January 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Poetry Foundation chose Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" (a poem whose central metaphor is a real estate agent lying to you about the state of the world) the Poem of the Day today www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
Good Bones
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children.
www.poetryfoundation.org
January 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM