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One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
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The correct response to finding out that your grocery store coworker is an underemployed astrobiologist is not "Rock on! Do what ya gotta do", it's "Wow, that's terrible, we should run Russ Vought out of DC on a literal rail." Just fyi.
February 5, 2026 at 12:58 AM
The correct response to finding out that your grocery store coworker is an underemployed astrobiologist is not "Rock on! Do what ya gotta do", it's "Wow, that's terrible, we should run Russ Vought out of DC on a literal rail." Just fyi.
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Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
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We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.
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Not going to name names here but...
Young furries especially twitch streamers need to knock off the ageism shit. 50 is not senior citizen.
I was watching a streamer today who called 50 "seriously old age". And I'm insulted.
People my age MADE the fandom and are still making the fandom.
Young furries especially twitch streamers need to knock off the ageism shit. 50 is not senior citizen.
I was watching a streamer today who called 50 "seriously old age". And I'm insulted.
People my age MADE the fandom and are still making the fandom.
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Not going to name names here but...
Young furries especially twitch streamers need to knock off the ageism shit. 50 is not senior citizen.
I was watching a streamer today who called 50 "seriously old age". And I'm insulted.
People my age MADE the fandom and are still making the fandom.
Young furries especially twitch streamers need to knock off the ageism shit. 50 is not senior citizen.
I was watching a streamer today who called 50 "seriously old age". And I'm insulted.
People my age MADE the fandom and are still making the fandom.
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Oh my god yes, give me a complex one-pot meal that doesn't require making three simple things line up in time. You mean the eggs and the bacon need to be warm at the SAME TIME?? I'll have oatmeal nevermind
February 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Oh my god yes, give me a complex one-pot meal that doesn't require making three simple things line up in time. You mean the eggs and the bacon need to be warm at the SAME TIME?? I'll have oatmeal nevermind
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♻️♻️♻️MinnMax will donate $1 for every REPOST in the next 30 minutes to protect immigrants in Minneapolis.♻️♻️♻️
100% goes directly to the nonprofit VEAP, who provides mobile food pantry and rent assistance to those in need.
Donate or share today, help us hit $300,000! bit.ly/iceoutminnea...
100% goes directly to the nonprofit VEAP, who provides mobile food pantry and rent assistance to those in need.
Donate or share today, help us hit $300,000! bit.ly/iceoutminnea...
February 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM
♻️♻️♻️MinnMax will donate $1 for every REPOST in the next 30 minutes to protect immigrants in Minneapolis.♻️♻️♻️
100% goes directly to the nonprofit VEAP, who provides mobile food pantry and rent assistance to those in need.
Donate or share today, help us hit $300,000! bit.ly/iceoutminnea...
100% goes directly to the nonprofit VEAP, who provides mobile food pantry and rent assistance to those in need.
Donate or share today, help us hit $300,000! bit.ly/iceoutminnea...
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Sword gripped in white-knuckled fist, Conan flattened himself against the dripping stone wall. Monday was on the prowl again.
February 2, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Sword gripped in white-knuckled fist, Conan flattened himself against the dripping stone wall. Monday was on the prowl again.
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Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
January 31, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.
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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
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R.I.P. Bob Layzell (1940-2026)
January 29, 2026 at 9:32 PM
R.I.P. Bob Layzell (1940-2026)
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I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
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lifted from tumblr and posting here because holy shit this drives me insane
January 26, 2026 at 1:03 AM
lifted from tumblr and posting here because holy shit this drives me insane
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Dems aren't abolishing the thing that forced kids in MSP to stay home for fear of being kidnapped and teachers forced to develop online lessons for those same kids.
GOP was angry when a deadly virus no one could control closed schools but Dems can't find the stones to do the same for the Gestapo
GOP was angry when a deadly virus no one could control closed schools but Dems can't find the stones to do the same for the Gestapo
January 27, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Dems aren't abolishing the thing that forced kids in MSP to stay home for fear of being kidnapped and teachers forced to develop online lessons for those same kids.
GOP was angry when a deadly virus no one could control closed schools but Dems can't find the stones to do the same for the Gestapo
GOP was angry when a deadly virus no one could control closed schools but Dems can't find the stones to do the same for the Gestapo
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Throwing haymakers over on threads...
January 26, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Throwing haymakers over on threads...
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Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
January 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE:
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
Renee Good: $1,499,580
Alex Pretti: $1,289,249
Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423
Parady La: $45,848
Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991
Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640
Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538
Geraldo Lunas: $2,260
Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935
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part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them.
they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret
they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret
January 26, 2026 at 4:23 AM
part of why we are driving ICE absolutely mad is that we are using tactics that do not really permit them to legally arrest us. they cannot operate the way they want to operate when we have eyes on them.
they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret
they want to be a secret police and we simply will not let them be secret
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If Google stopped providing GMail for free tomorrow, there is nothing any Canadian government could do about it.
And quite frankly, nor should they.
If you want e-mail as a critical service, make Canada Post an e-mail provider.
And make it accountable to the people through Government.
And quite frankly, nor should they.
If you want e-mail as a critical service, make Canada Post an e-mail provider.
And make it accountable to the people through Government.
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM
If Google stopped providing GMail for free tomorrow, there is nothing any Canadian government could do about it.
And quite frankly, nor should they.
If you want e-mail as a critical service, make Canada Post an e-mail provider.
And make it accountable to the people through Government.
And quite frankly, nor should they.
If you want e-mail as a critical service, make Canada Post an e-mail provider.
And make it accountable to the people through Government.
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Advanced Dungeons Hyperactivity Dragons
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Advanced Dungeons Hyperactivity Dragons
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If social media is making you angry today...
LOG OFF.
Stewing in your own helpless rage HELPS THEM.
Find a place to volunteer, to help people IN PERSON. Deliver groceries. Wash someone else's laundry. Shovel a sidewalk. Help someone load groceries into their car.
Find an angry song to sing.
LOG OFF.
Stewing in your own helpless rage HELPS THEM.
Find a place to volunteer, to help people IN PERSON. Deliver groceries. Wash someone else's laundry. Shovel a sidewalk. Help someone load groceries into their car.
Find an angry song to sing.
January 24, 2026 at 5:25 PM
If social media is making you angry today...
LOG OFF.
Stewing in your own helpless rage HELPS THEM.
Find a place to volunteer, to help people IN PERSON. Deliver groceries. Wash someone else's laundry. Shovel a sidewalk. Help someone load groceries into their car.
Find an angry song to sing.
LOG OFF.
Stewing in your own helpless rage HELPS THEM.
Find a place to volunteer, to help people IN PERSON. Deliver groceries. Wash someone else's laundry. Shovel a sidewalk. Help someone load groceries into their car.
Find an angry song to sing.
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For everybody who's cooking today in advance of the storm: Here's the truth about carmelizing onions, which is that cookbooks lie about carmelizing onions. "In truth, the best time to carmelize onions is yesterday."
A classic by @tomscocca.bsky.social slate.com/human-intere...
A classic by @tomscocca.bsky.social slate.com/human-intere...
Why Do Recipe Writers Lie About How Long It Takes To Caramelize Onions?
Browning onions is a matter of patience. My own patience ran out earlier this year while leafing through the New York Times food section. There, in the...
slate.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:02 PM
For everybody who's cooking today in advance of the storm: Here's the truth about carmelizing onions, which is that cookbooks lie about carmelizing onions. "In truth, the best time to carmelize onions is yesterday."
A classic by @tomscocca.bsky.social slate.com/human-intere...
A classic by @tomscocca.bsky.social slate.com/human-intere...