"reality has a liberal bias"
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"reality has a liberal bias"
Daaaaang that feels like legalese for some smack talk
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
At first I read it as "Charlemagne, tha god of all people,"
Either way, these headlines brighten my day
Update: it got funny again
We’re treating Trump like a Make-A-Wish Kid who wanted to be Hitler with the time he has left
We are led by people who want us to lose.
Setting aside the obvious immorality of this for a minute, I'm not sure these guys understand who does construction labor in this country.
Have two small #Pyrex containers that I need replacement lids for, they are $10 apiece. The container + lid is $6. I guess I just consume more...?
See the man circled here? That's E.J. Antoni, Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee, walking through a crowd of Capitol rioters. #ICYMI, we've got an archive of 500+ Parler videos taken during Jan. 6. You can spot Antoni starting at around 1:41 here: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...
I also have to think that there's a point, and maybe that point is $300 a week groceries, where people just give less of a shit about the culture wars.
When can we get to the "ow my balls" part of this timeline, which at least doesn't seem misogynistic
It's disrespectful to use the flag casually e.g. swimsuits
Parked for 20 min in a no parking zone, blocking the lane...what an important person they must be. Or maybe a sushi emergency!
Flawless
Maybe this is actually an issue Ted Cruz cares about!
It kind of feels like our "prisoner swap" in which we got back a guy who brutally murdered three people in Spain by hacking them to death and who is now I guess....loose somewhere in the country...should maybe be a larger story
I rarely even try it but today I needed about six pages of documents translated fairly quickly and someone suggested it. It asked a hundred questions about the tone and style and font and formatting and then delivered an incomplete product with text inexplicably missing. Just a terrible experience.
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
Ho ho ho
Exciting morning here, I was incorrectly added to an email distribution list along with numerous other people, and they are replying all to advise of the mistake and people who were correctly added are also replying all to advise of the success Someone else is replying all with just ????? Wheeeee
"just give me the CPT code and I'll be on my way!"
Guys look at our Board t-shirts. This is a group you want to get behind.
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What is up with these speech patterns? It reminds me of, what was it, "wetter than we've ever seen from the standpoint of water"?
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
Nathan Fillion doesn't really wade into culture wars but still manages to be awesome
July 8, 2023
Wow, what a treasure trove!
I both really enjoyed it and continually thought, dang, this author is like *smart* smart, I can only imagine how much of this is going over my head.
I can't stand Pulp Fiction but I think it's mostly me on that side
Look it's very consistent -- it's always two weeks away
I'm sure billionaire Russ Vought has given his cell number out to loads of first responders, sure
Mine is in zone 8a, Brown Turkey variety, and it's an absolute monster, should have rigorously pruned it in the early years. It is probably 18ish feet high
I hope these DOJ lawyers brought silver platters and their detachable asses
Pickles are tasty but easily overpower other flavors and are really better served on the side in spear form.
It was, in short, not an application crying out for more tricky questions or something that should take longer.
I really wanted to help her provide answers that were as accurate as possible -- I didn't know if later she would be asked for documentation of everything or not. But it took hours and was exhausting and I had to settle for doing the best we could.
There is no guidance or notes to help you figure out what to list for a monthly utility expense for example. Monthly currently, or monthly averaged by 12 months? Bills in the summer in the Southeast, it makes a difference
You can't skip any questions to come back to them later, to gather your paperwork or to better understand what they're asking. The online form has to be done sequentially and with nothing left blank.
Short thread -- Several months ago, I helped a friend apply for Medicaid for her son and let me tell you that online form is already Byzantine and awful. The questions included asking, for every expense that you have, the date when you first starting paying it -- like, paying for water or power
Honestly surprised he had the restraint not to call it the "69 😎 Party" or something
We had a good run, but let's turn it over to the dolphins now
I need to travel back in time to five minutes ago before I saw the quoted tweet
When people ask the question along the lines of, what book changed your life? My answer is Hitchhiker. I was maybe 13 or so, and I had no idea a book could. E that funny. I had never read anything that funny and didn't again for years afterwards.
It is wild. It wasn't that long ago that if Bill Kristol told me it was sunny I'd grab an umbrella and a raincoat and now I'm just out here nodding my head with 90% of what he says
I'm not even kidding, we just watched something super stupid on TV that had David Copperfield in it, who is 68 and legit looks 45, like just get whoever did David Copperfield's plastic surgery. Can you afford the same plastic surgeon as a TV magician?
I mean, holy Mother of God yes
It's like the Onion's Point-Counterpoint where the counterpoint is endless war and kidnappings and recession
I may be struggling with a more fundamental problem of why people do this in the first place. But, like, you made it! You're a success! You're rich! Did you make a plan to enjoy that or are you just going to die on the floor of the Senate with your grandkids only knowing their other grandparents?
I legit don't understand it. Like you have probably a dozen grandkids and millions of dollars, go see them!! What is life for?!
Clean, professional, employees have name tags that say Mr. or Ms., nobody ever robs them, it's awful
Garcia Marquez:
What, no "thank you for your attention to this matter"?
...are they all awake?
"make sure the bags under her eyes are inescapably massive, thanks bro"
He could do the funniest thing just by releasing his health care platform on day 14
this is going to be an unpopular take but this is 1000000000% bait, this is 1000000000% vance intentionally driving far right traffic to this website, this is 1000000000% implicit brigading (surely to Musk's great joy), and therefore you should 1000000000% not take the aforementioned incoming bait
The only comfort whatsoever I take in this appalling anecdote is that maybe Madeline Kahn enjoyed her anonymity for a bit
And the reputation of our then-governor never recovered!
Uh her lips always look like that
Louis CK is touring again for Pete's sake
"going at it hot and heavy"
Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.
San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat
I assume there is a German word for learning things against your will that provide both schadenfreude and ...nausea?
There ya go, good memory
The only thing I remember him being not super on board with tastewise was like fermented whale blubber or something, which doesn't seem like a deal breaker
People, this should not have taken 12 minutes to get the first like, do better
He's teamed up with a guy who's been offering a health care plan two weeks from now for like a decade
If no fly, why wings?
I'm glad to see this but honestly don't understand why he didn't order them brought back in the first place. Wasn't this the one with the conversation about how maybe there was a HoJo in South Sudan they could all conduct these interviews at, maybe over pancakes?
I enjoyed MYST which I had on a CD-ROM, oh wait I went back too far didn't I
Dentists and hygienists are the good cop-bad cop of the medical field
The Facebook feed of a neighboring county's public school system (Durham) is doing a great job publicizing the high-value scholarships that their 2025 graduates have earned to college. I spent a few minutes scrolling through it and roughly 80% of them are young women.
I'm kind of picturing the bowling alleys eventually getting their own AI to handle scheduling and booking and the actual employees just showing up to work to chaos like in S1 of the Bear when the restaurant system allowed online orders to be placed before they opened
To be fair, he also looks like he could just be a guy who could get you a good price on one of those bikes with the enormous front wheel and teeny tiny back wheel
This SCOTUS desperately wants to make work for itself for some reason
Ok I love this story.... It is the himbo-est of himbo stories.
We have the attention span of a goldfish, he *was not on the ticket* and by 2028 the country will probably resemble Mad Max: Fury Road, it is clearly just a way to try to extend book sales
Well, he got his death I guess
The private schools here re-opened way before the public ones did, with smaller class sizes. If you had the means, you absolutely sent your kids to in-person kindergarten with a class size of ten.
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Sometimes the books are just aggressively mediocre...?
Clarence Thomas is a man of principle. When he's been bought and paid for, he stays bought and paid for.
Babel and Hello Beautiful
Horrifying
"Taylor Swift is no longer hot, thank you for your attention to this matter"
The right facial expression + head nod + emphasis in a couple of words and you've got a compliment that you can ride like a high for week!
@bsky.app can you please please please not do the auto-refresh thing, I hate having my finger hovering over a thread that I want to expand only to have the screen abruptly change, I am too old for that, please bluesky
They sell them at stores, big beautiful stores, the stores are full of food, and they call them I think "groceries stores"
It sounds to me like using Medicaid data unless you opt out, which needless to say is not the same thing as voluntarily opting in.
The "twists and turns" in question
It's not exactly "tech" but I have a gorgeous Art Deco electric waffle iron that belonged to my great-grandmother that is probably close to 100 years old and still works. There is no switch, you just plug it in to heat it up.
She looks 36 so I'm going to say 26
Many people have jobs that don't provide health insurance ya dipshite Mike
Would you go so far as to say that Hawley is....running away from the GOP?
This is not a slam on Stancil to be clear. I follow lots of people whose opinions I value, I do not consider myself to be their acolytes though