Gentle reminder: I am seeing more "I cannot afford pet food" posts & if you might face this in the near future/now, I recommend checking your local area's subreddit and posting if anyone knows of local programs for pet food. Many areas have small under-the-radar charities that give out pet food.

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

This

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caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

Especially after Kelly's EVA-as-second-stage trick, which is exactly how I got Jeb home from the Mun once.

Been watching For All Mankind and it's not just making me want to play Kerbal Space Program, but wanting an entire KSP prestige drama. Animated, voiced entirely in backwards Spanish.

At some point you just gotta ban her from boats.

Y'all ain't prepared for my Rains In Africa and House of the Rising Suns playlists.

Currently reading Exordia by Seth Dickinson, and I run across this the same day I read this passage:

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

It was always a sham. Tech CEOs, and billionaire tech CEOs especially, are base creatures of pure kayfabe.

The neurodivergent urge to take the aux cord and play different covers of one song for an hour.

And yes, we did listen to our merch survey…

Wild West

Its a special sort of trauma, looking back at.. basically everything.. and going, "Ooooooh." Especially if medication turns out to help.

It's weird that every story we tell agrees that only an evil ruler jails starving people for stealing bread, yet our jails are full to bursting with them.

Grassy ambush simulator.

How I feel sometimes reposting politics:

Blame circumcision! Wait, shit, half of American men are circumcised. Um, blame Tylenol again! Wait, what do you mean infant Tylenol is a thing and way more than 50% of kids have had at least one dose?! The autism, it's everywhere!

It sure did, and some of us said so; some, like Susan Faludi, in her book The Terror Dream, wrote brilliantly about such language. More said we were being hysterical. My point isn't "told ya so"; it's that language really matters.