peggy olson’s roller skates
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spicy meatball, midwestern bog witch, accounting lady turned geography lady turned lady in construction, waymore’s no. 1 shrew
half leslie knope, half ouiser boudreaux
half leslie knope, half ouiser boudreaux
At a drive thru lights display and a staff member asked me if I wanted a roadie. Wisconsin!
December 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
At a drive thru lights display and a staff member asked me if I wanted a roadie. Wisconsin!
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Santa has returned to his chrysalis, his grim work done. Soon new Santas will emerge from the husk, driven only by their lust for jolliness
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Santa has returned to his chrysalis, his grim work done. Soon new Santas will emerge from the husk, driven only by their lust for jolliness
People who take down their Christmas trees on Dec 25 should be studied in a lab
December 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
People who take down their Christmas trees on Dec 25 should be studied in a lab
I hope that Green Dress has the very best Christmas and makes her four brothers do all the dishes and chores
Every time a bowl game takes place in the Dallas Cowboys practice facility, like the Frisco Bowl, I’m reminded that, bafflingly, this iconic fight happened outside that space.
December 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I hope that Green Dress has the very best Christmas and makes her four brothers do all the dishes and chores
Quietly ordered my own birthday cake this year, because I saw it and liked it and I’m a grown up and I can do what I want. It’s lingonberry! A lingonbirthday cake!
December 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Quietly ordered my own birthday cake this year, because I saw it and liked it and I’m a grown up and I can do what I want. It’s lingonberry! A lingonbirthday cake!
An ode to my washer, which died yesterday:
Goodbye washing machine
You lasted 17 years
You washed my kid's cloth diapers
And a couple of spilled beers
You survived longer than expected
In a planned obsolescence world
I didn't want to replace you this week
But that's what the universe unfurled
Goodbye washing machine
You lasted 17 years
You washed my kid's cloth diapers
And a couple of spilled beers
You survived longer than expected
In a planned obsolescence world
I didn't want to replace you this week
But that's what the universe unfurled
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
An ode to my washer, which died yesterday:
Goodbye washing machine
You lasted 17 years
You washed my kid's cloth diapers
And a couple of spilled beers
You survived longer than expected
In a planned obsolescence world
I didn't want to replace you this week
But that's what the universe unfurled
Goodbye washing machine
You lasted 17 years
You washed my kid's cloth diapers
And a couple of spilled beers
You survived longer than expected
In a planned obsolescence world
I didn't want to replace you this week
But that's what the universe unfurled
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It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
“The thing that’s been the most difficult so far is that, in all of our interactions with the government, they’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them.”
ICE Says U.S. Citizen's Birth Certificate Is Fake After Arresting Her: Attorneys
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect
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it was originally called just “sconsin” but science is constantly putting a huge W in
Supportive evidence: a dose-response relationship; the more high-fat cheese intake, the more reduction of Alzheimer's and all-cause dementia (reminder correlation, not causation)
December 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
it was originally called just “sconsin” but science is constantly putting a huge W in
The injection sites on her lips are janked, but that office decor might be worse. Girl, WYD, at least push those lamps away from the edge of the mantel.
December 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
The injection sites on her lips are janked, but that office decor might be worse. Girl, WYD, at least push those lamps away from the edge of the mantel.
I’ve engaged in home alone house renovation discourse and my little pony racism discourse all within an hour, time to log off for three days again
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’ve engaged in home alone house renovation discourse and my little pony racism discourse all within an hour, time to log off for three days again
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we’re gonna need to issue vax darts and air rifles to citizen militias like the tranq rounds that game control carries
i will be enlisting at 9:02 am announcement day
i will be enlisting at 9:02 am announcement day
We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of unvaccinated school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has sickened more than 110 people.
December 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
we’re gonna need to issue vax darts and air rifles to citizen militias like the tranq rounds that game control carries
i will be enlisting at 9:02 am announcement day
i will be enlisting at 9:02 am announcement day
if you ever think “chilis seems like the least bad option of all the chain restaurants near my child’s extracurricular event, let’s go to chili’s” I want to tell you this: don’t go to chili’s
you want to see god at a chilis? drink 1.5 merry maker margaritas that are like 50% sour mix
you want to see god at a chilis? drink 1.5 merry maker margaritas that are like 50% sour mix
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
if you ever think “chilis seems like the least bad option of all the chain restaurants near my child’s extracurricular event, let’s go to chili’s” I want to tell you this: don’t go to chili’s
you want to see god at a chilis? drink 1.5 merry maker margaritas that are like 50% sour mix
you want to see god at a chilis? drink 1.5 merry maker margaritas that are like 50% sour mix
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This is basically the core misery at the heart of the current RW movement. A complete lack of human feelings or emotions, just raw unfiltered sociopathic behavior the entire way down.
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
December 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is basically the core misery at the heart of the current RW movement. A complete lack of human feelings or emotions, just raw unfiltered sociopathic behavior the entire way down.
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there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
Contemplating a 4:30 PM power nap and trying to determine where that idea lands on a scale of dumb to super dumb
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Contemplating a 4:30 PM power nap and trying to determine where that idea lands on a scale of dumb to super dumb
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I’ve spent the last couple months writing about a new breakthrough treatment for people with liver cancer and to turn around and see this is just gutting.
This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I’ve spent the last couple months writing about a new breakthrough treatment for people with liver cancer and to turn around and see this is just gutting.
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A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
December 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A heroin addict who writes bad porn poetry says eliminating the Hepatitis B vaccine will make kids healthier. Medical experts say it will kill thousands of innocent children. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to believe.
Re: the ChatGPT brain scan piece - went to my daughter’s sports banquet this week and a coach and a captain publicly copped to using ChatGPT to write their speeches. The output was canned, the delivery was bad - there was no memory of writing to cover when the discomfort of public speaking kicked in
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Re: the ChatGPT brain scan piece - went to my daughter’s sports banquet this week and a coach and a captain publicly copped to using ChatGPT to write their speeches. The output was canned, the delivery was bad - there was no memory of writing to cover when the discomfort of public speaking kicked in
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A key point of writing, and even just jotting down notes, is that it organizes and structures your thinking around something. The main benefit is the process of doing it — not having a finished product.
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A key point of writing, and even just jotting down notes, is that it organizes and structures your thinking around something. The main benefit is the process of doing it — not having a finished product.
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in some languages, they don't say "I love you", they say "I made sure Future You would have a potato", and I think that's beautiful
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
in some languages, they don't say "I love you", they say "I made sure Future You would have a potato", and I think that's beautiful
This is what my mother-in-law’s mail looks like after cutting an annual check to her diocese for the last two decades.
Toward the end of her time living alone, she thought they were bills that needed to be paid.
Toward the end of her time living alone, she thought they were bills that needed to be paid.
November 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is what my mother-in-law’s mail looks like after cutting an annual check to her diocese for the last two decades.
Toward the end of her time living alone, she thought they were bills that needed to be paid.
Toward the end of her time living alone, she thought they were bills that needed to be paid.
This was the absolute star of this year’s dinner, the sauce was 100/10
A delicious homemade sauce, crisp-tender green beans and heaps of crispy fried onions that you can make all in one skillet changed my feelings about this once-maligned Thanksgiving staple forever.
smittenkitchen.com/2013/11/gree...
smittenkitchen.com/2013/11/gree...
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This was the absolute star of this year’s dinner, the sauce was 100/10
Bob Dylan, we need to talk about Girl from the North Country being used in a Facebook commercial. Did you think about evil ass Meta using your song when you sold your catalog? Because gross.
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Bob Dylan, we need to talk about Girl from the North Country being used in a Facebook commercial. Did you think about evil ass Meta using your song when you sold your catalog? Because gross.
My brain is short circuiting looking at this NWS expected snowfall map for the western UP. That is a lot of snow for a short window of time.
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My brain is short circuiting looking at this NWS expected snowfall map for the western UP. That is a lot of snow for a short window of time.