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Thinking of how my chapter in an academic textbook opens with this picture bc no one told me the “fun headshot” they requested would be published without further questions or context at the start of said chapter

99.9% of the U.S. would consider The Olive Garden to be high class dining. Only an elitist like Barack Obama would invoke the Garden—home of never-ending pasta™—to ridicule someone.

“You thought we’d do something nice for you? You fool, that would never happen, now take a class” is a hell of a thing to tell your employees

Every once in a while, I think about what was quite possibly my favorite Lyft conversation I've ever had

Somewhere a publicist who repeatedly begged him not to tell people he’s being regularly tested for dementia is losing their goddamn mind

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

People think making video games is just playing a lot of video games and I’m here to tell you that’s not true It’s mostly taking two steps before filing bug reports that say “character model exploded, fell through world, and also I’ve downloaded bonzi buddy somehow”

God took six days to make all of Creation, which means he’d still be working and wouldn’t have even known that Katie Zacharia was ever the press secretary.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

How strange! Alt-Right bot activity being reported as nosediving after Ukraine bombed the shit out Russia’s data centres. What a bizarre coincidence!

Truly no clearer indicator that we are in The Rough Timeline

What's your signature emoji? The one you use on all the Slack messages, group texts, and responses to emails? 💙

Damn.

The “stop to end” truly was the cherry on top

Susan Collin’s has an incredible superpower of seeming too boring to be as corrupt and horrendous as she is

Incredibly sad that cute pet accounts are turning into AI reposters Can’t believe I’m nostalgic for engagement farming the old fashioned way of stealing videos of real animals from normal folks

It is a superpower of the artist to be able to make anything sexy

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

Get me out of this timeline

Someone already pointed this out but they really do find a picture of him that matches the shade of food every time

Sometimes you have a shared moment of trauma with folks and you don’t need to do anything beyond saying two innocuous words to trigger a whole cohort of people

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI https://theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-she-hooked-up-with-10-years-ago-now-head-of-fbi/

It brings me great personal joy how often I get to reference this flavor text in professional settings

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

Tooth fairy is the true inflation indicator

Tardigrade doesn’t have to pay taxes Tardigrade doesn’t have to endure daily deluge of news

“What’s it like working in game dev?”

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

When work is great and busy but it’s all NDA’d and life is great and busy but you’re planning a surprise and personal projects are great and busy but you’re just waiting for ink to dry so when your friends ask how you’re doing your only answer is “yes”

1) NOT MOWU 2) …Jiang Wick is 10/10, wp wp

Working from a local cafe for a change of scenery and this table has coffee cup sleeves jammed as shims under 3 of its 4 legs to stabilize an otherwise lethal wobble and it's hard to explain why this is the most charming part of this spot for me

Timeline cleanse 🙏✨

Me, wearing my wishbone tshirt Girl: oh I love your shirt! Me: thanks! Girl: is it from a video game? Me: no it’s a tv show from like the 90s Girl: ohmigod I *love* retro tv shows Me: 💀💀💀

Tagging @beyondmeatofficial.bsky.social for obvious reasons

Throwback to 10 (!) years ago when I ran into Mike Elliott and asked if he ever played Magic before

Marvel has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now

Child: It’s the mayor. Mamdani: *laughs* Child: What? You are the mayor. You could become the king. Mamdani: I’m happy as the mayor. Jalen Brunson is the king.

Me: I should build a new commander deck Boyfriend:

More than 750 servicemembers wounded and another 18 dead. Trump and Hegseth have failed and refuse to take accountability. They have no idea what they’re doing, and it’s made our country weaker and you less safe.

The algorithm is pretty terrible these days but once in a while it shows me a friend I haven't talked to in ages and not only are they doing great but they've transitioned since last we caught up and they look so happy and great and also super hot?!?! and it's like "let's go bro keep on thrivin'"

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Game studio exec: this glass reminds me of a show I saw on Netflix in a completely different genre, make the game more like that before I change my mind again in 6 weeks

I might actually die from irony poisoning

Yes agree 100% and also boy do I have things I can’t wait to share in roughly 30-47 pulsar cycles

I think it's cute :')

I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.com

Heard that Gran-Gran got banned today, as the prophecies foretold