I feel like the real trolley problem is the fact that many American cities used to have widespread trolley networks and then they were dismantled to build car infrastructure.

Banshee!

Chips Ahoy! cookies. I literally refer to them as "my garbage cookies" but I unironically love that cardboard trash. In fact, I wish I had some RIGHT now. Just like, a gas station four-pack.

REPENT
STAY SAFE SO U CAN REPENT ANOTHER DAY

Sometimes I get down on myself for ADHD-ly forgetting the fine details of books I read mere months after finishing.

The huge upside of this: I'm re-reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's masterpiece Children of Time for the first time in five years, and it's like I'm reading it for the first time again.

Rhode Island's Enchanted Forest Was Once Magical for Children The Enchanted Forest in the village of Hope Valley in Hopkinton, Rhode Island brought joy to the children of southern New England for over 30 years.

I just did the hugest double take... Rhode Island *also* had an Enchanted Forest, with a shockingly similar mascot and sign, and apparently it opened in the same year???

wbsm.com/rhode-island...

i have to wonder what kind of future AI hypebeasts are imagining when they say stupid shit like, "most or all of white collar tasks will be automated within 18 months". like, okay, microsoft, then who are your customers? who is purchasing O365 subscriptions when robots are doing all the work?

/ U MITE BE LIKE
/ "ITS 2 COLD"
/ & U MITE BE RITE
/ BUT
/ IN 1 WEEKS TIME
/ U MITE BE ABOUT 2 EXPERIENCE TEMPS
/ 4 SEVERAL DAYS IN A ROW
/ IN THE 40S
/ O ISNT THAT SO SPESH?
/ SPESH ENOUGH THAT ULL REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS?

I thought today was supposed to be the day when the groundhog comes out of his hole to see if there's light, not Neil Gaiman.

Fucker.

THREE PANELS TOP PANEL: "BOMB CYCLONE" NEXT 2 A SKULL IMAGE WITH A SHRUNKEN BRAIN MIDDLE PANEL: "BOMBOGENESIS" W/ A BRAIN LIGHTING UP BOTTOM PANEL: "EXPLOSIVE CYCLOGENESIS" A BRAIN WITH BEAMS EMITTING FROM IT

BOMB CYCLONE
BOMBOGENESIS
EXPLOSIVE CYCLOGENESIS

Broke: analyzing the mesoscale frontogenesis to identify where the heavy snow bands will set up within the storm

Woke: mescaline

X-Men includes roughly infinite repeats of this scene:

SOMEONE WITH USEFUL POWERS: Hey, I can help fight Magneto!

WOLVERINE, A MAN WITH A METAL SKELETON MAGNETO HAS ALREADY RIPPED OUT ONCE: Nah, doll, I got this.

ANY OTHER X-MEN PRESENT: [shrug]

It's become a running joke between me and my trainer that Golden comes on every time we have a session despite the fact that I work out at different times. It's not a workout unless I get to rock out to that song 😂

You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.

I'm so curious about this. In the past year I went from "never having read comics ever" to "X-Men is my new obsession" and I'm not sure how much of an outlier my experience is, but it felt really easy for me to jump in and fall in love with the characters.

TEXT: WRITE A HORROR STORY USING ONLY 3 WORDS IMAGE: TAN PENCIL ARRANGED VERTICALLY ON LEFT SIDE WITH RED TIP & BLOOD DRIPPING FROM THE TOP END

WEATHER IS HAPPENING

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There’s an age where “Mmm please step on me” becomes less about thirst and more about lower back pain

FALL BACK
(INTO SEASONAL DEPRESSION)

A snickers bar split open, with a JPEG of a copper ingot exposed in the middle

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality.

Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

Peter Fonda saw Pablo Picasso paint. I know this because he told me when we were in a Thomas the Tank Engine movie together.

Yes, it’s as surreal as it sounds.

I booked mine, and then missed the first appointment. I think that should have qualified me for a diagnosis right then and there.

The sunk cost fallacy is just that—a fallacy. It’s okay to change the things that aren’t working for you, from jobs, to partners, to gender.

nice

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... I didn't even know B was an option 🤯

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

An accidental Locked Tomb post.

I do think the world needs some kind of wacky hijinks crossover story between Launchpad "never met a plane I couldn't crash" McQuack and Scott "my secondary mutation is surviving plane crashes" Summers. #X-Men #DuckTales #nonsense

Hey fellow eldest daughters: time to text all our family members to remind them to get their COVID boosters and flu shots.