I got into weights when I was pregnant and have continued it for the past 20-ish months after my daughter was born. I did not know I would fall in love with it.
I started this book the other day and it’s been really interesting. Worth a read!
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Jaysus Effin' Christ. I hope this leads to a better policy of scrutiny. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/b...
It appears many of you are drawing the wrong conclusion that my partner is a torment nexus from my new book, My Partner Is Definitely Not A Torment Nexus. Unfortunately you’ll have to wait for the sequel, Turns Out My Partner Was A Torment Nexus All Along
And as someone points out in the replies, “should we form a union so pay is based on clearly defined responsibilities and experience instead of who happens to ask for a raise?”—an even better conversation
i had a boyfriend once whose big career tip was to take a low salary because then you could always overdeliver on whatever they were expecting. god that guy was fucking dumb slate.com/life/2026/03...
forbidden sprinkles
I'm not saying this is a good thing but if I'm reading a novel and come upon a big chunk of poetry or song lyrics, maybe written by the protagonist maybe even crucial to the plot, the only thing I think is: cool I can skip this page
i had not seen thank you!!
what happened to if you have time to lean you have time to clean. or does that only apply to me making $7.25/hr to sell shitty frozen yogurt and not the highly paid murder squad
The actual health obstacles that face us at this point are food access (quality, price, content) and movement access (ability to go anywhere without involving a car). Not only are we not fixing them, the govt is tripling down on
making the problems worse, WHILE telling us, you gotta eat healthier!
The amount of top-down hostility toward us eating or going anywhere is out of control, the dietary guidelines fail at basic math, and we are getting lapped by Brazil www.shesabeast.co/the-plot-to-...
The DoD balance sheet is probably like
Defense -$925 billion
Freedom +$1 trillion
To further wit, there can’t be a bigger money losing enterprise than the department of defense. Somebody really ought to look into that very strongly
When will the Pentagon turn a profit? How long are we going to prop up this failing organization?
The DoD budget math is NOT good
🤝🤝hell yeah!!
to wit, there are a lot more things that should be government services and “money-losing.“ Internet. Cell phone service. Higher education. Health insurance. all could be free. Not being free is a choice
We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services
We beat on, boats against the forward march of time
Robin Williams voice what year is it
2026. 2025? 2026. this one www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-best-a...
That’s not even the real reason I will be insufferable—the reason is that @xkcd.com is editing the BASNW this yea and picked the piece, and if you’d told 2010 me that this would happen I would have gone into a coma. Thank you Randall!!
oh no I’m going to be insufferable after this—my piece The Pelvic Floor is a Problem has been picked for BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2025!! www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
Ordinary people -- well, y'know, non-gym-bros -- getting into weight training is just such a great thing to see. It's so good for you, such a confidence boost. I hope the wave of casual-lifting spreads.
PS everyone should check out @caseyjohnston.bsky.social's Liftoff program. Super great, easy, low-stress way to get into weight training.
Wow thank you David Roberts!!🙌
where’s my money 😔
That’s the correct amount of sunscreen
Reading the original post replies and I have to say only virgins think this is what this would look like