Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.

“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”

starting to think Vienna might not wait for me at all

America positioning itself as a peacemaker and taking credit for a potential truce deal while simultaneously aiding and abetting in the genocide and mass murder of 46,000 people is everything you need to know about this country.

I have loved and cherished the works of Neil Gaiman for nearly 20 years. Fuck him. Fuck Amanda Palmer. Fuck these ghoulish, power-mad, predatory cunts.

A very smart pal with some excellent insights on what’s happening in wildfire management as a whole.

There absolutely should not be paywalls on the news in states of emergency

Idea: one person at the beginning of the fire news conferences does a blanket acknowledgement of all the brave responders/tireless work of personnel etc so that the remaining 10 speakers don’t have to waste precious airtime repeating the same circular thanks and can just get to the actual info.

she hans on my gruber til i die hard

Immigration policy in America is so fucking cooked and essentially always has been. It’s only going to get worse.

me: how old is your baby?
her: 46 weeks
me, struggling with the math: may i offer him a beer?

Montana Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling that allows gender-affirming care for minors The Montana Supreme Court is continuing to block a law that sought to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors while it goes through the courts.

Source: apnews.com/article/mont...

Only cowards delete posts about fucking Bigfoots

You know what they say about bigfeet

Passing, receiving, rushing: three things I WOULD do to josh allen

Google is Josh Allen single and/or problematic

Snow makes football games just so much better

“Dark-eyed Juncos” is a slur

Sad bird, dead in hand

What omen is ‘rescuing a struggling bird on a hike and it dying in your hands shortly thereafter’ #birdfriday

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing. Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

The coolest thing about Russell Wilson is his wife but this is sick too

I preemptively teed up this great post but forgot we live in Trumps America

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Every AI product or application advertised on TV opens with the premise, "you, hog that you are, are very obviously too stupid to write even a brief email. Well great news, asshole." Thank you for solving all the problems I have doing basic stuff with your application that does them weirder/worse!

Test (christ, let this free me from the bad place)