Just don't spend any money except at gunpoint. Same buying power as having overspent but without the pesky fun part.

Ankles look like nipples, apparently.

If you win the Masters back to back you should get green pants

Wow, J.D. really vanced the hell out of the Hungarian presidential election

The clown car has left Islamabad.

essential reading, essential reporting by Lena @writingthings.bsky.social

Yes, despite every indication that it's primarily motivated by racism and xenophobia.
We've accepted a view that any deviation from the social norm is mental illness(, and then reversed the relationship to point to "dangerous").
And that thinking is what's not right in the head.

Do people realize that they're making such a broad attribution? No one would put this on him being a social media figure because his decisions seem to be about maximizing his spotlight. As hard as they are, influencers don't carry that level of stigma.

He means it this time.

Opinion | Unions are on a comeback. Americans are paying the price. Unions may be on the rise, but the economic reality of organized labor remains the same.

Upper middle class households are having to eke by on just two Volvos and a Range Rover.

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Just a reminder that it's a full moon.

Vampires are the only workers with enough experience to get hired in this job market.

It does/can. It's just you've got that other pole to worry about.

It's eyebrows for me. I have a brow line like a Neanderthal.

They'd never make the mistake of going up against the Tan Suit Terror.

I'm going to give it another try with more generic questions.

It's nice to be able to modify the tone of a conversation explicitly without ruffling feathers. I still ran into problems with outdated information about the job market, but my situation is extremely messy.

I actually tried this with the free vanilla ChatGPT and got the same reassuring platitudes. I think I had the default prompt set to warm, so I told it to be more direct.

The difficult part is getting them to see that asking for advice from others can be draining for some people. They've made AI an evil concept in their mind and can't undo their beliefs about those words.

This is the Jetsons-style AI we were promised. It does the things that humans find draining. It's exactly the opposite of the problems people have with AI.

How are you using it specifically? I've used summarizing to organize my ADHD thought fire hydrants, but not for social perception related.

You can tell a lot about a paratrooper from the size of their boots.

an old wooden cathedral door with a hole in the bottom through which a cat pokes its head

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

With Ambitious Youth-led Music Festival, Local History Repeats Itself In the Best Way Big Pop Show, which sprawls throughout the Triangle March 20-23, is grounded in timeless festival principles: DIY, RIYL, and IRL.

very fun, rejuvenating (…hopeful?) story by Brian Howe

“At least in the Triangle, college radio is the crux of the local community, and I think it can be a resistant tool within universities, or at least that’s how a lot of my friends have approached it.”

Spanked his ass worse than Kevin O'Leary. 😂

They made them take down the videos because they would cause "reputational damage" to people like this young man, Nathan Cavanuagh, so definitely don't post this all over the internet with the name Nathan Cavanaugh attached, or this guy might suffer reputational damage. This guy, Nathan Cavanaugh.

Does connecting Iran and Israel via canal count as a problem?

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now.

They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

A Global Chemical Giant Racks Up Violations in Durham, Where Drinking Water for a Million Is Threatened Acetone, ethanol, 1,4-dioxane and methylene chloride were among contaminants found in a stream near Brenntag Mid-South’s chemical repackaging facility.

Brenntag Mid-South continues to amass serious environmental violations related to its chemical repackaging plant in East Durham, where state inspectors cited the company in November for failing to clean up leaking barrels on the property.