a term whose etymology I have been wondering about since way back in the day when I first heard my dad say it

The weather is so nice, time to enjoy some time outdoors! And by outdoors I of course mean the underside of an SUV parked right outside my apartment

Meanwhile, DC is absolutely chock full of alleys, and yet you never see alleys in media depictions of DC! (probably because they're almost never filmed in DC)

it is very funny that Serious Intellectuals will talk about how we need to carefully triangulate the image of the national party to support moderates and then the actually-existing moderate is in a blood feud with sea lions for some reason

Vision Zero map of SE 7th from 2016-2023

I love taking SE 7th to the Blumenauer Bridge

On one hand, you get to think about the 54 crashes that pedestrians and bicyclists have had at nearly every intersection, there's cars parked in the bike lanes, and you may get door'ed every so often

On the other, it's faster than side streets :)

okay but how do I find out more about this "patch trick"??? I hear it's helping millions of Americans!

all the replies agreeing with him seem to be describing...Taco Bell? certainly helps explain why I've never encountered half-decent "Tex-Mex" outside of Texas. Nobody knows wtf it is!

One of the Artemis astronauts stood up immediately after splashdown and started collecting his carryon bags even though he was seated in the back row of the capsule.

In an american city, lots of people who didn’t commit any crimes are still afraid to *step outside* thinking an armed masked agent could be still right around the corner

To step outside. In the nominal land of the free

this post made me instantly laugh out loud and then almost as instantly feel terrible for laughing

Donald Trump is deranged. He must be impeached and removed from office.

Republicans who don’t stop him will have blood on their hands, and anyone who carries out an order to bomb civilian targets will be complicit in war crimes and will be held accountable.

President Trump’s threats toward Iran in the criminal war he started haven’t always come to fruition, because he has no idea what he’s doing. But that doesn’t mean his words shouldn’t be taken seriously as, at the very least, extremely reckless and troubling indications of how unfit he is for office. This morning, after days of escalating threats of action against Iran if its government fails to agree to open the Strait of Hormuz by 8 pm ET, Trump posted this: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

It can be difficult to describe this administration’s actions in harsh enough terms, because its leaders have used absolute buffoonery to keep us in a constant state of overwhelm. But if anything deserves outright condemnation, it’s this. The idea that Trump is genuinely going to annihilate the entire Iranian nation, as he seems to be threatening, is terrifying beyond words. The act of targeting civilians and destroying their infrastructure is reprehensible and a war crime. But even if Trump backs down, which we should all demand and pray he does, the simple fact that he would write these words is grounds for immediate action. If you haven’t realized it yet, this man is woefully and horrifically unfit for office. You should care about the country of Iran, which has 93 million residents, who are people just like you and me. But if you don’t, at least know that Trump is putting us all in grave danger by simply posting this threat. I encourage you to call your officials and demand they take whatever action they possibly can to stop Trump from carrying out his worst impulses.

I don’t know what to do. What I wrote in today’s morning news roundup is not good enough but here it is.

i am still not entirely sure how the book that first put him on the map isn't considered just an extended exercise in minimizing the nazis

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

Believing that leftists are simply not willing to call out antisemitism on our side requires believing that leftists don’t enjoy calling each other out and I’m sorry but I’m going to stop you right there

I ordered some shit from newegg in like 2015 and DHL somehow couldn't figure out how to find the DC townhouse I lived in so I ended up having to drive way out into fucking maryland to pick the thing up

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The shipper... (takes off glasses, pinches bridge of nose) The shipper chose DHL. (unable to look you in the eye) We don't know when your package will arrive. We may never know.

If you're going to throw assloads of money into making a TV series based on the work of a British fantasy author, whyyyyyyyyyy not do Discworld

Master of Puppets probably the classic example of Cackling Hetfield

Oprah seems way too smart to keep doing this by accident so I always assumed it was some sort of nefarious plan and Oprah is a deep cover Soviet agent on a mission to destroy the US by promoting our worst cranks and con men to positions of influence and power

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot.

This was Mueller’s FBI:

That's something I've never understood -- it starts raining here, and drivers get *more* shitty towards people not in cars. Like what are you in a bad mood for, you're in an 8,000 lb climate controlled SUV, I'm the one getting drenched on my bike!

... that's fucking Cotton Hill

ugh, I'd forgotten about this one. Tlaib is a real one. Incredibly fucked up how Israel treated and continues to treat her, and how much her "colleagues" in Congress enable and foster that treatmenta

lotta people in the comments criticizing trump for this but this is absolutely the treatment a greater east Asia co prosperity sphere apologist like takaichi deserves

Joe thought the job was just going to be about running cover for his buddies on the far right, he didn't sign up for dealing with the blowback from trump pissing off most of the rest of the world

ME: oh a little Zohran video for St Patrick's Day, probably just celebrating Irish culture, maybe a few green beer jokes

ZOHRAN (2 minutes in): ...and that's why King Leopold I of Belgium is a big wet bitch. Furthermore...

The war & AIPAC are nightmares, but so is Joe Kent, one of the most openly fascist figures in Trump’s regime, a comrade of Proud Boys and Fuentes, a man who says Black Lives Matter was a child trafficking ring, a guy who complains that Hitler is misunderstood. Don’t take the bait.