I have never been so furious listening to an NPR program that I normally enjoy (Up First @ayesharascoe.bsky.social). To go to the 2nd largest city in Iowa and interview a gay couple to frame the GUTTING of public schools as "choice" and "free market" by Cory Turner is lazy at best.

I really think this has it’s roots in Rotten Tomatoes popularizing the conflation of great or well-reviewed with “at least OK to the widest breadth of people”

There should be an exception for when you see someone clearly struggling to manage a group shot though

Could at least make Trump eat a bowlful of worms or something

Part of the right's war on education, especially the part that appeals to voters and not Douthatian perverts, is pretty explicitly about limiting kids' horizons and trapping them where they are.

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

Do you know who did the artwork, because this rules

How many weird little petty feuds between should-be allies have their roots in competing for the same 2-3 pots of money? 80%? 90%?

I’d settle for getting a free pizza when I read a book again

I think it’s actually gotta be NewsRadio considering you get Rogan AND Andy Dick as avoid-at-all-cost outside that one specific context

One of my all-time favorites, but if the style and structure hasn’t clicked for you yet, can’t see that changing

“Minus zero”? “x Kong”? Gimme a Godzilla movie you don’t need to use an order of math operations on, amirite?

I saw someone post about Pepsi Twist yesterday and shed a tear

Ok, but that was my Costco impulse buy yesterday and the cherry vanilla actually rules?

The closest equivalent in my life is when you get excited about sharing some relatively fancy or slightly more expensive food with your kids and then instantly regret it because they have no concept of it being a luxury and not just a normal part of the meal rotation now.

But doesn’t that just make this current situation feel like a return to your comfort zone? A nostalgic blanket of mediocrity.

Let me tell you- swapping in 2005-06 for 10-11 didn’t do much better except for getting your dumb hopes up for FB as a freshman

Hell… even the vague sense that wbb isn’t living up to their talent in the postseason

No, that was the original post. The cumulative news just got me thinking “yeah these are the late-McCarney and McDermott vibes I remember from being on campus.”

100% certain that someone who graduated Iowa State in like 2007 made a poorly phrased wish to a genie about reliving his college days #BlueCy

Immediately back to sleep 🤣

Watching the dog destroy a whole carrot in like 2 minutes always hilarious

Sounds like you have a baker’s dozen things to do

Trying to figure out how to permanently have this by name on zoom calls

I vaguely knew about credit cards in general, but not that specific context of department store cards which seems so obvious now seeing it written out. What a fun new reason to dislike “women be shopping” jokes!

Not helping, but this is why I HATE “the young folks get it” or “this generation coming up will save us”, especially when it’s almost always someone who has 20 years on me and adult or college aged children. If you’re grateful for what they represent, show it and actually challenge your peers

Hardest lesson of life continues to be that a truth that feels uncomfortable/threatening will always be punished harder than a lie that causes actual harm

There’s a reason Germany basically treats Asparagus season as a national holiday