“I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.” - @colsonwhitehead.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, @lenasun.bsky.social reports wapo.st/4ccudpF
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
This is NOT what I signed up for
I just got one gifted to me for my birthday last week (thank you thank you) and it was one of those gifts that you’re mad at yourself for not thinking of earlier. Just livid on my big boy special day.
30 years ago today, Troy McClure starred in the musical “Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!”
#TheSimpsons episode “A Fish Called Selma” first aired March 24, 1996.
If you want a guaranteed way to feel younger, I’d recommend eating like a quarter of a leftover birthday cake until your kidneys seize up like they did most weekends from age 8-11 or so.
40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart
40-Year-Old Not Active Enough To Realize Body Falling Apart theonion.com/40-year-old-not-active-e...
Honoring* my heritage today
*playing that one song from boondock saints (refuse to learn the title) that the frat house next door used to blare out their windows (we lost our aux cord so we couldn’t)
Screenshot of Michael Jordan from ‘The Last Dance’ with text overlaid to make it look like he’s saying: “How is it legal for a guy to be named Michael B. Jordan? That's just my name but with a B. I call 911 everyday about this.”
In honor of Michael B. Jordan’s Oscar win, here’s a meme that has been stuck in my head since like 2020.
The Italy fan using a Moka pot as a noisemaker in the stands at the WBC is my spiritual pal.
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
Top gun is on again people
Most of my adult autonomy has been leveraged to eat breakfast foods afternoon and rarely utilized for what I’d assumed (dessert [cake, pie, milkshakes, etc] for breakfast).
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
brb buying apparel from my alma mater to tuck into my pants at a networking event (private)
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
When you were a kid, did you ever meet another kid who was clearly out of their mind, and incredibly troubled and destructive, who made you really uncomfortable to be around, and you just hoped that they would grow up to… Not be like that?
And then they grew up to be even worse?
Gotta point out here that this is another nail in the coffin for treating social media as a proxy for man-on-the-street interviews.
Tonight the country will be watching, President Trump. You have an opportunity to really turn things around. All it takes is that you act in a way fundamentally opposed to the core of your being,
so what happens to all the collected tariff money?
"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.
In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
Coworker Laid Off Solely For Performance-Related Reasons Warns AI Coming For Everyone
Coworker Laid Off Solely For Performance-Related Reasons Warns AI Coming For Everyone theonion.com/coworker-laid-off-solely...
Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well
Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well
skeleton: behold my figure, ass on display at flattering angle, headfirst downhill like a gravity-fed demon, brave
luge: whole body's a double chin, flying gooch-first, prisoner of sport, corpse-like pose
Even for this lunatic this is wild stuff
update: you'll be shocked at how much this did NOT work
