I would not trust it either. It’s been a few years since I got the check, and I’m still worried they’re going to ask for it back.

It was also a reminder that the whole process of preparing your taxes is a giant scam, where the IRS knows the entire time what you actually owe, and is very prepared to punish you if you mess it up in the wrong direction.

Also, a few years back, I miscalculated my taxes, in the IRS’s favor, and about six months later they just…sent me a check.

Weirdest moment I’ve had in a very long time. I remember just staring at the check, wondering if this was some sort of trick.

I’m actually getting a tax refund this year?

(Last few years, I’ve underpaid, and had to pay additional, which was not a good feeling.)

An orange cat and a black cat are sitting on a black couch, close to a tan and white dog. The cats are not amused.

I call this “the calm before the storm.” Someday, the cats will forgive me for getting a puppy, but that day is not today.

Kids keep it together because they don’t know any better, and because they often have no choice. Their ability to change their environment and get out of an abusive environment is incredibly limited. So they keep it inside, only to fall apart later.

Kids aren’t resilient. They’re survivors.

If kids are so resilient, then why are we all in therapy because of stuff that happened to us growing up?

My hot take: We say kids are resilient because they don’t know enough to complain, and facing the truth is too hard.

A tan and white dog is sprawled out on a black couch, with a derpy look on her face. There are no brain cells to be found.

Oh, to be a puppy

Or is it pupcakes and cuppies?

Cupcakes and puppies are the winning combination.

A tan and white shepherd-hound mix is sitting in the backseat of a car.

It’s my son’s birthday, so I sent him to school with cupcakes for his class.

Turns out it’s another one of his classmate’s birthday today, so all the kids got TWO cupcakes.

Oh, and my son got a puppy for his birthday, as if life wasn’t already pure chaos.

40 ounce bag of Albanese cottontail gummies.

Costco has a way of making this seem like a good purchase. Who wouldn’t want a 40 ounce bag of cottontail gummies?

“Smith thought about her daughters — the one she already had, and the second one she was now expecting. She was maybe 28 weeks pregnant when they decided to leave the state.”

Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market New research found that abortion bans resulted in lower rental prices and higher vacancies.

“After becoming pregnant again in 2023, Smith worried about what health care she would need in Idaho and whether she’d be able to receive it.”

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Want to know what doesn’t lead to fatal complications or immune amnesia?

The vaccine.

Measles is no joke. There’s the risk of fatal complications, some of which only emerge years after the initial infection. A measles infection also causes immune amnesia, which causes your immune system to forget how to fight off known pathogens.

I never thought I’d want to burn a book, and yet, here we are.

The women’s hockey team has done more with less.

They are still the brunt of the jokes, and they are still expected to be the bigger/better people.

It’s gross, and it needs to end.

US Olympic gold medalists Hilary Knight and Quinn and Jack Hughes appear on 'Tonight Show' Jimmy Fallon made fun of Jack Hughes for getting a tooth knocked out before scoring his Olympic-final overtime goal and praised Hilary Knight for winning at her fifth Games as the U.S. gold medal-winn...

I am so tired of women being expected to cover for men’s bad behavior. The Hughes brothers still haven’t apologized for laughing at the women’s team, and yet the women are still expected to make nice with them, and act like what the men did was OK.

I feel attacked

A grumpy long haired cat is sitting patiently on his human’s lap, in a coffee shop. The cat is wearing a dinosaur hat.

I went to a local coffee shop this morning, where I met this icon

Dunkin' Is Testing a Jaw-Dropping New Menu Item—and I'm Not Afraid To Cross State Lines To Try It Dunkin' is testing an all-new, ultra-large size at select locations. Here's everything to know about the new Dunkin' bucket of coffee.

48-ounce bucket of coffee = the 'writer's size'

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Cats Actually Know Each Other's Names, Study Suggests Cats were confused by humans calling their feline friends names that didn’t match, in a study of 48 kitties out of Japan.

Yes, but do they recognize the million nicknames that you've given your cats?

US men’s hockey team gets backlash for phone call with Trump who made joke about inviting women’s team The U.S. men’s hockey team is receiving criticism for conversations in the locker room after winning the gold medal at the Olympics.

Laughing while someone makes fun of your (enormously) talented women colleagues is shitty behavior, and also a really good way to lose an enormous amount of goodwill.

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How Often Do You Fart? This 'Smart Underwear' Can Keep Track, Because Figuring Out a Baseline Is Important for Science Researchers have launched a study to find a typical range for flatulence, which has been harder to measure than you might expect

The “Fitbit for farts” study is in such high demand that they’re now putting people on a waitlist while they try to expand enrollment.

(Come for the lulz, stay for the cool science! Nice explanation from Smithsonian Mag of how transformative this could be for GI health science.)

An orange cat is lying on a blanket, with his paws stretched out. He has a very derpy look on his face.

I think I broke my cat

I really don't want to speak ill of the dead... but James Van der Beek's wife was anti-vaxx and while he was fundraising for treatments he never made clear if it was an issue that he didn't have health insurance vs the treatments were of the kind (untested) insurance wouldn't cover.

Artificially Large Skier Penises Should Stay Legal | Defector To ski jump is to momentarily become a god. The track is narrow and slick, and the athletes plummet down the sloped hill at almost 60 mph. They leave the track and take up, up, up into the sky, where ...

There’s a penis scandal brewing in the world of ski jumping.

Sometimes, the stories just write themselves.

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HE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE

This Dallas Stars Player Might Be the Biggest Green Flag in the NHL From autographing a fan’s cat drawing to scoring goals “for his cat,” Dallas Stars player Jason Robertson is winning hearts everywhere.

And in another installment of “athletes who have the right priorities in life,” NHL player Jason Robertson dedicates all of his goals to his cat.

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