LETTERS TO WENDY'S ApriL 19, 1997 It is rare for a babv to be so bad that it is sentenced to be hanged, and even rarer for the sentence to be carried out, and vet, when a baby is hung, what a pleasant surprise it is for the passersby. Even the passerby whose arms and legs are bound is able to inch up close enough to the tiny, swaying, villainous nugget of softness and know, with his bare cheek, the threshold through which real evil sinks away

Joe Wenderoth from Letters to Wendy's

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I'd read it

pictures of Vince McMahon growing increasingly unhinged, with captions as follows: 1: "The Iranians won't close the Strait"; 2: "The Strait it Europe's problem, not ours"; 3: "OPEN THE F'ING STRAIT OR WE END YOUR CIVILIZATION"; 4: "How about WE close the Strait ourselves? You ever consider THAT?"

Strait talk

He is risen indeed

I loved gopher so much

And I mean the WHOLE month

Keep cooking, my son

Man, I’m so full of gas right now I may need to be escorted through the Strait of Hormuz

This is the correct take. I’ll admit that Platner is an extraordinarily gifted communicator, but that’s not enough for the general election, esp given that Republicans have been keeping their powder dry for now

Jesus Christ that whole essay is gorgeous

Stealing this

genAI use isn’t a search for knowledge.

It’s a plagiarism machine for amateurs and lazy people.

I can't love this post enough

Every interview with this guy comes off like he's *hoping* to be beaten to death by an angry mob.

You guys fucking rock. Never regretted my membership

Baltimore native Adam Duritz

a man in a suit is sitting at a table in a restaurant eating a sandwich and drinking a beer . Alt: a man in a suit is sitting at a table in a restaurant eating a sandwich and drinking a beer .

Continental, you say?

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

Is this karma? In Trump's horrific, senseless war of choice, crucial help will soon be needed from Ukraine, a country Trump betrayed but the only country on the planet with expertise in shooting down Iranian-made drones.

MW Top lookups right now: 1. 800-pound gorilla 2. bootylicious

Sure.

The Canadian one was a printer. The American one was a farmer and later an executive with Big Dairy. I think nowadays you might call him a milk industry lobbyist

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

Best alt text ever

The Kobayashi Maru Training Exercise for people with "In This House We Believe" signs in their yard.

I remember when this song came out and I hoped she’d be huge. I still hope that.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a reminder that the Trump administration canceled all of the electrical grid improvement projects the DOE funded for Puerto Rico. Oh, and all of the solar projects, too.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you