My biggest Gen X revelation was rewatching Reality Bites a couple years ago and realizing that despite Ben Stiller and Ethan Hawke's characters being presented as polar opposites, they both would've become "do your own research" guys in 2020

thanks, i'll probably use those to get home tonight

So the coin flip happened years earlier outside the enlistment office

This isn't the behavior I want to see when I'm at the bar with my various Babies and Dogs

Buzz Aldrin still cursing history's most consequential coin flip

A white-boxed photo of a Cisco SPA303 desk phone. This is a very common VOIP phone to see in shows and movies

Scene set in an office? You know the set dresser is gonna put one of these bad boys on the desk

it was always presumptuous to name a magazine after an ocean. that's not our domain and we shouldn't speak for it.

I will never understand what drives some people to find the most broken clock they can and stare at it until the time is correct

trump and hegseth eating pizza together is an incredible deep-cut detail

Netflix got $2.8 billion for not buying Warner Bros. and I just want to say that it's a fair number and we should normalize giving $2.8 billion to people who didn't buy Warner Bros. and coincidentally I also didn't buy Warner Bros.

every day i think about Jonas Salk or Alexander Fleming saving hundreds of millions of lives and continuing to live like regular people. And then Zuck made a website so he could know when hot girls would be at the library and decided this made him the most important person in human history.

i'm bottling up all of my feelings about how politics and the economy work, all of the contradictions and absurdities and indignities, but the thing that will eventually make me lose my mind is clicking "remember this device for 30 days" every fucking day when i log into the same web site.

The Mysterious Benedict Society was one of my kid's favs, and I read the first one out loud to him and it was a hoot and half

I'm just going to back into the pole on my way out of the driveway right now and take down my own electricity. Better than waiting and worrying.

An illustration of a stylized baseball. The seams are orange, and there's a blue representation of the NYC skyline circumscribed within the circular outline of the ball. Across the front, extending just past the edges of the ball, in all caps, are the words: YA GOTTA BELIEVE!

Not a Mets fan, but this slogan has been resonating with me lately

A screenshot of black text on a white background from an AP story. It reads: "The two planes currently used as Air Force One have been flying for nearly four decades. Boeing has been working on replacements, but the program has faced a series of delays. The planes" (it is cut off mid sentence like that in the image.)

The president deserves a brand new Boeing airplane, built right now, with all the contemporary workmanship! Don't overthink it too much, just give him whatever rolls off the line next.

A screenshot of white text on a dark background that reads: "Quad Cities Region of five cities"

Get the fuck out of here

get a spray bottle, give em a spritz on the snout when they start to murder

Mandela effect?

In the reformed country, I'm going to work in the State Department, Brats and Punks division

They flagged it because they were impressed he could write so legibly on his own butt

true, true

social media would be infinitely better if when you start replying to a post, the OP saw the "..." so they knew you were typing. And then when you hit the back button and don't reply, they can feel relieved. And when something goes viral, they could see thousands of "..." icons. That would be fun.

guess that makes the president the Predator-in-Chief

Reginald Veljohnson still looks great!

they should do an "american beer is piss-water" joke next issue as a make-good

Now they just put a "Jesus fish with feet" magnet on their Priuses

don't look at wrestlers, they're just doing all that for attention

New Bumper sticker idea: "I Got This Before I Learned About World War 2"

from now on when I'm pissed at someone, I'm going to tell them, "go pound cake." i expect it to be confusing and ineffective.