we all know I have no life, so:

#Ohio's extreme Republican state government is making national news:
newrepublic.com/article/2087...

"why the hell is my fridge calling out to claude?" well, you see, a bunch of people who listen to the lex friedman and joe rogan podcast are responsible for executive compensation packages and they keep hearing about this ai thing...

Also canceling body armor since their brave warrior bodies will withstand any attack large or small.

Coalition pushes back against effort to abolish Ohio's property taxes Ohioans to Protect Public Services has started a public education campaign to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment.

COLUMBUS OH — A statewide coalition has launched a public education campaign to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment that would abolish all property taxes in Ohio, arguing the move could be devastating to public services and schools across the state
by Doug Petcash
www.10tv.com/article/news...

love bluesky because the replies to this post immediately descend into people fighting about whether the minions would have worked for stalin

I have absolutely no idea how to read this sentence.

Bus typo: Help us score the gift of life, DONATE BLOOB

BLOOB FOR THE BLOOB GOD!

watching evangelical media is so funny because like i'm watching one of those rapture movies where the plot is that Iran has closed the strait of hormuz and this will somehow lead to the rapture

Amateurs compared to Nepal:

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“person who gets high from telling people easily obtainable facts”

Ouch. That’s where all my reddit karma’s from.

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr

1. barely works
2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate)
3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? YouTube video by Folding Ideas

Why was I invited to Beast Studios?
youtu.be/0dwagg5wYY4

damn girl, are you a tiny chunk of cat food? because i just accidentally ate you off a cutting board because i thought you were a banana bread crumb. i don't think i'm doing this format right

The Grammarphobia Blog: Cut, butt, skip, or ditch in line? The various ways that Americans refer to unfairly getting in front of people who are standing in line.

Apparently using ‘ditch’ to mean cutting in line is highly localized to Central Ohio. I discovered this when someone from Cleveland was confused by it yesterday. More: grammarphobia.com/blog/2021/12...

big if true

I've been at Indiana University for nearly 20 years and only *today* did I learn that the term "white-collar crime" was coined by IU sociologist Edwin Sutherland in his 1939 presidential address to the ASA www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

The House passed our extension of TPS for Haiti with a 224 vote victory of Democrats & Republicans alike.

This has been a long-fought battle to defend our Haitian neighbors & our communities, and we're not letting up.

The Senate must take action without delay.

Mark 13:7-8 The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

Exactly one year ago today:

the Star-Tribune is reporting that the Minnesota State Fair has ruled against the use of quinoa in the crafting of Crop Art submissions, please be aware of this change as you prepare your Crop Art

Have the Democrats considered running on an anti-Bradford pear message this fall? It couldn't hurt.

The trick to overcoming procrastination is to have deadlines with dire legal consequences.

many such experiences when I was on the apps

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

United States Ambassador To Italy Mrs Clare Boothe Luce Listens To The Words Of Pope Pius Xii,During An Audience At The Pontiff'S Lakeside Summer Residence.13 October 1955

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946.

In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her.

"You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

Poster encouraging people to take the London Underground to go visit the zoo Illustrated with a picture of a big blue and green European tree frog. "I am at the zoo Bring me a fly"

I Am at the Zoo — J. Martin Pollock, 1923

I find this kind of adorable and want good things for this person.

Don’t forget…..YES on Issue 5.