So much of what makes 19th century literature Hit Different is that the authors infodumped about their hyperfixations without having their knuckles rapped by a ruler inscribed with “kill your darlings”
i read Dracula by Bram Stoker recently and it's so much weirder than i thought! theres multiple chapters about how cool stenography is. lots of train schedules. a lot of (inaccurate) excitement about blood transfusions. a much better horror novel in the middle about a doomed ship
@o_honeybees
Knitters remain the only group to get the International Olympic Committee to back down and get two apologies out of it because the first wasn’t good enough
Elon Musk crashes into a board meeting with an “I Heart Eating Shit” forehead tattoo: “Well well well, guess who just lost all their advertisers for, you guessed it, being white”
@agraybee
That vanilla is a synonym for “safe and boring” instead of a hard-won spice brought over from the New World is a symbol of how far we’ve come. We live in a way that would make kings envious
@lisasaurstomp
Part of me wonders whether this started as the French subtweeting American cuisine, but then they got so much engagement that they just kept doing it, forever.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, wants users to start paying for some features, taking a page out of Twitter's playbook. For $11.99 a month (or $14.99 through Apple's iOS), users will get a blue badge and direct customer support access.
@kellyvhalen
Yashar has now spent more time riding Cardi B for publicly contemplating a potential investment than he has putting David Perdue on blast for insider trading, but only one gets him that sweet like/retweet dopamine, so
@OuterBoroRoyal
@Danofran
Ok but “22 chronological years old” makes him seem like he’s only vaguely heard of the concept of linear time, like, sir, were you cryogenically frozen for a few years?
@bryrsmith
@sadydoyle
Have you watched the other ones? I have. They suggested that Sarah Huckabee Sanders should get a national radio show with
@SenSanders
. Advocating that SHS should get a wider audience for her lies isn’t funny either.
@AnneNotation
Honestly I would watch the thunderdome struggle session of the making-of for such a movie, which would never be completed after 800 days of debate
If you’ll recall, Josh Duggar also used Covenant Eyes with his wife Anna as an accountability partner, and nonetheless was convicted of possessing some of the vilest CSAM ever known to exist
COMPROMISE ALERT: Speaker Mike Johnson uses software Covenant Eyes (learned about at a Promise Keepers retreat) that scans all his electronic devices & gives a weekly report an "accountability partner" his 17 yr old son (so basically don't watch porn or your son/dad will know😬)
Update: As ofcrs contacted the suspect and OIS occurred, one of the officer’s rounds penetrated a wall that was behind the suspect, beyond that wall was a dressing room. Officers search the dressing room and found a 14 year old female victim who was struck by gunfire.
@clapifyoulikeme
I would buy this ridiculous house and all its furnishings, solely so I could sit across the table from the owner at closing and ask questions, because I have several:
The perception that the 1950’s were a Gilded Age of single-income prosperity and cheap housing is because that was your parents’ and grandparents’ experience; the people who didn’t experience it that way had fewer kids who didn’t live as long. 1/
@gothspiderbitch
And you can tell how close she was to her backing musicians because they’re almost more hyped about it than she is, and she goes to hug them first.
He took a $900 gun on a 4 hour car ride when car sauce is over $4 a gallon; whatever that amount of money was could have put a healthy down payment on dental surgery
@jeffj1111
@HaroldJ_NEPA
@eddyrivas
IRS: We will ask you to verify your identity by stating the employer on your W-2, which due to myriad snarls of staffing subcontractors may bear absolutely no relation to where you actually work.
@diannaeanderson
How do these people function in a society that conducts transactions and takes public transport or private transport featuring a transmission?
@notcapnamerica
No President has attended the coronation of a British monarch in the entire history of this country and Charles has *wildly* misjudged Joseph Robinette Biden if he thought he was going to be the one to break that streak
@clapifyoulikeme
One of my roommates in college worked at Disney; she was once assigned to walk a random dog around the neighborhood with a “family” of her coworkers while they were showing a house
@ScottHech
With the advent of e-discovery, is it not easier than it’s ever been before to produce responsive documents?
What they’re really cranky about is that they can no longer bury one useful document in 3 bankers’ boxes of garbage
@agraybee
“Girlboss” is the one term on this hell website I’d wish into the cornfield because I don’t want to interact with anyone who uses it sincerely or ironically
Journalism programs have such an odd relationship with working journalists. Imagine if lawyers and nurses were constantly advising people not to go to law school or nursing school. I can't think of any other profession like this.
@Nicole_Cliffe
The opening sequence of Valerian and the City of 1000 Planets is a beautiful silent film about first contact, diplomacy and what all societies, no matter how alien, share. It would’ve won an Academy Award if it had been a short film.
Tragically, it wasn’t.
I’ve been afraid of losing my mom since I was four years old, when my mom was hospitalized after losing a dangerous amount of weight, and my grandmother decided to cheer me up by taking me to the movies to see a re-released Disney classic.
It was Bambi.
Alabama sheriffs were allowed to just PERSONALLY pocket public funds that were meant to feed people in county jails. One sheriff pocketed $750,000 in 3 years, and bought a beach house.
A new law finally bars that practice.
@MattGertz
Contrary to whatever theater went down up north, most American truckers are independent contractors who can’t afford to go three weeks without working