a very cool dog

The best part about learning to bake bread is the bread. The worst part is every time I am craving bread I gotta make it my damn self because store bread is so disappointing

Excited to announce that I found the needle I accidentally dropped into my backpack three weeks ago. I hate hand sewing it's bullshit

Cereal at night>>>cereal in the morning

Rosemont is the Dubai of Chicago (extremely derogatory)

it says a lot about the kind of place rosemont is that every response to that article about the chili's there firing a trans employee isn't "fuck chili's" but "fuck rosemont"

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

True. Directions are not my strength. Might even be my greatest weakness

I'm not sure pointing out hypocrisy will ever do anything. But damn dude you wanted a country where we can damn our political opponents to hell on the taxpayers' dime. Now live in it

Wouldn't it be nice to google something without getting blasted with 1000 links saying "do you wanna buy thing" "hey you can buy that thing" "BUY THE THING"

Lord above.

how's everyone else doing with little computer tasks amidst the horrors, personally I am not in top form

Not saying anything new but damn we really do have a 2 party system of pro Trump conservatives and anti Trump conservatives huh

Also he would've loved HRT I think

Man every time I see a Paul Delvaux painting I am stunned

idea: the decline of american empire as told through the advertisements on podcasts

Always devastating when you branch out and try a new takeout place and it's just Fine I Guess

we lost our way when we stopped having disheveled weirdos with insane hairlines play like half the roles for men in movies

Good news: The FDA has reversed its decision and will now review Moderna’s application for the first mRNA-based flu vaccine after initially declining to consider it last week in an attempt to undermine vaccine science and trust.

Mohsen Mahdawi gestures as he is escorted by immigration authorities in handcuffs during his arrest in Colchester, Vermont, on April 14, 2025. Photo by Christopher Helali via Reuters

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi.

Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

The thing is. Your phone camera is not built to do "accuracy." This is what we like about them, in a lot of ways! They can make our selfies more flattering. They automatically adjust contrast and color so things are easier to see. Our phones can store a lot of photos in a relatively small space

A collection manager complained last week that some images didn't look right. Come to find out...she was comparing them to some pictures she took on her iphone. I am dreading dealing with this lol

I love this one

Jesus I was not prepared for the existence of "protein takis"

"The ghost story, in other words, will always, on some level, fail to capture the haunting, just as the algorithm will always fail to capture the life—both are anathema to the very existence of the unpredictable and the messy. "

This essay from @colindickey.com is today's must-read:

Jack has taken so many pictures of me that look exactly like this

Anyway she just married her second horrible Christian man and I guess she's doing motivational speaking at megachurches now just like her dad

When I was like 19 I told my Christian best friend from high school that I was gay and then just proactively stopped being friends with her after that and honestly that was kind of cool of me. Like it's what she would have done to me if I'd given her the chance. In all likelihood

Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

"Ego" is a hilarious thing to accuse a politician of having. Next they're gonna tell me water is wet. I gotta get my hands on this groundbreaking newspaper

this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"