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"He's pretty damned independent," said Jay. "And lazy. That's a bad combination." Freelance writer, editor, and improv teacher https://www.mercuryimprov.com

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lifelong texan who hasn't had a car for ten years by choice and i can assure you i get plenty mad about it on the regular, not because i like being mad but because i think it's important to keep alive the idea that it doesn't have to be this way

if you grow up here you just assume that's how it is

09.03.2026 16:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ERIKESTRADA

09.03.2026 01:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

as someone who sometimes listens to a playlist called "oops! all tam lin" i'd be interested in knowing what book this is

08.03.2026 22:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

yes, my hopes were cruelly dashed

08.03.2026 17:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

literally spent the better part of a minute trying to parse this until i finally realized that "the goat that jake lang used to be" was not a discrete phrase

08.03.2026 17:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

for the last time, i'm not voting for gavin newsom

08.03.2026 07:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i don't know, i feel like it was covered and was noticeable bc of walz's disappearance but i can't testify to what outlets

08.03.2026 05:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I saw WAY more of Liz Cheney than Tim Walz in the last weeks of the campaign. Obviously that's just my personal experience but it sounds like I'm not the only one.

08.03.2026 05:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

been there

07.03.2026 23:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mandatory Roller Coaster This is Progress

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07.03.2026 22:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i love the dubious leads! so nice when a cop show even hints at how much of the work leads nowhere (and would love to see the same in depictions of artists and writers)

07.03.2026 21:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Obi Wan Kenobi plays a cat and mouse game of espionage with Jean Luc Picard

(okay, fine, it was a tv miniseries)

06.03.2026 23:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

they have definitely failed to draw a protective circle

05.03.2026 06:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i described the last sequence to her.

reader, she SHRIEKED.

05.03.2026 05:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i was once talking to someone (in broad daylight, in a crowded mcdonald's) who said she thought blair witch was underwhelming. under questioning she admitted she had watched some of it through her fingers and so had missed some of it. i asked her if she had seen the last image in the movie. 1/2

05.03.2026 05:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my brother once saw a local production where nobody knew their lines and at one point the actor playing big daddy adlibbed "that really ... bums me out"

05.03.2026 05:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

bolstering the point that americans can't process information, the comments are full of people decrying the stupidity of all those other people but almost nobody points out that this chart assumes "dem" and "rep"" are two cohesive, coherent, and mutually exclusive points of view, which they're not

03.03.2026 20:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

agreed, and positing "democrat" and "republican" as cohesive, coherent, and mutually exclusive points of view is definitely a form of illiteracy

03.03.2026 20:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i don't even understand the answer, is she saying that bc israel provides the us with intel that's sufficient reason to maintain the relationship? and if so what does that have to do with intel failures like signalgate?

03.03.2026 17:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i feel this tip could really turn things around for me

03.03.2026 00:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

some spells take a while to kick in

02.03.2026 22:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A Field in England (2013)

02.03.2026 02:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

more intense and concerted online bullying is apparently necessary

eyes on the prize, people: ZERO convention delegates

02.03.2026 01:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the inconsistency sort of speaks to all the comments here about her campaign

02.03.2026 01:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

fwiw she had more signs up than talarico at my polling place

02.03.2026 01:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

as an old i have been asking this

02.03.2026 01:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

this is delightful AND did anyone else think your mac was rebooting?

02.03.2026 00:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

holy cats i did not know this

28.02.2026 03:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

facts

26.02.2026 17:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0