Hypothetical question from my teen: Could you + 40 people eat all the food in an American grocery store in one year? (The food never goes bad.)
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How it feels to eat food in 2026 America
Is it wrong to want to write a book out of spite?!
I am radicalized more every day in this freaking country. Try getting a medical service on short notice or go to the grocery store to pay $9 for lunchmeat. When will we have had enough?!?
20 years ago we used to have Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs and now we have Johnny Diarrhea, Bob Diarrhea and Steve Diarrhea.
*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?
I mean, the upside of living in a gerontocracy is that, statistically speaking, the clock is ticking on all of them.
What’s a good funny movie to stream on the usual platforms right now?
Real question: Is there any ethical obligation on the healthcare workers to confirm if he’s dead? Aren’t death records public?
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4w agoCrazy how People is the remaining publication that just goes for the jugular.
Even before today’s news, a demoralizing part of a candidate like Platner is we know there are probably half dozen more suitable women candidates, yet we perpetually hold our noses and bend over backwards to make excuses for mediocre men. WHYYYYYY
Seems implausible, yet commercial flights in this country somehow continue to get more miserable.
Me, dumping MiraLAX in my coffee: “Iocaine powder! Odorless, tasteless, undetectable in liquid. One of the more deadly poisons known to man.”
This could be us, but non-white people might enjoy looking at them, so probably not.
swirlOsquirrel@swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡
@hoosiersrise.bsky.social @hoosier-jezebel.bsky.social @hoosleft.us @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social Also, you don't have to live in #Indiana to donate to this. But you might need to know that the #Indy 500 happens in late May, so donate NOW. 🙏 @demsabroad.bsky.social
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Mother’s Day thought experiment: What if Jesus had been depicted as a woman? Would western society be 40% less misogynistic? Or would Christianity be relegated to a niche religion because of it? Hmm.
I would like to file a complaint that I am putting on a puffy jacket to walk my dogs IN MAY.
The arc of the moral universe appears to be on a bit of a detour at the moment.
a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”
Me, listing off the various large grifts going on in govt to my boomer mom. Mom: I don’t understand this *moon business* either. What was the point of THAT?! There’s nothing on it.
"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"
He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.
This country feels so willfully stupid. Hard to see a way out when everything is just so… dumb.
i love people. most governments not so much. you can differentiate. it’s not complicated.
Okay, at this point the jeans thing is on purpose. This is beyond coincidence. What on EARTH.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5mo agoI regret to inform America that this was just posted by the HHS Secretary.