Thought I had my sewer bill on autopay but apparently I just haven’t paid it for 6 months. And, you know, what if I don’t? They gonna turn off the sewer?
SwampLizard
@swamplizard.bsky.social
Speech, language by profession (SLP), neuroscience of language (PhD in progress ⏳ ). But this account is mostly for posting bad political jokes as some sort of coping mechanism.
Thinking one’s way into becoming a Nazi from first principles is the only way a lot of educated people can avoid the cognitive dissonance.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2h agoBen Shapiro probably does not know enough history to even know this, but the way he is talking about Muslims as a nation within the nation who can never be integrated is almost verbatim what European nationalists said about Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Walked into a room and someone friendly with no ill intent asked if my iced cold brew coffee was a soda in front of people and I’ve never been more offended
Starting a podcast but consistently referring to it as “casting my pod,” “I cast my pod at least once a week,” “casting pod with my friends” etc.
I wouldn’t wish cyclosporiasis on anyone except those who mildly inconvenience me
Hosting/cooking for a dinner party and want to make sure I stick to widely-loved flavor profiles so most or all people will have something they enjoy. For example, in the first course, I plan to give everyone gourmet sour cream on an onion.
5 hairs growing out of a single pore, call it my hair follycule
Sorry I’m late, I subconsciously lost the sense of urgency and started moseying.
Missile-dodging is now part of the toll, however.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · yesterdayHORMUZ STRAIT TO FULLY REOPEN WITHIN HOURS OR TOMORROW
See, we just don’t need these kinds of sentences. We shouldn’t do this with words, we’re taking it too far.
The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 2d agoFormer Schools Chancellor David Banks and ex-First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright have snagged top New York officials as podcast guests, despite the lingering cloud of Adams-era investigations. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/d...
POV: You’re a JSOC operator in Tehran who just heard the NYSE opening bell
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d agoStill wild to me we’re literally fighting a war entirely outside of trading hours
Then I guess you should make it illegal for most employers to discriminate on basis of college degree attainment
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Microsoft Edge: do you want to make me your default browser? Me: oh, uh, I mean everything was fine and you seem perfectly nice but this was more of a one time thing, I’m actually using another browser consistently right now and want to see where that goes
Imagine being able to say you lost your virginity in Lee on Lee with Lee
Soren Spicknall@sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 2d agofree jouch
It should, however, be designed to exclude certain types of people, and if it doesn’t do that, you will ironically end up having this app used by another specific group of people.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Microsoft: we made a shitty version of an online service we’d like you to use Me: why would I switch to a shitty version? Microsoft: I’m sleeping with your boss
Uh oh, the Youngs are ubiquitously doing things you’ve never heard of or seen before the article that’s telling you about it.
WIRED@wired.com · 2d agoThe communication-free form of breaking up has become ubiquitous. “I no longer had to bear her energy,” a man who ghosted his partner of four years tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/people...
Monday morning discourse bait: Garlic powder gets too much hate and I don’t believe that most people who get dramatic about it can really tell the difference.
Apollo’s last night with balls, giving the cone a test run. He is undecided on all this.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cyclosporiasis
Politico@politico.com · 3d agoRFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cyclosporiasis
Politico@politico.com · 3d agoRFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health
Actually, Americans are just like you. ~20-30% of them genuinely support fascism, as in ~every 🇪🇺 country. You are just more fortunate to have political institutions & a multiparty system that prevent that 20-30% from fully capturing the center-right party, becoming 51%, & controlling the government.
Philip Stephens@philipstephens.bsky.social · 5mo agoTime to admit it. Americans are not like us. Latest Inside-Out column open.substack.com/pub/philipst...
One way or another, the fuckin ghoulish fuckin fascist evil folks behind this have got to go
OLIYA SCOOTERCASTER@scootercaster.com · 3d agoHaitian TPS holders walk out with a fitted ankle monitors after mandatory ICE office check in at Blue Ash Ohio facility. After Supreme Court decision to terminal Temporary Protective Status, many Haitian community members received notices to appear at the location.
My facewash has caffeine; I’m not sure if it does anything or if it’s just there for marketing, but either way it worked, many a morning the idea of rubbing caffeine into my face has seemed psychologically appealing