Every time I see someone attribute homelessness to mental illness, I contemplate how few sleepless nights it would take to reduce me to a shuddering, screaming ball of anxiety. And that's without the loss of all my stuff at random intervals and the threat of both state and individual violence.

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

This lives in my head rent free

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

We need to normalise, in media, on socials and in face to face conversations, saying 'This is a stupid conversation and I'm not going to continue it.'

Once again, I am calling for museums to sell replicas of their little guys

Happy New Year from the Izu Shaboten Zoo!

Caves of Qud is the third highest rated game of the year, behind Shadow of the Erd Tree and Metaphor: ReFantazio

www.pcgamer.com/games/pc-gam...

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

NOPE, we are not going to make UHC restricting ABA "therapy" a scandal. Autistic adults who survived it as children describe it as torture. It should be illegal and I don't give a fuck if they're only doing it to save money, it's an unambiguous good to reduce the hours we torture autistic kids.

Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actually, life is one continuous chemical chain that first formed billions of years ago and every mountain range that existed back then has long since crumbled away to dust."

happy stylish but illegal ikea monkey day to those who celebrate

Let's make this clear: My mom's test results for nearly two years indicated possible cancer, but neither she nor her doctors knew this because of a private agreement between her insurer and pathologists to occasionally lie about abnormal or ambiguous test results and falsely report them as normal.

The worst fact I know:

Americans think they're saving for retirement, but they're really saving to pay a large unexpected medical bill.🤷🏿‍♂️

You see older people with no money, and you think they just didn't plan for retirement? Wrong.

All that money in your 401k? You will not get to spend that.

Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now.

I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.

I've used too much `git rebase` and not enough `git merge`, and fortunately stumbled on this website, an excellent interactive resource for learning all about git, remedial and advanced.

I read an advert from a distant land,
That said—Two small and unused baby shoes
Are offered for sale. . . .

For anyone wondering, this is my all-time favourite Edward Steed drawing...

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/