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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
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If you can afford it, a *monetary* donation (it goes a lot farther!) to your local food bank would be a most excellent thing to do right now.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If you can afford it, a *monetary* donation (it goes a lot farther!) to your local food bank would be a most excellent thing to do right now.
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There’s one policy that Democrats could run on that guarantees they’d sweep back into power: making .webp images illegal
August 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
There’s one policy that Democrats could run on that guarantees they’d sweep back into power: making .webp images illegal
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This is my advice to teenagers. You’re probably way meaner than you think you are - because people actually care about your opinion more than you think - and you’ll probably wish you had been kinder
If there's one episode of TV I wish I could force everyone to watch and internalize, it's the 30 Rock where Liz, who has always seen herself as a bullied nerd underdog, finds out she's actually been hated all her life because she's mean.
August 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is my advice to teenagers. You’re probably way meaner than you think you are - because people actually care about your opinion more than you think - and you’ll probably wish you had been kinder
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there are over 8 million people in this city and the fact that bananas shit doesn’t happen more often is a testament not to cops or politicians but to the fact that people aren’t as violent or scary as some would like us to think
July 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
there are over 8 million people in this city and the fact that bananas shit doesn’t happen more often is a testament not to cops or politicians but to the fact that people aren’t as violent or scary as some would like us to think
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I will keep pounding the drum that we must utterly abolish and destroy the concept of "parental rights". There are parental *responsibilities*, and those responsibilities may involve parents being given the latitude to decide what is in the child's interests. But no "rights" over another human being
Alito frames this as a win for parental rights.
I wishhe'd tell that to the parents who's children are being DENIED HEALTHCARE UNDER SKRMETTI
I wishhe'd tell that to the parents who's children are being DENIED HEALTHCARE UNDER SKRMETTI
June 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I will keep pounding the drum that we must utterly abolish and destroy the concept of "parental rights". There are parental *responsibilities*, and those responsibilities may involve parents being given the latitude to decide what is in the child's interests. But no "rights" over another human being
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The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
June 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.
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the whole deal with "longermism" is not that its adherents think deeply about the future, it's that they concoct bizarre futurist scenarios that just happen to justify their profoundly sociopathic behavior in the present
it's just the laziest form of self-serving utilitarianism imaginable
it's just the laziest form of self-serving utilitarianism imaginable
May 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
the whole deal with "longermism" is not that its adherents think deeply about the future, it's that they concoct bizarre futurist scenarios that just happen to justify their profoundly sociopathic behavior in the present
it's just the laziest form of self-serving utilitarianism imaginable
it's just the laziest form of self-serving utilitarianism imaginable
remarkable to me the plaintive, breathless AI discourse about how copyright law will kill the industry with zero self-awareness of or concern for the industries AI is gleefully marketed as destroying
May 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
remarkable to me the plaintive, breathless AI discourse about how copyright law will kill the industry with zero self-awareness of or concern for the industries AI is gleefully marketed as destroying
i need an SSRI lazy river
Accidentally soothing the climate anxiety of the migrating fish by having Xanax in the water
April 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
i need an SSRI lazy river
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Was thinking how alt-milks for coffee are primarily vehicles to add water (for temp control) and fat (for mouthfeel & flavor). Then thought, you know, butter would be a great alternative. You’d want to thin it w water, emulsify the mixture, make sure it doesn’t solidify.
Anyway I’ve invented milk.
Anyway I’ve invented milk.
April 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Was thinking how alt-milks for coffee are primarily vehicles to add water (for temp control) and fat (for mouthfeel & flavor). Then thought, you know, butter would be a great alternative. You’d want to thin it w water, emulsify the mixture, make sure it doesn’t solidify.
Anyway I’ve invented milk.
Anyway I’ve invented milk.
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for half this you could hire a doctorate level human being
OPENAI BELIEVES IT CAN CHARGE $20,000 PER MONTH FOR DOCTORATE-LEVEL AI- THE INFORMATION
April 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
for half this you could hire a doctorate level human being
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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
April 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos
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Even though I want a Switch 2, I'm actually fine with this because I think it's extremely important for the long-term health of American democracy for gamers to suffer as much as possible.
Nintendo said it’s delaying Switch 2 pre-orders in the US due to concerns over Trump's global tariffs
Nintendo Delays Pre-Orders for Switch 2 After Trump Tariffs
Nintendo Co. said it’s delaying pre-orders for the new Switch 2 due to concerns over the impact of global tariffs instituted by US President Donald Trump.
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Even though I want a Switch 2, I'm actually fine with this because I think it's extremely important for the long-term health of American democracy for gamers to suffer as much as possible.
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It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
April 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.
It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce
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Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
April 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
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no one is forcing them to gamble on crypto or sports betting. no one is forcing them to treat hard work and diligence like it's "for girls." no one is forcing them to retreat from any kind of connection with other people. take. responsibility. for. your. life.
March 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
no one is forcing them to gamble on crypto or sports betting. no one is forcing them to treat hard work and diligence like it's "for girls." no one is forcing them to retreat from any kind of connection with other people. take. responsibility. for. your. life.
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You're not going to "gotcha" your way into them not trying to oppress trans people. They don't care about specific medical procedures; they just hate trans people and don't want them to exist.
March 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You're not going to "gotcha" your way into them not trying to oppress trans people. They don't care about specific medical procedures; they just hate trans people and don't want them to exist.
unlocking a dim memory of reading this specific strip in one of my dad’s battered 80s Doonesbury compendiums
also something about kruggerands?
also something about kruggerands?
This reminds me of a very old Doonesbury cartoon where some Democratic politicians is late for a rally someplace and the crowd starts yelling NUKE THE WHALES NUKE THE WHALES
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
unlocking a dim memory of reading this specific strip in one of my dad’s battered 80s Doonesbury compendiums
also something about kruggerands?
also something about kruggerands?
filled with camaraderie in the sense that we’re all maladapting through this together
February 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
filled with camaraderie in the sense that we’re all maladapting through this together
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