a personal block is a boundary. a trust-and-safety chief automating one is a governance problem wearing the skin of a vibe check.

A U.N. report highlights Israel’s deliberate strategy targeting children in Gaza, alleging war crimes and genocide. Three days earlier, Israeli forces shoot 3-year-old Rayan Abu al-Ajeen in the head near a military boundary, then detain his father and deny the dying child medical aid. Israel, of course, dismissed the findings. Al-Ajeen [the boy’s father] tried […]

If you are behind on payments, you may qualify for an Unemployment Deferment or an Economic Hardship Deferment, but be warned: These programs are being eliminated for loans initiated on or after July 1, 2027. Forbearance will be limited to a maximum of nine months every two years for loans funded on or after July […]

fifteen years after “Call Me Maybe,” i would like to formally acknowledge that i misread the situation. badly.

the discourse around geese being an "industry plant" vs just engaging in chaotic good marketing is proof that our collective brains have been fried by algorithm paranoia...

black ranch tastes like ranch. the product is the moment everybody at the party decides whether fries should look haunted.

a follow-up to the world’s most racist snack: chocolate, nostalgia, and the people making solidarity purchases on behalf of a confectionery label.

Remember that WKNA site that DuckDuckGo was citing to claim that Trump had died from rabies? It appears to be a pink slime publication masquerading as a real local outlet, filled with fake news content that itself strongly appears to be generated by AI — and it very much seems to be cribbing from the […]

dating apps were built for a world where every gay man lives twelve minutes from a tapas bar. outside the metro, the algorithm starts grading you for geography.

the cloud keeps promising my movie collection is safe, then asks me to download it before i can watch it.

Every good project starts with a craving. Sometimes it’s for meaning, sometimes it’s for connection, and sometimes it’s just… tacos. For this one, it’s a little bit of all three. Welcome to tacobout.online, a new blog built on the belief that the internet should still be a place where people get to say things—messy things, thoughtful things, […]

not me over here, yearning for the constraint of the 1930s… smdh The ruling overturned the Supreme Court’s 1935 precedent that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will. Source: US Supreme Court vastly expands Trump’s presidential power

a 10 p.m. dick-pic reskeet ritual was once logistically possible. that says something about the weird, tiny, communal Bluesky of summer 2023.

Tim Curry’s “Toxic Love” from FernGully remains an absurdly committed lesson in how destruction sells itself as appetite.

the $449 iPad is enough for almost everyone. the $1,199 iPad Pro may be the best tablet money can buy. the middle has been assigned paperwork.

Drew evicted Dee, kept Rick, and sent Taylor, Drew, and Rick to the final three. yay or boo, whichever you prefer.

Larry Tesler, the creator of copy/paste, explains: The Lisa was the first system to assign XCVZ to cut, copy, paste and undo (shifted with the “apple” key). I chose them myself. X was a standard symbol of deletion. C was the first letter of Copy. V was an upside down caret and apparently meant Insert […]

one spray is a serving. six sprays are 5 calories. the bottle contains 1,130 servings. nutrition has become a precision instrument for comedy.

a follow-up to the world’s most racist snack: chocolate, nostalgia, and the people making solidarity purchases on behalf of a confectionery label.

a GameFAQs post from approximately 1999 still has administrative privileges over my thumb.

I would never sleep again.

he had more friends, a better city, and absolutely none of the information. i'm willing to hear his concerns.

the date on bottled water is not a chemical trapdoor. it is a reminder that the container and the garage have been participating.

a stray dog appeared at the door, and suddenly caring was not a feeling. it was a checklist.

loving what a story meant to you does not require an eternal pipeline of purchases, reboots, merchandise, and increasingly strained excuses.

twenty-two civilians entered a Scottish castle and immediately began converting mumbling, posture, and dog-groomer intuition into probable cause.

the date on bottled water is not a chemical trapdoor. it is a reminder that the container and the garage have been participating.

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the fruit bouquet company has acquired both the singular and plural forms of an ordinary adjective. language remains technically available to the public.

fifteen years after “Call Me Maybe,” i would like to formally acknowledge that i misread the situation. badly.

“We feel obliged to speak up about the injustice and violation of our rights by not being allowed to promote a feminist work, specifically a work by Virginia Woolf who was born in 1882. What can we do? As a theatre we have to publicise our activities … and we have to make use of...

I would never sleep again.

on world suicide prevention day, the specialized 988 service for LGBTQ+ youth is still offline. queer and trans kids deserve more than a promise to bring it back later.

The Bitch Is Back. You Oughta Know. apparently i inherited a very specific approach to emotional regulation.

I’ve been 37 for all of one month, though this month alone has aged me a decade. A cluster of recurrent issues at work—ghosts of bad decisions past—have returned to haunt the codebase, and since I’m the last soul standing from that era, the blame has naturally settled on my shoulders like a heavy, unfair […]

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Mike Huckabee tried to turn cherry tomatoes, seedless watermelons, GPS, cell phones, and USB drives into a geopolitical loyalty test. The inventions have declined to cooperate.

“Absolutely not,” Roberts said in response to the M&A question during an investor call this morning. “This is the right move to put each company in the strongest position to create value, fully monetize its assets and aggressively pursue its own organic growth strategies.” Source: Comcast Split Is “Absolutely Not” A Prelude To M&A Spree, […]

i reblogged this because it is a good joke in the very specific modern genre of “the public service announcement has returned to clarify that the public service was laid off.” https://schwegler.tumblr.com/post/826745015599579136 Image by depsidase on Tumblr, reposted by Andrew;…

Across the US, calls to halt data center construction have multiplied, as Americans grow increasingly concerned about risks of pollution, rising energy costs, and diminishing water supplies. At the federal level, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have introduced legislation seeking a possible nationwide construction ban. But Republicans are seemingly unlikely to embrace that […]

the driver is “nearby” in the same way a distant thunderstorm is technically in the area.

the cloud keeps promising my movie collection is safe, then asks me to download it before i can watch it.

the power of a playlist is that it can say too much, and nobody has to type back “thank you, that is a lot.”

Every song is a breadcrumb on the tangled path back to who I’ve been. In this series, I let shuffle decide which memories resurface, giving each musical phase its turn in the spotlight—and seeing what stories wake up with the sound. I lack the ability to actively recall memories, for the most part. I have […]

seven veteran Housewives, five cities, one traveling jurisdictional dispute, and Teresa waiting patiently for the next euphemism to receive technical support.