[charlesoberonn]

Debates don't actually test any of the skills you'd want in a potential president.

I suggest we replace presidential debates with Taskmaster-style challenges where the two candidates and their staff have to navigate an intentionally convoluted simulation of a day in the work of the president.

Not only will it be 100x more entertaining, it would actually showcase their readiness or lack thereof for the job.

[wtf-scientific-papers]

[ID: The two authors contributed to this essay equally. A Disney sing-along contest determined the definitive order of authorship; the winner became the first author.]

(De Leeuw & Buijzen, 2016)

[iamthedancing]

food recalls: heads up that the FDA announced a recall on ice cream due to potential listeria contamination on June 24, 2024.

The brands listed are: Abilyn’s Frozen Bakery, AMAFruits, ChipWich, Cumberland Farms, Dolcezza Gelato, Friendly’s, Hershey’s Ice cream, Jeni's, LaSalle, Marco, Taharka, The Frozen Farmer, and Yelloh!

The recall announcement is here, and the product list with the dates and lot numbers is here.

[artbyblastweave]

People always get so weird about my participation in the Flat Earth Advocacy Group. For the last time, we aren't cranks, we aren't conspiracy theorists, we're definitely not geocentrists, and our policy think tank is fully aware of what shape the planet currently is

[someguyiguess-deactivated202511]

spiders have got to figure out contracting I need to be able to call my local spiders union and be like "hey can you send a guy out for a few days the fruit flies are back" and then pay it in spider currency. I'll learn the conversion rates. I'll be generous with my rounding. please.

[iamthedancing]

heads up that self employment taxes are due June 15!

I always forget when the deadlines are so: for anyone else who's self-employed/an independent contractor*, self-employment taxes for this quarter are due on June 15!

*I feel like 90% of the time this just means that we're employed but the company involved is playing legal games at our expense but hey

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know what? I don't want to change my VPN every six months cause it was caught selling information. I don't want to go deep into the settings of every website I so much as look at. I don't want my internet browsing to be a constant leap through hoops so that companies can't do things which should be illegal anyway. I want privacy to be the default and for it to be difficult to take it away, not the other way around. Is that too much to ask?

[shleepyshnooshnah]

fun fact for your consideration, graNma sWeetie did not feel comfortable giving out her real name and instead gave out her social security number on two separate occasions. and i think that's great.

[gracelyns]

!!!!! (x)

if you'd told me yesterday i wouldn't have believed you

[iamthedancing]

[Image description:

two screenshots showing the confession scene from Supernatural.

the first image shows Castiel, with the text: "I love you."

the second image shows Dean, with the text: they've announceded a new book about Haymitch's Quarter Quell"

[gentledomcas]

so did that the vampire get the job

[justanotherhomelessromantic]

In another universe, Sam Reich is part of Batman's rogues' gallery.

[resumbrarum]

INT: The BAT-CAVE, specifically a 3/4 shot of the BAT-COMPUTER, showing nearly the whole thing. The usual gloom and vague shapes loom behind it. The metal floor of the Bat-Cave is visible in the mid- and foreground.

Panels 1 and 6 are wide shots; panels 2-4 are smaller and closer.

PANEL 1: BATMAN sits at the Bat-Computer, frowning at its various displays and readouts. One hand is on the console, but doesn't seem to be doing anything.

ROBIN (off-panel): What's up? You look ... as brooding as usual.

PANEL 2: ROBIN has joined Batman in the panel. Batman looks up, but not at Robin; his attention is on a different display.

BATMAN: A rash of kidnappings across the city. Victims report being placed on a stage and required to perform inane tasks.

ROBIN: Riddler? Cluemaster? You JUST put Joker in Arkham...

PANEL 3: Batman has moved his attention to yet another display. Robin is now leaning on the back of the BAT-CHAIR, looking at the screens as well.

BATMAN: That's what I thought at first. But they're all surviving, even if they do badly. He just seems to want to play games with them.

ROBIN: What's the game?

BATMAN: It's a different game every time. None of the victims reported being asked to do the same things. It never repeats - except once.

PANEL 4: Robin looks down at Batman, who's still studying the screens.

ROBIN: Once?

BATMAN: One of the victims was kidnapped twice and asked to play the same game both times.

ROBIN: So he's tying the game to the victim --

BATMAN: No. Whoever this is, he's targeted a few of the victims more than once. But the game only repeated once.

PANEL 5: Closer again. Batman looks up at Robin, finally.

BATMAN: Other than that, there's no pattern. No commonality. Even the place where he takes them changes with every kidnapping. I can't find a way to pin him down, find out where he is.

OFF-PANEL: Oh, Batman. You didn't have to look that hard!

PANEL 6: Back to the wide shot. Batman and Robin are startled as a figure, still mostly cloaked in shadow, emerges from the gloom behind the Bat-Computer: a relatively (to Batman) short, grinning man in a plaid suit, with a thin, telescoping cane with a ball grip that gets wider toward the base.

THE GAME-CHANGER: After all, I've been here THE WHOLE TIME.

[the-punforgiven]

I think it'd be funny to have a character who keeps trying to break the fourth wall and failing

[the-punforgiven]

Dude's like "we can't do that, we don't have the budget this episode" but he's in a novel

[the-punforgiven]

Something stupid happens and he tries to stare directly into camera but he's fully looking the wrong way

[thedinosaurprince]

The problem Sam Reich is going to have is that one day there will be an actual technical fault on Game Changer and nobody will believe him.

[doubleca5t]

Quiet Quitting is when you're not doing anything wrong but the vibes are off

[blackpyrefly]

[redshiftsinger]

That 'uneasy feeling' is the very accurate sense that it will take very little additional bullshit for that person to decide to actually quit.

It's telling that employers would rather demonize the person they've dumped bullshit on to a borderline breaking point than actually sort their shit out and stop making management-level dysfunction into the employees' problem.

[heedra]

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

[nonimaginaryfriend]

bonus it ALSO fills that dopamine hit of in-person shopping. “oh I didn’t go in looking for this but hmm, I’m tempted… I can’t resist… oh ho ho I have made some irresponsible decisions at the library today [carrying my stack of ten random books]” and then it doesn’t even matter if you don’t like them because a) free b) you’re gonna give them back anyway

[grumpy-cardigan]

Librarian here! Please please please please PLEASE do this! We don’t have any way to know if you read them, and we don’t care! We’re happy to see those books go out because that helps our stats. And that affects how much money we can get.

So grab that silly paperback romance, and maybe this new YA fantasy, oh and check for the new movies too! And don’t forget to check Libby and hoopla for music and ebooks and e-audio.

[therealraeweber]

Guys. I can feel it already. THIS is the year. This is the year that Jonathan Harker will go on his business trip with no issue. Just a lovely train ride through Europe where he collects paprika recipies for Mina, meets some friendly, living people looking to buy properties in England, and then returns home safely.

Free him from the time loop.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Which Tamora Pierce character is your favorite (female Tortall protagonists only)?

Alanna

Daine

Kel

Aly

Beka

Voting ended onMay 1, 2024

no "other/see results" we die like men

note that I'm not talking about the best SERIES just your favorite CHARACTER