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Sickos meme. Cartoon of a man in a window wearing a shirt that says SICKOS saying "Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!"
book cover for The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley. Bright green text over a background image of lanterns hanging from branches at night.
a pink lace top on knitting needles. A gray and white cat with blue eyes looks up at the bottom of the frame.
Libby app screenshot. Tv edition cover of Wool by Hugh Howey. Orange with five people's photographs superimposed. Reader is on part 3 chapter 19.
a gray cat with green eyes looking up from beneath a pink lace knitting project
Screenshot of an audiobook cover for The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager. Yellow handwritingesque font over a photo of a house across a lake. Audiobook is 71% complete.
a small salamander on a rock
pink and white and yellow wildflowers
black and white photo of a woman from the thighs up. she is wearing pleated pants and a knitted tank top. her right palm is on her forehead and her left arm is bent at the elbow at an angle like it's resting on an invisible surface.
a pictures for sad children comic. Black and gray cartoon of people at an airshow and jets flying over. Airshow presenter speaking to an applauding audience: welcome everyone to our thirtieth annual airshow. Oh here's the first j-- *jet whooshing* if you were a Kurdish villager, this is what it might sound like to die, or survive, waking every night to the sternum-shaking screams of these nightmare engines. And here come our vintage planes. This is what it sounded like to die in the forties.
Blond girl with one fuschia streak in her hair green screened over a college building. Caption reads 'That one girl at Bible college who dyes her hair to be "edgy."'
LinkedIn post from Darrin DeStasio: "Nobody wakes up excited to buy your product. They wake up thinking about missed targets. Wasted time. Broken processed. Pressure from every direction. After 25 years at IBM, Oracle, Demandware, Alteryx, Horizon-Five and beyond -- I finally wrote down everything I wish someone had told me when I started. A lot of you have been asking when this drops. Today is the day. Today, Sell the Hole, Not the Drill is officially available on Amazon. 32 chapters. No fluff. No theory. Just what actually works -- and what is quietly costing most reps more deals than they realize."
Book cover of Against the Wall: Montana Mavericks, Book 1 by Rebecca Zanetti, a New York Times bestselling author. Cowboy standing on a green hill with a stormy sky in the background, white hat pulled low to obscure his face. Blurb reads "Never Challenge a Cowboy in the Courtroom"
a barn owl with its head tilted to the right looking down at the camera from a cedar tree
a relatively small cream colored owl sitting in a cedar tree
reply to a post: lol thank you. as a person who doesn't do any of this, i don't want to spout off about things i don't understand, but i feel like i understand enough to know that there's just no way anybody in a non-actual-farm setting is meaningfully replacing their bought food with grown food OP: couldn’t not speak on this, love when special interests of hating and gardening align my parents have been gardening on an acre my whole life and have never not supplemented with grocery store produce!! there is no way she is pulling any meaningful harvests from an apartment patio balcony replier again: yeah exactly, there's just no way that the kind of people who talk about 'growing your own food' as a solution to (any number of problems) actually have the time or knowledge to do it, and there's definitely no way that someone who by her own admission has 17 hours of screentime a day is doing it.
A gray cat tucked under a red crochet pillow. His face is visible and one paw is sticking out
a silver orb floating in a gray room
Naomi Alderman quote post about Olga Tokarczuk using AI: I'm not bothered about stuff like this tbh? Creatively it's not really different to looking it up on Wikipedia imo "When writing my latest novel... I asked this advanced model what kind of songs my protagonists would be listening to at a dance, a few dozen years ago, and AI gave me a few titles," "
a crow perched on a birdbath, seen through the living room window
a Google maps screenshot of the intersection of the on ramp to I 205 intersecting with the multi use path, circled in red
a photo of a garden. Two tall camellias with pink flowers frame a concrete birdbath. Foreground is a sword fern and sun dappled sorrel.
Screenshot of the Libby app featuring a book cover for Lights Out by Navessa Allen which is black with a blue skull. Description beneath the cover reads "The viral TikTok stalker dark romance, burning with high heat, hilarious banter, and a love story like you've never seen before. Can you handle the ride?"
a red flowering current blooming. Small pink flowers grow on a stalk in front of dark green, lobed leaves. The background is out of focus but there is a tree trunk and an Oregon grape visible.
A picture of a red flag with a yellow cross centered and extending to the top/bottom and left/right of the flag. Below it text says "NO MEANING"
a gray cat with green eyes looking serious. he is under a brown and green crochet blanket, the camera is peeking in at him
a hand holding a multitool with the blade open and forefinger resting against the sharp edge of the blade.
A screenshot from Storygraph crackityjones showing that they read 28 book, 9324 pages, average rating 3.63.
Screenshot of a gif. Teal to yellow ombre background. Text says "Your 2026 Word: Wolfish"
A map of the United States with the states colored in depending on whether I would live there or not, the entire middle (vertical) of th country is a hard no and the west coast is "absolutely", everything else is kind of a mix.
A hand holding up a copy of This Year: 365 Songs Annotated by John Darnielle
a gray cat with his mouth open mid-yawn. his tongue is poking out and his teeth are showing. He's leaning against a purple sweater
a sleepy gray cat poking his head through the armhole of an unfinished purple sweater.
a photo of the Bonne Manan advent calendar.
a picture of frog and toad riding a tandem bike with a text overlay that says "dudes be like 'how did you know I listen to Alex G?'"
a gray kitten with green eyes laying on a white and red rug. he is looking at the camera
The cover of the Beirut album Gulag Orkestar. Sepia toned and blurry. A woman in a short black dress leans against the center front of an old white car. A person in a long jacket and slacks leans against the left side of the car (from the viewers pov)
a gray cat upside down laying in someone's lap and looking at the camera from the space between someone's arm and body.
The URL and brand was resurrected with SEO-optimized AI-generated articles in 2024. Some articles remain, but the bylines have been replaced with generic male names. The new owner, a Serbian DJ named Nebojša Vujinović Vujo, bought the site because it had "great reputation and excellent backlinks." Vujo was able to buy the domain because the previous owners had let it lapse.
an extremely blurry dark photo with some lights far in the distance. its unclear what's going on.
a black and white patio umbrella upside down on the lawn in the rain
a gray kitten sleeping on his back on a dark green blanket with his belly exposed
a grey kitten with green eyes side-eyeing the camera
two long trombocino quashes on a brown table. they are yellow and light orange, long and thin with a wider oval shape at one end, kind of what you might get if you stretched a butternut squash out vertically.
screenshot of responses on bluesky with names and photos redacted. User 1: getting high so I can also use no memory and keep chats to a minimum User 2: probably cost you less than $200/month, too. Haha. User 3: that's 5 oz of good shake at a Colorado dispensary. depends on your tolerance, I guess User 4: That's only 4x 1h carts of Fernway's Red-headed Stranger, which is pretty close to a month's worth for a bougie old man. User 5: I can get 15 grams of amazing wax from a shop in one of the more expensive parts of California. Most of the people in that same shop get an experience more like yours. Buy wisely!
a fluffy white cat with a gray face is curled up on a bed, meowing with her mouth open
a gray kitten putting his paws on a sliding closet door
A gray kitten with green eyes sitting on a green couch. Blurry bookshelves in the background. His face is in a sunbeam and he is looking at the camera
A screen cap from The Sopranos. Carmella is walking away from her boyfriend after breaking things off. In a famously weird edit, the scene goes into slow motion, pauses, and then a new scene fades in from the right.
A Facebook ad for a Mountain Goats concert in Portland that says, "Portland! Celebrated California folk outfit The Mountain Goats play Revolution Hall on December 8th and 9th. Tickets are on sale now" above a black and white photo of the band.
A screenshot from an article that reads: The right is a libidinal formation; it is, for many of its proponents, especially those who aren’t wealthy enough to materially benefit from it, a structure in which to have fun. A hobby, almost. Sartre’s injunction to remember that antisemites are primarily “amusing themselves” is true of most – perhaps all – right wing discourse, no matter how serious it seems or how terrible its real-world effects. As such, the right are strongly averse to any sort of reality-testing. It is, to them, beside the point whether anything they say stands up to the tests developed by the sciences and humanities, including those which determine (insofar as such a determination can be made) whether a piece of art is ‘good’, or at least serious.
A screenshot of the Storygraph app, showing various charts that record what readers think about the book
A shiny gray kitten with wide green eyes sits next to a closed MacBook on a red and white rug
A screenshot from the article that read: This is how it happens. Precisely what you’re feeling now. The numbing litany of bad news. The ever rising outrages. People suffering, dying, and protesting all around you, while you think about dinner. If you’re trying to carry on while people around you die, your society is not collapsing. It’s already fallen down. I was looking through some old photos for this article and the mix is shocking to me now. Almost offensive. There’s a burnt body in front of my office. Then I’m playing Scrabble with friends. There’s bomb smoke rising in front of the mall. Then I’m at a concert. There’s a long line for gas. Then I’m at a nightclub. This is all within two weeks.
A screenshot from an ebook that reads: Threeworld is the third planet in Rocky’s home system. At least, Threeworld is what I call it. The Eridians don’t have a name for it, even in their own language. Just a designation: “Planet Three.” They didn’t have ancient people looking up at astronomical bodies and naming them after gods. They only discovered other planets in their system a few hundred years ago. But I don’t want to say “Planet Three” all the time, so I’ve named it Threeworld.
A screenshot from an ebook that reads: Rocky’s data about Planet Adrian was dead-on. It’s 3.93 times Earth’s mass and has a radius of 10,318 kilometers (almost double Earth’s). It’s plugging along around Tau Ceti with an average orbital velocity of 35.9 kilometers per second. Plus, he had the position of the planet correct to within 0.00001 percent. That data was all I needed to work out the insertion thrust needed.
A screenshot of an ebook that reads: My heart skips a beat. "Seriously?! It's a lot of fuel! Let me repeat it: two million kilograms. Two times ten to the sixth power!"
A screenshot of an ebook that reads: "Sure," he said. "The math of famine is actually pretty easy. Take all the calories the world creates with farming and agriculture per day, and divide by about fifteen hundred. The human population cannot be greater than that number. Not for long, anyway."
A screenshot from an ebook that reads: "Hmm...a 'reserve' that could power New York City for twenty thousand years." She looked at the diagram, then back to me. "You did all that math in your head?" "Eh, I had some shortcuts. We're dealing with such absurd scales of energy here. I tend to think in 'New York City years' of energy, which is about one-half of one gram of Astrophage."
A screenshot from an ebook that reads: Five minutes after the sequence began, I experience a little less than normal Earth gravity. A quadruple beep announces the end of the sequence. I check the centrifuge screen. It shows a pitch rate of 20.71 degrees per second, a total separation of 104 meters, and a "Lab Gravity" of 1.00 g.