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I’m “Rampantly Unemployable.”

Well, well, well. While the country’s economy is shitting the bed, our state economy is kicking ass….

California overtakes Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy | CNN Business

Well, well, well. While the country’s economy is shitting the bed, our state economy is kicking ass. Looks like us woke-ass godless anti-Trump heathens are doing something right.

Trump’s diplomacy tactic: Go full Victoria Ratliff.

Trump’s diplomacy tactic: Go full Victoria Ratliff.

My high school is on Wikipedia, but the page fails to list me among its “notable alumni” even though…

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TIL my high school has a Wikipedia page (I learned this via my sister telling me she was watching WWE and did I know one of the champions went to my* high school? No, I did not, but now I have more questions.) This surprised me as my graduating class had fewer than 70 people, and so I ask you:

Is your high school on Wikipedia?

Yes

No

* My siblings and I attended different high schools.

This is so weird…my high school is on Wikipedia and I just learned, at 58 years old, that Georgia O’Keefe attended my high school for at least one year.

Today I learned that my high school has a Wikipedia page!

I graduated in 1970, and it was the last year our mascot was the Rebel, since that understandably caused a controversy. They have been the War Eagles since then.

It was interesting to find it existed!

My high school is on Wikipedia, but the page fails to list me among its “notable alumni” even though I once had a Twitter exchange with not one, but two cast members of the film Breaking Away.

Our littlest pup Johnny passed away. This one really hurts.

Our littlest pup Johnny passed away. This one really hurts.

We first met him when Wyatt ran into an animal shelter and scooped him up. We decided to foster him for a weekend and that was it. By the first night, we knew he needed to stay with us. We quickly learned he’d been abused and, because of this, was extremely frightened most of the time, especially of men.

But, our dog Lulu showed him the ropes and with some patience and a lot of love from us he became the most chill chihuahua ever. Confident, smart, loving, communicative, and the absolute best snuggler in the history of everything.

When we went on family vacations, we usually hired a dog-sitter. But, after Lulu passed, we started bringing Johnny with us and we discovered he was a fantastic travel dog. He went with us everywhere, including to Zion with not one, but two stops in Las Vegas.

We never would have dreamed the skittish yelpy little guy we first fostered would ever calmly guide us through a packed cacophonous casino on the Vegas Strip. But, that’s exactly what happened.

That’s the thing about Johnny: He defied expectations and that helped each of us grow. One great example is how Wyatt learned to match Johnny’s calm energy when he wanted to play with him. And personally, I learned to be more patient with him and that made me more patient with people in general.

In recent months, Johnny’s age really started to show. His hearing started to go, then his sight in one eye. He lost weight and couldn’t gain it back, despite all of the food he ate. We knew he wouldn’t be with us for too much longer, but that doesn’t make this loss any less painful.

Goodbye, Johnny, you big derp. And thanks for sharing your life with us. We’re all better for loving you.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has nominated Godzilla for Secretary of the Department Of…

BREAKING: The Trump administration has nominated Godzilla for Secretary of the Department Of Definitely Not Stomping On Buildings. And even though we are days away from the Senate hearing on the matter, Chuck Schumer has already voted to confirm.

14-year-old me would like to thank Aimee Lou Wood for making slight overbites something to be…

14-year-old me would like to thank Aimee Lou Wood for making slight overbites something to be desired.

Current day me would like to ask my childhood dentist why he never told me braces are not a permanent fix.

at the goth bbq eating corn on the macabre

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at the goth bbq eating corn on the macabre

Some people are saying that if 4chan dies, those assholes will move to other platforms and make them worse. What’s your opinion on this, and the possibility that they might move to Tumblr?

Yeah, that's the problem, right? Nuking their nest doesn't get rid of the roaches. It just makes them scurry to another apartment.

I'd love for them to try to set up camp on Tumblr. The few that are here are already punching bags. Someone described Tumblr as the most liberal, "woke," socialist, civil rights-loving site on the internet. I don't disagree. If the 4chan crowd does migrate here, the best policy for dealing with them is the one used in the Nazi Bar Problem:

Back in 2020, a writer named Michael B. Tager wrote a few tweets about his time at a dive bar in his native Baltimore.

While he was enjoying an after work beer he noticed the bartender booting out a seemingly quiet patron. This patron was wearing a jacket covered in Nazi symbolism.

When Tager asked about why he booted the guy, the bartender, a seasoned pro, said that if you let one Nazi in, slowly they replace the clientele.

“You have to nip it in the bud immediately,” he said, as Trager paraphrased. “These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after a while, they bring a friend. And that dude is cool, too.”

“And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh *, this is a Nazi bar now,” he continued. ”And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So, you have to shut them down.”

But ultimately, the real long-term solve for these people is education and deprogramming. Go to any pro-Trump MAGA account on any platform and it literally is brainwashed conspiracy theorists that you can't even debate because they're so pilled up on this bullshit that facts — or even kindness — doesn't get through.

So, until then, we go low.

WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS TELL ME TO CALM DOWN?! “JUST CALM DOWN.” DON’T YOU THINK IF I KNEW HOW TO…

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WHY DOES EVERYONE ALWAYS TELL ME TO CALM DOWN?! “JUST CALM DOWN.” DON’T YOU THINK IF I KNEW HOW TO CALM DOWN I’D BE FUCKING CALM BY NOW?!?!