Emily

My oven has WiFi for some stupid reason and the only value of this feature is that it automatically changes the time for DST.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

You wake up each morning and think why are we in the dumb war

Lol, same.

Dude! I think about this far too often, especially when people freak out about a decision a writer makes because “it doesn’t align with the character.” Not that it’s crafted poorly and the arc doesn’t make sense, just that people projected too much onto the character.

Hey, if it works it works!

There is no marketing I'm more susceptible to these days than any company saying they don't use generative AI in their projects. I'm a sitting duck for that promise even if they're selling graham crackers or masking tape.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS.

The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

How are you THIS prolific?! It’s amazing! So excited to check this one out! Also please drop your writing routine because I need the inspiration. 😂🫠

To my trans folks online: no matter how many cowards you encounter or observe, you are, and have always been worth fighting for.

I’ve already accepted that whatever narrative Instagram is telling about me to friend and followers is insanely accurate and I just haven’t caught up yet.

Wuthering Heights was incredible. It’s completely detached from reality, but it was gorgeous and I loved every second of it. I’m bummed people don’t like it.

Imagine spending an amount of money that could solve American homelessness for 3-4 years on detention centers for people who are generally busy working, renting, parenting, and paying taxes.

Toad bangs his poor head against the wall. From "The Story" In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Every thing I have to say right now is ugly.

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance

Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

This is a truly insane timeline. I'm sorry to everyone else in the world.

Everything is bad, but today’s bad prediction is that we’ll all get trapped here, unable to visit other countries because our president invaded a NATO ally.

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

May this courage and energy find all of us.

Look, I hate AI for a lot of reasons, but here's today's petty one: with work, I get really annoyed when I actually write something, spend time crafting a document, only to know someone else will feed it to an AI and ask it to summarize/do their part of the job with it. Thank you for the insult.

This is the stupidest I think it has ever felt to just be going to work every day

HELL YEAH SIGN ME UP.

I don’t think that’s cheesy behavior at all! You have to write for the style of some mags (ie, McSweeney’s) so it makes sense to write specifically for an outlet.