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After 103 years of devout Catholicism, my grandma had built up a massive collection of statues, medals, and other religious tchotchkes, so we had a big table at the funeral reception for people to take things home, and I tell you what, people LOVE funeral favors

imagine if the bennet sisters had experienced garlic bread

For anyone else trying to watch the new women's pro baseball league: The website makes a big deal that you can watch on ESPN, but it's actually only available through this special streaming-only(?) ESPN add-on called ESPN Select that costs an additional $13/month. support.espn.com/hc/en-us/art...

ESPN Select or Unlimited Plans and PricesTo view the latest prices and offers for ESPN Select and Unlimited, click on the plan link below:   ESPN Select Monthly Subscription $12.99/Month ESPN Select Annual Subscription $129.99/Year  E...support.espn.com

"No one cares about women's pro baseball!" "Yes we do!" "Ugh, FINE, we'll put it on then." <hides games behind a double paywall that is streaming-only so nobody can actually watch> "See? Nobody cared." <cancels baseball>

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

For writers worried that they won't be able to "prove" their work isn't Spicy Autocomplete--worry not. You thought about every choice and will be able to talk about those choices easily and clearly. Folks who used the slop machine didn't make choices and won't have anything to say about why

Friday is for dancing. #stork

Visited the new Chicago Brand Museum today. It's fascinating. (It's not a museum of just Chicago brands; it's a museum of lots of brand, which happens to be located in Chicago.) Fans of typography, graphic design, package design, and more will love it.

The great thing about today's Nazis is that they burn books for both ideology AND profit

someone in our neighborhood is having their trees trimmed today and the truck out front says TREE’S COMPANY

This guy kept talking to me at this bar and asked me what I did and I mumbled “writer” and then asked him what he did and he said he was a private equity lawyer and I said “oh so you’re responsible for the decay of the world” and then he left the bar

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.

do a deer my kids aren't here re i'm estranged from my son me the named in this lawsuit fa i'm driving on the run so my ex-wife wants me dead la i'm running from the feds ti a drink to clear my head that will bring us back to do!

There's a sign just outside the courtyard of Castle Williams on Governor's Island in NYC that reads "All cyclists and UNICYCLISTS must dismount." I asked the park ranger on duty if there had been a "unicycle incident". She hung her head, took a deep breath and sighed "Yeah…"

i went to a Luddite festival in NYC that was organized entirely off social media to prove you don’t need captive tech platforms (yes, including this one!) to hang out and have a good time. @404media.co 📵

Being a Luddite Is Fun AgainAs tech backlash hits the mainstream, the ‘Summer of Ludd’ proves we don’t need social media to hang out and have a good time.www.404media.co

Admirable clarity @science.org

Ok I've given up searching and need help with a laundry question. This is a silk t-shirt turned inside-out. The internet said the white might be mildew, so I treated it with hydrogen peroxide twice, but it did absolutely nothing. It also doesn't smell. Is this just fading? What is it??

I wrote this for Chicago magazine about the U.S. government's plans to close the National Archives branch in Chicago: