Katherine Duke

:: falls to the ground with this skeet embedded like an arrow in the exact center of my chest ::

GENERAL MILLS*: To evoke how easily digestible our new cereal is, we shall give it a name that sounds like a euphemism for farts. * (in this scenario, feel free to imagine Gen. Mills as a literal general, a military man)

My new book is out today! Count Me Out: The Best Federal Resignations of 2025 tells the story of last year's tremendous upheaval in the U.S. civil service, all in the words of people who chose to walk away, often at great professional cost. Available wherever books are sold…but not Amazon.

Bluesky has four types of users

Elizabeth Holmes’ favourite comedy duo, McGillicuddy and Green

"The thing about it," Dad said on the phone just now when I asked if he remembered this, "is that I had just finished giving a safety lecture: 'You kids should always be careful with knives--' and then BOOM!" And, yes, he did need stitches. My uncle, his brother, drove him to the ER.

"The thing about it," Dad said on the phone just now when I asked if he remembered this, "is that I had just finished giving a safety lecture: 'You kids should always be careful with knives--' and then BOOM!" And, yes, he did need stitches. My uncle, his brother, drove him to the ER.

Just this week, I talked with a co-worker about how much I love it that Bill Skarsgård has staked out his territory as a horror weirdo, while Alexander is making it clear that he's a comedy weirdo.

Just this week, I talked with a co-worker about how much I love it that Bill Skarsgård has staked out his territory as a horror weirdo, while Alexander is making it clear that he's a comedy weirdo.

Back in 2019, I stumbled upon the creepshow that was the Wikipedia description of the citrus fruit known as a tangelo. I checked the page again last night and am kind of bummed out that they've largely de-horrified it.

Is there any other kind?

Is there any other kind?

As everyone is complaining about Airbnb today, I'm gonna bring this up again. In my experience as a wheelchair user, Airbnbs are *far, far* less accessible than modern hotels. My sister makes sure to book houses that are listed as accessible, but they never fully are.

Yes, exactly! And even if there are accessibility laws that rideshare and houseshare businesses are theoretically supposed to follow, individual drivers and homeowners don't always follow them in practice.

I feel kind of bad that my strongest memory of Tom Skerritt's work is the fart scene from Picket Fences (iykyk)

My favorite example of typo-based art is Homsar!

S3.E24: "To Serve Man" Darkly hilarious, but/and wildly implausible in many ways. For one: How could the humans translate the alien book's title without having to consider which meaning of "serve" is at play? Is the same exact double entendre coincidentally possible in the Kanamit language?

It's weird to me that Teddy Swims is the name of a musician and not, like, a bath toy.

Make a celebrity sick Cerebral Halsey

Paint Chip People.

No. No, that's not -- Look. You want to put Zach Braff in a cop movie, he needs to be partnered with Donald Faison and they're trying to solve the mystery of what happened to their pants.

Should we go with "hemiscaramucci," "semiscaramucci," or "demiscaramucci"?

I Shot Andy Warhol for Tax Purposes

I wanted a male best friend so badly when I was a kid-- I think in part because there were so many cross-gender best-friendships in kids' media: Ramona & Howie Clarissa & Sam Vada & Thomas Jay Leslie & Jess Big Pete & Ellen Little Pete & Nona

None of this is to say that I consider myself a Special Snowflake today. If anything, I'm chagrined at how boring my life, work, and tastes are in middle age. What I mean is just that I grew up "special" (by more than one meaning of that label) and still bear obvious outward markers of difference.

Oh, how awful. I was just thinking about him the other day, as one of a too-short list success stories in show business for people who (like me) have cerebral palsy.

"sir this is a Wendy's" depends on the beliefs and behavior of Wendy's!

Trans girl w/ an academic background here hello. I think that while it's extremely frustrating when scientific researchers are doing surface level 101 duh things when you have a gun pointed at you, there are things to remember: 1 - The Nazis burned all the surface level 101 trans things we had.

Apropos of nothing, I just realized that the phrase "Seuss issues" is a palindrome. Make of this what you will.

Another one! I just heard No Such Thing as a Fish's @schreiberland.bsky.social say, about another podcast, "I don't wanna knock the yacht rock pod ..."

Apropos of nothing, I just realized that the phrase "Seuss issues" is a palindrome. Make of this what you will.

I have two different editing projects I should work on this weekend, but I can't decide which should take priority, so... I'm cleaning the house. Productive procrastination FTW!

12 Words and Phrases from The Simpsons -taps sign -d'oh -say the quiet part out loud -old man yells at cloud And more! www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/wor...