Vaguely annoyed

My internal monologue at all times.

Because zero continuity, expertise, and consistent implementation is going SO well rn. Imagine saying this post-doge agency decapitation....

The “never intended to be” claim always makes me chuckle when it pops up on something because 1) prove it and 2) so what? We can’t change?

Also, civil service has been an expected good career and pathway to the middle class for at least 150 years. What’s new is the scorn for public sector employees, which happened to increase dramatically as guess what ethnic group started jointing public sector careers in large numbers?

I’m guessing OP, like many a Online Politics Knower, thinks the civil service is done by magic and/or underpants gnomes. Which explains their knowledge about policy process.

Again people just say the word codifying like it's some magic word that makes it totally unassailable. The Voting Rights Act was codified into law and yet it got absolutely gutted. There's nothing to suggest that the monomaniacally obsessed Republican party wouldn't have found some way to use the Supreme Court to gut any national abortion law the second any flimsy pretext came up.

I am begging online commentators to take a single class on how the American government, especially the courts and overall bureaucracy, operates. Or even read a Wikipedia article. Or even learn what “codifying” means and doesn’t.

I’m not sure Ryan Murphy isn’t a sentient AI so…

I can read minds but the more I use it the more unstable it becomes.

God I love Chick Tract inspired art.

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

There’s also Silent Book clubs, where you bring your own reading material and you read for an hour.

This and Tig Notaro telling her future wife “ok dyke” when she was crashing out over their first kiss…the most romantic shit ever.

The “human potential” to bring back tuberculosis.

i'll be honest I did not think clavicular would go mainstream. then again, I also didn't think qanon would leave 4chan, and it actually resulted in people storming the US capitol building, so perhaps I have way too much faith in the median voter

They asked for Dark Woke and the monkey’s paw curled.

Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don't need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it's New Jersey. They're gonna splatter you for fun.

Let me gently push back on something…