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Wed, 04/02/2026 - 00:00

Wendy lit the stove to heat a pot of tomato soup. She turned to grab a wooden spoon and gasped. Two little girls in smocked dresses stood in the doorway.

“Come play with us,” one said.

“I’m making lunch,” Wendy whispered.

“We want you to play with us,” the other girl said. They stared at Wendy. Unblinking. Evil. “Come play Monopoly Junior.”

“Why can’t the two of you play together?” Wendy asked.

“We want to play with you,” they said in unison. “Can we have a snack?”

“I’m literally making lunch!” Wendy sobbed.

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Wendy stood outside Room 217. She took the passkey from her pocket and slid it in the lock. Inside, the bathroom door was ajar.

It was in there. She could feel it. She crept in.

There stood a woman: bloated stomach, sagging breasts swaying like ancient cracked punching bags, glassy-eyed, hair dry and wild, pale, lips pulled back in an ugly grimace. Wendy screamed.

It was a mirror. Self-care had fallen to the wayside since Danny was born.

Created
Tue, 03/02/2026 - 20:00

They keep going on about these small boats. Where are they? I’ve not seen any coming up the Irwell. My grandad smiles at me as he says it. 79 years old and he is still every inch the Trade and General Workers’ Union shop steward. We’re sat a five-minute walk from my grandparents’ bungalow in […]

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Tue, 03/02/2026 - 11:10
… to reader and commenter Doctor Memory. We noticed recently that old posts weren’t displaying properly, apparently because we’d used a markup language (Textile) that our current setup doesn’t support. We put out an appeal on Bluesky, and Dr M was one of several people who volunteered to clean up the database for us. After […]
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Tue, 03/02/2026 - 08:09
As sometime contributor DanfromTo points out, Epstein performed “necessary” tasks for the elite: control thru blackmail and the provision of experiences many of them genuinely want to have. Power is allowed to people who can be trusted with it by other members of the elite, who will do what the elites want: whether that be […]
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Tue, 03/02/2026 - 07:14
I dagarna presenterade Indikator en undersökning som visar att Liberalerna är det riksdagsparti som minst andel väljare förknippar med ”ambitiös klimatpolitik”. Och detta trots att Liberalerna själva pekar ut klimatet som en av partiets viktigaste frågor och är det parti i regeringen som innehar klimatministerposten! Det här förvånar kanske först, men när man väl erinrar … … Continue reading
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Tue, 03/02/2026 - 05:00

“Responding to videos that suggested their son [V.A. nurse Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal immigration agents] was a ‘domestic terrorist,’ Pretti’s family said: ‘The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting.’” — BBC

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Veterans Affairs nurses are proud to announce their designation as the nation’s newest domestic terrorist group. We’ve achieved this great honor by working on the inside—and no one is more “inside” than those administering enemas to our former soldiers.

Our mission is to help protect health care for the warriors who served our great country by working toward a society in which safety and well-being are the norm. We realize that this might not sound like a typical terrorism agenda, but in our country these days, nobody takes groups seriously unless they’ve been labeled a domestic terrorist organization.

Created
Tue, 03/02/2026 - 00:00

Why the hell did he save so many Funko Pops? “Dr. Ian Malcolm with His Shirt Open.” “Homer Simpson in a Muumuu.” He’s got two Green Power Rangers, one with the Dragon Dagger and one without. A lot of these say COMIC-CON EXCLUSIVE, which probably makes them more valuable? Although there seem to be so many Con exclusives that the term might not mean anything.

I came to the storage unit on a typical ninety-three-degree day in October of 2065 to sort through these boxes and decide what to save, donate, or trash. “It’s all the junk that we didn’t have space for, but he couldn’t bear to part with,” Mom said.

Well, let’s see what I can let go of.