nov 17 in idea barrages

If a movement’s really about helping people, it has to also have empathy for how the American economic system makes it so very hard to have time/money for activism. If you’re so strident on one topic, that you lose all other empathy, it won’t end well. We’re all fighting battles.

Leftover coffee is just nature’s iced coffee.

Do the Germans have a word for “the mild guilt you feel when you see everyone on social media mourning a celebrity you know little about because their stuff wasn’t your thing”? I feel like the Germans are on it for weird compound subjects like that.

They CALL it spaghetti squash because if you were hoping for anything like spaghetti, your dreams are about to be squashed.

In his late teens, Charlie Brown finally figured out how to self-medicate his crippling depression, leading to his college nick name “Hash Brown”.

Why call it the “splash guard around your slow cooker” when you could call it a “crock ring”?

“I’m allergic to frankincense,” Joseph groused, “and Jesus is the reason for the sneezin’.”

LESS JADA PINKETT SMITH MEMES, MORE GIADA DELAURENTIS MEMES. (The way she over-pronounces Italian words is hilarious.)