In true American fashion, we have the Hot Pocket. 

But is it a sandwich?

Came here to say this. Only wearing an article of clothing for one season is 100% immoral by any scale.

And if you’re a woman, your work e-mail has to strike a very delicate, near-impossible balance between “friendly” and professional. Too light of a tone, and you’re not taken seriously because you’re a flighty woman. Write in a matter-of-fact way that’s similar to your male colleagues, and you’re a joyless ballbuster.…

!!!!THE INTENTION OF THIS IS NOT TO TAN YOUR BUTTHOLE!!!!

I don’t know why this particular bit is so upsetting to me in the wide scheme of dumbassedry that’s going on here, but CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS are set by your BRAIN and NOT YOUR ASS no matter how stupid you are.

“Thirty seconds of sunlight on your butthole is the equivalent of a full day of sunlight with your clothes on.”

Yeah, that’s definitely a picture of a sunbathing asshole.

And these are the people who are worried their kids could get autism from vaccines...

Is this Dessen’s kinja account? Someone giving tepid praise to your book is “being an asshole”? And if Dessen can react this poorly to someone making an offhand comment about her book and you defend that, I’m not sure why you don’t also think everyone else has the right to think she’s unhinged in reaction to her.

I’ve had a bunch of those. That’s just emotions, not emotional immaturity. If I dealt with it by turning around and kicking my dog, that’s emotional immaturity.  Everyone feels things.  Not everyone hurts others because of their feelings.

I was particularly disturbed by Dessen’s tweets about how this one young woman’s opinion was ‘mean and cruel’ and had ruined her day. It seems this 50 year old woman has less emotional maturity than the 15 year old kids she writes about.

asdkfjdk my GOD woman, get your head out of your ass. Sarah, you write shitty teen romance YA, you’re not out here writing the next Booker Prize novel. Of course a college junior, who is presumably in her twenties and you know, at university to challenge herself academically, wants to read something with more…

io9 is a faint shadow of its former self.

If they are securing the shitty wall by deploying agents to patrol it, would it not make sense to just deploy agents to patrol it? Drones are pretty inexpensive, so would be easy enough to have some up (like mobile CCTV) and then send out targeted patrols.

Where is the one about a private equity firm that takes over suite of websites and fucks it all to hell?

Preeeeeach. You can always tell. Oh DID he confess to the murder in front of a stranger and the girl’s close relative? Cool. Totally plausible.

Seriously. That and that humblebrag ass thrift store one. Jesus. “So the fry cook and I saunter over to the 1950's garage and the gentleman confesses to the murder. Quite an odd morning I suppose, but what a great haul!”

Does anyone want to start building a canon of the all-time greats we’ve had on here, over the years?

I feel like the crawling civil war ghost would go on there for me, from this year. Just a deeply upsetting mental image.