Can’t remember if I submitted this one previously.

while I’m more than 100% certain FTX did all kinds of criminal fraud, isn’t that description above just the basic description of the entire banking industry? Banks use their deposits to invest (while keeping X% as cash on hand mandated by regulation).

Was this post really necessary?

I know opinions vary, but as a viewer I do prefer it when contestants go through one category at a time. I don’t have a problem with the “Forrest bounce”, as it’s within the rules.

Didn’t bother reading a single word of this story. Any story this long is complete BS.

Why are all of the entries so aggressively awful this year? Are they always this bad? Half of them have nothing to do with spooky Halloween stories. My kid ran off for a minute at the store? Really? That’s your spooky Halloween story? Ffs...

7257 words in case anyone was wondering. I got bored and stopped reading, then my thumb cramped up from scrolling (and scrolling and scrolling) to get to the end. How was it?

It was a 2019 submission -- https://jezebel.com/1838875774

Oh I think it’s very clear why they are doing this. Old Benji wants a genocide and the Israeli government can’t let all these high visibility celebrities influence their followers with things like reason and empathy. It unmuddies the water they’ve worked so hard to keep dirty. I can’t begin to tell you how many people…

I don’t know exactly how I came to submitting anything for this contest, but my daughter is a huge fan and reads every year, and I’ve developed an unfortunate habit of going down Internet rabbit holes since I retired.

Ice Storm

What it takes?

There was a time I was buying a new leather jacket. I picked one out and Mrs Lizardo said “no. It looks just like the old one.” In my mind, that was a feature, not a bug.

All this did is make me convinced that she is taking Ozempic.

Honestly lawns are the worst. Like open space is fine but screw mono-cultures. natural region specific ground coverings FTW!

I’m confused...what’s with calling the “appearance” discussion about Graham and DeSantis “a pleasant memory of the Chevy Chase/Jane Curtin/Dennis Miller Update eras, where photo commentary was regular—”?

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Money.

“I’m Mikayla, spelled the worst way.” (I guessed on the worst way to spell Michaela.)