Another month gone by, and only these tweets to show for it.
I feel like every time I see a car with one of those blue and white "Coexist" bumper stickers, they're from Minnesota.
By James Farnsworth
Who fell asleep in the rain? Did you fall asleep in the rain? Yes you did.
By splattermac
Can't stand the "Ooh, Marissa Meyer's on a shopping spree!" ledes re: Hulu, as if she's trawling for new heels and not a fucking CEO
By laura olin
We know you have many countries to choose from for your casual racism and homophobia needs. Thank you for picking the USA.
By matt
There is a lot of fat that can be cut for #transition away from fossil fuels. Problem is, it's not the fat that's getting cut.
By Free Public Transit
There’s taking a stand, and then there’s striking a pose. Easy to confuse the two.
By caseybennetto
"Princeton gets about $54,000 a year per student in government subsidies. The College of New Jersey receives a total of about $1,600."
By Nikhil Goyal
Overheard: Dad: I've got a joke for you. A man walks into a bank... Kid: Why would you walk into a bank?
By David Waldman
"And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful spouse" would've rhymed & been more universal than "beautiful wife."
By Chris Steller
Jon Stewart on the real world: "There is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective."
By Nikhil Goyal
Give a teen a fish and he’ll say “I’m not eating this shit.” Teach a teen to fish and he’ll say “my real dad never made me do this crap.”
By lawblob
Better to find possibilities in how things are now than to wish for what they were. Collect seeds, not ashes.
By Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"When we shrink our demands to what we think is politically achievable, it actually undermines our ability to succeed." Ai-Jen Poo
By Trista Hendren
Infinite scroll. A footer. Choose one.
By Jeremy Keith
My friend wanted to feel like a princess for her wedding day, so I made her marry a man she never met in order to secure a French alliance.
By Michelle Wolf
The word "URGENT" should cost at least $100 per usage.
By Merlin Mann
Flying squirrel, with young.
By Emergency Cute Stuff
"Optimism is a political act. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience." --alex steffen (abbreviated)
By Joe Henry
WARNING: If you get a direct message from me with a link asking you to look at this tinned meat, don't open it. It's spam.
By Irene Adler
Seeing what Twitter icon a company uses on their site is like counting the rings of a tree.
By Jason Santa Maria
Dear all websites ever. My day phone is my evening phone is my home phone is my cell phone. Sincerely, 2013
By Corrin Foster
Want to get a good bang for your buck when it comes to policing? Rescue equip saves lives > anti-terror military equip
By panndder
Finally, when white people break into stores after a disaster, we realize it's fear, not "looting."
By Charlie Quimby
We humans are smart as individuals, but as a species, we are letting our greedy people do most of the thinking.
By Free Public Transit
Peggy Noonan calls Obama scandals worst since Watergate, especially since they involve not even one arms sale to a terrorist.
By Frank Conniff
Children who attend free or democratic schools are the most articulate, creative people you will ever meet.
By Nikhil Goyal
I wish Trump bought Tumblr and renamed it Trumplr
By samir
Graduation is strange. It tells people that learning is finished + that they're better than those who haven't received that piece of paper.
By Nikhil Goyal
Dystopian novels from the '50s and '60s amuse me. Massive supercomputers and yet, you still use an operator to place a phone call.
By Jon Bauer
Average hourly wage for garment workers: Bangladesh $.24 Cambodia $.45 Pakistan $.52 Vietnam $.53 China $1.26
By ian bremmer
Over 40,000 U.S. schools no longer have recess.
By Nikhil Goyal
President Obama will go down in history as the first to be impeached for "horrible customer service"
By Chris Steller
All hornet nests emit free Wi-Fi, but you have to stand very, very close to get signal.
By Bigfoot TheBigfoot
Just a reminder, while the private auto is efficiently maiming & killing individuals, its agenda is destroying the biosphere.
By Free Public Transit
Wish media had given this much attention to renewal of #FISA, which permits dragnet surveillance of international calls (including journalists' calls!)
By Jameel Jaffer
If Angelina Jolie making the same choice as other women elevates it to major significance, I hope Kim Kardashian does world peace.
By Charlie Quimby
If you can read in a car without getting carsick you might be an android.
By Kristen Schaal
EU cars take 10% of household income, but are used only one hour per day.
By Free Public Transit
Ravens = parrots of the North.
By Bigfoot TheBigfoot
Constitution isn’t there to settle arguments; it’s meant to allow us to argue without killing each other. @petersagal #ConstitutionPBS
By UChicago Politics
It's Monsanto's world. We just eat in it.
By Robert O. Simonson
I’m also tempted to send Game of Thrones spoilers to people who email me things in .doc format.
By Okay Type
I wish Republicans would take this "good for our kids" argument and apply it equally as strong to the gun control debate.
By Seth Johnson
If you claim to follow both Jesus and Ayn Rand, then you badly misunderstand at least one of them.
By almightygod
Creativity, problem-solving, resilience — qualities that are not assessed on the SAT or ACT — are what separates the best from the average.
By Nikhil Goyal
Americans killed in Benghazi members of world's most elite, exclusive club - victims of violence the GOP gives a shit about.
By Frank Conniff
Education provokes an open range of outcomes; business models aspire to predictability.
By Dr. Walter Greason
#freetransit would take millions of cars off the road. That's the equivalent of taking millions of cars off the road.
By Free Public Transit
"Reject the idea of being almost good enough to get in to Harvard and embrace the idea of being extraordinarily good at something else."
By Nikhil Goyal
Sanford said supporters "carried me across the threshold, so to speak." Weird choice of metaphors, Congressman.
By Chris Steller
The most successful students are those who are given autonomy and control over their learning. Grit is overused and abused.
By Nikhil Goyal
God, I want to read the high-school English papers written by kids who watched the Baz Luhrmann "The Great Gatsby" instead of reading it.
By Tim Carvell
Kudos to US for being greatest nation, in spite of being held back by 50% wingnuts, gun nuts, creationists etc. Well done the other 50%.
By Richard Dawkins
I imagine hell to be a one lane highway filled with SUVs covered in decals of stick figure families
By Shawn Woodman
Suggested new "Mad Men" agency name: Handsome, Bland, Sad, Sad & Joan, Inc.
By Tim Carvell
The most important thing that universities do is bringing brilliant minds together to mingle and engage in an exchange of ideas.
By Nikhil Goyal
Car culture seems omnipotent, but actually has an Achilles heel. When it loses critical mass, its public subsidy will be seen as a burden.
By Free Public Transit
The unhappiest people I know are the ones who made all the right decisions.
By umair haque
"The true opposite of obedience is not disobedience but independence. The true opposite of order is not disorder but freedom."
By Nikhil Goyal
Every time Beyoncé types out her name, she has to google "Pokémon" and then copy/paste the "é".
By Mark Leggett
The only place I've received less help than I have at @BestBuy was at my 5th grade piano recital when I blacked out and time froze.
By Molly Priesmeyer
If non-elite liberal pussies, or elite non-liberal pussies, or elite liberal non-pussies want to be journalists, by all means go for it.
By Tim Murphy
Only U2 can prevent unforgettable fires.
By Tim Siedell
"If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings."
By C Todd Lombardo
Good design is far less subjective than those who are bad at design would lead you to believe.
By Aaron Levie
Sometimes, comedy writes itself.
By Simon Ricketts
The world always works a little better when adults treat young people as equals.
By Nikhil Goyal
If the Koch Bros really want to manipulate media, here's what you do. Buy papers. Then pay reporters well, encourage high-quality work.
By Maggie Koerth-Baker
You know that moment when you thought you figured out some fancy code and then you realized you broke the site. Yeah.
By Jamie Millard
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