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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The last time I went to McDonald’s I got two regular hamburgers and a medium fry, no drink. It was almost $10 after tax, the fries were cold and I had to pull out of the drive-through and wait for it.

    I didn’t eat McDonald’s a lot to begin with, but it’s just not worth it to eat there anymore. It was always crap food, but it was at least fast and cheap. Now that it’s crap, slow, and expensive, there’s absolutely no reason to go there. The entire time I was sitting in my car eating my sad little mostly-bun burgers and cold fries, I was looking at the Costco across the street thinking about how, for the same $10, I could have gotten a huge slice of pizza, a soda, two churros, and an entire rotisserie chicken.



  • Probably someone throwing rocks at something, and instead of the normal clack-clack sound of rocks hitting other rocks, one time it went bing. And once they found out that one rock can go bing they probably started checking every rock to see if it might go bing too, or possibly bong.

    I would think word of something like that would spread pretty fast, too. Like could imagine being a neolithic cave dude visiting the next village to trade some jewelry-quality bear teeth or whatever, only to see a guy playing a pile of rocks like a xylophone from the Flintstones? You’d be telling everybody about that shit. It’s pretty trippy to watch now; It must have been mind-blowing back when it was first discovered. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took on some kind of magical significance. And once you knew it was a thing you’d probably have your head on a swivel for the rest of your life keeping an eye out for some magic bing-bong stones of your own.




  • I have kind of a boring job that allows me to wear headphones all day so I have a ton.

    Music related: -60 songs that explain the 90s -20,000 hertz -No dogs in space

    History/Politics (humorous/lighthearted): -The dollop -Behind the bastards -Cool people who did cool stuff -You’re wrong about -American hysteria -It books could kill

    History/Politics/News and Current Events: -Congressional dish -The lawfare podcast -Straight White American Jesus -American history tellers -In our time with Melvin Bragg -Lions led by donkeys -Reveal -Throughline

    Science/Tech/Art/Design: -99% invisible -Articles of interest -Ologies -You are not so smart -Science vs. -Sawbones -This podcast will kill you -The last archive -Proof

    Spooky/strange/macabre: -Box of Oddities -The shallow end -Lore -Cabinet of curiosities -Radio rental -Spooked -Monsters among us -Real life ghost stories -We can be weirdos

    Misc: -No such thing as a fish -The blindboy podcast -The bugle -The gargle -Darknet diaries -Craphound, the Cory Doctorow podcast -Off menu -Criminal -Swindled