I consider myself a novice birder. Due to my "gainful" employment, I don't have the leisure time to indulge in the wholesome activity, so I play Wingspan to try to ease the agony of deprivation. Last night, the game's tranquil soundtrack helped me drift off to sleep. There's something about the sound of sweetly chirping birds and the twinkling of a harp that is so soothing. Playing Wingspan, which was undoubtedly created with birders in mind, is as near to board game therapy as it gets, dependi…

Do you ever think about how the most important documents of your life are probably locked away in some filing cabinet somewhere? If somebody put a gun to my head and asked me where my birth certificate was, you'd be preparing my death certificate soon afterward. There used to be a time when you literally had to print out everything. If there was a recipe you liked online, you had better print it if you wanted to avoid taking multiple trips to the family computer room while cooking. The printer…

Roll for memes.

The internet has been buzzing about cursed images since the dedicated Tumblr went live in 2015, but we just recently became aware of their slightly more positive brethren, the blessed image and the blursed image. The idea of a blessed image is pretty straightforward: an image that is sweet or wholesome, and leaves one feeling happy. Blursed images are a bit harder to pin down. They're generally photos with the same mystique as a cursed image, but not quite as sinister. The r/blursedimages subre…

This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but with a Pop Crave announcement. Last night, chaos erupted on Twitter dot com. Several sources reported that Twitter insiders claimed the public version of the app might not last for longer than a week. Since Elon Musk took over the company and began firing huge numbers of employees, the future of the website has become increasingly uncertain. Brands, advertisers, and longtime Twitter users began ditching their a…

Hey. PSSSSTTTT! Hey, you. You over there. Yeah, you. I gotta let you in on a little secret about them things called memes , and internet content in general. You see, contrary to the belief of some insufferable and pretentious internet “enjoyers”, memes really don't have to be intelligent to be amusing. Memes don't need to shout out some niche subculture, Twitter celebrity, or meme trend. They don't actually need to be that much of an inside joke to qualify them for appreciation. In fact, we're…

Time to turn down the radio so I can see better...

This boss laid into an intern when she took a call from her mother telling her that she needed to hurry to the vet to see her dying cat.

Pure wholesome goodness

Adulting is hard.

It worked in the moment, but then after the 100th time it starts to feel like maybe it was a bad idea…

At age 34, I'm starting to notice that my body and face are changing. For a while, I thought I was pretty blessed genetically, but it seems what they say about smoking cigarettes is right: It ages you. Looking in the mirror may not be as fun as it used to be, but the most unpleasant part of this phase is the incessant advertisements that are popping up on all social apps. They're all for Botox, fillers, preventative skin care, and plastic surgery. If I didn't already have issues with myself, be…

The 90s and 2000s ushered in a golden age for adult cartoons on TV. With legendary shows like The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy coming onto the scene, television audiences learned that cartoons weren't just for kids or 1970s adult movie theater audiences. These shows found fans with people of so many different demographics and pushed the boundaries of what cartoons could be. As the 2010s rolled in, Rick and Morty showed that the future of adult cartoons wasn't about repeating the success…

Having a blast or frittering away one's time on the world wide web may seem like an easy feat for many internet enthusiasts, but it's really more complicated than one might believe. Boredom has a funny way of diminishing our abilities to seek out intelligent activities, pastimes, or hobbies. And our attention spans are more pathetic than they've ever been before. I swear, it's nearly impossible for me to make it through a forty-minute television episode without feeling antsy, let alone attempt…

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