satire

Relationship satire can be cathartic; when love hurts too much, just laugh.

Optimizing for the Grade: Inside the Academic Performance Machine
Every system begins as a promise. In school, the promise is simple: work hard, learn the material, demonstrate understanding, and you will be rewarded. Grades will reflect knowledge. Transcripts will tell a clean story about your abilities. Colleges and employers will read that story and understand who you are.
By Lawrence Lease18 days ago in Humans
Is It Or Isn't It?. Content Warning.
Fear is a perfect tool for making things work for you. If people are comfortable in their lives, they are unlikely to question anything, unless they are educated.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 18 days ago in Humans
Queue Management
The machine is mounted beside the glass door, at shoulder height. It hums softly, as if thinking. Above it, a laminated sign reads: PLEASE TAKE A NUMBER. Below that, in smaller font: WAIT UNTIL CALLED.
By Alain SUPPINI19 days ago in Humans
Waiting Room Magazines Are a Conspiracy Against Sanity. Winner in A System That Isn’t Working Challenge.
I am awed by the sheer insanity of the system. In a society that congratulates itself on efficiency—on reducing the interval between desire and gratification to the time it takes to double-tap ‘approve’ on your iPhone—we have collectively decided that the ideal prelude to minor surgery, medical examination, or a root canal is a 45-minute browse through a laminated copy of last year’s Vogue magazine.
By Scott Christenson🌴21 days ago in Humans
When Gods Die
Have you ever wondered what happens to all these deities dating back to the beginning of time when people stop acknowledging their existence? Do they simply cease to exist, evaporating into the cosmos, their immortality revoked, or are they banished to live among the mortals? If that’s how it works, imagine how a former god feels when forced to live alongside a species that once worshiped him. Life would become very complicated for the demoted celestial, having to move every ten or twenty years because your neighbors would eventually notice that you never aged while they grew older.
By Mark Gagnon21 days ago in Humans
Roots and Fruit
Roots and Fruit Photo by Lukáš Kulla on Unsplash Most people evaluate life by what shows. Results, behavior, success, failure, growth, collapse. Fruit is easier to measure than roots, so it becomes the focus almost by default. When something goes wrong, attention rushes to what is visible and immediate. When something goes right, credit is assigned to the most recent action. But this way of seeing consistently misreads causality. Fruit is never the beginning of the story. It is the result of something that has been growing quietly, often unnoticed, for a long time.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast21 days ago in Humans
Having a roommate in your 40’s is weird.
Having a roommate in your 40s is weird. He is my best friend of 25 years so when we get together we’re just teenagers with FICO scores.
By Jesse Lee21 days ago in Humans
At My Wits’ End . Top Story - February 2026.
Life is about taking out the trash and calling it trash because you have every reason to. It wasn't meant to be linear, they say. But the times you tried to make it straight led to problems, and you didn’t have the tools to put any of it to use. You don't put your right shoes on the right feet; you put the left shoes on the left feet. The grey hardened slab will trip you up anyway.
By Caitlin Charlton22 days ago in Humans
The Holy Spirit Hideaway
After experiencing a cloud nine heavenly lifestyle, Huey C Hughes purchased rental wings, and puffy poles, advocating exploring unknown freedom rights. Navigating his way enjoying the friendly skies, an enchanting pillow like, glorified air strip appeared promoting a tourist luring landmark, “The Holy Spirit Hideaway”.
By Marc OBrien23 days ago in Humans
Our Shared Vision: The Emergent Habitat.. Winner in A System That Isn’t Working Challenge.
Welcome to the latest development in innovative education: “The Emergent Habitat.” An inclusive, paradisical eden where wellbeing is paramount. And the language we enforce will become your own.
By River and Celia in Underland 25 days ago in Humans
Meteorologist
February, the month of love, black history, and then there is the rat. Adults, looking to a rodent for predictions in weather and the future of winter and spring. When on earth did that become a celebrated thing? It’s ridiculous, and yet some take it seriously.
By Alexandra Grant25 days ago in Humans
Doors and Windows
The system of doors and windows are, when you think about it – and I have, far too much – among the most fundamentally irritating features of modern domestic architecture. They exist in a state of perpetual contradiction, embodying the human condition's most tiresome paradoxes with a smug, architectural permanence that no amount of remodelling or smart-home nonsense can disguise.
By Scott Christenson🌴26 days ago in Humans