This is amazing. Even if you’ve never gone to AO3, you should read this.

So ICE and the White House have been scrambling to pump out meme videos of clashes with protesters and "epic takedowns" and then an ICE agent recording video with his phone shoots a woman dead www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

2026 has a lot to live up to. Can it continue the ten-year streak of every year being the worst year ever?

This ebook/zine is the best $2.29 I ever spent

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...

731 years ago, on the 13th of December 1294, Pope Celestine V resigned from the Papacy after 5 months. He was elected in the Church's last non-conclave election after two years of deadlock. One of his edicts still in effect is the confirmation of the right of the pope to resign. #otd #history 🗃️

I would watch this reboot of TheGraduate

Tennessee is set to reintroduce the Red-cockaded woodpecker, a species that has been absent from the state since 1994.

I wasn’t even going to cook for thanksgiving this year but now I feel compelled to go start fires in the backyard

Some serious wisdom, this

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I love this painting so much. Such “what? Like it’s hard?” vibes as she dangles his head like a small purse

I had his Judith and Holofernes hanging in my office at work for years for its perfect balance of glam and murder. Bonus: it creeped out the right people

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

Looks like an AO3 tag, is on auction at Sotheby’s for an opening bid of 10,000 GBP

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Every Tuesday a glossy magazine publishes a new piece like “Women: Have They Gone Too Far?” by somebody with a Pulitzer.

the world is just better with trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer people in it full stop

SEVEN SEAS GOT LITTLE MUSHROOM

WTF fortune cookie?

This is such a perfect article. Absolutely satisfying. I fucking love journalism. slate.com/culture/2025...

“This my pious Mother bore and brought up eighteen children; she often had the plague and many other severe and strange illnesses, and she suffered great poverty, scorn, contempt, mocking words, terrors, and great adversities. Yet she bore no malice.” -Albrecht Dürer

Living through a plague and then fighting for the right to vote is not as fun as the Sunfire romances led me to believe

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‪Dev Patel is set to star in and direct a new revenge action thriller ‘THE PEASANT’‬ ‪The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community‬

The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.

I know we’re all struggling to survive these days, National Tsunami Warning Center, but the ALLCAPS seems a bit alarmist here

George Lowe, who voiced Space Ghost on different Turner shows across multiple decades, has died. The faux professionalism he lent his interplanetary late-night host is what made SGC2C work.

Dear manager: 1: I went to the doctor 2: I went to the mountains 3: I looked to the children 4: I drank from the fountains 5: There's more than one answer to these questions

Dear manager: 1. that’s me in the corner 2. that’s me in the spotlight 3. losing my religion 4. trying to keep up with interagency mandates to improve efficiencies in government operations 5. and I don’t know if I can do it

The entire federal workforce right now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwl...

Just over a year ago the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, died in prison in Russia. We wrote and demoed this song in the last few days and dedicate it to his memory and his cause. Neil and Chris x #PetText #navalny #freerussia #slavaukraini

Someone on Twitter once asked “where can I find a girl like you” and my immediate answer was, like all girls, I can be found in a dark section of the woods, plotting malevolently, and when you find me, you’ll wish dearly that you had searched elsewhere

This verse from Solidarity Forever hitting hard today: It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made But the union makes us strong

I dreamt that I was at a protest and Ronald Reagan sneered at the bottle of bourbon I was drinking, so I spun him around and told him that given how much he destroyed our country and paved the way for its doom, I would wear being insulted by him as my highest accomplishment

My kid’s team won the silver bracket at their tournament today. And that’s enough sports for me.

The right is not, and never has been, “anti-sex.” They are in favor is a very specific form of sexuality that eroticizes women’s subordination.

The ice on the trees is pretty this morning

Too much bad shit happening in the world, so I drank a toddler mug of port and watched Dr Who with my kid. We screamed and held hands at the scary parts and got to watch a happy ending or two, which was nice.

The world is dark and cold, my day was long and stupid; but there is Korean food and Psych on streaming.