My sincere year-end thought isn’t an original one, but its importance has been underscored to me repeatedly over the last 12 months: be free with telling the people you love that you love them, casually, and at every chance. Great love, small love, every type of love.

This is genius. There are a lot of hidden geniuses in these there corners of America.

I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.

🎥 The Keeper of the Flame (1942) Free on Tubi 🍿

I’m disabled & I mask to avoid dying or becoming further disabled, to protect my disabled mother, & to protect @malyndae.bsky.social & her son who has leukemia. All of us are at high risk of terrible outcomes if we get sick. Tell me, @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social, why that means I deserve mockery.

“She didn’t start painting until she was 50” It starts when you begin 💜

I’m not shy about why I mask in “shared air” and anyone who asks usually regrets it. My son was diagnosed with leukemia when he was five and just relapsed this year. He may need a bone marrow transplant eventually and I’m a prospective donor. Hilarious, right?

I said this when it was first announced, and now I've been proven correct: "The Young Garrison Keillor Chronicles" is not a good idea for a show.

Called it, this guy is bad news. Way worse than Bongino. Possibly worse than Kash himself.

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incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

disabled people have spent 5 years trying to tell y'all that this is not normal. it's not normal to be sick all the time! it's not normal to be constantly coughing! you're only temporarily abled and healthy--wear a respirator, for the love of god, to stay that way a little longer

Marta Russell on this very topic:

When I see an ad boasting of all that A.I. can create for me

A Trump voter is shocked when she gets exactly what she voted for. They never care until the leopards eat their face. Until their spouse is grabbed by ICE. Until their healthcare disappears. Until they can’t access abortion & their life is in jeopardy. We need people who care before they vote!

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I genuinely believe we're being conditioned into learned helplessness so that we do not trust our own decision-making abilities without external validation, because people who don't trust their own beliefs and instincts are easier to manipulate and control

Someone in a FB moms group I’m in asked ChatGPT if a jumpsuit would look good on her pear shaped body, but she’d already exceeded the 3 images per 24 hr limit and decided to outsource the question to the moms group. The world is so fucking stupid it hurts.

Who has made this 🤣

“In the new age of magic, when reality is labile and can be recoded by the power of signs, by narrative and memes and vibes and compelling images, art becomes a truly political technology. “ I wrote about AI slop, truth, politics, art and magic www.artforum.com/features/yea...

As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

Counterpoint: fuck that and fuck them for suggesting it because it’s none of anyone’s fucking business why I’m wearing a mask

SPLIT IN HALF? The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF? I got nothing folks. Trials. Prison. Everyone. If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.

If they were appropriately taxed, this donation would be unnecessary.

Loose Parts by Dave Blazek, today #sqrlpix

That begs the question: why has everyone lost their damn minds? And the answer I think is Phone x COVID x Neoliberalism = everyone is insane.

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

Do hospitals realise, that when they don’t do what they can to prevent the spread of disease in kids… the parents are impacted too. Loss of earnings. Loss of sleep. Getting sick themselves. Grandparents in multigenerational households? 🤷🏻‍♀️ 🪦

My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀

I don't know about anyone else, but in terms of my life, this is some impactful shit right here. Thank you, Joel, Trace, Josh, Kevin, and Jim.

Mom of a relapsed pediatric leukemia patient here and can confirm 😞

Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures. @jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts. They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪

You can’t “personal choice” your way out of being disabled or chronically ill. This is a way to punish disabled people because we are less than, less deserving, less human. They want disabled people to die by making our care (even more) unaffordable, because we don’t deserve to live.

He’s comparing healthcare to home insurance. Saying the “healthy” should be rewarded. It’s eugenics. Disability can happen to anyone. You know how a hurricane can destroy your home no matter how many “safeguards” you had? That’s chronic illness. It’s the hurricane. $2k won’t cut it.

Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

The Democratic Party would be a lot better if it had embraced Zohran Mamdani the way it's embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The fucking irony of someone with “fix your hearts or die” in their bio making fun of the loss of a disabled elder to an infection after years of pleading for people to help keep her safe. You know your hero David Lynch died alone because nobody cared to protect him from COVID, either?

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

I got to “honored to be your ancestor” and started sobbing. I don’t even know what to say. It’s cliche to say that someone was a light, but Alice was, in both the sense of being a warm glow to find your way home and bright sun to burn the fuck out of the unwary. I hope we can honor her legacy.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

hashtag relationship goals, frankly ✨

Your new motto should be: if it’s fine for disabled people, it’s fine for me.

this is literally never not accurate

To which I will reply “sorry, all of my donation money will now be going to my healthcare premiums”

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

Did women ruin the workplace?

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.