Our buddy @bjcolangelo.bsky.social needs a little help from her friends (and I'm a bully). BJ needs what is, essentially, a full mouth replacement thanks to cancer radiation. We can't eliminate the dental trauma, but we can help with the life-altering debt. www.gofundme.com/f/bj-needs-a...

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

w....wait.... you mean to tell me.... gulps..... putting money into the arts.......is profitable and..........produces............g-good outcomes for everyone?

Where's our All-Star ball girl Kayla Corbett? Sox are sending 4 people to the ASG! Proud of this team. Been a down few years, but baseball is fun again for Southsiders. #WhiteSox

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

House of the Dragon was (as usual) fantastic. As great as last week's Rhaenyra-focused ep was, it was good to check back in w/ everyone. Stunned at how quickly I became invested in Daeron. Ormund is a conniving bastard. Aegon's scenes were enthralling. Daemon & Rhaena was poignant. All of it. #HotD

I don't know, gang. When the party obsessed with Ai gives me a single photo as proof of life, I'm gonna have to ask for some independent verification from someone *not* trying to game an upcoming election before I believe jack and/or shit.

In a shocking breach of Republican protocol, Lindsey Graham has informed the press and the public that he’s dead.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

The Bard doth not play.

It's glorious. #WhiteSox

Glad the #WhiteSox got out of their funk tonight and ecstatic for Peters. Let's keep the momentum going into the ASB!

They Will Kill You is a pretty gnarly flick. Part Ready or Not, part Kill Bill, part it's own wild thing. Fun, but graphically violent. To the point it's kind of cartoon-ish and funny, but not always. Definitely for the squeamish.

"I have a very glad feeling about this... " #DitchMcConnell

A POV chapter episode! Fun fact - listening to our breakdown of Rhaenyra getting things done will help you get things done too. #productive

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Loved Jeff Arcuri's new stand-up special on Netflix. Was glad to see he incorporated a lot of crowd work throughout. Not an easy thing to rely on for a special, but it's one of his strong suits, and he weaves it in and out of his material really seamlessly. Laughed a lot, and like his vibe overall.

Is the right approach "just don't use it?"

Trump f'd up July 4th so badly no one even wants to finish summer, we're just going straight to Halloween.

Probably for the best #USMNT lost given the Balogun situation, but goddamn I did not expect them to so completely shit the bed like this against Belgium. Feel like they were mentally checked out the whole game. #MensWorldCup

Supergirl was really fun. Difficult to adapt the "Woman of Tomorrow" story without Tom King's prose or Bilquis Everly's art, but the movie mostly captured the heart and themes of the story w/o trying to copy it beat-for-beat. Milly Alcock shines in the role. Excited to see more of her as Kara.

Id take it further, I would argue that pain is the goal here. The more I think about it, the more I see the need to jail and institutionalize as a manifestation of the need to punish difference. The impulse to institutionalize disabled people overlaps and is born of the same anxiety/disgust/anger.

Wild second half. Really hoped Mexico would have been able to pull it off, but England's defense was ridiculous. #MensWorldCup

House of the Dragon was suitably nerve-wracking and tense. Be careful what you wish for. #HotD Looks like the first have of Mexico vs England was exciting. Let's see what the second half brings! #MensWorldCup

There had been a break in the storms we had this evening, providing a window for the town (and our whole neighbor) to shoot off their fireworks. Had a couple gnarly moments with lightning off in the distance behind the fireworks show. #Happy4th #America250

400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.

Shots of malört definitiely fit the vibe this year. #Happy4th #America250

Plants watered. Dog walked. Bloody Mary mixed. Gonna spend the day drinking til I feel patriotic about something. #Happy4th #America250

Holy Hell. Really thought Cape Verde was gonna pull out a win. What a game. #MensWorldCup

The new season of X-Men '97 is off to a great start. First 3 episodes kick ass.

USA! USA! USA! #MensWorldCup

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

My youngest's baseball team only won 2 games all season this spring. 2 months of 2-3 games per week. And he looked forward to it every day. He had fun with friends old & new. They learned to play better. They were happy for friends on the other teams that did well. Sports are about community.

its completely underated how this is the most openly corrupt administrations in the entirety of human history

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

Finally finished Matter by Iain M. Banks (part of #TheCulture). Did not connect with this one as much, and I'm not sure exactly why. There are a lot of characters to juggle, so they all felt slightly underserved. I expected Djan Seriy to be the main focus of the novel, but she was more like 3rd.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

House of the Dragon was *so* good. Emma D'Arcy and Matt Smith in particular were phenomenal. Lits for them both to process and shoulder in this episode, and they both depicted their characters with complexity and defenses when needed. Rhaenyra's rawness was palpable. #HotD

Honoring Mel Brooks' 100th birthday by introducing the 8 yo to Blazing Saddles.

It's amazing to me how little everyone cares about America's 250th. This should have been a year-long (or at least summer-long) celebration. Now we're just largely depressed, angry, and full of national self-loathing.

And it was done by #7, Gonzalez. Cannot make this shit up. 😂 Completely hilarious that we blew the Royals out 1-22, and then the following day won with a walk-off and a final score of 1-2. Damn I love this team. Baseball is fun again. #WhiteSox

The trickle down of this explains a few things at work this year...

WTF?! Was *not* expecting this. Is it cuz Pierzynski just met Pope Leo and and gave a him a ball from Game 1 of the '05 World Series? #WhiteSox