The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

It's my birthday! substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Evergreen.

So you are telling me that there are members of Tmps administration wearing shoes that don’t fit? Because their King wants them to?

🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding President Donald Trump’s administration unveil their plans, if any, for deploying federal officers or troops on election day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mornin’ everyone! How’s it going???

Adorable little glasses spotted today at @matcha.ashland. Took a consulting coffee break and was ever so tempted to get one. Ashland Independent Film Festival is hiring staff and caffeine was needed to keep up with all the talent!

Make meth great again

*plays West Side Story cast recording*

I don’t make the rules

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

You'd think so, wouldn't you - but Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office i.e. something over which the UK Director of Public Prosecutions has jurisdiction. This is tangential to the debacle in the USA.

Andrew was arrested for messing with the country's money, not child rape. Proving that there is a bigger chance of financial fraud bringing people down than the trafficking horrors. Same as it ever was.

Read this before going to this morning‘s Ash Wednesday Eucharist, which was beautiful and where my vicar invited me to administer the ashes to him, and honestly, I have thought about the line ‘Courage is visible. Hope has taken flesh. “I am coming to the cottage.” a lot today.

the butlerian jihad was right

Yep

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

thank you bad bunny for highlighting the importance of critical power distribution infrastructure bsky.app/profile/cost...

We all saw the fellas grindin right? That may be a first for the super bowl.

What an absolutely incredible half time show, so proud to be Latin-American. Bad Bunny/Benito not only made Puerto Rico proud, he made America and all Latin people everywhere proud. 💙🇵🇷👊

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Will SOMEONE in this godforsaken Congress actually take their oath to protect and defend the United States constitution with the same degree of seriousness as every person in Minneapolis?

Why I love horror. Also: this is not just a post about horror.

This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS

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Why I still love social media so much.

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

In 2025, 87% of foundation leaders reported increased demand for grant funding. At the same time, 34% of nonprofits reported declines in federal funding, and 29% reported reductions in state and local government funding. - Center for Effective Philanthropy cep.org/wp-content/u... ✅

The line from Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia that inspired a new treatment for breast cancer: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” [kottke.org]

Face/Off remake, Sam Rockwell, Walter Goggins, directed by Bong Joon Ho

#dogs #dog #doglover #doglovers #DogsOfbluesky ❤️😍🔄😂🤣

People are confused about the increased numbers. When they hear autism they think those at the end of the spectrum who dont talk/ behavior problems...the most extreme of development issues. In reality the increased diagnosis is for those at the other end who 'hid' for years.

Sure, Barry

Developing story: The FAA announced Wednesday that it will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 “high-volume” markets beginning Friday morning to maintain safety during the ongoing government shutdown.

Raise your hand if you would rather the government pay TSA and air traffic controllers to keep our skies safe and travel open, than to pay useless, racist terorrist ICE goons.

Teen Vogue was doing much better journalism about Trump admin than the NYT. and I am not being sarcastic.

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

This is why you can't find a great development director mcahalane.com/cant-find-a-...

In November there will be 42 million Americans who will not have a way to buy groceries due to SNAP benefits getting suspended. Yet, Argentina gets $40 billion from the United States 🤬

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

I am DESPERATE for a Lilith Fair 2.0. My lineup would be: Taylor Swift Kelly Clarkson Sarah McLaughlin Adele Raye Celine Deion Tracy Chapman India Arie Doechii Cyndi Lauper Pat Benatar Jill Scott Suzanne Vega Sheryl Crow Lizzo Megan the Stallion Beyonce Rhianna Lana DelRay Selena Gomez The Chics

I’ve come to think the stupidity is their evil secret weapon, because we’re just so flabbergasted by how appallingly and obviously ignorant they are that it’s almost impossible to address them

trumps nazi goons trying to pepper ball a frog

Another confirmation of the "everyone is twelve now" theory.

let the gourd times roll