I know there are more important laws that need passing, but I would like a ban on televisions in medical waiting rooms. They drive me insane. I want to scream. OTOH then I would be left with listening to all the annoying conversations going on around me. Can you tell I am cranky today?

Wordle 1,777 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I have not done this in forever. Yay!

I deeply loathe liberals and centrists who laugh at red states and say they deserve their fate. As if you can't be a good person, or woke, or antifascist, or whatever, because you were born in gerrymanderedland without the financial and social mobility to move easily.

A good piece from @salon.com about the Chicago clergy in the streets and at Broadview, taking on ICE www.salon.com/2026/04/06/t...

big shoutout to the 91-year-old lady who missed multiple wellness check calls and the police knocking on her door because she was so locked in on beating her bubble pop top score www.cleveland.com/community/20...

Besides being...horrifying?, this is the absolute bullseye of the AI grift. Take something that's free and has always been free -- faith -- and put a price tag on it. If you use any of these tools, you are a sucker, and are being suckered, and the people who make this slop are laughing at you.

@frogprof.bsky.social Happy Birthday!

we all deserved a little dose of space nerds, as a treat

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

Stay frosty, my friends. For it is THE DAY OF LIES. Dipshitted shenanigans abound! Foolish chicanery everywhere! Japes by those people and companies who are very bad at japes! Hide in the dark! Trust no one till the sun has set upon this stupid day!

Connections Puzzle #1000🎉 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

The #NationalMuseumofAmericanHistory has acquired a vintage copy of Action Comics #1 featuring the debut of Superman. The comic enters the museum's permanent collection through a gift from Brandon Beck, co-founder of #RiotGames. Read the full article here: supermansupersite.com/Action_Comic... 💙💛❤️

Wheee!

2026 basically

Here, have a kitten, this seems like a day where one might come in handy

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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

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Do yourself a favor and read this lil fic

I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

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My greatest 2025 achievement was surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape. My 2026 resolution is surviving another year in a dystopian hellscape.

Merry Christmas with the yule logs and the chestnuts roasting on open fires and the reindeer games and whatnot and so forth and so on!

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man

Local woman wakes up, screams into the void again, makes oatmeal.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year ... 🎵🎵

Flashback for Nov. 29, 2025 28 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Play here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And now it begins!

Saying it again.

“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Apparently Bohemian Rhapsody is 50 yrs old today. Well that’s just a rude.

She was elected to the House a month ago. But Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in, knowing it would narrow his small majority and provide the final signature needed to force a vote on an Epstein papers resolution. Now she's suing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

I hate him so much.

Whats great about Columbo Day is it never ends, theres always "just one more thing"....

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but *ululates a dirge of the death of all good things and the rise of endless anxiety, a tremulous paean whose warbling howl begins to split the earth and release a tidal crush of chihuahua wraiths hell-bent on biting everyone and drowning all things in fear-pee*

I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

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It is definitely not just you.

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