All day, every day. Transphobes are not welcome here.

Here’s the thing, no one is stopping these people from talking about or advocating for what they believe. The practice of medicine on someone else isn’t a religious issue, especially if many of the patients will be forced to participate less than fully willingly.

I often wonder how much it would take for the public to realize how much their image of “university elites” as the academics is fictional, especially in today’s financialized age

there is a long Tibetan Buddhist practice of meditating upon foulness, such as the death and decay of the body or your own consumption by demons, in order to achieve enlightenment. I have developed a new school of thought where we meditate on this instead.

Thought “didn’t I write about the Bernstein quote and its missing context before” and yup buttondown.com/doodlyroses/...

Every thing you read about this war makes it even clearer how degenerate modern war is, and then on top of that, it’s a stupid war that had no reason anyway

The legal/capitalist idea of music being property is irreconcilable with the reality of how music has been made since the beginning of time

are we in a catoptrocracy

ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts

9/ Hitler's wartime strategy was also based on bullshit, including, fatally, self-bullshitting. Here is where the bullshit ran out of road: war has a habit of brutally exposing the gaps between false or exaggerated claims and reality.

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

Only posting bc this one was f***ed up Wordle 1,732 2/6 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

we should make American voters get a tattoo on their arm that says DON'T TRUST THE REPUBLICAN PARTY because otherwise they're basically all that guy from Memento every second election cycle.

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

JT’s foul complaining is getting close to his playoff form, he’s back folks

One thing that the maps I've seen in the news fail to convey is that Turkey is as big as Texas + all of New England. Iran is 2.5x Texas. You want to do a ground invasion there in the mountains when you couldn't win in Afghanistan, let alone Vietnam? Ok good luck dude guess I'll just pay $40/gallon

There's sort of a meta-issue here. People on the left think of culture as "high" culture — prestige films, books, etc. But culture is also... what people talk about every day. And this is why the right owns the framing on everything, and the framing is bullshit.

This table of contents, my G'd

As we in America look for ways to defend our democracy under threat, we can draw inspiration from the resistance of young women in China. Text of my recent speech to the Jimmy Carter Forum on US-China Relations uscnpm.org/analysis/wom...

Just sat down in a movie theater, where we’ll be for the next three blissful hours. Here’s hoping we have a reason to crack that bottle of champagne we’ve been saving when we get out

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Apropos of nothing, I was at the Atwater Village Farmer's Market earlier today, where, as others have previously noted, there's a group of masked chuds in cheap "Fuck Your Feelings" long sleeve Ts, standing around the entrances, videoing people with their cell phones. Not starting anything but if

LFG, The Andrew Formerly Known as a Prince, redemption arc

"Taking control of Berlin had always been a prime ambition of the National Socialists. ... Presiding in Berlin meant presiding over Germany. Just as significant, however, was the symbolism attached to overpowering a city that represented so much that Hitler and his cohorts detested."

Guess it's that time of the year to wheel this out... 😏

This pops up every once in awhile and I always share it. Wu Tang goes in and out of popularity with the times, but there's no denying there was a Dream Team level of talent and brilliance on that roster. True artists.

The Fonz, still a great role model youtube.com/shorts/Anhn9...

@nytgames.bsky.social cmon man

One thing that always burns me about these Epstein associates or like the people who got Me Tooed or "canceled", like, all of them benefited from the lives they had already. In very few, exceedingly rare cases did any of them actually lose anything besides potential future benefits/earnings

Quote this post with a gif of one of your fave movies

Non-English bangers. I give you Second Hand Rose Band youtu.be/bps4P5m-u5c?...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Congrats to Seattle!

One thing that has always annoyed me is the conservative insistence that they are the side of “family values”. I don’t think that’s remotely true in the sense that I think the left is very much about family values; but the definition of family is everyone, not just whatever arbitrary in-group

Josie’s on a vacation far away

To say “I don’t do politics” is to say “I don’t do power.” Politics is another word for power. To say “I don’t do power” is to say “dominate me.” Meaning, to say “I don’t do politics” is to consent to being dominated. Precisely what these authoritarian regimes want.

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

Privately we've come to call Thailand's A USEFUL GHOST the "haunted vacuum cleaner movie" but @theamynicholson.bsky.social sees a "satire that’s 'Brazil' by way of Bangkok" — a "snaky, surprising fable." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

Literally no one is scared just bc Don Lemon got arrested. Keep trying, govt terrorists

Barista Bookstore Manager Assistant Debate Coach Solo Cup Factory Worker Supermarket Clerk (I restricted my list to before graduating university, and no university jobs)

They haven't stopped or slowed down kidnapping people in Los Angeles either.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

You know I was a little worried about the Patriots not being able to win the Super Bowl this year but then what’s that I hear? A manufactured scandal involving Bill Belichick? Music to my ears, Patriots on a last second FG, bet the farm

Saw this on Instagram: Modern Times Cafe in Minneapolis is going to be free and volunteer-staffed for the duration of the occupation of the city, is accepting donations to cover costs via @moderntimescafe on Venmo

Let’s gooooooooooooo