Since our fucking government isn’t observing World AIDS Day, I will. In 1990, I started taking care of people in the last stages of AIDS in their homes. I did this for nearly two years. The home care company I worked for had meetings for those of us who solely (or nearly solely) took care of PWAs.

If an armed conflict existed, these acts would constitute war crimes. Given that no armed conflict exists, the killings fall outside LOAC and require evaluation under domestic criminal law. Based on the reporting, the conduct matches the elements of murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended Jackson Victory Tour Fugazi (Ween opening) Lollapalooza 1 Nina Simone David Byrne feat. Extra Action Marching Band

Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"

Thankful for @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social ’s FOAT playlists to get the post feast dance party moving (with a few assists from the 7th grade dance team playlist)

Nice concise thread from a very smart neuroscientist/self-driving-tech entrepreneur. Safety isn't an adequate reason to cede the roads to Google, *even granting* that current driving culture is dangerous and unsustainable.

If The Rule You Followed Brought You To This, Of What Use Was The Rule, Charlie Brown?

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

I wonder how many times I can watch this

suspicious

MAMDANI: And I just think that there are barriers, barricades, to helping Americans that we can break down TRUMP: Uh huh MAMDANI: And breaking down barriers? Reminds me of a certain Broadway show *smiling widely* where they worked together to break a barricade? TRUMP: *sitting bolt upright* Phantom

Life Hack: put on Cassandra Wilson’s 2002 album “Belly of the Sun”

they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk

She strolled inta the joint. Under her coat, a dress that’d make an atheist confess. She glided up ta me on those clouds she called legs, with a question on the red satin pillows she called lips. She raised a bushy hedge she called an eyebrow and widened the slimy things of goo she called eyes

There's much that might be done with a disciplinary power like this. Imagine "rubber-rooming" corrupt or partisan judges like Cannon, Kacsmaryk, or Bove by forever assigning them a minimum caseload or even simple administrative duties such that they cannot abuse judicial power again.

there hasn't been any good literary drama since Jane Smiley declared that Uncle Tom's Cabin should unseat Huckleberry Finn in the pantheon of American letters (Harper's, 1996)

you can live with someone for years and never see the truth about them that is right in front of your face almost 17 years married & I only today realized that my wife's name is a double dactyl

Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery

clearly I have not been putting in my time thinking about Rome eighty times a day because this is new and interesting to me

Watched eight out of 32 short films about Glenn Gould, then switched to all 19 of the 22 short films about Springfield

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

if you are the sort of person who appreciates that the epithet “politically correct“ was originally applied by radicals to their too-serious comrades, you will enjoy this short story

neither Mars nor the bedspread deserve to be left buried in replies

is there a mnemonic to stop mixing up Daniel Denvir and David Duhalde

Listen to Carsie's song "The Little Flame" and then give her moving account of the Gaza flotilla a look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=azTu...

How much money do I have to bet on "Dems flip the Senate by one seat only to have Fetterman switch parties and retain GOP control for two years" to make sure it doesn't happen

Here's a cat!

I should make my sister-in-law put her store on here but until then if you are into board games or LARP supplies and can make it to North Hollywood you should absolutely stop in

honestly my Bluesky feed is sorely lacking in most of these things

Phew. This is the best thing I’ve read this week and is absolutely worth your time.

haven't gotten super into Geese so every time I think about them I'm like, "the lead singer is some kind of nepo baby... but who's he related to?" and then I look it up and it's hilarious all over again

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

Live thread of the judge's ruling on the federal assault on Chicago

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

This person took this when they called the race

"WE WILL STAND ALONGSIDE UNIONS AND EXPAND LABOR PROTECTIONS" THAT'S THE FUCKING TALKING POINT. EXPAND, NOT JUST PROTECT!

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

It's really not that hard.

Republicans don’t need to know how to govern for the same reason the 9/11 hijackers didn’t need to know how to land.

I knew Ulysses was, like, masterfully polyphonic or glossolalic but I was not expecting my man to drop a few bars of Chad Gadya

Carsie Blanton, everybody. 👑

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

In honor of Halloween, I just read a horror novel and wanted to write up a quick micro-review thread here. Presenting: @mcmanlypants.bsky.social's Children of Solitude. Thread: 1/ www.skylightbooks.com/book/9798992...

it's not an arc, it's a multigenerational sine wave. in five years you're going to find this guy stalking the CCNY cafeterias, eating tater tots with the campus Trots.

Happy Halloween!