If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Happy Groundhog Day! This is the groundhog lamp I made in 2022.

💔These babies... www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

After three weeks in CA, I am now back. So my mother called and left a voicemail today to say she and my father really really miss… my dog. They were super sad to drop my dog off at the airport (I happened to be there as well).

Home for the holidays. Having the most 1999 day ever. My mom dropped me off at the library on her way to the mall and told me to have one of my friends drive me home later. But none of my friends can come out until after dinner so I ate a burrito and am now walking.

Holiday shopping is not going great. I’m eating steak flavored chips in my car.

In my parents’ house a quarter of their appliances require an unintuitive “trick” for it to work. I wanted to use the hot water dispenser and my mother said “hold on you need a pencil for that.”

Do elementary schools still use an economy system for good behavior? I am pretty sure that is the reason why I--an adult--think I deserve a treat after every small task.

Panel 4/4 of the “Piscola hunting squirrels at sunset” lamp is cut and ground. Next week, copper foil and solder.

“The emails are like a portal back to a lost Manhattan power scene.” What? Wasn’t ~nostalgia~ everyone’s first reaction to the Epstein emails? No? Just the NYTimes?

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

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The problem with working at a coffee shop is... you could be going through a quiet crisis while Funky Town plays in the background.

People didn’t get paid, families didn’t eat, planes didn’t fly… all so that people can pay more for healthcare in the end. Good job Shaheen, King, Hassan, Kaine, Durbin, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Rosen you all did it.

After six weeks of furloughs, discontinued benefits, and travel disruptions; after majority of people recognizing Trump is at fault; after the dem big wins last week… Democrats decided eh better to quit while we have the upper hand and settle for nothing. apnews.com/article/gove...

I was at a coffee shop. Tapped my card. Forgot to complete the screen. Barista tipped herself 50% while I was in the restroom. 😐

Watching my friend help her son with his math homework as he slowly melts off the sofa in agony. The tone, the volume, the bargaining are universal and timeless.

Side by side headlines sum it up.

This rat was far too casual about plucking a bat in flight. His ease is unsettling. I wonder if his friends and family have any idea that this is what he’s up to at night.

My friend’s 9 yr old: “what’s your job?” Me: “same as your mom. I’m a professor.” 9: “where?” Me: “Vassar.” 9: “Princeton is the best university.“

Pro-life republicans are always working their hardest to withhold the things that sustain life.

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

Delayed two hours from LGA. But yeah I guess the airports “appeared to be working largely normal” in that I paid $21 for a burrito.

From a PERMANENT extension of the subsidies and the repeal Medicaid cuts to… a one-year extension of expiring health care subsidies?! Are you fucking kidding me? Let me in there, I once got an airline to buy me a train ticket to catch a diff flight during a snow storm. I can handle this one.

I just realized I have not seen a stretched earlobe since Obama was president. What happened? Did people have them removed and their lobes reconstructed?

I have no idea how saturated the AI market is in the private sector but… I imagine not saturated enough to get 100 of them to come teach.

This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.

The money is there for #SNAP. Trump is impeding court order to feed millions of people while continuing to pay for mass deportations. 1 in 8 families depend on SNAP. For the average person, by end of month, 95.5% of allowance is gone. These benefits are lifelines.

does mamdani know he's singlehandedly carrying everyone's mental health

Withholding food from children, elderly, and disabled citizens as leverage to cut healthcare is some pretty diabolical shit. #SNAP needs to be fully restored.

Lower the speed. There’s too much roadkill-cumber.

Daylight saving ends tomorrow, so I will be daylight spending. I am going to go into daylight debt. I will probably have to declare daylight bankruptcy by the end of the month.

You can't make this up.

Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.

It’s really windy out—not the best condition for trick or treating. Regardless, these kids better come pick up their candy. (I’m a moth. She’s a bee.)

This legitimately sounds like a question they were asking at the NYC Mayor debates

Panel (2/4) of the “Piscola hunting squirrels at sunset” lamp done! Also a sneak peak of (3/4)

SNAP is unfunded after tomorrow, leaving families and children to go hungry. BUT... $130Million was privately donated to fund the military during this shutdown. I dunno, can you eat a tank?

...Because no one suffers more than the people who make up 7% of the population but own most of the land and wealth. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am humbly asking all major media outlets not to abet or normalize the anti-constitutional designs of the current American President.

Between #SNAP benefits being cut off and the confirmation of a wellness influencer, you can’t paint a clearer picture of this administration serving the rich while actively punishing the poor. MAHAs public health approach is everyone for themselves.

The surgeon general confirmation hearing is today. A wellness influencer is about to become the “nation’s doctor”. Resharing this OpEd I wrote on May. www.newsweek.com/casey-means-...

This took like 30mins to separate. And now I’m going to eat it like cereal.

Finished cutting the pieces for panel 2/4 of the “Piscola hunting squirrels at sunset” lamp. Here, a squirrel peeks out, wondering where his friend is. Well, his friend is dead—eaten, as depicted on panel 1/4. In the foreground, Piscola’s favorite red ball.

Not just the facade but the whole East Wing… so maybe not just a ballroom but a resort & casino?

Sometimes I sit in a meeting and realize... oh no, they all think I'm a grown up. They are asking me questions and expecting answers. But I'm just a baby... a 40 year old baby. I still drink juice--granted it's all fermented.

I learned how to jump a car today--I do not mean going over it with a bike or skateboard, I mean with jumper cables. It's so crazy, you just clip those things onto the battery bits. I thought it would be more involved. Instead, it seemed very haphazard. I have hair clips that feel more secure.