Oh my God, what a nightmare. Google owes him MILLIONS for this bullshit.

Behold, my only popular skeet

Dear 60 Minutes Interns, the time to act is now. Upload that episode to the web. Earn that college credit.

Jackass was proto-communist

Tom and I are both just now getting into Sleep Token. It's kinda magical to have a new musical obsession with a back catalog in one's mid 40s

Based on one of multiple versions of a Pushkin poem, the 1910 film RUSALKA tells the tale of a prince who seduces and abandons a miller's daughter. She throws herself into the river and is reborn as a water nymph, then drowns him on his wedding day and uses his corpse as underwater decor.

Okay if I can be selfish for a moment: I'm delisted from itch. In the UK you literally can not see my profile. A big chunk of my income, my living money, comes from bundles like this. It would mean a lot if you could share it, send it to friends. 🧵 itch.io/s/175443/ver... itch.io/b/3377/bundl...

I'm definitely not advocating people take this moment to destroy waymos blocking intersections

Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

a new little Christmas carol written by @mollylewis.wtf:

I was aggressively weeding crab grass in my front yard until I disturbed a frickin NEWT! Then I dialed back the destruction of its habitat. Still hate crab grass though.

Figuring out how to update your carry permit after a name change shouldn't require a law degree or wading through hostile forums. Arm the Dolls: Clear firearm guidance for trans people by trans people. 8 states live. More coming. armthedolls.org Follow @armthedolls.bsky.social

Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Exhibits 1 and 2. Masks work.

good morning, identity can not be legislated away, trans children exist and they are perfect in their transness, gender affirming care for children is beautiful and marvelous

Real artists right now are making things they don't even recognize as art.

I am begging us all to get comfortable being bad at creativity. You gotta be shit at something and you gotta practice because the process of Making will feed your soul so, so much

This would make me sadder than White House demolition 😔

I hate that this is ever more relevant and I know this is still and echo chamber but I humbly submit: unwoman.com/mamas.html

For me it's not the work of creation I love, but the fact that what I'm making is MINE, to the degree that I am facilitating and understanding everything happening within a given piece. I do love having a finished product but if it's not MINE, what's the point of my instigating, like just a prompt?

"artists do art for ~*the process*~" idk pal. I do art because the angels scream louder when I don't

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

I take this as a sign: the next thing I work on when I finish my album is a System of a Down cover ("Sad Statue")

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

I choose the bear

I’m kid from Seattle whose adolescence was shaped by watching scruffy local bands obliterate the shallow polish of hair metal. Maybe the rise of AI will produce something similar in visual art. Maybe making things that are messy and honest and imperfect and refreshingly human will be cool again.

Syrian refugee disarms bullshit anti-immigrant narratives and active shooters with flawless efficiency

Looking for a few non-denominational options for responses to a sneeze and died at these suggestions. this feels like it was written by an alien who’s only visited Earth once and now thinks he’s an expert

I accidentally just coined a new slur for white people: "cheap date at the spice shop."

I would say that you have to train yourself to focus on the actual people who care about you & who you care about/respect. Also you have to really live into your values. Both of those things will help you weather the opinions of strangers. I think that's different than not giving a fuck.

in san francisco and need something to do tonight? may i make a suggestion? i may? good! then i suggest you go see halou at the dna lounge! www.dnalounge.com/calendar/202...

Deleted the post about the album stream -- I could not get audio to work. Sorry.

Obviously now we need the Darth Maul guy to be fully funded making an opposing documentary that skewers Neeson’s

IF YOUR RAGE CAN'T BE BEAUTIFUL is almost ready to go to my mastering engineer and tonight at my usual Twitch stream time (exactly 12 hours from now at 9:30 pm PST) I will attempt to play the draft for everyone. Will leave the archive up for a week if it goes OK. www.twitch.tv/unwoman

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Welcome to the resistance, smokers

SFO has a yoga room! When I had a career I used it all the time. I was almost always alone.

I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality. people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess

Dax = Woolf's Orlando

maybe everyone has become an incredibly self-centered solipsistic maniac!! or maybe everyone is stressed out of their mind for the past 5 years of fascism and pandemic, while also being the non-stop targets of predatory attention-sapping technologies. dont fall into a trap of misanthropy.

A few words on Anarchism, From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

"You’re pulling the thread on the spool of revealing and feeling who I am — And I’ve got your thread too..." Do something lush for yourself and go listen to @unwoman.com's first song 'Painted' from her forthcoming album 'If Your Rage Can't Be Beautiful'. 🗡️💄

Frank Sinatra almost got into a fist fight with Bing Crosby on the set of High Society to defend the dignity of Louis Armstrong, who was added to the production due to Sinatra’s advocacy. It’s not hard to find PSAs for tolerance that Sinatra filmed!

The new Seeming album is a glorious force, and I'm so pleased my cello is on "Heart of Hunger." seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

We’re sending out free whistles with every Bandcamp Friday merch order 💜 #MusicSky yamauba.bandcamp.com/album/silhou...