Words matter. Especially now.

I would also like to call for them to stop saying she "accused" him of SA like CNN just did. It was adjudicated in court and he was found liable. He raped her.

Also, I would like to call for an immediate end to any media outlet calling Carroll "one of Trump's enemies." She is the woman he raped.

This man really sent the DOJ after the woman he raped. This is so disgusting. What an embarrassment for this country. For anyone who voted for him.

Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.

storm's a-brewin'

survivors should "just come forward."

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

does kid rock have a military briefing to attend to that day

Judy Garland in ( i believe) the only recorded stage performance of 'Over the Rainbow 'She had just danced as the little tramp, then sat at the edge of the stage and gave this wrenching, unforgettable performance youtu.be/ss49euDqwHA

If you are paying $80 for one bag of groceries, as I did Monday, you had better hope he's lying when he says he doesn't care. If he really doesn't care, that means this war goes on indefinitely, which means one bag of groceries will go from $80 to $100 to $120 to who knows.

Hi Verizon, thx for the msg about my $146 monthly bill & shutting off my stupid phone. i paid it & see that the next billing cycle will start on june 27th so I guess we'll do this again next month. same time, same threats, same customer hijacking & extortion/ robbery? Thx, AGFY GDMFCCs, ♡ gidgie

okay, so we're all gonna do a brechtian backflip without understanding what "brechtian" means & that man doesn't look like he's able to do a backflip & here we are, i guess. let's go. we can't. why not? we're waiting for god-- OH DON'T START THAT AGAIN, JESUS, THE CHRIST.

what if we elected a goth girl who painted the white house black. I am just spitballing

is there a @jamellebouie.net youtube short on this? it's been under 10 minutes since this was posted so....😂 gosh, it sounds great but I need to catch up on the constitutional law chat so wtf do I know about anything anyway, 💖 y'all!

I AM HERE FOR THEOLOGICAL BLUESKY! YASSSSSSSSS!!!!!

all of a sudden it feels like bluesky turned into bbs for my curriculum in seminary & can i just note how it's weird AF?

me posting 5k to 40k words: look, this means I cut 80% of the words already me reading some 3k word substack/medium post with that rat-a-tat cadence: Is this…a Claude??

My ht version of mr. Chadborn's OP: "The Pope may have found the antichrist; or, how i learned that the eternal papal seat has been wrestling with the antichrist since christ & other things relevant to christian theology & history."

look at all the moist trails!!! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

Dear God.

point is: #theatre kids rule & when you're a theatre kid at heart, you can survive hollywood by remembering your theatre peeps & this is the best way to keep making cool shit. fuck the weinsteins. mumblegore forever. go see this movie:

okay, so we're all gonna do a brechtian backflip without understanding what "brechtian" means & that man doesn't look like he's able to do a backflip & here we are, i guess. let's go. we can't. why not? we're waiting for god-- OH DON'T START THAT AGAIN, JESUS, THE CHRIST.

fuuuuuck, what is wrong with me? I listened to this song & i have tears streaming down my face. even tho there weren't any backup vocals i could hear my sisters echoing on the chorus & omg, in this current context, this song broke me 😭 music.youtube.com/watch?v=HCRG...

also, one of the most brilliant bridges ever written: we'll save australia don't wanna hurt no kangeroo build an all american amusement park there they got surfin' too (dah dah dah) boom goes london boom paree more room for you & more room for me ....

It's worth remembering that this is the Facebook post that got Suzanne Swierc fired. I have undying disdain for the many institutions that engaged in a moral panic over Charlie Kirk.

This is one of many super common ways that stats are misreported and you should watch out for it.

whoa. something is exploded somewhere & our windows rattled & i could feel the shockwave, wtf?

Hey! Talking a little about why you should preorder THE CALAMITIES (tl;dr, preordering books is good, but also, you get some cool stuff if you preorder from my local, @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social). Tell everyone! EVERYONNNNNE. /garyoldman

Talarico should absolutely double down on this. Never let people forget that Republican politicians are weird as hell.

obligatory repost with randy newman's "political science" youtu.be/R5mAuPg1ZZw?... (so tired but folks are even more tired but just omfg this is so tiresome)

At the front of the historic First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia Founded 1755

i'm sorry but a.i. #PeterCushingFace was bad enough in star wars a.i. stan lee? i never met peter cushing but i met stan lee (& yes, he hit on me & felt me up on the red carpet in front of my boyfriend which was gross & weird. collider may still have receipts, but idk & don't care!). & i want to 😭

Stan Lee's story is one big "Twilight Zone" episode.

alas, the #squirrel legion, having laid seige upon our wee village, has defeated our squirrel-proof defenses & the #bird feeders have retreated into the walls of the garage (poor #birds). i will Tom-Welch the squirrel-proof feeders when we return from wedding nuptials in Boston. #thatisall

alas, the #squirrel legion, having laid seige upon our wee village, has defeated our squirrel-proof defenses & the #bird feeders have retreated into the walls of the garage (poor #birds). i will Tom-Welch the squirrel-proof feeders when we return from wedding nuptials in Boston. #thatisall

Helping the boy with GCSE revision and... OH MAURICE.

LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!!!! YASSSSS!!!!

over at the newsletter I wrote about Jeff Bezos' sad little interview from last week:

I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone. The universe is angry.

NEW — Nonprofit leader Andre Ruddock is advocating for Illinois lawmakers to pass Home for Good (HB624), legislation that would expand rental assistance, develop more reentry housing units, and more. Spring session ends on May 31. thetriibe.com/2026/05/pers...

I've spent the better part of my career in tech arguing with management for more resources for offsite db backups, network redundancy, multi-cloud infrastructure in case of AWS failures, etc. There was never money for that, but now they just burn so much more cash for "tokens" with no proven gain

wtf did I just read? I need a translation. apple.news/AaaDmCK6tS3W...

this is accurate. i learned this from friends who had to deal with ai detection as a part of their education system & their frustration over it saying their own "a.i. free" writing was assessed as "written by a.i." ....it's a thing.

to the tune of weird al's Albuquerque BROOOO-LI-GARCHYYYY ( cc: @ebharrington.bsky.social )

when we talk about a climate crisis, this is what we're talking about & dammit, high temps & mad dogs in the midday sun kinda stuff