Feeling feelings that cannot be fixed by logging off

there is a train station named after my direct ancestor

The problem with the anti-anti-LLM thing is that it treats this topic as some kind of abstract debate-club style exercise, but it's not. The LLM hype is not just annoying, it is part of a now years-long political and economic assault on humanity itself by a handful of megacorps run by robber barons.

Three months out from the primary and I am once again feeling dismay about my choices for California Governor. How does this happen, why are our politics so cursed.

Seth Meyers, late night host and person who graduated from the same high school as me, did a joke about Metro and our “Ride the D” shirts… extremely surreal for me specifically.

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Opinion writers knowing how old millennials are challenge level: impossible

Cradling the AO3 servers in my palm like a baby bird and singing them lullabies

Everyone should read Wild Faith by @swordsjew.bsky.social for more about this worldview. There are people actively hoping for the “end of the world”.

Tomorrow is the four year anniversary of the first episode of Our Flag Means Death, and therefore 4 years since a tv show minorly changed my life. I'll never stop being grateful I was there by chance on day one. Seeing representation unfold in real time. Meeting unforgettable characters. All of it

cackling

Seeing Mumford and Sons bringing out Hozier in person would have me nearly as dead as being there for this

rough day for anyone who believes in the sanctity of human life

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

By virtue of being unmarried and paid California wages, I pay a lot of taxes. I would be happy to do this if they were being used for universal healthcare, education, & lifting up vulnerable communities around the world. Instead, they are used to kill and immiserate and I am sick of being complicit.

good morning. what the hell

Chris Fleming’s new special has a bit about Trader Joe’s recalls that has me, much like him half the time, on the floor

This is the last time I’ll post about this even though the whole endeavor has brought me the most genuine joy in a while… It’s very funny to think about how for me, this shirt is Safe For Work

I sort of understand how MAHA happened because today after a bottle of antibiotics spilled inside my messenger bag with other trash and I called the doctor to get a new prescription, he said “I’ll do it but just fyi the five second rule is real if the item isn’t wet” I said “I don’t believe you”

Just announced at the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social Board Meeting: the first section of the D Line Extension (to Beverly Hills) will open on May 8th!!

February killed my spirit unfortunately. I’m not putting emotion into action like I felt like I could a month ago. I’m just defeated.

Leave trans kids alone you ghoul freaks

I’m going to start signature gathering for a California ballot proposition that will ban all ballot propositions. I am tired of being asked to be the referee for fights between monied giants or to have a deep knowledge of kidney dialysis.

I recently tried dragonfruit for the first time and based on looks alone there’s no fruit with a greater disparity between expectation and reality

a few months ago, LA Metro released a 90s-PSA-style video about not playing loud music on trains and buses. I’m featured a couple of times and the main thing my friends took from it is that you can turn anything into a group chat reaction image

My weekend puzzle-only newspaper is deliberate about crediting artists and crossword creators etc and then they have an "advice column" that to me looks like a straight up chatgpt copypaste job? this feels like AI, right? do I have to unsubscribe 😭

I just got invited to a friend’s “20th high school reunion” themed birthday party and I said out loud to myself “that can’t be, he graduated a year before I di—oh my god”

Our long national nightmare (it briefly being under 50 degrees) is coming to and end

I am against the proposed one-time wealth tax for billionaires in California!

I understand that Section 230 is very important but then I hear something like “repealing it will destroy all social media” and it’s like ok and where do I sign the petition

this is not the point but if she goes by that name now I’m not sure if psychologically ready for someone to run for president who is “left-leaning person named Alex who graduated from the Boston University College of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and is of Puerto Rican descent.”

I tried to post my painting of transmasculine Bacchus and Bluesky put a “sexually suggestive” label on it…

how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?

Entering the one really cold week of the year (40F in the mornings) and post-move I can’t find my light gloves. please remember me fondly

this is America to me

Sweating as I finish my screenplay “Meryl Streep Agrees to Be in My Movie”

how it feels to spend my time doing anything other than logging on to yell at people I agree with 96% of the time

this sequence in the U.S. women’s curling match was pure cinema

both of my universities are on this list, time to get that 2woke4u custom license plate

i’m a NIMBY for things that are evil

our IT department loves to send “someone sent you a Valentine’s card!” phishing exercises which I think is both very funny and also kind of mean

I’m in a mood because I’ve been on business travel for the past three days and I’m very tired, but I’ve HAD IT with boomers and their allies who have a “screw you, got mine” attitude that has made it impossible for anyone in my generation and younger to aspire to a good life in California/beyond

“destigmatizing vandalism” come on… Not even saying this as a transit employee, just as a human: we should be allowed to have nice things that stay nice.

Two big stories right now: the Olympics, and ICE. They will come together in 2028 in Los Angeles, damping any enthusiasm for foreign tourists to travel to the Games. That's a big moral disaster waiting to happen, but also an economic one for LA. Great @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social report.

Don’t love hearing about FAA weirdness a few hours before I’m due to fly…

In Sacramento but still thinking about the halftime show