Everybody will tell you about sunscreen and working out which are two of my faves, but my other recommendation is find a hobby you love but you are not good at. You will have fun, you will learn a bunch, you might make friends but you will never be tempted to make it your job. Start a band.

Since 2021, DCPS has become D.C.'s leading sponsor of H1-B visas for its employees. But some 200 teachers who took jobs under the expectation that the school system would sponsor a green card are now facing uncertain futures, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports. 51st.news/dc-green-car...

I dunno I feel like people spend a lot of time trying to like, make book clubs to be better leftists when what most need is to do stuff churches and rotary clubs used to do before everyone went off the deep end, ex: food, diapers, coats. Feels basic, can feel pointless, but it’s the whole point.

Become so beloved by your neighbors that the kids chat with you on the porch and the cats gently bring you a small dead rat.

Huge thank you to @laurentheisen.bsky.social for correctly calling out the “Indiana-fication” of Ohio on today’s Distraction podcast

This is definitely a good song for your spooky playlist, but I also wanna flag that Roger’s song “you gotta stay alive” is working as my anthem to get through these absolute garbage times.

You ever see a guy (gn) and feel like you’re seeing yourself for the first time

Project 2025 was literally written down and included all of this. The only real surprise is the speed of the willingness of the media, courts, business, and Congress to bend the knee.

Like two hours left on this! Help support hands-on science and sound education, maybe win a minimoog!

Really suggesting strongly you enter this raffle (that ends Monday night!!!) because it would be cool for you to own a minimoog signed by Todd Rundgren. bit.ly/ToddRundgren...

The report completely neglects the way that much of the momentum in far right extremism has now become part of STATE VIOLENCE. It does not count ICE actions, militia actions, vigilantism clothed in state authority. THIS IS WHERE THAT VIOLENCE NOW RESIDES. (4)

Really suggesting strongly you enter this raffle (that ends Monday night!!!) because it would be cool for you to own a minimoog signed by Todd Rundgren. bit.ly/ToddRundgren...

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sometimes you make an argument that is reasonable, logical, and persuasively makes your case against all other options and then someone can just come along and disagree? that should not be allowed

I always thought when it was time for a mid career change of profession there would be professions left.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

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News you can fucking use (I got my Covid and flu shots in Maryland yesterday).

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Other fun shit to hand out: fidget bracelets, lil buckets of slime, tubes of bubbles, tech decks were very popular last year.

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the administration is simply not opposed to political violence if it hurts or scares the right people

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

if u can please help my friend good pup fisher

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

ancient Transgender Markings

Getting sick of the term “political violence” when a public figure closely aligned w/one ideology or other is a victim. ICE is also political violence. Armies are also political violence. Not sure of my point - just wish for a term that doesn’t immediately wall an act like this off from all the rest

@darthbluesky.bsky.social I want to make sure you know about my beautiful neighbor Sagwa

Sagwa blessings in these unspeakable times

Some traffic stops in D.C. are turning into a deportation pipeline. This video investigation, published in partnership with @evidentmedia.org and @bellingcat.com shows just how MPD is collaborating with ICE:

If you live outside DC and have representation in Congress please call your rep and tell them to vote NO!

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Colin asked me if I thought this was the first saint who knew about hentai and I told him no because that was like basically the only porn for centuries but I would love an art history/theology expert to weigh in.

@darthbluesky.bsky.social have you seen baby Tupi yet?

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

The candy of your elders is the perfect thinking candy when you are at a desk all day just saying

there is no hell hot enough. we will have to do it here

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Honestly my only complaint is I cannot select Prince Fielder nine times

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“I’m terrified of going to NYC” bruh you mean where Elmo and big bird live?

being afraid of the subway is so fucking funny. you mean the choo-choo train???

The material is there. Art, music, performance, community cultural life, all are happening. Labor is there — loads of writers, experienced and aspiring, keen to engage if their work is accorded basic dignity. The scarcity is capital scarcity, and it’s an artificial and intentional scarcity.

This is how you stand up to authoritarianism - by fighting for the targeted people, not by throwing them overboard.

More than any newspaper, more than any magazine, my Defector subscription is the one that brings me the most joy and give me the most useful information every year. Sometimes that information is just a series of photos of Shohei Otani and his dog and that’s also good. Worth your money.

The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

This is my neighborhood. There AREN’T sirens going off everywhere. They are not doing this for max theater. They are doing it _to get people._