i've been the monkey anxiety bitch for TEN YEARS

This writing doesn't affect reality any more than any writing does; that is to say, indirectly, but considerably.

btw pittsburghers today I was at the bricklayers union and they are looking for apprentices. must be 17+ and have a high school diploma or a GED. local9pa.com/apprentice-a...

“… you are not hopeless and you’re not helpless. You have power in this country. You have a voice in this country. Whether or not you use it is up to you.” Rep Summer Lee www.unionprogress.com/2025/10/19/w...

You work here long enough you move past the fear that comes from understanding the frailty of human life and replace it with taking joy in the small things that make life worth living.

some days all I can here is this on infinite repeat www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzf...

pennsylvanians! today is the last day to register to vote in november's election! if you are wondering why you'd vote in an odd-year-not-even-midterm election, 1 hood media lays it out: www.instagram.com/reel/DQADZuC...

We should all lead a life as interesting and useful www.npr.org/2025/10/01/4...

This is a very bad ruling for all of us who value the First Amendment.

looking through facebook this morning and saw that Vince Eirene died last week. he was a real one. www.laughlinfuneralhome.com/obituary/Vin...

He is purposefully seeking a regime in which he can do and say anything to anyone and nobody is allowed to hold him accountable, either in the courts or by writing about it in any place. This is what he is trying to do.

And I need to remind you that in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump, he appealed—and is planning to appeal to SCOTUS—that he should not be subject to civil damages because of presidential immunity.

This lawsuit is asking to be a vehicle for overturning NYT v. Sullivan (which established the actual malice we know and love for public figures). It is a request to overturn longstanding precedent that allows us to criticize our politicians and remove our free speech.

Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em Tips break down into two main areas: 1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them 2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up 🧵:

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

Also someone at the rink is in a bible camp shirt that has the acronym DILC on it which apparently stands for Deep Integrated Lifegiving Community but I can’t help but interpret it as Dad I’d Like to Cuck

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

I’m at the roller rink for my fav Saturday skate (no one under 10 allowed). Spectator sport: watching overly ambitious skaters get kicked out of the speed skate for slowness and bad skating

"Don't be ghoulish" well I don't know what to tell you man, I didn't spend every day of my life helping turn reality into ghoul world

It’s Player Tiers Day. We talked to more sources than ever to come up with the top 150 NHL players for 2025-26. It’s interesting, I promise. ⤵️⤵️⤵️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/659...

IT'S ADORABLE! New fish species just dropped: the bumpy snailfish at 10,000 ft down in the ocean gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

as comment threads on /r/pittsburgh grow longer the odds of the thread devolving into an argument about whether pittsburgh is northeastern, mid-atlantic, midwestern, appalachian, or something else approach 1

THE ACCURACY

East Liberty. Penn Ave at South Whitfield - 412 Tacos. Caller is a county health department official attempting to red tag and close a business due to a public health hazard. An employee keeps removing the closure notice and is attempting to toss the inspector out.

Of all the pseudoscientific and conspiracy-minded horseshit we’ve allowed to take up space in the common consciousness of humanity, “Our ancestors were simply too stupid to put one rock on top of another! Aliens MUST have helped!“ remains the most viscerally offensive.

On the lack of federal terrorism charges in Minn. killings, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson says they "brought the charges that we think are appropriate right now."

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

I don’t really have words to explain how it feels to see Kristi Noem standing on a street in East LA that looks like the street I grew up on in East LA with an invading military force trying to kidnap people who look like the neighbors I grew up with. It stays with you, spiritually.

“Why don't you buy a nice Scottish island or a farm and start a JK commune for traumatised Terfs” Howling

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

this is one for my fellow trek nerds: is Elon Musk Colonel Green? discuss. show your work.

Protesters risked being shunned by society to warn that Haiti is running out of HIV medication months after the administration of President Donald Trump slashed more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall aid across the globe.

Finally I created a perfect blend of Popeye and Donald Duck:

one of the great disconnects around public policy: it is often incredibly expensive to do invasive anti-fraud measures and you end up spending more money than the actual cost of the fraud you're preventing and of course it makes the user experience miserable every single time

“the nazi bar is so much nicer now that the people who didn’t want to be at a nazi bar left”

I'm super excited for this. I've missed the wheel mill so much. youtu.be/iAZRIfsa2m4?...

So I looked at the "query" that Worldcon used, and as someone who has written at least two books on enterprise AI and many many developer columns on how to build AI apps, and, well, the slim hope that I'd had that they may have done things right has been dashed. A 🧵

Very unusual just how fast Bosch and the other appliance makers immediately called out EPA for reported plans to eliminate Energy Star. Not something you see companies do these days. Energy Star saves average household ~$450/year and is VOLUNTARY

Annual performance review time, I feel like all scientists in the US should get a free pass to write “all things considered, I’m impressed I’m hanging in there” Assuming this applies equally to other jobs as well, but I’ve never seen so many professionals weeping as I have in science spaces lately

Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

This is also how all high schoolers of all genders have felt for decades, if you’d done the assigned reading from Catcher in the Rye instead of writing op eds maybe you’d know that

Still thinking about this interview from this year, 25 years after DS9 concluded, where Alexander Siddig went “I try to make all my characters not quite straight because I’m not quite straight and I think that’s good,” just a little coda to the whole discourse.

Father got lost in a maze Mother left & took the kids Zampano writing crazy things Johnny-T is editing Adding to a narrative That's spiraling around OUR #HOUSE IS SO VERY HARD TO LEAVE OUR #HOUSE ATE MY BROTHER, NOW I GRIEVE OUR #HOUSE NON-EUCLIDEAN & DEEP OUR #HOUSE GIVES THE NAVIDSONS THE CREEPS

What do I have as a finalist in the 2025 Locus Awards? Nothing! But lots of friends and peers are finalists and that's just as good. Congrats to them! locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...

And since you were feeding ChatGPT people's *names* in particular, you should know that it has form for discriminating on that basis. eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...

It’s Seattle. You could walk up to 10 people on the street and 5 of them could write a Perl script to do that search for the price of a con membership.

reset the “It Has Been ___ Years Since the Last Completely Preventable WorldCon Scandal” clock back to zero I guess