I dont know that people realize that most beauty standards pushing women to look as young as possible for as long as possible is part of the systematic sexualization of younger and younger women.

Gauge: how dare, mother Me: what did I do now? Gauge: it has been an entire minute since you last snuggled with me. I HAVE NEEDS, MOTHER Me: I need to run some errands Gauge: NEEDS, MOTHER. I HAVE TERRIBLE NEEDS Me: wanna go for a ride? Gauge: this is now my most pressing need. Go faster

Everyone saying things like Talarico makes people feel “comfortable” in comparison to Jasmine Crockett: we know what you’re really saying and FU for it

Art is an expression of the human soul. Why would you want to replace that with AI? Why would you need to replace musicians, authors, or any artist with a soulless machine?

"I love my country, but I have to remember that my ancestors were enslaved, my forefathers were considered three-fifths a person, that in the 1970s I could not get a credit card without the signature of either my father or a husband." Rousing stuff from Chaz Ebert! www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...

This is not AI. I found it yesterday at an antique mall. While it may just be a fancy printout, it's clearly not AI. Share something with me that is absolutely not AI.

The idea of bombing children as a form of “self-defense” is nonsensical and grotesque, but nonetheless it’s the argument the U.S. and Israel have been relying on for years and years. It shouldn’t be hard to take a stance against slaughtering children

It’s like, do what you can do reduce the harm you’re implicated in systemically. You may be limited from honoring a boycott, ok. You can’t really help paying taxes that are murdering people. But you for damn sure can choose not to pollute Memphis & waste gallons of water & plagiarize with ChatGPT!

“Duolingo said daily active user growth decelerated through 2025 and is expected to fall to roughly half the pace it sustained in prior years.” This is after pivoting to AI.

What happened in Kansas is *exactly* why you need to get rid of Newsom at the primary. He will not protect trans people. He will not protect homeless people. He will not protect anyone.He considers outside of the cultural norm. ... that's Republican shit.

This is why people are so upset when people say Democrats need to stop focusing on trans issues because it's too woke and people aren't ready for it: we're not talking minor inconvenience here. We're not talking microaggressions We're talking: they are stripping IDs from trans people

What was I about to do what was I about to do what was I about to do what was I about to do DAMMIT

Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?” One reason? Their wealth keeps growing, yet many of them are giving less to charity now than they have in years. Billionaire philanthropy is a sham. Watch. youtu.be/aNZ7mE82UJ0?...

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed. You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

I know that we're supposed to welcome former, hm, Tr*mper types with open arms when they wise up. But if they don't acknowledge how they helped get us here -- are they really all that wise? Isn't that an important part of the wisdom they need to truly help the country?

essay by a guy whose entire media career has been built on hippie punching wondering why more people aren't helping the hippies topple the fascists

Woo hoo! A Murderous Business has finaled in the 2026 GCLS Tee Corinne Cover Design contest!!!! Well done, David Rotstein @minotaurbooks.bsky.social 👏 😁

84 years sounds like a long time. And I know in some ways it is. But it's also not that long. I still have living relatives who were in the camps and who were old enough to remember it. This isn't abstract or ancient history. It's part of the living memory I grew up with.

How many women under oath equals one billionaire

I had a great conversation today with the incomparable Allison Gill of @muellershewrote.com about the isolation that leads men into hate groups and into storming the Capitol. You can watch the full conversation at HateComesToMainStreet.com.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is the America y'all claim not to know. This was every hour of everyday, 365 days a year from 1619 until probably somewhere in one of the 50 states or 19,600 cities just 5 minutes ago. It's the song that doesn't end...even louder than The Star-Spangled Banner.

On a broader level, I do think one of the worst things AI is doing is forcing us to stop and wonder "Wait is this even real" any time an interest clip or video pops up

I’m tired of the ignorance of voters saying “idk what the big deal is about requiring id to vote”🤦🏽‍♀️ ppl take a civics class & understand the 24th Amendment makes poll taxes ILLEGAL! Ah yes that word illegal. You can’t make ppl PAY for a document to vote… it violates the constitution, so no SAVE Act!

The problem isn't that AI can do your job. It can't. The problem is that your boss thinks it can.

the very idea of gavin newsom in 2028 is preposterous. he's a throwback to the time where you could put a haircut in a suit and have him mouth platitudes while the status quo grinds on. we're so far past that. we got pedophile nazis now. lol that you want to reanimate dan quayle

I took all 4 cats to the vet today. I came home with all 4 too. Last round of vet visits, we came home with one less cat so I guess I've been a bit tense.

Suggestion for people trying to talk to the current admin: every time they do a verbal dancy dance, just call out the rhetorical bullshit by naming it. Say, nice ad hominem, now can you answer? Yes, you used the big boy false dichotomy, now can we get an answer?

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

my mom died of metastatic colorectal cancer at 59. she died of it because she lost insurance & couldn’t afford colonoscopies or other screening to detect it early. when she was diagnosed, the prognosis was 10 years. she made it 2. this should never happen to anyone in a supposedly great country.

Who reads and writes poetry these days?

If a door gets left open here for any length of time it summons the elusive but impressive garage peacock.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

People have worn out "performative." We often perform things that are real, you know. Posting is a kind of performance of one's politics. Performative doesn't actually mean "fake" or "empty," it just gets deployed that way. We actually need performance. Case in point: last night's performance.

"The Epstein class" is a global rot In Europe, ties to Jeffrey Epstein are ending careers, sparking spy probes, and possibly toppling governments In America, not so much. How the lack of elite accountability became the tipping point for democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jeff...

In other news I am trying something new re: publishing - submitting some poems! I...forgot what rejections feel like. I mean, besides the general market rejection of nobody buying my books. Ha. I am more amused than depressed and just observing the changes in me.

Some days I just repost stuff. I don't seem to have that much to say for myself anymore, at least not that ADDS to the discourse instead of repeats ad nauseum what other people have said, better.

hey can you guys see my sleep paralysis demon too or

If a brown singer at a halftime show offends you enough to protest but white men raping young girls doesn’t, then it isn’t family values you defend it’s white supremacy and sexual abuse.

If you didn’t understand what was great about that halftime show you don’t understand what is great about America. Or should be.

Parrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty!

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

Every day some loser ass little shit comes on here whining about how they can't draw or write and that's why they deserve to use the machine that steals from people who did the work to be able to draw and write. And it's tiring. Be a little bitch quietly.

Since we rarely talk about books, here's a shout out to a cozy mystery with paranormal elements I am LOVING - The Retired Assassin's Guide to Country Gardening by Naomi Kuttner. Just bought the hubs the audio for his upcoming bday.

Two dog trainers at opposing facilities secretly pine for each other. Beagled Rivarly.

"This is how men behave." Not for the first, nor surely the last, time, I marvel at how comfortable so many men are with describing their entire gender as comprised of vile reprobates.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

It’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.