I agree for deontological reasons (if something is bad, it's bad irrespective of its consequences) but also because this dynamic turns politics into two fun house mirrors facing each other: an endlessly recursive game of "who do I think will think this matters?" that vacates our faculty of judgment.

Feeling very old after seeing this YouTube thumbnail because I was in the test audience for this film.

I was feeling sad I missed the aurora and then I remembered that around sunset I was asking my kid if there was a fire around here since the sky was so red and welp

How is my kid reading Flatland before me?

This mf said “screamer”

A woman in a screwy hat is going to screamer “masher! cad!” and hit him with her handbag.

Please help Alma to eat and heal!

AI food pics have this weird sheen to them and I spotted this one on Pinterest and then looked down and saw the incredibly weird phrasing immediately below the glossy food.

This is the problem with letting a certain kind of geek do narrative. Specs are not story.

I checked the interactive map to see where my vegetables (out for delivery) are and they were like “they’ll be there in 3 minutes!” on the map, but the veggie van icon keeps going farther and farther away. It was a few blocks away when I first checked and now it’s in the hills.

The Senate is undemocratic.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

a script from @indivisible.org! (I'm probably going to add how harmful this will be in Ossoff's reelection campaign, bc we'll be blaming the entire party when people's healthcare premiums are so high they can't afford insurance)

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Well Prof. Super is a true expert on this stuff, so you can trust this. Governors need to fight.

Misread “President DJT” as “President OUT”

If this were fiction it would be very funny how the meanest motherfuckers on earth are also the thinnest skinned. You can bruise these turnips by refusing to laugh at a joke. They hand out cruelties like party favors but cry like an infant when you won’t applaud.

As I keep saying, actually useful tools don’t pop up in front of the thing I’m doing to beg me to use them

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

Did not know that food banks don't pay sales tax, so their dollar can stretch more!! Cash donate to your local food bank!!

When a rich guy “pivots” on climate or other futurity in favor of current pleasures and comforts, it just means he’s getting old. He won’t be in the future, so he no longer needs to care about it. If he says “quality of life,” he means his own.

It’s excellent.

I’m calling Arlie Hochschild

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Please help Mohammed and Lubna!

Daniel got an unexpected package earlier this week and it turned out to be because he'd won a contest from a soda company so now we have an enormous root beer stein and I am so into it.

[ROB ZOMBIE, ABOUT TO WRITE ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVER MADE] you ever think about the car grandpa munster drives

The new bunny (Conundrum) is very soft and not at all shy. She also hasn't chewed on anything untoward? At all? And she gives kisses. She's only been here since Saturday but is already completely chill with everyone who lives here. A big surprise since she was found loose outside.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Home from a tough day of ruining the workplace

If you've already called your reps about the shutdown, tariffs, Epstein files, ICE raids, etc. and feel like they aren't listening, try giving them another round of calls now. They may be thinking a bit differently after those election results...

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

...and now they are calling the NYC mayor race for this guy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

My household has voted for Prop 50

It would be easier to take care of my mental health if my worries were not so well founded, I think.

This is the first semester when, told they can write an analysis of *any* media production, two of my students have chosen to write about (two different) Camus works.

I'm so tired of the things I care about, the things that make life good even when it's hard, being systematically stripped for parts by people who don't even understand what they're breaking.

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Anecdata, but this matches my experience.

One of my kids telling the other he’s been assigned to watch BIG NIGHT: “Guess what? I’m watching a superhero team up between Monk and Cardinal Bellini!”

“[Mamdani’s] presence wasn’t performative. It was pastoral. In a city that so often divides its grief by identity, he crossed the invisible line and simply showed up.” i love this forward.com/opinion/7805...

Lynda Barry 😭😭😭 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Fun fact: she sat quietly under a desk until I watched a video of Zohran Mamdani speaking Spanish and then she perked up her ears, hopped out, and started tasting her foods.

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

Everyone, this is Conundrum, Connie for short. I will now take questions.

I repost this each October in the hope that the complexity of Halloween's origins and customs are more widely appreciated. Claims of a simple historical & mononational genealogy for this celebration are themselves examples of contemporary folklore/mythmaking. limerick1914.medium.com/customs-vary...