I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

My take on fatphobia discourse is that I have adopted Todd T. Squirrel's approach to life and my life is infinitely better now than when it was when I was "watching my weight"

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

Fuck Discord, catch me on ICQ *uh-oh!*

I just sold probably the last of my on-sale paintings that I would have ever expected to sell and so I'm putting this out there in case someone else feels like surprising me octophant.us/paintings

No mention in the Saturday Pitchfork piece about Moroder’s “Chase” about how it’s arguably one of the great wrestling theme songs of all time 😭

Ice otters

Please stop posting Laura Loomer tweets here. We don't need to know what that tragedy comedy mask face bitch thinks!

bring back reasonably sized trucks

I have not seen it used by anyone who isn’t the maddest a person can be in about 20 years.

TR’s man in the arena speech is the ultimate “they’re cooking you in the group chat, pussy” indicator

couldn't sleep so i made him sit down

oh hes leaving, pats fan i guess

*Runs in * There is genuine French biathlon drama! www.threads.com/@aldokt/post...

You don't want any of this shit Dewey. It is Ultra HD with HDR. You'll see every pixel of your dead brother in the clearest format available.

Can we help Luna out tonight?

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McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

Extra sad today? Listen to a six-hour mix of all of Chet Baker's saddest love songs! You surely will not regret listening to a six-hour mix of all of Chet Baker's saddest love songs.

Someone on TikTok pointed out that bad bunny has more monthly Spotify listeners than trump has voters

When I lived in France we had a sweet old neighbor lady who would spit every time she passed a certain house. Eventually, her daughter explained to me that the home belonged to a man who’d collaborated with the Nazis 60 YEARS AGO. May these ICE goons face a similarly lonely future.

For many athletes, the Olympic Games are their Super Bowl

this shit's a real building?!? le guetteur in france.

"It's OK to Be White" has been a slogan for literal Nazis for some time now, if you want to know where the Republican Party is at the moment

Saeed's leg has become infected again and he desperately needs $150 for antibiotics. Please, we've all known Saeed for so long, don't leave him to suffer this, share and donate, do whatever you can. chuffed.org/project/1635...

They are pro KOSA, pro surveillance, and anti sex work. They call it “sexual exploitation” instead of sex work, because they’re SWERFs. REMINDER THAT CRIMINALIZING SEX WORKERS ENABLES SEX TRAFFICKERS. Any anti trafficking org that does not hold to this cares more about optics than safety.

As much as I agree that it’s obviously very important right now to put pressure on the admin to release the full Epstein files and prosecute all of the predators involved This org is anti-sex work, pro-Nordic model, and classifies consensual sex work as exploitation.

Never Forget

Making a particularly poor and white state presumably poorer and whiter.

Not hard to put all this in a straight line. WV went from a Dem stronghold to one with no investment from national party. GOP fully took over, and now as some states have their policies and police resist ICE, WV, already one of the poorest and whitest states, is incentivized to embrace it.

The thing about the academy, academics are conned, going after a carrot being dangled in front of them. They're abused, worked past their limits in unfair labor with unreasonable expectations, but as long as they can cling to these tokens awarded to them telling them they're smart they consent.

listen to @bloodwork.show

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

I lost respect for Noam Chomsky when, years ago, I heard some folks on a podcast talking about how he was gifted a Keurig and thought you could get multiple coffees from one pod. Dude was serving tannish water to folks after offering them coffee. No one corrected him. Didn't figure it out himself.

the babysitter brought the baby a board book with pictures of babies and dogs in it and check out Baby Foster Wallace over here

Blame it all on my boots I showed up in boots And stepped on your boots With my boots

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

Yeah I’m a big fan of “Bad Bunny” actually

Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club

AV05.BMF

I've seen some discourse about how it seems like everyone in the elite circles knew about Epstein. I'm reminded of the piece of information about the Tuskegee Syphillis Study that I end classes with: Congress had hearings about the study and re-confirmed funding Every. Year. For. Forty. Years.

By the way, if you're thinking, it's weird that Georgia and Poland are so good now that Russia is not there! Yeahhhh, that's not exactly an accident!

Happy Friday. Please use this space to post mutual aid, fundraisers or if you are a creator accepting commissions. I will boost periodically through the entire weekend & repost the thread so people can look through it & find you as well.

This just the archaic form of scrolling social media. Before that, they pulled the quill and ink out and spent the day writing letters.

The only winter Olympic sport I'm interested in

using a ouija board to tell my ancestors how good sugar free dr pepper has gotten