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I can think of no more cruel yet majestically appropriate fate for Donald Trump: wasting away into emptiness, while his uncaring minions tirelessly torment him with AI-generated specters and shades of what never was and what will never be

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

“Coarse language” warnings presuppose the existence of smooth language. In this essay I will deconstruct

Article. I can read faster than any YouTuber can speak, even with the playback speed cranked up to comical levels. THAT SAID, article writers these days need fucking EDITORS they spend whole paragraphs FAFFING ABOUT before they get to the point IT'S CALLED THE INVERTED FUCKING PYRAMID MY DUDES

it happened again: took care of a dreaded task i’d miserably put off for months, & it took five minutes to complete. it was easy! no trouble at all! once again i will learn nothing from this experience

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

A small break from the usual doom and gloom: We decided to wallpaper a bathroom today. And feel like we could not have picked a better time to embrace whimsy. It may be small, but I think I’ll smile every time I come in here and for a second forget about [waves hands at all this].

now wait a dang minute (I did not notice till I clicked the alt text!!)

The bees have discovered Brutalism

the sinclair charlie kirk tribute has 71K views nine days after it was supposed to preempt jimmy kimmel by comparison, this antique toaster restoration video has 102K views after one day

Speaking as someone who watched this from the inside the thing that absolutely produces the best results is getting in early when someone is running for office, supporting them for reasons, and giving them public props when they execute for your priorities.

As anyone who has had a landlord can tell you, the worst landlords are not huge, faceless property management entities with a professionalized staff, nor a homeowner renting their basement unit, but the small-capitalist landlords in between.

see? everyone is 38 on here

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Barney is FED UP.

the most correct take

Thread on jungle primaries

continuing resolution /= FY2026 budget the anti-trans provisions people are freaking their shit about are in the FY2026 budget, the continuing resolution is what's being negotiated over ostensibly. the FY2026 budget is not anywhere near passing and Dems have not offered to negotiate passing it.

"Let's see what's out there..." It was 38 years ago today (Sept 28, 1987) that "Encounter at Farpoint" had its premiere broadcast, introducing Capt Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D. I'm proud to have been a member of the team who made the show at Paramount.

Should unlikable people be able to survive in society? Should they be able to thrive? It's rare for dreamers of better socities to confront those questions, but I think they are the ones that matter the most.

Subsidiarity. The network of mutuality is inescapable, but not every responsibility/obligation is direct for everyone. We all have a part to play, but it’s called a PART for good reason.

Immigration advocates say if you see ICE targeting someone, knowing what to do in the moment is critical to protecting immigrants. It’s hard to know what to look for, but this guide can help you better understand how to be an effective bystander in Oregon, and your legal right to do so.

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

What a strange strange strange strange strange strange strange strange man

there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them

Short-form social media:

Today Oregon’s message to Donald Trump was loud and clear: stay out.

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The one thing I do know is that public resistance to and outcry against ICE is gumming up their plans and scaring the shit out of them. Keep it up. (And thank you especially to Chicago, you all are holding it down.)

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

I will take any excuse to pull up my favorite Phil Vischer tweet:

Molly Ivins also wrote this decades ago! www.motherjones.com/politics/199...

this is a lesson that is omnipresent in pop culture and yet lost on a subset of centrist pundits

Don't lie, this is just Great A'Tuin with the world on her back ❤️

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

I am obsessed with this guy on Instagram who makes ice cream using different kinds of trees, then he also makes a spoon and bowl out of the same kind of wood, and the whole time he teaches us about that specific kind of tree?? It’s so cool?? x: www.instagram.com/reel/DPHvnfR...

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Some galactic eye candy for a mental break. That filamentary stuff is countless clouds of dust, tiny grains of carbonaceous or rocky material produced by the zettatons in dying stars. Mind you, this galaxy is 55 million light-years from Earth.

lets be middle aged and learn how to stop motion animate together

Francie is here with your Saturday night bingus report:

if I’ve done nothing else with my day, I’ve succeeded in recruiting new haters to a cause dear to my heart: the five-theatre complex formerly known as the Portland Center for the Performing Arts doing the most inexplicable thing anyone has ever done to an innocent apostrophe

i told my landlord they're releasing the amelia earhart files and he lowered my rent 50%. i told my grocer and he gave me a free nectarine. i told my doctor and he said i didn't have to pay for the visit. try it. you never know who out there has been waiting for this moment.

you should buckaroo. it took an unfathomably infinite amount of variables to bring you to this exact moment over trillions and trillions of years you are the end result of mind bending cosmic rarity and you wield that radiant uniqueness through everything that you do

I know everything in the world is terrible right now, but I'm one week in to fostering this lovely little rescue puppy. It's taken him a few days to get used to people, but he's starting to come out of his shell. He's still not entirely sure what to make of us, but he's a curious little guy.

Bliss.

Cat & Angel gramophone needles, ca. 1930s. Item from my collection.