really can’t be overstated how much Polis was out on a limb with the Peters thing there are definitely issues on which “the Democrats” suck but on the topic of Tina Peters it was “Jared Polis sucks” the entire state party is furious, you don’t censure your own governor lightly

Discursive spaces with broad access are always kind of a shit show, this isn't an argument against freedom but it IS an argument against resting your defense of freedom on the assumption that it'll produce something orderly, collegial, reasonable, or dignified

this thing is a hell of a video all these years later

The Soviet Winnie-the-Pooh is a wonderful thing. And its version of Pooh himself is one of the great animated characters. The artists didn't take from Disney's version. They aimed for an "absolutely new bear" -- and they pulled it off. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-absolu...

did you even say “thank you” to this website for the mandatory grass-touching break?

while bluesky was down i read four books, cleaned my garage and baked a soufflé. thank god it’s back

Something I wrote in the forward to one of my books is that reading about fucked up shit can be an act of BDSM. You pretend to be in danger, but nothing bad is actually happening. It's not real. The safe word is closing the book.

Chef Violet recommends the double lambchops

Cost of living so high but it’s still free to hold my hand

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Heads up. He is/was in a lot of starter packs, too, so check yours if you've made one so you're no longer recommending a rapist.

The pictures of baby PB will continue until morale improves

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

Also people are not prepared for how little the Democratic Party in 2027-2031 resembles that Democratic Party under Biden or Obama. Massive generational turnover is happening. The future is AOC & Ossoff & Talarico & Mamdani.

a lot of us learned the hard way that BLUESKY DOES NOT REMOVE YOU FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS IF YOU BLOCK SOMEONE YOU WERE FOLLOWING, it's a two-step process and if you're used to Twitter's soft-block you may not always remember

Zohran Mamdani Thought (laudatory)

neat bit of history!

Kids, amirite (via @wlos-13.bsky.social on Instagram)

loaded hash $4 bacon $4 grits $2 fruit $2 toast $2 decaf coffee $1

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Lungs aren't just older than feet...they are waaaaaay older than feet. Lungs are older than trees.

The thing to remind yourself whenever there is Antiquities Discourse is that the audience of the Odyssey or Beowulf or the Mahabharata or any other classical epic cycle you can think of would probably think a Marvel film or big budget JRPG is the coolest shit that they could imagine.

The thing I keep telling myself is that if Fredrick Douglass made it though 1857 I can sure as hell make it through this

this is absolutely worth remembering: when the abolitionists began the struggle against the slave power, the slave power looked unbeatable. they fought anyways--a long, difficult, often thankless struggle. they fought anyways.

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Striped cuckoo (Tapera naevia) chicks utilize specialized, cryptic plumage that mimics the texture and color of pinecones for camouflage. #birds

Goslings, when you are doing a task that requires zero goslings 👀🐥🪶

babby 🐣🪶

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

despite their best efforts we’re still here and we’ll still be here when they’re gone

Time line cleanser: A year ago I bought the dogs a massive bed:

When you have to work the weekend and that means spending your Saturday with hundreds of workers learning how to fight bad bosses 🪶 🐣

i went to the sheep store and they all knew ewe

go ahead, keep adding tasks to my to do list. i will only get sleepier

you're telling me six teens painted this chapel

Kermit, Piggy, Animal, Beaker, Sam Eagle, Rowlf.

Oh this is a fun art game mino.mobi/draw/

This is *the* reason I'm furious with the panic merchants in our own community. I'm not telling them to lie, I'm telling them to stop doing unpaid psychic warfare on their own people.

Since we're all talking about dogpiles now, and I had mentioned my own experience dealing with them a few times in the last couple days, I figured I'd write a longer thread explaining my experiences with them and specifically why they're specifically worse than just "a bunch of people being mean"

best to ever do it, no notes

????? HOW tho

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

Seriously considering one of these after hearing rah sing their praises for months--and I have to say, just LOOKING at people using them on the website is making my back start to relax, lolol (popping this out to QP out of many posts she's done about them bc the whole thread is neat useful stuff!)

By 4 p.m., the NAACP filed in Davidson County Chancery Court for an emergency injuction against the maps. A link to the full filing has been added to our story.

God fucking BLESS the Democrats of Tennessee.

As Tennessee Republicans voted Thursday to approve an unprecedented Congressional redistricting map that would divide Memphis, protesters and Democrats pushed back with walkouts, protests resulting in arrests and burning a printed Confederate flag in the Capitol. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

the reward you get in the PNW for the long dark winter is sitting on the porch enjoying a lovely late dusk at 8 or 9, and while it’s probably not for everyone, i sure love it

VP @kamalaharris.com: When you look at this war in Iran, which the American people do not want, which was not authorized by Congress. It's all just bullshit

(inventing social media) we want to start releasing DLCs for the DSM-5

One of the all time great tweets from the last days of Old Twitter