somebody should study the inverse ratio between the time left for an impending deadline and the number of appliances and furnitures and closets that require deep cleaning.

Had no idea JQA was so woke

Had a dream @oldenoughtosay.com ask on here for advice about a kitchen sponge set, and I was first to respond, and she even liked my response… But it didn’t seem she was going to take my posting seriously 1/2

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Are people hoarding gas now?

This is going to be the GOAT of didn’t age well takes

When you do alt text on social media, you want to imagine that instead of the image, people only get the alt text. Does your post/thread still make sense? Are people getting the same information you expected them to get from the image? That's the purpose of alt text and actually how it works.

Who likes to name things? (everybody, right?) I’m looking for a name for a main repository for all my data, which I want to consolidate into one primary place (to be backed up, of course) and organize. What am I naming this place?

OMG HORNY ACTIVISM IS BACK IN MY LIFE!

This was a great article that every academic/scholar should read!

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid. (Yes, I had delusions of grandeur and no understanding of race, why do you ask?)

"you aren't a legitimate part of a community until you have lived there for X years/for your whole life" is a sentiment most people voting for democrats would find repulsive under other circumstances

not ragging on OP, as someone who moved across the country as a kid and again for work as an adult several times i don't love the idea that you have to be born and raised in a district to represent it. i don't care less about my neighbors because i didn't go to high school with them

Rarely do we see candidates out in he streets, putting their bodies on the line not just for their potential constituents, but for all the marginalized folks in their communities. Even though Kat didn’t win, the campaign she ran should be treated as an example for all others to follow.

Sculpture assigning boss guy: You carve that statue of our 16th President? Sculptor guy: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked Boss: ?

I hope Kat Abughazaleh stays active in the district and especially keeps going with mutual aid. The US is heading for economic disaster and neighbors helping neighbors is the only way a lot of folks are gonna make it through. High profile folks willing to do that level of real local work is huge.

good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.

Ok so it’s self harm awareness day & somebody was like let’s do some suicide prevention, here’s some hotline numbers. We so badly need to get over the quick fix of handing suicide prevention over to hotline numbers. It says “I don’t care & won’t listen but good luck finding someone who will!”

well that went way deeper than I was expecting

meanwhile in the real world Mamdani's advocacy helped to free the last Columbia University activist in ICE custody

I did not see a "share your donation" button for Bluesky but I donated because I love the work they do both in practice but almost more importantly in principle. The philosophy of the paper is a good one, their community boxes are laudatory and they serve as a model of what local news should be like

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and i also think it's Good and Healthy to be very upfront about that if someone asks you! it's absolutely legit to say "yeah i don't know!" if asked, or simply not engage if you aren't explicitly asked! it is better to say you don't know than to blurt out the first thing that comes into your mind

So I do wanna talk about this. Leftism is a set of core values. It’s not a political affiliation. Leftism is a thing that you do. Leftists being bigots, excusing it, or being is not a reason to question those core values but rather an individual’s commitment to those values.

sorry basically the problem of my life is that i internalized and believed a lot of stuff people said about valuing children and loving your neighbor and living in a society at the exact moment that everyone in power decided all of that shit was fake and gay and not a way to make a living

I think most Americans assume that there IS a legal path to citizenship that a lot of undocumented people simply don’t want to go through, and I think now people are discovering that there isn’t! And they think there should be.

Swiss Army Man for the win

Something I've been trying to do lately is formulate my principles and beliefs in positive rather than negative terms - "I believe X" rather than "I'm not like those fucking guys" - and it's been a useful and (I think) healthy little reorientation

First, and I don't know why people have trouble with this: a great deal of people left of center find talking to the far right a complete waste of time. You don't play chess with someone you know cheats and you don't debate philosophy with someone actively stabbing strangers to death on the subway.

to be fair I also wouldn’t put my 14 yo daughter on the subway but that’s because I want to keep other people safe - nobody should have to deal with 14 yo girls after a long day 😂

It’s not that “everything is LIKE high school”. It’s that high school prepares you for how the real world is. People will clique up and pile on over the dumbest shit.

absolutely worth getting watching to the very last frame

Happy March 10!

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has anyone asked how much republicans are spending to hold an annual retreat at a trump property or has the press just given up on caring about these kinds of unprecedented conflicts of interest?

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I think it stopped being real when the government made it clear they would back up companies whose going broke would hurt too many investors with taxpayer money. At that point the stock market is just a bank with great interest rates that only 20% of society can afford to join.

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

My teen is currently facing this issue looking for a part time job, even tho he’s a moderate walk away from the shopping centers’ employment opportunities

I had this question on a survey too, after a delivery where the delivery men genuinely did a great job and said the surveys were helpful to them, so I did it. But I have no idea whether I screwed them over with my answer to this question or not. I felt like I wasn’t prepared for the test!

Let me tell you something. Y’all are asking too many damn questions at every point of sale. I have to leave a comment, make a suggestion, donate to a charity, choose a method of payment three times and then multiple choice of ways to get a receipt. Take the damn money and leave me alone.

I think a lot of us millennials & older really take it for granted that we were the last of only a couple generations where there was an all-encompassing campaign to encourage literacy. Everyone used to agree upon it. There were commercials with your favorite celebrities just being like, "READ!"

#Lingsky I really need to improve my listening without captions skills. Any advice beyond immersion/practice?

WARNING!!!!!

Who was Dean of Women at Georgetown University in 1974? I’d hitched across US and she let me stay at her place a few days without knowing anything about me.

Abolish ICE is the moderate position.

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Adventures in the unitary executive: we’re eliminating for-cause firing protections to make sure agency officials remain accountable … but the person in charge of aforementioned accountability exercises it *not* after citizens are murdered, but when she lies about what he said about an ad budget