In 2011, the year he was worth $18 billion, ProPublica reported that Bezos received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. He paid zero income taxes. Jeff Bezos should live in absolute terror of the public he has pillaged from.

too soon

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

There is something powerful in the repetition in the line “There will be dying, there will be dying,” & then stepping away, a deliberate turning of attention What remains is what continues in spite of everything, he's not arguing for hope, he notices it #poetry #poemoftheday #MentalHealthMatters

I am routinely struck by the way reactionaries look at fiction and get upset that either they're not the main characters, or that it's not a place they can go. Entertainment to them is only escape.

For #caturday, here's a picture of this beautiful stray boy we've been befriending in the neighborhood. Trying to get him comfy enough around us that we can bring him to the vet!

Bad Bunny and the rest have been doing this and getting attacked all over the place for years now, y'all just don't care until the person doing it looks like the Boss

You know, this Pope guy ain't half bad

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...Wait I wasn't looking, do another one

Crazy to think that gas is like $5 a gallon and people are taking out payday loans on Domino's pizzas and the President of the United States is spending $1,000,000,000 on a new ballroom because the WHITE HOUSE wasn't FANCY ENOUGH for him and so many people are like "yes sir that's just what we need"

lmfao

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

This is exactly right, with one caveat: the reason "no it'll never fucking happen" is there (I bet) is to try (probably not successfully) to stave off dozens of annoying people replying just that. Except that impossible things become possible all the time, and it starts with saying what should be.

Unironically this was perfect comms strategy.

Ear time

Seeing Rae speak in person was such a ray (ha) of hope. Please signal-boost her campaign if you live in LA!

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

Guess who's finally getting a CPAP! Hopefully. Assuming it's not too expensive.

I'm alive, I promise. Just visited the bakery and put down 600 words on my manuscript. Are they good words? Who wants to know?

She makes a really compelling point, too. When I was a kid, my favorite book series (Animorphs) was absolutely TEEMING with gore and death and existential dread. Kids are going to have dark thoughts! Giving them an outlet is good!

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

HOA says no

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math. less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

Expanding access to psychedelics for mental health seems like a good thing, but I gotta say I am not wild about this process. www.statnews.com/2026/04/18/p...

if your stance is that you can never not vote for a political party no matter what they do or promise to do than you aren't actually an active participant in politics. you've declared yourself unpersuadable and safe, they never have to listen to you now.

Saw Tim Curry trending, almost had a heart attack. Anyway, happy 80th birthday to the sweetest transvestite 👍

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Sleep studies bring something out in me

my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

We should be learning from other countries...

this is really cool.

Got the kind of anxiety where I'm probably gonna keep myself up all night thinking "what if I don't sleep right at this sleep study? Won't the doctors all point at me and laugh?"

"Scotland" by palette knife painter Georgia Hart

God, imagine the party when he finally bites it.

A+ headline. defector.com/president-ex...

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

I'm telling y'all, it's not that hard to give up Amazon. costco.com is RIGHT THERE.

Could also be the general sense that the whole world is falling down around their ears. Global warming, ascendant fascism, AI coming to take all our jobs (allegedly)... Everyone's stressed the fuck out and the future looks dark. People need a reason to hope.

if you want a shot of optimism remember that ten years ago Victor Orban's position seemed unassailable and today he and his movement are failing.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Same guy who tried to force government contractors to do business with Israel or risk losing their contracts. Not a surprise to learn he doesn't care about consent.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.