ruin a book with a car To Kill A Thunderbird

Don't know if it's real, sorta don't care

Fund the arts

Nexstar and Sinclair advertisers right now:

Right now, I’m blaming people on social media for acting like there’s nothing we can do

I was kinda thinking a shutdown would be like throwing a spanner in the GOP's congressional machinations, and blamed on Republicans to boot! But @ariellaelm.bsky.social makes a very, very good point:

would love to see this reissued.

We used to have smoking sections in restaurants, ashtrays on planes, and cigarette vending machines. But not anymore. Do some people still smoke? Sure. Do fewer people smoke? Yes. Limiting access and availability can reduce overall societal harm. This post is about guns.

This is so amazing, I'm about in tears. If you don't know, Huntington's is just... god awful and excruciating for years for the entire family.

The whole thread is essential reading, but this quote is a standout. Paulina Barsook saw this all coming:

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Things really started going off the rails when tech bros discovered ayahuasca.

A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids. Kids: "Cheating." Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—" Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

I've been #RaptuteReady for 44 years.

I've been #RaptureReady for thirty years.

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

GI tract owners take note:

It'a weird to see us all apparently hurtling toward peak "uwu" when I still don't know what the hell uwu is supposed to mean.

if you let bluesky or any website for that matter be the lens through which you see the world you will not actually see the world but a series of photos and videos that a computer wanted you to witness in order to keep you on an application

Timeline cleanse 🚗

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

Men: "Seriously, why do you need such a big purse?" Also, Men: "Can I put this in your purse?"

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

Got it. legalunitedstates.com/what-does-si...

Rapture should be underway on the east coast. Any news?

A really great piece by my favorite tech journalist:

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

The same prick who gives me a headache every day now wants to outlaw Tylenol.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

if you’re in line to get raptured, STAY IN LINE

this sweater is meant to commemorate duckhead's 160th anniversary as a brand but i might buy it as a "160th anniversary of appomattox and emancipation" www.duckhead.com/collections/...

Jimmy Kimmel is a great example of how pushback works and also how completely craven Shari Redstone was canceling Colbert

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

This painting reminds me of a photojournalism assignment we had at Mizzou called people without people. Andrew Wyeth’s “The Writing Chair” (1962).

The best thing about every Rapture prediction is that it’s a win-win: if it doesn’t happen it’s funny, and if it does happen then the rest of us never have to hear about the Rapture again.

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

What “fascism” means Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

Acetaminophen doesn’t cause autism, but willful ignorance does cause quackery and conspiracy theories.

I watch the pollination in real time. I watch people step up without support. I see the red state Democrats rally. I see them blossom. I witness the fruit of their work ripen. Magic. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate. I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man. Never change your last name.

It will always be astonishing to me how many people who are sitting at home doing nothing will criticize the efforts of people who are actually trying to change things, whatever those efforts are. If you yourself are not doing anything to help people survive and organize,

Hey, friends. Please remember that feeling bad does not actually make you a better person or help anyone. Decouple action from emotion. Do what you can to help while feeling as good as you can. People to object to you *feeling* happy, regardless of your actions, are being pointlessly cruel.

The Sun will be directly above our Earth's equator at 2:19 p.m EST, which signals the start of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere! Today is the Autumn Equinox! Something to celebrate today for.

The entire point of writing is discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you approach it from a point of view of efficiency and optimization (to no end) you never will.

No one is making you be a writer if you can’t do it and also don’t enjoy doing it. If you’re larping a job for clout I’d probably pick surgeon or Nobel prize winning diplomat, stealing valor for from isolated weirdos at their laptops is like shoplifting from the landfill.

Yeah, I had to try three sites to cancel Disney+ but the runaround only made me more determined to do it.