Have the studios all fired every last sound engineer? Bc jumping to turn the volume down every time music plays and cranking it back up when dialogue starts makes for a terrible viewing experience and I can't imagine experienced sound engineers would be happy with a mix like this

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JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff. GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him. (This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

These guys are great! I donate every year and may I suggest that some of the crafts they sell on behalf of the elders make great Christmas presents?

HOW COULD I FORGET that "take" is the word that originated this post? "take" can also get in the bin

Words I would like to throw in the trash this week: nuance, aesthetic, journey, content (CONent, not conTENT. I have no problem with conTENT this week)

ChatGPT is as "conscious" as a cootie catcher or a magic 8 ball. We've gotta stop it with this nonsense

We’re not doing “disability accommodations are unnecessary and unfair actually” discourse less than 24 hours after Alice Wong has passed. Absolutely the fuck not, even if it is a perfect example of the kind of shit disabled people have to deal with and why Alice’s activism was and is so necessary.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

Happy "clicking refresh every thirty seconds" night to all who celebrate!

the main lesson I have taken away from kpop demon hunters and hazbin hotel and a bunch of other shit is that I would like more musicals don't care about the genre - action, horror, comedy, whatever - just give me catchy songs and I'm there

Just saw a commercial for a wealth management company whose tagline was "serving middle class millionaires" and I am reminded that we are living through an age where words have lost all meaning

My annual "I hate copay accumulators" rant is here. Pharmaceutical cos set up programs to help people on very expensive meds afford them, and insurance cos said "sure, you can pay for it, but it can't actually reduce the patient's cost lol. We get extra $$ now." Disability poverty is a policy choice

Go buy books at Loyalty Bookstore! They also have a website (loyaltybookstore.com) or you can support them by selecting their shop when you shop on bookshop.org. DC community is a beautiful thing, & we have to keep our bookstores alive

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

When these bills are up for a vote, I hope those of you with federal representation call your House and Senate members to oppose them. We District residents don’t have any representatives to lobby. And we better not see a single Democrat vote for these anti-DC bills. They need to hold the line.

Gerisuits and other age simulations are no better than disability simulations. They don’t have the outcomes they purport, and we could just, you know, listen to older and disabled people about their experiences and believe them? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28287757/

We need to talk about something very important. There is a myth spreading in both irl and online left and progressive spaces that is doing real, material, lasting harm. THREAD.

The no bills in federal grand juries are heartening but I don't think we should be jumping straight to "juries are anti-fascist"! Yes, it's great to see an institution that typically rubber stamps prosecutors not doing that, but it isn't happening bc of the nature of grand juries but in spite of it

Wild that Wisconsin released bar exam results today (the first state as far as I know) but some of us still have to wait a whole two months yet

Welp. I was so excited to finally have finished knitting a sweater sleeve in half fisherman's rib. Only to look at the pattern and realize I was supposed to decrease every inch, and didn't decrease at all. Now to agonize: to redo, or to not redo?

For some reason thinking about when I went to Russia in college & my prof took us to Lenin's tomb. The military guarding his body wouldn't let you stop walking to really look at him/the body. For how proud they were that this was the "real Lenin" they sure don't want visitors looking too closely

Knitters please advise! I'm looking for a fingering weight vest pattern for women (b/c I assume bust shaping, or at least consideration that wearer has a bust, is necessary) Hoping to wear under a blazer. My ravelry search has gone nowhere. Cables, v-neck, crew neck, plain stockinette all fine! 🧶

"DC residents...are trusting my judgment" is a wild statement from Bowser. No district resident I've ever met trusts her judgment and they aren't starting now

I hate that there will be people as shocked by this as by the repeated success of every other direct cash assistance pilot

Find some way to think about resistance that does not depend upon police. Historically, we don’t have many examples of that happening.

Call your senators and reps and tell them to support DC Statehood. 202-224-3121

When people talk about “purity tests” in politics, they almost always tell on themselves by how they talk about marginalized folks and their rights. Trans folks and Palestinians aren’t disposable or for sale in my politic and that should be the very low bar for all Democratic politicians.

HAPPENING NOW: Temporary restraining order hearing in DC v. Trump, a suit filed this morning over Trump's effort to takeover the DC police. Judge Ana Reyes just took the bench. I'm listening in for @lawfaremedia.org Follow along ⬇️

Autism is a disability. To be disabled does not mean one is lesser, inferior, defective, or disordered. The claim that autism is not a disability because it is "a healthy neurotype" reinforces the ableist belief that "health" and "disability" are mutually exclusive; this is not true.

My entire career has been focused on reducing crime through supporting upstream interventions and preventions. More law enforcement is not the answer to curbing crime and making communities safe. A strong social safety net, housing, economic opportunity, etc are.

it’s 32 months before super tuesday 2028. if you’re shrieking IT’S TOO IMPORTANT & YOU PEOPLE ARE WHY WE LOSE at marginalized folks unsettled by potential candidates saying “i’m open-minded about sacrificing certain human rights,” may i suggest you redirect focus to telling candidates to get better?

How do I find the music people? I'm wanting to buy an inexpensive mp3 player. People are talking about this a ton online rn, but I don't want to have to run code or unlock a device. I want to buy something & put music on it. Is an old ipod classic the best option for simplicity?

I didn't read/don't care about the original article/post. But to all the rest pushing "the left has no consistent message on how men can get laid" based on that initial piece/post, can you be less lazy and say that you mean "cis men on the left"? 1/2

Hey so in light of the annual new crop of bar takers who think this exam needs to be abolished - does anyone know who is doing that work in DC? Every year I see people be mad about it, but if people are doing something about it in my jurisdiction I would love to know more

I don't understand why this exam still exists (i do). I've seen so many attorneys respond to news of this with "i remember when X person nearly died 25y ago at my exam..." Do you see how that's worse? That this isn't a one-off and as a profession y'all haven't course-corrected yet? Once is enough.

Get rid of "young adult" as a descriptor for teenagers (who are not adults, young or otherwise) Remove the duplication in "6am in the morning" and the like

Well. Studying for the bar has finally gotten to me. I planned out how to get to a doctor's appointment, got there early even! Only to realize once I arrived I went to the wrong doctor (even the wrong kind of office). This was not fixable, as the correct office was 40 minutes away

Is the language for intermediate scrutiny ever the same for two categories of regulation? Sex/gender discrimination; time, place, manner regs on speech; reg of commercial speech all "intermediate scrutiny," but they're all different

The bar exam is a hazing ritual and no one will ever convince me otherwise

Additionaly, and let me be very clear about this, PUBLICITY STUNTS BY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE CORE PROTECTED SPEECH.

BREAKING: Federal judge denies DOJ's request to allow the State Department to enforce Sec. Rubio's anti-trans/anti-nonbinary passport policy. Judge Kobick previously granted classwide relief blocking the policy. After Skrmetti, DOJ argued that should change the outcome. Kobick said no.

Idk why I'm subjecting myself to a Gray's Anatomy rewatch when Owen gets more and more main character every episode and is also one of the worst ever. We've come back around to "people who don't want kids are abnormal and you ruined my life by making me love you when you don't want kids"

NEWS: We have a 2-1 Dem appointee "special panel" — aka, motions panel — in the DC Circuit this month. Millett and Pillard are both Obama appointees, and Katsas is a Trump appointee.

What do you mean Netflix didn't renew The Residence????