15 years ago today, Lady Gaga released Born This Way. I ushered it in with @bruross.bsky.social at Cloud Nine, as was the fashion of the time. Back then every gay nightclub still had at least one smoke machine fighting for its life, an iPod Touch docked behind the bar,

Once a sick crow came to my front yard. I knew it was sick because it was wheezing like a devil. Against my better judgement I went inside to fetch it some vittles, even though bird flu this and Fanta that. I left it some pieces of orange fruit, dried cranberries, & unsalted nuts in a stone crevice.

Am I the only one who would watch an X-Files inspired show or movie wherein Hillary Clinton and Lauren Boebert team up to expose a government conspiracy hiding the existence of extraterrestrial life?

Marjorie Taylor Grace 🙏

ChatGPT on what fear was like in 2006: “You couldn’t immediately escape dread by doom-scrolling or fact-checking — it just sat in your body.”

Ribbit.

It’s really hard to explain what the Internet was like in 2011.

I loathe whoever muzzled ChatGPT.

I too aspire to one day own a kitchen that isn’t for cooking.

Loreena was recently a guest on the podcast The Gould Standard, hosted by Brian Levine and sponsored by the Glenn Gould Foundation. Their conversation was wide-ranging, covering Loreena’s “self-managed, self-produced and self-invented” career, as Levine put it.

We can build a giant pyramid of copper with no cuts to Medicaid.

Can we get a welfare check on Richie Rich Putin?

Obsessed with this diva in Pompeii who died clutching her jewels. Eternal queen! 💎👸🏽