The concierge at my apartment, so apologetic, told me about the woman who demanded to know who lives in my unit and why they were ordering vulgar blankets. She took a package not addressed to her, opened it, and was offended to find a huge woven blanket that says BITCH DO I LOOK LIKE I GIVE A FUCK

Just Giving People Money is the fucking groundhog day of pilot programs

I think it’s bad that the Speaker of the House has been in a sensory deprivation tank since roughly 2015 and only emerges to get yelled at in the hallway outside of the tank.

Wait, and Erika Kirk, too, right?

In a remarkable court filing, DOJ also revealed that DOGE employees traded Social Security data on an unapproved third party server — Cloudflare — and may have sent private SSA info to a top DOGE adviser. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

There's something a little odd about Usha Vance, Caroline Levitt and Katie Miller all being pregnant at the same time.

I’ve seen several posts of folks sharing the transcript from someone’s Substack. That is a platform that financially supports Nazis. So here is a link to the transcript from a source that isn’t a Nazi bar. It’s a major speech worth reading, unlike any speech from the orange guy

The political spectrum under Trump according to me. 1. People appalled and terrified by what is happening and what is yet to come. 2a. People who have only a vague idea of what is going on and don't believe it can be that bad. 2b. As above, but they are angry at 1 for "being hysterical"

"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.

each day we’re forced to confront the craziest shit you could possibly imagine and each day we’re forced to wash the same spoon for the millionth time

Most users I know don't want virality, but they do want a base of regular mutuals who respond to them in normal social ways, and that's something that can be missing here.

Update: He just walked in the door with a tote containing two Atari systems, a Coleco, and a load of games, so apparently my fear was misplaced.

I fucking did it

When my husband is late getting home from work, my OCD tries to convince me that I sent him to his death by asking for cereal when what I really did was send him to the grocery store by asking for cereal.

Fiber friends, you have to trust me that you want to get your hands on this yarn.

It is with great trepidation that I announce that my little shop is now live, and you can buy my handspun yarn for yourself. journeyman-fiber-arts.myshopify.com

I don’t see a skeet from Archive of Our Own yet so pass this on from their tumblr & website: *** AO3 will be down for about 15 hours starting at 08:00 UTC on January 21 while we make some improvements to searching bookmarks and series *** That’s 3am Wednesday EST. Start downloading!

Every candidate that accepts money from Musk should be asked how they feel about nonconsensual porn generation, the documented racism at Tesla, the environmental destruction around X's data centers, and, Musk's overt white supremacist posting on X.

This is funny, but also true. Whole milk isn't really whole. It's standardized to 3.25% butterfat through homogenization. It's taken apart and put back together, not whole. Some breeds have higher butterfat, some have lower. Butterfat increases and decreases throughout a lactation and season.

Y’all can end the war on whole milk if you want, but you gotta start calling it by its real name: homo milk.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

COW!!!!! TOOLS!!!!!!

My PMS headache wants me to call in sick for writing my weekly newsletter, but I will remain strong and not give in.

Kentucky senate candidate accepts $10 million dollar donation from owner of the child porn ai chatbot.

Bluesky has seen a 40% rise of app installs in the past few weeks, which is consistent with the increase in activity that is visible in other metrics Via @sarahp.bsky.social

Hey Boston friends: start Super Bowl Sunday with me with a singalong Fauré Requiem! Join the Back Bay Chorale & the choir of Trinity Boston for a big free community sing at Trinity Church, or just come by to listen to a free concert in an epic space! Rehearsal starts at 2 pm; should be done by 3:30.

Back in 2016, Nursing Clio put together a series called Protest: Past & Present. It was one of the most powerful series we've ever done, showing the power of protest (for good and bad). I'm going to post the essays below 🧵

'Be Yourself' - Taniuchi Masato, late 1900s. The poem is translated roughly as, "Do not try to over extend, just be yourself.". #Caturday #JapaneseArt

I know it’s hard to have optimism right now, but if there’s one thing that is genuinely giving me hope it is seeing communities — hell, neighborhoods, even portions of cities — stand up in unison against tyranny in a way that is active, capable, savvy. It’s really powerful.

Has Heated Rivalry ignited (or reignited) your fandom at a big age (over 35)? What's that like? I'm doing a special edition (digital only!) of "Act Your Age: Fandom at 35+ and Beyond" Send your short (500-1200 word) essays/rants. Deadline: February 2, 2026 Email to [email protected]

Conservative influencer Ashley St Clair had a baby with Elon Musk in 2024. Things turned sour when she expressed mild support of trans rights. Elon cut child support and sued for custody; his followers made deepfake porn of her on X; she sued X; now X is suing HER! But this isn’t just a soap opera:

*much of America will be punished with a 10% tax hike on European goods for Europe not giving us Greenland

We know that whales do! Other animals probably do too www.sciencedaily.com/releases/201...

"The Department of War has a contract to use the ai chatbot owned by the world's richest man, the same ai chatbot that cannot stop making deep fake pornography of women and children despite the company's claims that it's fixed." Yep...

This is the energy we need for a candidate in 2028.

My grandma thought chopping cucumbers made her hands hurt but she listened to an actual doctor who told her it was arthritis and also she WASN'T HEALTH SECRETARY FOR THE GODDAMN COUNTRY.

No it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t no it didn’t

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"During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for."

And since I'm checking out @briespangler.bsky.social's store, I keep coming back to this design, gosh I wonder why. www.etsy.com/listing/4426... #Ice #FuckIce

That cat in the litterbox thing plages my mind and I'm working on refining my intial doodle. Something to kill time until the finale of Ultraman Omega.

behold, courtesy of my amazing wife, the coolest thing anyone has ever made for me the Imperial Ministry of Silly Walks

The most illustrative reply I’ve ever seen.

I remember writing about Google throttling news two years ago, and that was before it shoved AI into every search. It's bad out here. bookriot.com/google-is-de...

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

OUR... jfc, illiterate despot

Big Cheese

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

Exhibit A in why they really shouldn't come to Philly.

If you want to read something that doesn't make you end by concluding "well, shit, we're cooked," like everything else does, read this