elaborately locking bluesky off of my phone has on the whole been excellent for both my productivity and my well being but on the other hand i don’t have anywhere else to gympost

I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises. But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.

this message is (largely) true and (entirely) good, but for anybody who is tuning into the VA gov race now and assuming this is a sweep for trans people, i want to clarify some context here. the opposition messaging was *vitriolically* anti-trans. but spanberger’s rebukes of them were *nonexistent.*

"Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women Trump has fired, a single mom waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with your back against the wall. Your struggle is ours too."

THAT’S FUCKING RIGHT

some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies

also i'm very late to many things because i programmed an automation into my phone to open a more productive app whenever i tried to use bluesky and forgot to give it a cooldown period, so my phone is now a machine that turns muscle memory into mango languages. it's better this way honestly.

i see @jeffstormer.gobirds.online isn't brave enough to promo post this episode of @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social where he gives many thoughtful & candid insights into a ten-year creative process, but i have no such reservations. happy 10 years, jeff! www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/10/29/s...

A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland

Everyone please diligently check your candy this year. I cracked open a snickers bar and not only did I find a copper ingot, but it was of poor quality. Worse still, when my man Nanni confronted my neighbor about it, he was treated with disdain.

The "Bed Series" was a set of intimate portraits of lesbian sex workers made by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the 1890s behind the scenes at a Parisian brothel. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/toulouse-lautrec-bed-series

steepling my fingers thoughtfully, then turning in my desk chair to the wall behind me, where i reset a manual counter titled DAYS SINCE JEFF STORMER HAS DRAGGED ME OUT OF PODCASTING RETIREMENT to zero

"Constant layoffs despite the execs lining their pockets with bonuses every quarter, how can we fix the industry?"

I am begging the mainstream media to talk less about the East Wing & more about the loss of SNAP funding for the next few days. The East Wing is gone. We can’t change that. We *can* help people prepare for the loss of SNAP. We can urge folks to donate to food banks. We can give them warning.

man. a little girl died over the weekend after being hit by a car at a pedestrian intersection we tried to fix five years ago when i worked for the city. the proposed safety improvements were shot down after massive organized pushback from local business owners and never revisited.

ok but like literally this

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

General strikes are BUILT up to. You dont know that because the US killed off every major labor leader in the last 100 years and dont even teach about the labor movement in this country. Community members organizing childcare, transportation, etc. Organization of mutual aid for medical needs, etc

my wildlife neighbors are the luckiest in the city because i love foraging wild nuts but i’m tremendously unskilled at shelling them, so mostly i guess what i’m actually doing is just relocating pre-opened nuts around. i’m doordash for squirrels.

way too many people in the comments saying stuff like I'm worried about the healthcare but moreso about the fascism. sentencing disabled and low income people to death IS the fascism babe. the fact we haven't figured that out yet is how they keep getting away with it

didn’t mask up today at the rally’s? please care for your community by preventing the spread of anything you may have picked up today. at home sars2 tests are notoriously finnicky, make them more sensitive by using them repeatedly in 48hr increments and swabbing throat before nose 👇🏻

here is my favorite sign from today

between the dried acorns on the counter, the foraged walnuts cracking in the oven, the leek & fennel galette i baked this morning, and the roasted squash & apple & caramelized onion soup i’m making rn i am only one or two steps removed from being a redwall mouse, which is peak seasonal euphoria obv

BREAKING: UVA rejects the Trump Administration's Compact.

I think all evil cars should be called Christines and we should have Christine movies like we have vampire movies. Oh no, a Christine!

Last week, Dean Spade talked about how we’re all being socialized into being anti-social — which is really the heart of most of our problems today — and the only way out is to push ourselves to become social again.

Data centers shouldn’t receive tax breaks. Period. I was one of the few legislators who voted against the 2023 bills that gives the industry your tax dollars. That’s money we need to fix roads and feed kids, not subsidize corporate greed. I’ll try for a third time to end that giveaway in 2026.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

@maddiegreenheart.bsky.social YOU’RE BACK 😭❤️

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

appalachian-korean fusion restaurant called jeonnycakes. is this anything

This is a choice made by rich people who don‘t live paycheck to paycheck that’s inflicted upon people who do. This is a choice to intentionally fire public servants, many of whom live and work here in Virginia, from an administration that just wanted the pretext to do it anyway.

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela. Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless warmongering. It failed 48-51. Murkowski and Paul voted yes. Fetterman voted no.

something that’s very hard to explain is that my favorite thing about the washington capitals is how bad they are at hockey. this is hard to explain because by all rights they’re very good at hockey. but if i can be so fr i’ve never seen that happen.

washington capitals propaganda szn 🥰🥰🥰

caps regular season opener on a beautiful fall night means hot toddys and taut hockey am i right lads

wife

every single day the spanberger campaign wakes up and asks what can i do today to make it even more difficult for genuinely motivated progressive voters to tolerate the taste of my name in their mouth. abigail please

Worker owned things will have much better time existing when people will understand that “the rich/capitalists” doesn’t mean “anybody who gets paid (slightly more than me) for their work”

pokemon tabletop campaign moments out of context

Y'know what? It's giveaway time! Been a while. Like and repost this post, be entered to win one of two You Are-themed decks. the dungeon and the tavern! Giveaway of one deck happens at 50 reposts. Both decks at 100 reposts! Let's go (and back the Kickstarter!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/san...

I had a rough childhood, if I'm being honest. Yeah, I was the Eraserhead baby. That happened to me. With the scissors and all that. I mean it's fine now, but it was tough for sure. I work in Admin now. We moved out to Abington. It's good now. Go Phils.

we (northern virginians) as a society (northern virginia) need to get more comfortable with the idea of parking a car like a thinking and feeling human being with a conscience and a soul

willing to admit i really fumbled the timing on A STRANGER THINGS CHRISTMAS MUSICAL but wait til you hear my pitch for THE LONG WALK (Song Cycle)

that beagle

you can always count on me for a real mixed bag type of letterboxd experience

As someone who has hypoxic brain damage from respiratory failure; the way a lot of you conflate any kind of brain injury and/or neurodivergence with immorality really fucking sucks. Disability doesn't cause fascism. Colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy do.

Covid is a social justice issue. Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money. We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off. Those steps would drastically reduce spread.