now that they're unmasked and not murdering they just stand there

"look, if you can't handle this, you NEED to put a human on the line." -Ian on the phone with the internet company's annoying AI assistant

the best example of "yeah he's hot so he thinks he can be a self-centered asshole" #OhioLessons

Welcome to capitalism, the most efficient economic system. This company spent 100 billion dollars on making Wiis sentient and failed. The company gets to continue existing.

this helps

Very very sorry to hear about Nicky Brendan. Dawn and Xander both gone?! Doesn’t seem possible.

I loved Xander with the singular adoration of a 14-year-old girl who prized humor, wit, dark hair, dark eyes, and unexpected wordplay. I can't believe it, Nicolas Brenden and James Van Der Beek in the same year. and as to those clips of Nicolas Brendon WITH Michelle Trachtenberg...how do we even.

Reading that devastating NYT investigation an hour and a half before I teach was not my most practical decision. ....I was scheduled to do a presentation on Caesar Chavez as a Marginalized Rhetorician on April 2. DEFINITELY NOT GOING TO DO SO NOW

I'm just beginning to digest these horrific revelations. I hope, at minimum, that every established tribute in his name is dedicated instead to Dolores Huerta

Wherfor ys the lake that you say was once so large and beautiful now todaye nothinge but a drye and bakinge expanse wyth a fewe small puddles left? Well, you see, my childe, a lot of people reallye needed their emayles summarized.

I don't need more sun I need more sleep

This weird rant feels like something that has a lot more to do with him and the women in his family and what's going on between them than anything to do with ballet

many-kinds-of-rock-star and my dear friend Dr. Gwen Ottinger just published an impossibly timely book, The Science of Repair: How People Who Believe in Facts Can Build a Better Future: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

You know you’re a 90s kid if you remember when the U.S. government would at least make up a fake reason to attack the Middle East

Fine, I'll buy Warner Bros. What's their Venmo?

THIS HAS ALREADY CAUSED CONFUSION IN MY LIFE

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

BREAKING: JD Vance comes out in support of birthright citizenship

Mardi Gras and Ramadan and the first day of the Lunar New Year of the Fire Horse coming together on the SAME DAY feels like something we should harness I don't know how exactly but I'm drinking some good Chinese tea right now and thinking of all who are lovingly defiantly celebrating this week

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

Omg you guys didn’t have to get me anything for a Valentine’s Day! but that’s so sweet, I love it 🥰

perfect Friday the 13th/Valentine's Day observation

The Guardian is running damage control for Gaiman again, using a misleading pull headline. Once again: the case was dropped because it needs to be pursued in New Zealand where the alleged offences took place. This is not new information, and has already been reported on. So heads up.

okay I feel STUPID that it took me this long because of COURSE I worked with middle school and high school kids in California YEARS AGO who praised Bad Bunny to the skies but I finally watched the halftime show this morning and I'd had NO IDEA Benito was a living *actual star* like FROM the heavens

OMG I LOVE SEEING MY HORSE RUN IN COMMUNION WITH EVERYONE ELSE'S HORSES, this is a collective healing act

Iiiiiiinteresting.

just saw a post asking why epstein is still referred to in so many media outlets as a "disgraced financier" rather than a "credibly accused sexual predator" and I'm afraid I know the answer: at bottom, @nytimes.com and others CAN'T SHAKE their *core* admiration for people who make themselves rich

more insights from this-fever-refuses-to-break files: I have never been invested in the outcome of the Superbowl or any other football game but I lived in Seattle when the Seahawks lost to the Patriots and the WHOLE CITY had a MELTDOWN it was SCARY they need to win this one for well-being's sake

The 1803 finger emoji is impeccable work

two days ago, I fell dramatically ill. not "lay in bed and listen to a feel-good audiobook" ill, but rather, "sleep all day and wake up to an inexplicably worse fever" ill last time I was this sick I could walk to SF Urgent Care in perfect weather, now there are Snow Emergencies. send good thoughts

a DETAIL, I know, but on the Neil Gaiman statement: before he gushes about his obsessed anonymous fan's "journalism," he says, "I was a journalist once." Dude only got those gigs because HE LIED ON HIS RESUME ABOUT HAVING A PUBLISHING HISTORY HE DID NOT HAVE, he admits this proudly in interviews

while referring to a clearly-obsessive anonymous hyperfan on Substack as an "investigative reporter"

Body cameras? For what? So that their hands can be freed up for more violence that they revel in documenting?

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

What you want is COPWATCHING. The cameras turned on THEM.

got some BONES to pick with Punxsutawney Phil

Five classes I took in college: Classical Hollywood (1930-1960) Public Health and the Environment 20th-Century French Drama Advanced Playwriting German Cinema

this. and to add: I'm reading a lot more about "billionaire antics" as though that's hot or exciting than I'm reading empathy for survivors. fuck the way this has ALL gone down in every direction by everybody

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legit annoyed that I can't go to this. you should!

THIS.

Cacho's Social Death remains so relevant. In it, she explains how our national identity is grounded in the idea that some people are ineligible for personhood. There are valued citizens (Renee Good, Alex Pretti). And there are people who lack human value (Keith Porter, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez).

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.

this snowstorm has rendered our neighborhood majestically beautiful and kids are sledding down hills with family and undergrads are sledding down hills with friends and dogs are having a *time* of it AND our neighbors wrote FUCK ICE in the snow life at the moment is lovely in Athens, Ohio

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

I'm at a loss for words about everything and I'm not used to being at a loss for words

Does anyone have a printer and spare time and want to give me a hand with a project?

Keith Porter was the first person murdered by ICE this year.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.