Quick reminder: Toxic positivity is a real thing and sadness is a healthy emotion.

Honestly as someone still representing those kids, it's depressing how everyone forgot about them. I say this a lot, but the lesson from those protests from the American left writ large was "if you protest and get arrested, you're on your own."

I love that people think I "sleep all day" because I work until 12-1 am (my time) since I'm working east coast hours.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

The kraken was, in fact, not released. (Nature is cool and scary AF)

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's PM, is a far right fascist who supports Israel, but the general strike Italians carried out 2 days ago scared the shit out of her. Strikes are the most effective way to get politicians to do what you want them to do. Shut down profit and they stand to attention.

Just. Whut.

"Wait, he's pushing the wrong false narrative, this isn't what I voted for"

It's only Cancel Culture if it originates in the Cancelle region of France. Otherwise, it's just sparkling consequences. (Originally posted on the birdsite on June 26, 2020)

Just thinking about how just a couple of years ago I would've flipped the fuck out about someone acting like an entire process I set up is their idea. Now I'm just content with my manager knowing what I did & give zero fucks about recognition beyond that.

*slow blink*

Signing a new lease on Friday and moving next week. My first apartment in İstanbul that's not an Airbnb and a full-on annual lease. I'm ready to feel settled. I even got the owner to agree to a lower rent. Now I just have to prepare to pack and roll my 7 suitcases downhill once again 😂

Yeah, I need this in my life.

I just rolled up two slices of deli meat around a slice of cheese and shoved it in my mouth while replying to an email from my manager. Living the millennial life of luxury over here.

As someone who helped lead this boycott I'm not white and we have phase 2 Sinclair and Nexstar need to protect free speech! bit.ly/wehavefriend...

So has the rapture happened in the US?

Who could've seen this coming?

And now they're probably going to lose customers that'll be upset about this. Whee.

Good Omens, season 3

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Bro lol Disney and Hulu are DESPERATE desperate. New offer of $2.99 a month to try and get you not to cancel. It’s working.

Every day.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

I took the clean sheet from my dryer and put it on my bed hours before I would be too tired to care and inevitably collapse on a top sheet sorta covering my mattress. Please clap.

I don't know if it makes people feel better or worse when I demystify the "American dream" as the person who *chose* to move back to my country after 30 years, but apparently, this is who I am for now.

it’s very not new & surprise is not a prerequisite to disgust & i welcome folks telling them “eat shit” over the latest thing & love cancelled subscriptions but i *do* think if you cancel you should also bring up the time they yanked a cartoon about anti trans bigotry before trump even took office.

of course, while we should point out that Disney made anti-Nazi propaganda films during WWII, we should *also* remember that Disney helped rehabilitate Wernher von Braun's reputation for the US government, so people would forget he was an SS officer responsible for the deaths of thousands.

This has the same chaotic unorganized and illegal vibes as the Muslim Ban

I love sharing experiences and making memories with my friends, but man, I'm so much more in my element when I'm on my own sometimes.

AIM away messages but for texts.

Pockets of joy are necessary. Tonight was a good one.

I'm definitely not judging. Nope.

Been wanting to come to one of these for a couple of years. Tonight's focus is gin cocktails but I'm currently drooling over all the bottles of whisk(e)y around the room.

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

Me: Sorry, I'm trying to dial back the snark. My manager: Oh no, keep it coming.

Farrah let me give her a treat today and then I took her to the vet, destroying the tiny bit of goodwill I'd finally earned. But we found out she's still cancer-free and they removed hardened plaque from her gums, so it was worth it.

Worth thinking about making a habit of supporting your favorite creators DIRECTLY through whatever personal or creator-owned projects or venues they have. I know a lot of y'all already do this, and huge hugs for that. Really should be part of our practice. Like buying local.

Crazy thing is the Germans didn’t have a historical precedent to warn them

We tried to tell people we couldn’t expect anything from genocide supporters and here we are

"There’s a widespread sense that AI companies are undermining a crucial pillar of what makes us human; our capacity to create and share art." This is so fucking bleak.

I miss just being random and shooting the shit with people online.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Başarılar #12DevAdam 🙌🏻🏀🇹🇷

Supernatural turns 20. 15 seasons, 20 years, and I will never get tired of them. My 2026 goal is to actually go to a Supernatural convention because omg I love them so much. I have a lot of favorite comfort shows but as far as a fandom, I'm 100% all in on SPN fam.

It's Sunday here, which means it's Farrah's 12th birthday, AKA the 10th anniversary of the day I brought her home. She's been my constant over the past decade. She might not like me very much at the moment but I will forever be grateful that she chose me.

Yıl 2020. Mirkelam Seattle'da Mayıs ayında konser verecek, biletler alındı, ama pandemi planları alt üst etti. 5 sene sonra hem Mirkelam'ı sahnede görebildim hem de anı kaçırmayıp selfie yakaladım.