i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

New book! Protagonist has sick sibling spurring them to Adventure! This is twice! TWICE IN TWO DAYS. FOR FUCK'S SAKE

Los Ángeles! F*** yeah!

NEW: Voters filed a lawsuit with the California Supreme Court demanding a GOP sheriff running for governor return over 650k ballots cast in last year’s redistricting referendum. They argue the sheriff violated state election laws that require the ballots to remain in custody of election officials.

It is physically possible. It will also be physically exhausting and BORING AS FUCK. He will be driving the equivalent of Oslo to Berlin with nothing to stare at but FLAT.

this is like, literally the exact kind of thing that kicked off the revolutionary war. i'm trying to find a way to be goofy and say i'm exaggerating but taxing shipments in order to pay for expensive foreign wars was literally the flashpoint lol

Look, we gotta hang onto our pagan roots somehow. I have a St. Christopher medal in my car and it keeps me safe, ok? I think that's why Evangelicals have become the no fun police, they don't have stories of Jesus messing with people and little magic objects that find your stuff.

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

Alok Vaid-Menon gave a talk (and has written about this in their book) that the idea of what we consider cis femininity is actually a by-product of colonialization because they needed a way to differentiate the good "white" women and the women they were colonizing and it rewired my brain.

Don't you know, queer folks aren't people with interiority that deserve stories that cover us in all our complexities. We're just emotional comfort teddy bears and sex objects, and it's easier for women to look at and project onto men because they haven't dealt with their internalized misogyny!

Good news everyone! After a LITERAL FUCKING MONTH I have health insurance again! Also, the Covered California person I spoke to and I have a Strong Suspicion that all this happened because of AI protocols they were forced to use, and I WANT SOMEONE'S HEAD.

What absolute fucking idiots lol. Good for them.

She's my councilmember and I like her a lot. Hopefully she'll do what she says and not take all the LUXURY TRIPS (bribes) that Karen Bass does.

I LOVE THIS

I straight up lost one of my best friends when I pointed out her boyfriend's red flags. I was even going with the "I'm saying this once and then I'm dropping it." Everyone rallied around him and them and froze me out. Then he turned out to be extremely jealous, paranoid, and controlling.

Hit you back with a wonderful UKLG quote I saw for the first time today

Here's my breaking up with Harry Potter essay comic- if you need some fuel to convince relatives or friends not to watch the new show, maybe this will help: redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...

If you have a bad day, do little things that bring you joy. Like watch that exact moment in Game Grumps covering Doki Doki Literature Club when Dan's soul dies.

as I noted, the book is a fascinating study of a predator who wrapped himself in the garb of fashionable politics. the peculiarity is that Lindy West wrote a book that makes this clear while not consciously acknowledging it to herself.

St. Jerome

Annnnnd also students all over Los Angeles are walking out tomorrow, including middle school students!

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.

Sometimes I feel like people dig for reasons to take things personally. Nobody was talking about you. No you’re not the victim here.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Oooo!

Back to Pursuit of Jade. Buckle up kiddies, Netflix is dropping the last few eps this week but I subscribe to the Cdrama service so I get all the last few eps dumped tomorrow. I do so appreciate how much it allows girls to be *friends*. And different types of girls! Every girl is different.

Got myself ready for a zoom meeting that is *not* today but tomorrow. The profound *relief* I just felt.

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

The Atlantic sucks for a reason.

Official statement re: Dan Bongino

I’m begging “it’s just a slap on the wrist” doomers to read this post slowly three times out loud. ⬇️

I suggest people stop looking at streamers for political guidance, because their politics (left or right) is often motivated mainly by edgy-ism.

he predicted our whole situation

I hate to say this but most Californians aren't even aware of the election or the candidates. It's a total goat rodeo.

I love how so much of Smashing Pumpkins lore is Billy Corgan being a little wet bitch.

EVERYBODY SING www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZ...

I feel like a contributing factor in why so many people get away with being awful is tied to this "good art=good person" idea and the "it was always bad" just reinforces that. Alas, shit heads can write good stories, doesn't mean they aren't a shit head! We all gotta grapple with what that means 🤷‍♀️

Look, I have a Fear that some leftists are going to go straight into their own MAGA/Q world by the time we reach 2028. Like, we're watching in real time how they're cooking themselves the same way the MAGA/Q folks did just 10 years ago.

the constant right-wing freakout about any kind of positive, empathetic childrearing is that it's actually the *most* political thing — if you do it well enough you will break apart the whole fucking structure of the abusive hell-society they worship

apropros of that former Media Matters journalist's shitfit yesterday, I had a bunch of people wetting themselves about me calling Maxine Watters a "Steady Black Elder" and I was just repeating something a black mutual called her. But I wasn't going to say that because I didn't want a bunch of--

ME: [begrudgingly practicing self-care because I refuse to let the world harden me]

Helen Lewis, I think, still considers herself a feminist. It's a very bad idea for feminists to claim that what can't be seen doesn't count. Trauma from abuse or sexual assault can't be measured in a lab. Feminism has been built on the idea that taking women's experiences seriously is important.

I’ve started investing in stocks: beef, chicken, and vegetable. Someday, I hope I’ll be a bouillonaire.

are there any more things like this

S. Charles Lee designed some of LA's most iconic Art Deco theatres, but don't sleep on his Fox Wilshire, currently the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. Built in 1930, it opened with 2,296 seats and included glittery silver & black decor and a majestic proscenium/wide-screen.

A reminder that the Paramount/WBD deal hinges on big daddy Oracle's success. Big daddy Oracle's success hinges on companies needing to rent server farms from them. Sora going down mean less need for server farms. Less need for server farms means less need for Nvidia chips. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.