The best week of the year!

"Trump administration says it will not comply with California's new law barring law enforcement officials from wearing masks, which goes into effect next year." "[W]earing masks is meant to evoke the terror of being kidnapped." #California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Shaun King backing up Tucker Carlson that Jews killed Jesus. It is important to state this bluntly (I should actually write a piece about it): Antisemitism is close to getting mainstream. One thing preventing it on the right is Trump's support of Israel, but Carlson and others are pushing it.

Listen, I don’t identify much with my perceived gender but the absolute LEAST it can do for me after decades of cramps and bleeding and pregnancies and harassment and stalking and gender discrimination is get me out of *some* punches WHEN I AM SICK. 😭

Drove youngest kid somewhere this morning and they saw a punch buggy and punched me in the shoulder for it, and when I protested, “but I am a: A) girl! B) who’s old! C) with glasses! D) who’s sick with Covid!” Kid’s response? “Equal rights, equal fights.”

😭 I think this is the nicest & most thoughtful thing I have ever seen a politician say about a Jewish holiday?

The sound of a bald eagle you hear in movies is almost always actually that of a red-tailed hawk. That's because bald eagles sound NOTHING like what you think. Don't say I didn't warn you:

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Hon hon hon!! My family is home again (they were gone for a few days) and I nailed char siu pork bao again. 🤩 One of my v v fave foods. AND they brought me fantastic donuts from Blue Star! 🥳 An EXCELLENT evening.

Haha by talking about how big of a splash this book is making rn, I managed to accidentally convince my husband to read it! Yes!!

Recognition of Palestine is Not Enough, Sanctions Must Follow to Stop the Genocide. Read our full statement on Australian recognition of Palestine at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/jewi...

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

The internets are filled with East German figure skating judges.

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

disney adults are currently doing pretty much exactly what they should be doing, and dumping on them is super counterproductive.

BUT you should still buy/read/distribute On Tyranny (by historian Timothy Snyder). Theres even a GORGEOUS graphic novel version. Other than this one lit crit oopsie (and a call-out to HP 🫠) it is a BANGER, and THE handbook for our times.

One of the underrated joys of being old! They stopped doing this to me at some point around 37-40ish, when I became abruptly completely unfuckable due to decrepitude I guess? 😂 At first: jarring. But now SO FREEING. May all femmes experience the joy of not being a sexual object ALL OF THE TIME.

🥴 She’s not wrong. Plus: a bonus type of guy!

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

This is EXCELLENT. But now I feel compelled to air my one complaint about this book. Snyder uses Hamlet (!!!!) as an example of a good and principled man who doesn’t stand up to tyranny until too late. BUT: Hamlet is a spoiled bitch and a bully, not a principled man.

LLMs are designed to generate “answer-shaped” responses. The massive betting on them to be sci-fi know-everything computers was that if you gave them enough data, “answer-shaped” would converge to “true facts”. This has been true, generally (more data has made results true-er) but (1/2)

Irrational rage of the day: it irks me waaay too much that my kitchen scale claims to measure both grams (fine!) and milliliters (wrong! Impossible! Enraging!). Yes, I know 1ml of water is 1g, but this is why it should measure in grams only. I get extra rageful when recipes call for ml of oil. 💩

Surprise!

Why is this misreading of Hamlet so ubiquitous?? I have no idea, but I’m gonna go with “we always sympathize with white men in power” for $1000, Alex.

This is EXCELLENT. But now I feel compelled to air my one complaint about this book. Snyder uses Hamlet (!!!!) as an example of a good and principled man who doesn’t stand up to tyranny until too late. BUT: Hamlet is a spoiled bitch and a bully, not a principled man.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Raccoons found my dog food shipment before I did 🫠

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

Do you like delectably creepy art? Do you need some BOMB Halloween decor/cards/gifta? Dusty Ray makes some gorgeously disturbing paintings & prints.

But it’s so much more convenient to invent our own MLK based on our current political desires. Much as we’re currently inventing an entirely new Charlie Kirk & as the Supreme Court has consistently been imagining their own “Founding Fathers”

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross or Amber Ruffin or Karen Attiah or Jemele Hill Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

What movie do you consider perfect?

Freedom of Speech was an exigency of revolutionaries who needed to oppose Noble suppression of bourgeois ideas. In liberal societies, the claim of Freedom of Speech did not stop the Bourgeoisie from repressing their political enemies. Now the phrase undermines the ability for the norm to be asserted

Even if you don’t know what message a story is conveying, that messaging is working on you! And EVERYTHING in your life runs on those often-unstated ideas: ads, politicians, news & magazines, TV shows, movies, how people chat, etc etc.

Whew this feels sooo true. Along with innumeracy, good reading comprehension is IMO the biggest failure of our ed system: the inability to read a text and acquire information from it, and, further, to read a story and understand what it is implying about the world.

‘The house is cold and the list is long.’ ❄️

this exists it is called thinking

I was trained to feel shame about my body since I was a very little girl, so that I would have “modesty” in order to not tempt grown men… And that got me to thinking… maybe we shouldn’t have a society where the majority of the people in power need to be stopped from wanting to fuck kids.

this slaps

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

again, again, again, again: autocrats like to declare themselves untouchable and all-powerful. sometimes they even write it into law. and yet that does not make it so

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

Lia Thomas met the NCAA requirements for transition when she started competing as a woman. Did the right accept those standards? Or, if they disagreed, argue that they could be more stringent? No. They said she was a man who was unfairly competing and pretended that there were no standards at all.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

if you don’t want trans girls to have muscle mass let them transition at the same age their peers start puberty. problem solved

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

I do not like how much the direction of my political party is steered by the tulpas of an elven trillion year old man but I still trust the tulpas more than BasedKekkinator88.