Jurassic Park + Frankenstein double feature

Remember: when cops strike, crime rates drop. Abolition is the way!

In 1962 Parliament debated Britain's responsibility for the development of its former colonies. The results were surprising. They suggest that even Conservatives might have understood @Caricom’s contemporary insistence on a reparative conversation. alanlester.co.uk/blog/britain...

got my new glasses after accidentally ordering the wrong prescription. I'm so blind my eyes are basically facetune.

The government forcing employees to mouth its partisan messages always seemed like more of a constitutional violation rather than (just) a Hatch Act violation

This resonates with what the disability rights community talks about a lot, which is that people prefer to believe they’ll never be disabled even though you are guaranteed it the longer you keep living

Put another way, I think people are more scared of drinking something that they think could kill anyone, versus experiencing a condition that they believe could never happen to them—even though it very well could

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

who decides if a movie gets a custom studio vanity card?

Admitting that you don’t know enough about a landscape of references to use them in your work is about one one-thousandth as humbling as doing this. You do not have to be conversant in everything. You do have to understand the scope of your own knowledge and experience better than anyone.

Must-read from Alexis Coe at Rolling Stone. "They are flown out by helicopter while their constituents die waiting for treatment. Every republic leaves a record of what it chose to save first. Ours saved the politicians." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Not Variety mangling Kendrick's lyrics while also misquoting Sally Field 😆

Turkey has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and dozens of other Israeli officials on “genocide” charges.

when u are mean to me this is who u are being mean to

ex texted me to say I remind him of Alex from Modern Family because, "Smart, sees things differently, too tightly wound, big boobs 🤷🏾" gave me a good chuckle ngl

New York's cops are so afraid of a serious progressive mayor that they want to retire and move to red states

I genuinely don't understand the impulse to have lots of money, want everyone to know about, and then act like a public fool when you learn that even money can't buy you certain things.

I feel left out. I never watched any of these shows. I just want Disney to let Lizzie McGuire fuck.

that’s the bluesky difference ™

well yeah, everybody else is watching Blade (2025)

I remember when I was in college my mom told me about an article she'd read where a group of millionaires and a group of middle-class people were asked the same set of extremely basic questions and all the millionaires failed. stuff like "how much does a stamp cost" or "where's your nearest library"

You only argue that kids should be exposed to this because you believe the children matter less than the tech

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

This is why so many politicians, and too many journalists, feel the need to show that white people need these programs in order to show that the “right” people — the deserving — also need these programs. Yet in covering the opposition to food stamps, etc, they rarely mention how racialized it is.

Republicans understand that the best way to kill social programs is to paint their beneficiaries as Black, as support for these programs declines — even amongst white people who need them — when they think large numbers of Black people will benefit. news.stanford.edu/stories/2018...

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Digital Blackface Is Back in the Form of Black AI Influencers www.teenvogue.com/story/digita...

Booooy, fuck him. They leveraged for that specific prison so he could get sober and stay in treatment, but he’s on the prison hooch? Shameless. And I suspect he’s digging a deeper hole for himself.

People should do check in's with themselves about what things they are not saying or doing because they are afraid of conservative backlash, including threats and bombardment You need to pay attention to how you are being worked on and how fear is being used to govern you

Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

I grew up on powdered milk tbh. I didn't realize that was weird

my writing muscle is so atrophied that I'm looking at blank pages going "ok but what is my thesis?"

I think it's kind of cool. Very dada-esque. The kids are still alright, because they're right. We live in absurd, brutal times. Here's an absurdity that's lighthearted to alleviate that barbarism.

Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues

“Sudan's Death Toll Could Exceed Gaza’s. Here’s Everything You Need to Know” Important convo on the genocide there from me/Zeteo, with 2 Sudan experts who offer actual solutions to stop the fighting & put pressure on outside actors like the UAE & Saudi:

everything she does should be a crime

I think we need to start being explicit about the fact that this is not real money. it is perceived value. and the "perceived" part is critical, because the stock market is just a record of rich people's neuroses. Elizabeth Holmes' "billions" disappeared the second she was arrested. blueprint?

I was going to say I have no words, but the words I have are for the Democrats we already have in office who simply said, "well at least I tried," when ICE refused them entry (illegally) at the gates of detention centers. They have legal power to force the matter. Time to grow up and use it

Really love that the sandwich guy was on video whipping a sandwich at a CBP officer and right away was like "damn right I did that shit, I hit that pig with a sandwich" and the Justice Department tried to bigfoot the case and couldn't even get him on a misdemeanor because fuck you

I joke that I'm old because I don't mind that being true. I'm generally still on top of culture, so I don't care. usually the memes happen and I get the joke, I just don't think it's funny. but the 6/7 thing? that is when I knew I was too old for the internet. WHAT IS THE JOKE? APPARENTLY NOTHING!!!

Me waiting for the bus omw to kick your ass

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

every time I remember they just pulled the Uber playbook on Hollywood I get upset. and all because what? Netflix made two good shows that won some Emmys? ban streamers and bring back network TV imo. at least then the various 8 episode seasons will be running weekly, back to back.

This is so messed up. You cannot outsource this work to computers or AI. Sound craniometry requires actual measurement by experts using calipers. A computer cannot do this work accurately.

As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.