Look at how any of us live man. If we’re grifting we’re astronomically bad at it

No kings just Things

Everyone talks about the idiot plot but nobody talks about the as yet unnamed litfic plot where everything that happens is driven by someone just drifting into behaviors that make no sense because the author thinks they’re poetic

I will Venmo any white house reporter $600 to read this to trump and give him a pen and paper to do it

I think this is @emilyhughes.bsky.social’s answer to the “what’s something experts in your field agree on” prompt

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

ai feature implementation strategy is essentially “how annoying can we make the ui” so people accidently hit ai features so these companies can brag about how “highly used” ai features are internally

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Anyone can draw a perfect map of the Middle East if you have no idea what the Middle East looks like

Where’s the lie though

I felt like there was way more focus on sustained action this time, too—people handing out literature, speakers talking about how to keep up the work. (Granted, speakers may have talked about that before—what this march definitely had over previous ones in Philly was better amplification)

This bracelet someone gave me at the march says “Philly fights fascism” which I was happy with until I realized it has a major design flaw

Thank you to the Inquirer’s Elizabeth Robertson for a real photo of the Philly crowd

I would love to see a real overhead shot of the crowd here in Philly and I would also love for people to stop sharing the obvious AI one where folks appear to be walking on a frozen pond

Over a dozen marchers

Women and Other Monsters (2021)

Just contemplating the word “hrududu,” one of the most satisfying creations of English literature. Richard Adams you cooked with that one

Happy birthday to the reason I didn’t learn to drive until college, the reason my parents never knew where I was as a teen, my formative public transit system, she’s on fire a lot but we love her

I really appreciated this thread of excerpts from Adult Braces for all the obvious reasons and also because I otherwise would not have known about the foundational citruses. Which, yes, I immediately texted my spouse about BUT I would also tell him what the doctor said if I had surgery

hold my beer, hemingway

The number of things only Rusty is allowed to weigh in on just keeps going up

well i dunno who i trust more on this, the most prestigious medical association on earth or four dipshits who asked claude to sum up some cherry picked papers

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

i need his google search history. i need to see how often he searches for "how to make eyes normal"

Guys like Hegseth really go for Christian nationalism because it’s the framework that makes them powerful and immune to criticism without having to earn anything

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

I cannot let the implication that I would EVER forget 17776 stand but if somehow it passed you by please read it, and also here’s an essay about it I commissioned

If we were a serious country, this would open a storm of investigations. No one is this lucky. The simplest of explanations is the most straightforward

They stopped doing this the first time - in 2000 - because "cis" women were finding out, from these tests, that they were in fact intersex, and it was a cluster fuck.

despicable. fuck this.

Budget Taskmaster s21

I think it’s worth noting that they’re mid books for children because like, THIS is what you’re willing to sell your soul for? But it’s also definitely true that we’re talking about directly and explicitly funding evil and no book is that good

mainstream media outlets should probably be vocally asking who the actual President is

Home Town isn’t mentioned here but I would say everyone with a connection to Northampton was very fond of Tracy Kidder for taking seriously as a subject a town that means a lot to us

okay but that’s kinda on the nose what transfeminists have been saying all along huh? there’s no “women’s rights vs trans rights”, there’s just bodily autonomy for all vs patriarchal control

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

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Cis people may feel frustrated trans people go SO berserk anti- a single writer. If this confuses you try to understand how much it hurts to live an existence so precarious, a single popular author in your country saying "these people shouldn't exist!" can actually mean legal rights being taken away

The four genders

Okay do we get to choose who stays though

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered forks while cleaning out a kitchen

Nothing that happens in a phone is real

This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel.

The 92NY canceled my appearance in late October 2023 after I signed a ceasefire letter and reiterated my support for BDS. But they're ok with having this gentleman, Ilya Shapiro, who seems to like genocide and is vocal about it.

Vesturbation

the moderate position is: nuremberg trials that include a televised segment in which rfk jr is airdropped into a national park to be hunted and eaten by wild animals in their glorious natural habitat

I did not know PNW old-growth forests store more carbon than the Amazon rainforest! This and other important facts at this excellent website, which also helps you draft a comment.

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are