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With today’s omnipresent surveillance you could never have a Hannah Montana. She’d be doxxed as Miley Stewart in a blonde wig immediately by the online mobs. Look what they’ve taken from us.

I am. Read the 3 chapters and join me!

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

I'm not that kind of doctor, but reading reporting on how Philly doctors are using AI to take notes is maddening; taking the notes is part of the care, and they have no right to compromise my privacy in the name of efficiency. the problem is the profit-motive, not the inefficiency of doctoring.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

What an amazing day for bull shit

"What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter... life is full of tasks that need doing, and you are the person who does them." 💔

“Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly.”

this Buffy episode where a demon stokes a moral panic against "witches" was the blueprint for 21st century politics

I don’t want to start the week feeling angry and powerless. I invite you to take action to support immigrants in Philadelphia, by supporting the work of Juntos. In the weeks/years ahead we will need it very much. secure.actblue.com/donate/junto...

It’s grimly funny that a political party that can’t really sell itself as anything but “not trump” is also constantly serving us trump, real you had one job energy

Not going to let the Senate Democrats ruin my Sunday night. That’s the job of overwhelming anxiety about the coming week ahead.

It sows distrust to do democracy theater while those in power line up to support authoritarianism

They wouldn’t do this now so maybe they will under much less duress

LOL, they now get to roll out the losers who will pretend they aren't in on the caving...

We are watching Troop Beverly Hills as a kind of practice run for Pretty Women in a few years

Too much gender !!

I would feel better if the mass murder of a third of the country (presumably destroying the lives of countless others) wasn’t something people felt they could advocate out loud

The worst people in the world understood how valuable distrust could be and they flooded us with it

I have felt this in my bones, at the dentist

Current* conditions near Petoskey, MI:

Look usually the emperor has the best clothes, the most expensive clothes, clothes that glitter gold, made from the most exclusive and exquisite fabrics. So this one instance of nudity, we have to say, is a rarity. Maybe it didn’t even happen. Maybe he is actually still wearing the clothes.

Mamdani is going to implement Shania law, and that don’t impress me much.

What do you mean this is the youngest I’ll ever be again

Me, watching a later season episode of Alex Mack where Alex has split into two Alexes, one evil and one good: this is a little unrealistic

Somehow I missed this (and it's not on Substack). Subscribing right now.

Look usually the emperor has the best clothes, the most expensive clothes, clothes that glitter gold, made from the most exclusive and exquisite fabrics. So this one instance of nudity, we have to say, is a rarity. Maybe it didn’t even happen. Maybe he is actually still wearing the clothes.

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

It’s a choice to say moms and not families or parents, right, and makes me think about how the anti Tylenol campaign is all about hurting women specifically

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

This is what I picture when anyone mentions using Chatgpt (I think you are dumb, but I’m also worried about my safety)

Bought and devoured this because I saw @maris.bsky.social mention it as an example of “smart but funny, literary but still a good time” it really feels like books are a miracle 🙏 a miracle I want to share too bookshop.org/p/books/marg...

chatgtp suicide is a very sad death of despair but I'm told it's the basis of the entire economy and the future

I am so sad that the people in charge are so stupid. But I guess I can see why the super evil couldn’t help but seize the opportunity.

My 8 yo knows 6-7 so now I have to read one of those articles 👵😭💀

WTF are we doing here

I think I might die from how unusable websites are

I don’t understand the end game for any of this, it feels like the whole thing, the short term lies that won’t last a day, all of it, all of us, are in a Ponzi scheme and the goal is to not be there at the end holding the bag

Yeah because if you eradicate child care workers you destroy infrastructures of care, and you can push more women out of the workforce and into their homes

The idea of abolishing ice got popular before, when people were exposed to its violence, but then congress gave them more money than god recently. As people remember they want to abolish ice again, what are some vehicles, how can we quickly use the energy that is building

It happened to me: I stayed up late reading a novel and now would give anything to spend the morning finishing it instead of doing work

I feel like a trillion dollars isn’t the right words, because it’s not like money the way normal people think about or use money, it’s not money that can be spent, it’s not the same category of thing at all different scale, it’s dominion

I feel like a trillion dollars isn’t the right words, because it’s not like money the way normal people think about or use money, it’s not money that can be spent, it’s not the same category of thing at all different scale, it’s dominion

Picturing a scene from Witness

I am ready for the portal

Imagine if the US government didn’t hate all our guts with everything its got

This R.E.M. x Trader Joe’s collab is unexpected but I don’t hate it cc @michaelstipe.bsky.social