Disrespectfully yearning to be in Boston right now for @bostonfrenchtoast.bsky.social weather, and very aware that any of my Boston friends would throw an iced Dunks at me for wanting that

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

The Long Walk is that perfect Venn diagram of "incredibly well-acted" and "miserable to watch for me personally." Give me a horror movie any day, that was... something else.

The anchors in the NBC Olympics studio explaining they have to delay the slalom. Carmen Sandiago stole the freaking mountain. "Very little retail value" and "because she can" are phrases that are repeated. Footage of an athlete standing by a big hole, hands on hips. Frustration written on their face

This is so edifying.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

Hate the widening gyre but glad I'm in it with all of you.

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Future-proofing agriculture, tuberculosis diagnostics, CRISPR and mRNA, the LUCAS 3, sustainable textile development, bio-fabrication, cellulose fibers in general, wastewater data tracking, NU's millimeter pacemaker, lab-grown proteins, coral reef rejuvenation, HIV prevention, solar, wind, EVs......

Tori Amos in 1994:

“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

This is blackout poetry to me

Woke up in time to hear John say "we could reach $4 million" and Hank say "probably not, though, we just ran out of our matching funds" and now WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE'RE HERE BECAUSE WE'RE HERE BECAU — #p4a2026

i often think about this review

there's something seriously wrong with this man (affectionate) #hankgreen #p4a #p4a2026

"Heroism doesn't always look like what you think it would look like. It looks like people working together, doing good, taking small steps that are often unrecognized, to make this world a better place." wise words from @hankgreen.bsky.social dressed as 2047 Old Batman Who Needs Glasses #p4a2026

"Go play your video game and I'll tell you when it's time to punch me." - New York Times Bestselling Author John Green #p4a2026

Hank singing "Howwww do the caaaars piss" ringing through my head during any future boring zoom meetings at work #p4a #p4a2026

P4A starts NOW! projectforawesome.com/live #P4A2026

Fannish writers, does anyone know anyone using Ellipsus as a word processor? I'm curious about your experiences, if so!

RIP Greg Brown. Fashion Nugget introduced me to a flavor of anticipatory, ominous threat that continues to intrigue my musical tastes.

My actual favourite class test is one that David Reed gave me: “Did the roof of your school come to a point?”

I didn't know who Jessie Diggins was five days ago and now I would fistfight a loudmouth at a bar for her.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

true when you trans your gender the other way, too. with every passing year i look more like my father and brothers, watch my hair thin down into my grandfather's hairline. it's honestly great. my body knows where i came from. transition doesn't make you into your fantasy; it makes you into yourself

Just some random painting of queer Joy and tenderness for no reason other than visibility.

jesus fucking christ read this, do not - or maybe do? - read this in a hallway corner while doing political work, unless you can keep both heat and emotion off your face. But read it. Filthy, transcendent, violent, upsetting, brilliant.

The 2026 @projectforawesome.com is coming on FRIDAY!! If you're feeling particularly bleak about the world - and I know you are - please treat yourself to a few hours of community with enthusiastic strangers who are all in one place to help decrease world suck. Here's how it works 🧵⬇️

The weirdest part about this new Discord ID stuff is the footnote about how if your algorithmic behavior is sufficiently adult-ish they won't card you. Like, okay, can't wait to see if my behavior reads as a 41 year old based on the data set they possess. Nothing about that is unsettling at all.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

cause & effect

Happy Black History Month! It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale. These carbon fiber foldable walking sticks are lightweight and strong. You can fit them in a bag! And they come in 3 great patterns!!! Store: Bibipins.com

This year, get her what she really wants for Valentine's Day Vengeance

Jessie Diggins, Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist, from the Twin Cities: “I want to make sure you know who I’m racing for…”

"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics

what if instead of every writer having an individual premium substack we had lots of writers working together for one publication. you might have editors, too, and designers. and only one regular fee, instead of seventy billion! wonder who will invent that. sounds like it’d be good

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

My father, a 70-year-old daily journalist for 20+ years and thrice Pulitzer nominated, was very excited when Bezos took the helm at the revered WaPo. "It will save journalism," he was certain. It is an ongoing work of immense self control to not rub his folly in his face every time we talk.

Cackling at the sheer quantity of Master & Commander answers (which is also my favorite dad movie, and my dad's favorite dad movie) - but may I also posit All the President's Men

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

I do believe in redemption. I believe that people can make mistakes, learn from them, and improve. But I also believe that there is work involved in self-improvement, whether it be therapy or redirection or...it's all therapy. It's just different ways of doing therapy. Humans are fancy animals.

Woke up with what I'm pretty sure was a BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) episode and now I'm just sitting here in vaguely wrung-out misery like... I don't have *time* for this.

you ever hate somebody so much it takes you past high-volume rage and into the white-hot blazing stillness and silence of trying to explode them with your mind

If anyone says Lupita Nyong’o is miscast as the most beautiful woman in the world, you know you can safely discard any further opinions from that person

Imagining a future where we have to (get to?) explain to kids what this was about.

"one doesn’t have to be a physician to conclude that a person can’t get skull fractures on both the right and left sides of their head and from front to back by running themselves into a wall." apnews.com/article/immi...

I wanted an MG so bad and Cake's line "She's trading her MG for a white Chrysler Le Baron" was DEEPLY galling to me. Also some gal from summer camp half-convinced me Sebring Convertibles were the height of cool and I still think about how confident she was in that and wonder where it came from.