people are really weird about thanksgiving cooking.

I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago. Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑

If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.

Watching him pronounce FIFA was really something

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

I just want to remind everyone, again, that before you start talking about smug shitlibs like Gavin Newsom as inevitable “because no one else will stand up to Trump”: nobody had heard of Zohran Mamdani a year ago, and heretofore, nobody has humiliated DJT as effortlessly. life comes at you fast

We've seen this over and over again. Trump seems genuinely surprised when he learns that Fox News has been bullshitting him.

i really like it when elder millennials freak out about questions like this as though the process of burning cds made any fucking sense when we were doing it in the first place

Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially. Period. This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

icymi in 1937 Leadbelly wrote the couplet "Home of the brave, land of the free / don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie"

oh my fucking GOD

Why do journalists have no apparent solidarity whatsoever? This rancid POS jabs his finger in a woman reporter's face and calls her "piggy" and none of the other journalists there says a word?

i was in on this until i realized it's in racine lol

Time to bring back this Patricia Lockwood banger.

have officially begun christmas shopping and am reminded there is no one easier to buy gifts for than @beautypill.bsky.social

Semiannual reminder that if the holidays are reminding you that you want to help your neighbors, pick a day and put it on your calendar. My homeless friends have told me that they could eat 30 free meals on Thanksgiving if they wanted to, but mid- February or March it all dries up!

I’d hoped to be a person today but I’m just gonna have to settle for being an idea. Making myself eat a little something, drink some water, breathe… anything else is a bonus.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

What the fuck. Just in general

i wrote my thesis on this in grad school

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Fun to watch this from a plane!

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

the morning's discourse has made me realize i've never seen a james bond movie

is today a good day to admit that i once forged gordon lightfoot's signature on three guitars for a radio giveaway because he was sick and couldn't do it himself and i believe that's the worst thing i've ever done

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Congrats to everyone who predicted that the end-state would be built with rents, subscriptions, and never-ending debt payments — we would never own anything, even physical things.

At the heart of every woman she’s essentially a food… figure out the kind… figure out the order and you can live as a god forever

I will never forget the Toronto Blue Jays relief pitchers sharpie-ing Vesia’s number on their caps during games 6 and 7 of the World Series for as long as I live. Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

I can't wait

"did feminism ruin the workplace?" i worked for a man who called me "sweetheart" until 2017, get outta here.

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

They are destroying what SHE built. #TeenVogue

They're bad people doing bad things. We don't have to meet them halfway.

this is psychopath behavior full stop

don't tell all the other ted leo songs but this one's my favorite

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters. We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

I want to gently push back on this: not being able to read complex writing is not the same as being a low information citizen. Many people can comprehend the topics involved just fine if they are presented in an accessible and understandable manner.

I respectfully* submit: If you manage to become a “disaffected democrat” based on a thing that happens 10 times on half a million student-athletes, you weren’t much of a democrat to begin with.