It's a problem!

Why does every pair of jeans I own always rip in the same damn spot

statistical analysis of energy consumption rates suggests that they’re responsible for the majority of the pre-Iran debacle energy increases, not to mention the illegal gas burning generators choking out poor neighborhoods. And I also feel like if the stats weren’t horrifying we’d already hav em

I remember when I was running the bar at an international business hotel in Silicon Valley and how much i loved getting to see Chinese speakers’ signatures. They’re little pictures! I’m still so jealous, I want to sign documents with a tiny piece of art.

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

Quinceañera ahead

Another No Kings rally, another opportunity for the Alt National Park Service to cash in. AltNPS is an engagement farming social media account that sells stickers and t-shirts. They do not have a "team tracking threats made by MAGA." Even if they did, what exactly would that team do?

Jared and @hannahgais.bsky.social teased me for calling this genre of slop “porn coded” but what exactly am I looking at

"Trump's daily video briefing on the Iran war, which typically runs about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may be a sociopathic shithead whose brain could fit in the shell of a snow pea"

Nor should it

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when I tell you this t-shirt I just found in a thrift store was the best six dollars I've ever spent

there's a human being who works at the New York Times who decides which of the few stories each day get sent out as a push notification to app users:

The fuckin noise I just made

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tough break for the they're-all-the-same crowd

once again I am compelled to mention that Bush v. Gore likely went down the way it did because Sandra Day O'Connor cooked her brain on talk radio scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...

job: despite fierce criticism during confirmation hearing, still gets the job. This is why DEI matters. This is a good example of it. People will make a million excuses why a woman can't have a leadership role, and a million excuses why a man can.

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

ICE isn't just law enforcement, it's a jobs program that operates explicitly on ideological fealty to Trump and the American Fascist program. Our wealth is being stolen and redirected to people who will carry out violence on the rest of us, creating an occupying army that will infiltrate everything.

Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into the anti-woke, fascist-amplifying X. There’s been debate about whether to stay since he bought it. But seeing how it’s evolved and the recent Grok deepfake scandal, there’s no good argument to stay. I stopped posting there. You should too.

the markets are basically one big prayer circle of folks closing their eyes and chanting “everything is going to be okay”

Me and my first wife spent about a month and a half on the road with our dog and our cat when we moved from California to South Carolina. Fucking amazing. I miss that time so much. Just meandering across the nation.

Wild that we refuse to build new actual mixed use streets but still slap on the idea of it as the facade to a mall.

A large and under-discussed aspect of this regime is how they're staging a Truman Show version of the presidency for Trump to exist inside of. It's not Mussolini's face on the Palazzo Braschi. It's putting up pictures of the birthday boy at his birthday party.

ICE agents will steal 100% of the cash and valuables you have with you at airports. I recommend STRONGLY that you travel with faux silver wedding bands vs your gold+ diamond rings, no cash, wear cheap watches, leave jewelry at home, etc. They are rapist Nazi thieves. Expect the worst.

You don't actually need to be ruled by institutions formed in a fit of racist panic less than 30 years ago

the first time i flew to the US in 2007 I took a bottle of aftershave my wife had bought my for xmas. a border guy at LAX took it out of my bag, looked at it and just straight pocketed it. extrapolating that out into what ICE are gonna do is like a line going straight to hell

the same way eliminating car dealers, realtors and other parasitic right-wing industries needs to be a goal of the left for its own survival, eliminating chriorpactors, the supplements industry and other quack medicine needs to be on the agenda too

Portland pothole artists are seriously my favorite people. If you know one or are one and would be willing to talk about your craft, please DM

This is where I lost it

I’ve been suspicious of anyone pitching accelerationism since I had a disabled kid and was diagnosed with HIV but y’know what? Fuck it. Let’s see him try this. Bunch of belligerent ICE agents trying this bullshit while dealing with disgruntled travelers could easily spark a fuckin riot.

No, we absolutely fucking can’t. The moment we fall back “ho hum, there he is crowing over his enemy’s death again,” we have lost something we will never get back.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

The *last* lost episode. We did it, folks.

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

I had an aunt who was a nurse and she was talking to me before we really knew what Covid was about how weird it was that the flu season had ended in December 2020 but the death rate hadn’t gone down. We knew.

I love how my spaceship in RimWorld apparently has a corrugated tin roof lmao

Jimminy Glick talking to will.i.am: William, it says here you’re making a motorcycle that sad people can talk to, [low voice] *why*?

As a Gen Xer, I can tell you boomers and even my own generation comparing their 20s to today’s 20-30 year-olds needs to stop. I paid $600 for a West Hollywood apartment at 23. Today it’s $3500. Burgers weren’t $20, they were $6 to $8 in a nice restaurant. Life is not comparable.

What's your favorite Chuck Norris joke? Mine is, "Chuck Norris doesn't do push-ups, Chuck Norris burns in hell for being a Prop 8-supporting, birther conspiracy-pushing, reactionary bigoted piece of shit."

Chuck Norris is dead. He was really shitty but Conan playing this clip from Walker Texas Ranger lives rent free in my head forever tbh so there's that.

it is the postal SERVICE not the postal BUSINESS thank you for your time

Something about the NYT just likes to muffle the facts. Blandify, both-sides it, even when it's also clickbait. Take this obituary for a guy who was not premature in his predictions but catastrophically wrong and acknowledged to be so in most other obituaries.

The price of gas is not the most important issue in America or to voters but it's one that's significant because it is a piece of actual reality that can pierce through the false, invented, media-created reality that many voters are trapped inside.

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We might also talk about the widespread practice of capturing random civilians in Gaza and using them to clear rooms and tunnels. This report in the AP notes that Israeli soldiers talk about how much it lowers the risk of their dogs being injured apnews.com/article/isra...

These games are incredible and I cannot recommend them enough.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that