Anyway can we go back to having our patriotism look like this please

There's a lot terrible about my country and some of the people in it, but my cousin-in-law voted for Trump in 16 and last night one of his employees told me how CIL offered to let her stay with them when she told him how she was scared to come out to her parents. People can change for the better too

Nope. If anything I've become more strident about being American as a place-identity. In large part because fuck the so-called patriots who pretend to love this place more than I do, and in part because as a Jew the whole "dual-loyalty" ugliness has only gotten uglier in the past three years.

Fuck OFF Boston thank for the revolution etc but get bent

Listening to an old GenXer at this waiting room a) complaining that girls these days "dress like sluts" b) bragging that he's had seven kids without getting "caught" by any of the women who had those kids and c) complaining that said kids aren't grateful to him. Buddy.

HELL YES also I am extremely charmed by Mamdani's sparkling neurodivergence that requires him to wear the Mayor Costume while he is Mayor no matter what

OK bearing in mind that I am a huge wuss: should I watch Widow's Bay? The gifsets make it look extremely my shit but also se prev re: me being a weenie

My political hot take for today: once you consider how a lot of American men talk about and treat their mothers, about 95% of our current political rhetoric makes perfect sense.

Heyo so reminder for all my American voting friends: please check your registration NOW, get things squared away NOW. This is going to get thrown out in about five minutes but Trump isn't gonna stop here, and you need to make sure you're able to vote these fuckers out come November

Sometimes my own ignorance terrifies me because HOW have I never heard of CS Lewis's SPACE TRILOGY??? Oh little free library you truly are the gift that keeps on giving

Wrote 8K in the past two days, I may be jinxing myself but I THINK my dry spell is over

I have unlocked a new level of loathing for a public transport hub: the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal

Oh got people were lining the parade route this morning at SEVEN

The problem with making friends of people in their 20s is that sometimes they will explain pokemon to you and you can't shove them into a locker

I live three blocks from a McD and have never actually gone there but let me tell you WHAT

Every time a celebrity is like "I love my alive trans kid" I wanna push an alert button like WE GOT ANOTHER ONE GUYS, THIS ONE'S GOOD

Hell yeah summer is HERE baybee

As much as I support commissioned fanarts, what I really want are commissioned fanvids, because I would pay about a frillion dollars for a Dunk/Lyonel (with background Dunk/Baelor) fanvid of Mike Doughty's "Madeline and Nine" SOMEBODY TAKE MY MONEY PLEASE

There's nothing quite like getting friend-dumped and then hearing about them years later, it's such a weird mix of "man I still miss them I wonder what I did wrong" and "wow they're doing WAY better without me welp that explains it" with a dash of "holy shit they've turned into a complete asshole"

KNICKS IN FIVE

HEYO NEW YORKERS, early primary voting starts today! You've got a chance to vote for your state assemblyman and your state senator, as well as several other miscellaneous things based on where you live. findmypollsite.vote.nyc

A1 steak sauce baby

If you ever have the opportunity to hang out with @damnslippy.slippy.me I highly recommend it as an experience

TIL that Joanna Page from Taskmaster is the adorable girl from "Love Actually" that a) had to pretend to do a sex scene with Martin Freeman (eugh) b) had to get NAKED for said scene with Martin Freeman (EUGH) and then c) had to pretend to be in LOVE with Martin Freeman (BLERUGH). Give her an Oscar.

A survey to let museum professionals know how people feel about the use of AI! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Broke: "Red White and Royal Blue" Woke: Whatever this turns out to be

Great article that gave me a lot to mull over about why AI consciousness is so ludicrous AND so attractive as a concept Also includes this baller line: "Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars."

Still horribly ill (yes, I did go to the doctor and get antibiotics) but this has given me the opportunity to rewatch some old Taskmaster seasons and let me tell you, Susan Wokoma is still the hottest contestant they've ever had on the show. Her saying "30 GRAND, BABY!" still gives me the vapors.

There are so many great authors who've come up through fanfic ranks one way or another but sometimes you read a book and the acknowledgements mention AO3 and you're like, "Ah THAT explains why I winced through this whole goddamned slog."

Yeah I'm at the point where if I see some random account using AI for anything—a summary, a reaction picture, anything—I'm just instablocking. It's been a few years and there's zero evidence that this shit is doing anything good and lots of evidence it's doing active harm, fuck off forever.

Presented without comment. (No actually my comment is YES THIS EXACTLY THIS PLEASE GOD NOW THAT IT'S BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY QUANTIFIED WILL YOU PLEASE FUCKING STOP USING AI FOR THIS SHIT)

Crawling out of a 36-hour bout of nausea where I think I slept a grand total of 20 minutes, and I do get the Discourse around ordering burrito taxis or whatnot but also I ordered three 2-liter bottles of ginger ale, two tubs of applesauce, and a giant tin of saltines and I feel good about it.

Holy shit this is amazing???

HEYO

Oh no I shouldn't have this power

After 4 1/2 years back in NYC I've finally discovered where the local firefighters do their grocery shopping and of COURSE it's at Wegman's Listening to the most New Yorker accents asking if they want to get "summa dat oat shit or dah regulah shit" there is truly music everywhere

AHHHHHHHHHHH

Caller does not like this!

Spent the morning taking a bike ride, then having brunch and a lovely walk in the park with an awesome friend, and now I'm lounging in my apartment listening to a very little girl outside our building calling out "HAVE A GOOD DAY!!!" to everyone who walks by.

Going through my back catalogue of SF and struggling with "Long Way to a Small Angry Planet," even though I do enjoy that that title really does explain a lot more of the plot than I expected. I just don't really connect with any of the characters yet, which I think is my failing not the author's.

OK my chef/cook/foodie friends: I bought a bunch of rhubarb today because it was sunny out and they looked lovely but I've never actually cooked with rhubarb before? Gimme your favorite recipe (preferably not TOO involved, I'm getting sick I think so I can handle a limited amount of nonsense)

Two nights in a row eating some of the best food (wnd wine) I've ever had and I would like to take this opportunity to say: my friends are great, NYC is great, my dog is great, my new apartment is great, and this world is great. Things are bad now but we are all great and we'll get through this.

This made me miss Voodoo Donuts so viscerally I actually looked up their website to see if IDK they shipped to me and GUYS GUYS GUYS THEY'RE COMING TO NEW YORK???

My sexual identity has always been "spinster" but whew that article was a disturbing read. Dudes are not okay and IDK how to get them there

About to sign up for a dunk/baelor fic exchange (first exchange in like 7 years, pray for me) and have drawn an utter blank as to what to request. Help what do I like to read

HECK YEAH. I busted my knee the other day so no jogging for me for a bit but let me tell you I am SO SO PSYCHED

AHHH SO EXCITED, although I am deathly afeared that we'll have no Trent Crimm, Independent this season

One good thing about lugging about half my belongings by hand by myself to my new apartment is that when I do dumb shit like forget to update the dog food delivery address, I can just go over and haul 34 lbs of dog food over to my new place literally without breaking a sweat

I'm till plugging away at the next chapter of my giant dunkbaelor fic but let me tell you, the art people in this ship are INSPIRING