Watch this.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

literally just using your own brain: what, like it’s hard?

Excellent New Yorker piece by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the phenomenon of people turning to anecdotal advice of purveyors of unproven peptides. Anecdotes over trials. Willful ignorance by these grifters. Also- some of the peptides had lead as secret sauce 😳😳😳 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Me to 3yo: What do you want for your birthday party theme? 3yo: “Poopoo & peepee theme! We can get apple juice for the pee, so a skeleton pees and you drink the skeleton pee but it’s okay because it’s juice” Me: ..K I was thinking like “dinosaurs” but let’s put a pin in “piss fountain of the dead”

Exactly one year ago today:

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Moriarty said that her staff is continuing to investigate 17 other use-of-force incidents involving ICE and Border Patrol agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Some of the “reginos”. 😂 (Including my regino)

Also Aliya Rahman is suing. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

Excellent.

Saw a lot of people quote post me asking what an armored bulldozer is. This video explains it.

It made me especially sick to my stomach to transfer money to the United States Treasury today for our tax bill. All the destruction and misery being caused in our name, and with our money. And all the social services being stripped away.

I’m from Minnesota. There is no other place like the Boundary Waters. It needs to stay protected.

This is such a monumental success. I have tears in my eyes.

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo: “weak on crime” “terrible for foreign policy” “catering to the Radical Left” “owes his position to me” “sit down and mind your own business” POPE LEO, unbothered: “We are called to love.”

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Good news, for a change!

Save the Boundary Waters. 🌲

The Senate’s final vote on repealing the ban on mining near the Boundary Waters has been scheduled for Thursday morning. Sen. Tina Smith is expected to continue speaking then.

WAY TO GO ANTIVAXXERS!

Truly remarkable how many people have told the Pope, in some way or another, to "shut up and dribble." Or corrected him on the Bible, despite their thin education on theology. Or told him to stay out of US affairs, despite him being a US citizen. The hubris is amazing.

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States. Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay. Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

“Hollywood, believe it or not, is a blue-collar town...“It’s thousands and thousands of Grips and Gaffers. Drivers and Decorators. Builders and Boom operators. Camera teams and Caterers... And they’re all about to get f*cked” Damon Lindelof Reveals Reason He Signed Anti-Paramount-WBD Merger Missive

Keep boycotting Target. Forever.

Just to give you an idea of the joke that is healthgrades and online doctor ratings in general. This guy killed multiple patients and has a 4.6. I have a 4.0.

Abolish ICE.

Lonna Drewes is brave beyond words.

Certain people didn’t see the point of noise demos but clearly they REALLY got to them

the endangered craft i want to learn is weaving bulrush mats. these used to be all over ojibwe wigwams, used for sitting and kneeling on, everyone would have known how to make them i was obsessed with them when i worked at the historical society, and basically no MN ojibwe people can make them now

“Pre-pissed” 🤣

ICE agent tells the New York Times they were nervous showing up in Minneapolis and how they travelled with “girly suitcases” to not be detected. A Senior ICE official details how officers would block in and kidnap United State Citizens. Gift link in next post.

Bears mentioning that today a lot of folks who were at the 4.11.26 protest in downtown LA. One man brought an adult recreational object to demonstrate what was brought to the protest.

Super helpful video that explains why the Senate should vote tomorrow to block the transfer of nearly $300,000,000 worth of armored bulldozers to Israel. We have to make it more difficult in every way for Israel to commit ethnic cleansing. Call now

If you need another reason to not use Amazon for your shopping needs:

More than 60% of all voters, including 75% of Democratic voters, oppose sending Israel more bombs for their campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine and Lebanon. Call your senators. Tell them to vote YES this week on blocking weapons to Israel: imeupolicy.org/noweapons

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

Cute miscommunication 😻 Cat headbutt: Love Goat headbutt: Play

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