SNAP benefits expire in one week.

We can and SHOULD be concerned about many things at once. This is a big deal. Oh, and also - RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. BRING CONGRESS BACK TO SECTION WHERE THEY F'ING BELONG.

An interesting study on schizophrenia. www.sciencealert.com/50-year-old-...

Give fewer fucks. No, less than that. Less. You’re still 2 fucks too high. There you go. Better living through lower standards.

I had three days of symptoms. First day and night was overall blah. middle of the night chills kicked in and lasted the whole second day. Third day was sweating profusely. Get the vax, but like on a Friday!

Calling @t-mobile.bsky.social to express my extreme disgust that that they are funding the demolition of the east wing of the white house, and that they reconsider their involvement, lest I'll be forced to take my many lines elsewhere.

brb rewriting goals

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

Oh, now I'm REALLY pissed

Dear god please let them nail Trump on a permit issue by the county

Elizabeth Warren: "I'm just going to say something that a lot of people said on Saturday. We don't have a king in this country, and Donald Trump doesn't get to sit over in the White House and make all of these decisions by himself. At least he doesn't get to if Senate Republicans would grow a spine"

Rick Scott was CEO of a company forced to settle what the DOJ called “the largest healthcare fraud case in history.” Is that the expertise that’s driving your “plan.” www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...

I have a photo of it here:

Reminder that Trump is tearing down the WH literally and there's still a massive contingent of Dems obsessed over trying to fight against their own nominee in the NYC mayoral race, including people not even in NYC lol

Every single writer I know is SO bummed about how horribly heavy-handed the plot of the universe is right now. We’d never get away with this nonsense, and it pisses all of us off. But also, the people in charge have no respect for the arts, so why would they be good at writing, I guess?

Hey, friends, followers, and “None of the above”: would you agree that it’s just basic web etiquette to provide Alt Text descriptions for images? Let me hear all the takes.

IF YOU’RE NOT A JOURNALIST HOW CAN IT BE OFF THE RECORD

i mean, if you don't warn the subject of a story that they're the subject of a story, they clearly can say "backsies" and the journalist doesn't respond "no backsies" the journalist can't publish, that's how the rules work, right?

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

Happy HA/DR day for those of you running services in AWS.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

RFK Jr doesn’t know the difference between “fertility rate” and birth rate. Why am I even partially surprised. The embarrassment of this man has no bottom.

HERE IS HOW SADDLES WORK! It’s not really about YOUR comfort, it’s about the animal’s. A saddle tree disperses your weight over a larger proportion of the animal’s back, hence why saddles are stiff. Treeless saddles are usually more like high quality padding. This also allows for stirrups (cont’d)

This is the Halloween content we need 🎃

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games

Disband ICE and prosecute these assholes.

Sometimes the best thing you can do for a suspect database is to get a big, scary-looking coworker to come over and glare at it. I’m not entirely joking here.

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Somebody decided tree bark sounded like a good meal. Then they found out some of those tree’s barks could be used to preserve foods and that they tasted good too. Now cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mace and more are in many Fall foods and now you know why. It preserved them.

Fall is celebrating those centuries of what we’d do before we could simply ship whatever in the off season. These flavors exist through years of preserving to avoid starvation. Our inner squirrels excited to taste the labors of those who made art out of surviving.

We dove into that Tish James indictment and ... we're not saying Lindsey Halligan is an unethical idiot. But we're not NOT saying it. with @andrewtorrez.bsky.social www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-tish-j...

I got radicalized for air quality while living in CA and saw the black soot covering all of my windowsills. Bought indoor air quality monitors, air purifiers, etc. And if you’re someone who suffers from allergies and frequent sinus infections, you NEED air purifiers. They’ll change your life.

"It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that."

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

The diagnostician who diagnosed my kid with ADHD and autism spoke highly of ABA and lemme tell you, I took us outta there so goddamn fast. There is no legitimate treatment for anything in this world that includes deliberate cruelty.

I need @theonion.com to do a piece like “533 years later, Christopher Columbus’ annual reign of terror against the US postal service continues”

Thinking of America for vacation? You might want to go somewhere you will feel welcomed.

fun fact: drayage drivers, the people who pick up containers from ships and trains, are overwhelmingly immigrants this would basically make it straight up impossible to move anything in a container in this country

My spicy people made a banger.

Never ever say that autistic people can’t do humor. So far their jokes are the best. But also no one is ignoring the harm Trump’s rhetoric causes. They’re just fighting back a little by flexing their qualities and using a little humor to clap back at the bs.

anyways go buy copies of SENSORY: LIFE ON THE SPECTRUM which has a ton of autistic creatives contributing to it and was one of the first like autobio-comics I did for it way back when!

IT'S HAPPENING: House Democrats are introducing articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr for slashing research funding and spreading medical misinformation.

“You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” - Moses, Exodus 22:21 #RadioFreeAmerica

This is 100% accurate.

Flock needs sued into oblivion. Related, I don't know who needs to hear this, but deflock.me/map