I want to ask the people blasting jesus-centric country music next door if they think it’s neighborly to make so much noise after midnight, but I fear that passive-aggressively complaining about the noise will make me even more of a giant dork than the people blasting jesus-centric country music

It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid. POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition. Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!

I’m going to say it again: members of Congress need to draft articles & talk publicly & loudly about the case for treason. Trump told generals on camera in person: the campaign in U.S. cities is a WAR. The military needs to hear it laid out for them, how serious this is. Write for them, not the GOP.

More grace for a grown man getting a Nazi tattoo than Black kids in public spaces. It’s obscene.

Another threat to voting rights. Public comment period ends today!

Stop putting this crap in your house techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...

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Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

it's a right wing propaganda arm now.

Downtown Los Angeles: avoid this guy

So we've been trained to sabotage our own movements from within and it worked on all of us I'm afraid! ESPECIALLY if you're marginalized. But here's how to stop it. Save these. These go in your phone now. REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.

You heard it hear first: this is the largest protest in Chicago history. 500k+ is my guess, I've never seen anything like this

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

I’m not really a live-skeeter. But I had to stop my frog dance to tell you that there is a deafening amount of honking coming from big ol lifted trucks here in my tiny town.

Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close

Stay safe today, friends 💜

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors. We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

The federal government is still shut down.

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

They took a 15 year-old with autism who is often non-verbal and has the maturity of a 4-5 year old. Hopefully this kid is not too traumatized. But, I know his family certainly is. Our society is so broken, so devoid of decency, and so toxic. Our regime is kidnapping children for no reason.

It was only eight days ago that 300 federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment complex at 3:00AM on a Tuesday morning, zip tying its residents (some of them CHILDREN) and denying them the opportunity call a lawyer. Don't let the never-ending shit-news-cycle get in your way of remembering that.

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

Why does the JC Penney store radio announcer sound like he’s telling me that K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the 70’s keep on comin’ with this little ditty from the George Baker Selection?

[looking pointedly between the lead–crime hypothesis and the recent explosion of garden variety gym bros turning into violent, fascistic assholes]

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Holy shit 😨

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

For day 12, I watched The Menu. Another one I managed to remain unspoiled for, despite it being out for three years. This felt like the horror-comedy answer to Knives Out in a lot of ways. Liked it a lot!

Starting a spreadsheet of all the roles I've applied for seemed like a great idea a few months ago, but it's just had the unfortunate side effect of making me painfully aware of how very fucked the job market is. I'm beginning to suspect that nobody is actually hiring.

Just sent mine through a few minutes ago! Shocked that they haven't hit the 1000 submissions threshold yet--when I saw this post last night I was sure that I'd end up missing out again. Good luck to everyone else who's applying!

For the 11th day of spooky season I went to @screamfest.bsky.social & watched 22 horror movies 👁️👄👁️ I can’t fit everything here (though I’ll update my Letterboxd later) but The Red Mask & Redux Redux were A+++ features, & Very Prosperous Men, Remnants, Isolation, & Imago were my fave shorts!

For day ten I watched Azrael. This one wasn’t for me, unfortunately. The story, characters, and world building just didn’t feel strong enough to justify a complete lack of dialogue. That said, the chargrilled demons with built in blood-radar were fun!

Had a dream last night that I found a listing for a bookstore job that included “dril (wint) used to work here” as a benefit, but did not include health care.

Day nine: tonight I watched Strange Darling! People have been recommending this movie to me and telling me not to look up anything about it for a while damn year, and I’m so glad I finally did. Loved it. Highly recommend.

Day eight: seeing Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s 1977 horror/comedy, House. I technically haven’t watched it yet, but I’m in the theater waiting for it to start, so wanted to post before I forget. I know very little about it, so I’m looking forward to whatever is about to transpire!

The interminable search for employment continues. I've lost count of how many times I've applied for an entry level studio assistant or mail room or administrative role without so much as a phone interview. Today I seriously considered applying for a job transporting lawn maintenance goats.

Not to be a movie snob, but the options for "favorite director" provided on the AMC A-list personality/taste profile are embarrassingly basic.

BREAKING In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

I'll repeat this until the LLMs bubble finally bursts: We were told NFTs were "the future" "here to stay" and "inevitable" Where's that market now.

May every single person pushing this shit have permanent canker sores and smudged glasses for the rest of their miserable lives.

Oh lordy. I heard these stories from various people involved. If you want to work in TV, or just are curious about how thoroughly things can go wrong, definitely check this out.

Day seven: I finally got around to watching Presence! Really felt like more of a drama that happened to involve a ghost than a true horror movie, but I really loved the ending. Glad I went in unspoiled!

For day six, I rewatched a forever fave: Donnie Darko. Genuinely cannot believe that this movie is 24 years old. Time is fake.

I keep forgetting to add to this series of posts, but I had a blast watching Abigail on day five! Goofin' vampire shenanigans. (Side note, as a Supernatural fan I'm always struck by an overwhelming sense of "our girl Claire is all grown up!" whenever I watch something with Kat Newton in it 😌)