There’s this kind of holier-than-thou tendency to dismiss people’s observations of the world coming apart at the seams by referencing past evils and derisively sneering, “Where have you been?/You’re just now noticing this?” that I think is almost never constructive or helpful.

A pal is working mutual aid in Minneapolis, and is lamenting an interruption in her long distance situationship. We must launch a service where veterans of recently occupied cities go to presently occupied ones as a nourishing hookup squad.

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

How I am going into 2026:

Gonna start photocopying my landlord’s annual “all the trips I took this year” Christmas card and send it out as my own because… you know…

now he's making a list, and she's calling a cab now he's checking it twice, and she's taking a drag

It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times

Whenever I see Veronica Cartwright in something all I can think of is the cherry pit spewing scene from The Witches of Eastwick.

Happy Half-Century Birthday (one day late) to one of my all-time favorite albums.

do people who work for the new york times know that shutting up is free

Star Trek The Next Generation upon hitting 38 years old: *signs up for a Bluesky account*

Watching them cherry pick the hateful podcaster into a martyr really makes you wonder about all the other folks the gatekeepers of history have put on a pedestal.

Happy 35th Anniversary to Captain Planet

Must stop trying to wear mascara. I rub my eyes far too frequently for that shit.

This was twenty-two months ago. Israeli forces have killed more than 16,186 kids since.

I need more folks to know that Brooke Smith of Silence of the Lambs fame (she's instructed to put the lotion in the basket) was a member of the 1980s New York Hardcore scene and a photographer who documented that scene prolifically. She has a book called Sunday Matinee, which is absolutely stunning.

Please join us for @corntelethon.bsky.social! It's streaming now and for the next 9 and a half hours! We've already raised about $4,250 for amazing SWer mutual fund organizations and we're going to keep going! www.corntelethon.com

Happy Labor Day, comrades

Today I saw a tourist face-timing with someone exclaim “I’m in Maine, man, look there’s water here!” Then he walked to the very end of a boat launch and started moaning at the ocean. It was so incredibly sincere and enthusiastic. I will only accept this kind of tourist energy from here on out.

I have as much disdain for the remake/adaptation mania currently suffocating the film industry as the next guy, but I think if someone were to abstract a monster of the week episode of Buffy into a short or feature length horror film that is actually scary, it should be all of them.

This is just how these fucking ghouls operate. When they’re in power they tell you how important it is to do the atrocities and do them well, then when they’re out of power act like they want to stop the atrocities. That’s the entirety of Democratic foreign policy.

Just alienated and abandoned a group of DAR members. Feels like I’m about to move out of my grandparents’ pool house.

When your university rejects your travel grant application despite being accepted to present your thesis research on an international platform, all you can do is turn to the internet to beg (after exhausting all your resources). www.fundmytravel.com/campaign/byj...

capitalism, covid, capitalism

Something we should really think about is that "the children we are starving to death were already sick" isn't supposed to be some kind of exculpatory defense, it's an attempt to inject the idea that it's okay to kill people who are sick or diseased or disabled into mainstream conversation

So just to keep track: Trump justified detaining students who protested & wrote op-eds because they're "flight risks." And then he lets a top Israeli official facing felony charges for child sex crimes just fly back to Israel. All while still refusing to release the Epstein files

This is exactly--and I mean exactly--how Holocaust deniers have long discredited the Final Solution being a concerted effort & high-level order. "The Jews in the camps all died of typhoid outbreaks"

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my dad was always saying this

The show should have been called Pacey’s Pond!

I used to clean this house and it always felt haunted. All your typical signs were present and a clowder of cats lived there. They would gather in this one place and watch me walk between buildings. Today I saw this photo of a ghostly figure by the back window, watching from the same place.

The Israeli military is deliberately massacring groups of journalists as it is threatening to occupy all of Gaza.

Oh I lied. One more thing. The word "crime" is meaningless. Lots of crimes are morally good. Lots of legal acts are morally repugnant. Kill the cop in your brain.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

How are you calling trans women misogynists when you’re out here in the streets referring to cis women as having “egg-producing equipment” like a human trafficker in a 90s Law and Order episode

Huh maybe if they weren't kicking all the Palestinians off the app there would be more users Maybe if they didn't welcome Jesse Singal there would be more users

I brought a bag of perfectly ripe cherries to work where there are no sinks or mirrors. I devoured the cherries and greeted some absolutely horrified tourists. Assuming I had a cute lil cherry stain on my face, I explained and we all laughed. I then opened my phone’s front-facing camera to see this:

We fucked up when we started to understand gentrification as an effect of people moving into neighborhoods and not a process created by developers, landlords and business owners.

it is unacceptable for ANYONE to be disappeared. if your solidarity doesn't include sex workers then fuck off.

The Israeli military blockade on Gaza has already starved to death at least 66 Palestinian children since the Israeli military stopped letting any aid enter Gaza on March 2, according to local health authorities.

Shoutout to whoever is responsible for the sound effect in the first few seasons of The X-Files that makes me think my smoke alarm is chirping.

@nikostratis.com Finally got a copy!!

I love season 2 of The X-Files but I always forget about Fearful Symmetry and yeah, that episode can go straight to hell.

You absolutely can care about and fight for Palestine and trans rights and racial justice and environmental justice and land back and abolition and reparations and intersectional feminism and economic justice and healthcare and housing and education for everyone. It's actually all the same fight.

First, Israel cut Gaza’s last internet cable—blacking out 2.3 million people. Then it bombed Iran with no UN approval, no imminent threat. As eyes shift to Iran, Israel will escalate its ethnic cleansing in Gaza—and create more regional instability.

Medical Misogyny is a big factor but I think the biggest factor is White Supremacy and the pro-active role that White women play in perpetuating it because it is also a direct reflection of the who and why what demographic was the largest turnout for Trump.