Look I like Star Wars a little too much but this is one of the rare occasions where the nerds are not the ones who need to get a grip No one is out here thinking that cancelling a streaming service is the same as joining an armed rebellion. Jokes are a powerful form of protest Also they're funny.

I feel like I need a diagram to explain this joke to people who keep doing "ew stop referencing a space show for babies when you are complaining about fascism." Disney made Andor. They made a thing about how fascism is bad and then they did some fascism. That's it. That's the joke.

I'm really tired (my child is sick and got is up at 4am wanting their inhaler) and I think I'm getting sick and I'm making dinner instead of ordering takeout because we might need the money when the economy gets even worse. Please clap.

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

I’m 49 and whew take a look at my friends and family.

The other thing Star Wars that I thought about today is Grogu is the Disney Star Wars brand and all it took was Disney throttling free speech to make them panic release this trailer that seems to be even less footage than what has been playing at conventions.

Interesting how none of the men, including one big one in central Ohio has met with the same repercussions.

My parents heard a cricket chirping in the drain of one of their bathroom sinks for a couple of days last week. They put a plastic hair snake down the drain and left it overnight. The next morning, a lil cricket had used it as a ladder and was waiting in the sink bowl to be relocated outside.

I literally never want to get a text from Al Franken. How do I stop this. How do I say, "I will never, ever, ever consider giving you money if you have Al Franken text me." Who do I have to convince that this is bad?

Second, because the people that intentionally stayed home and didn't vote, vastly outnumber the mythical swing voters that we keep pretending have had a change of heart. If we're going to show empathy to anyone, it should be to the people that are continually disappointed by coddling hateful voters

Completely untrue. First, because those hearts have not been changed. "The leopard ate my face!" Is not the same as "I see now that trying to get a leopard to eat anyone's face is wrong. I was wrong for that." People that have really changed, are already welcomed back with open arms.

it's actually really interesting me that no one who goes on about reaching people through social media has even tried to engage on tiktok or instagram.

beale *is* an unhinged maniac. depressed, alienated and antisocial. and his rant, critically, is inchoate, apolitical, reactionary rage, packaged in a bow for advertisers. what the movie gets absolutely right is the way that alienation is just another product.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

The primary antidote to despair that I've found is getting engaged in local organizing and volunteering. Find a group doing work you care about in your area - homeless advocacy and outreach, immigrant support, queer rights - and volunteer with them. It's a tremendous counter to helpless despair.

Knowing what we now know (and, *cough*, should have known) about what ICE wants and is willing to do? We need to call out that fucked-up border security bill for what it was: funding for fascism at our borders because we thought it would appease the fascists. And we need to stop doing that shit.

EXACTLY THIS. When Elon fucked the algorithms to keep links off-site, my posts about new books went from thousands of likes to <100, overnight. Not wasting time on X was an economic necessity.

Disney doing this after a similar buying demographic successfully sustained the Target boycott was A Decision. 🍿

There it is. Big day for Columbus sports.

No, I'm not saying that all people that oppose women's reproductive rights are racist. Not even close. But I am saying that a person's moral opposition or support of women's reproductive rights is not nearly as tied to "religion" or even "Christianity" as people pretend that it is.

Say hello to my cat's cat's cat

That's because only one side is paying for these terrible takes

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entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Someday folks will understand that part of the reason it took so long for folks to understand meme culture Is because they spent too much time playing funny dunk games on racists Then just actually pushing them out of civil society

Fuck Ted Farro

This is a thing I think about a lot. When we were expecting our second child, CPD was dumping tear gas all over the neighborhood we had lived in a few years earlier bc some protesters were fleeing in that direction.

I can always believe that a professional pundit is bad at his job. Especially when it's a white dude who works for the New York Times and has a parent notable enough to be in Wikipedia.

I mean I would also treat this as an indication that Klein is not pro-choice.

Guardians win again. Thank god for baseball giving me momentary distraction from the crumbling of our civil liberties. By next year it might be illegal for me to say Fuck the Yankees.

This story deserves a lot more attention than it’s getting. Expelling a kid for calling for war crimes tribunals is outrageous.

And removable phone batteries

can this count as good Kirk!Posting? Maybe it will happen this weekend.

My Bo with an rbi double with 2 outs!🥰

Nobody makes ad jingles anymore

I had to throw together something from the pantry tonight, so barbecue chicken, pickles, and onions. (Barbecue chicken being the fanciest can of Kirkland chicken tossed in some Kroger barbecue sauce.)

It's been a long week. Terrible news. Terrible feelings. But we're still here. I'm glad you're here. It's Friday evening. And that means something. At least one good thing.

Hey folks we're about $300 short, and FYI their PayPal default name is starbroken so if you get that, you've got the right one. Thanks!

I love seeing people supporting PBS with their newly loosened up Disney+ dollars.

ah tis the season; youtube reccing me art videos of "a new way to prepare for inktober!" Here's a new way to prepare for inktober: by doing literally anything else with your autumn than bringing more brand rec to a plagiarist bigot who trademarked something collectively built.

A weird definition of vulnerable where "being detained for months" is somehow less bad than "lost extremely plum job held by maybe half a dozen people per year."

Government is not better when government officials can make an AI sockpuppet. Because that's what this is.

👴🏻"🤔Why are people talking about Don Lemon and Karen Attiah and Jemelle Hill and Joy Reid and Claudine Gay and most of the Black Twitter employees and 300,000+ Black women employees right now?! This is about Jimmy Kimmel! Democracy is in danger! It wasn't before, but it is now!"🤡

It was a great talk. I don't think it's even the first time I built an entire talk around a tweet, the original tweet is slightly different than what I remembered just now but you get the idea. Anyway, lol the Meta AI demo.

Still gonna bitch about earlier sunset times even under fascism. Also drought is bringing out fall colors super early.

3) Put books in Little Free Libraries, especially banned books, and books by women, queer folk, people of color, and disabled people. If you have extra copies or can spare a few books, great. Writers, put in some of your author copies. You can also pick up books for cheap at thrift stores.

The democrats are several different and opposed political parties in one big trench coat.

They're canceling shows! They went on a spree not only canceling but removing from access some of the best shows and movies that represented diverse audiences and people thought it was cool because they had "race fatigue"