“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.” she did it! her! way!!

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

This piece is a great read if you want to understand why I'm so frustrated at PW for their "AI in publishing" course, and why I want to scream every time I join a Zoom meeting and am told "Otter.ai is providing notes for this meeting!" It sucks! It all sucks!! aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

the technology the left is excited about is called the Sega Dreamcast

I'm always saying this

Wow.

reading about the effects of cutting USAID. i think a painting of elon musk should be hung in public for everyone to see. a painting of elon musk should be put up against a wall and shot with a nice camera

declassified Soviet report implicating the grinch in the dyatlov pass incident

and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of futurism

With more people getting the opportunity to play Metal Gear Solid 4, it means more people will understand one of my favorite posts online

Fuck yeah and, if I may add, hell yeah

Every time I go to my "people similar to you are liking" page on Bluesky its just a torrent of selfies by beautiful women. I'm AQAB (assigned queer at Bluesky).

greatest headline of my adult life

My takeaway is the artist was told to draw painstakingly draw each hair in Platner's beard and then what they thought someone called Jasmine Crockett would look like

i’ll never get the PBR hate. it tastes like bread. do you not like bread?

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

preemptively annoyed that everyone is going to hate the wuthering heights movie for the wrong reasons. it won't be bad bc it's horny :( it'll be bad bc her films uncritically reproduce the paranoias of the entitled, using surface-level deviance to deliver frank conservatism :(

It is frustrating that the NYT profiled that AI grifter when Romance is such a load-bearing corner of publishing. You wouldn’t do that unless you actively hate books and the entire cultural apparatus around them.

🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏 🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer 🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏

What the fuck are you talking about, ai.com?????

"Skip, skip, skip to my lou...that's professional football right there"

I was really hoping for a touchdown-less Super Bowl. I watch one football game a year and I'd love for it to be a silly goofy one

Thrilled to be getting health advice from this guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=clb5...

the set design and choreography was so beautiful that it was irrelevant that I’m a dummy who can’t understand Spanish

What Commander do you think Amber Glenn runs?

talking about the weather is generally the lowest form of discourse but i can’t hold it in anymore: this weather is bullshit

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Just had to spend 5 minutes telling myself "not wearing makeup is not unprofessional". What being socialized as a woman does to a motherfucker...

embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

The Earth's cutest boys.

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

They're a requirement

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

Adobe Acrobat rules. It’s a program that literally just needs to let you open and manage PDFs but any time you try to do something as simple as scroll you first have to deal with a pop up that says something like “Btw did you know this document is in English?”

Same model as this stupid movie, and we all have to pretend like these books are part of normal publishing

Who’s ready to talk about conservative book publishing www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/box...

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension. Public pressure works. If enough people speak up, a life may be saved. Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglect… let’s make sure Rodney isn’t one of them.

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

a little annoyed that 3d printer bfs [gender neutral] all over the country have been validated by the whistles. it's as if the revolution had suddenly needed all the weird cables they're holding onto. you know what i mean.

mind if I make a dog ?

ah fuck. accidentally cooked a animorph

Worst case scenario Beastie Boys remix

At the same time the Epstein Files are reinforcing how protected sexual abusers really are, Neil Gaiman is using the nightmarish sexual violence allegations against him to market his next book. His DARVO defense is the first selling point. Rape culture is everywhere and unavoidable.

starting to do research on a subject you know nothing about is like me: "okay. first question: how do lawyers work?" source: "um... well, what kind of lawyer are we talking about" me: *writing down enthusiastically* there are types of lawyers

Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.