I can hear the algae laughing from here.

Just a reminder, the company you work for does not care about you. You could drop dead today while working and they will replace you in a short amount of time. I say this only because we collectively need to stop giving these companies all of our energy even when we’re off the clock.

The Art of the Concept of a Framework of a Plan for a Tentative Deal, Perhaps..

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

Motherfucker can't even win a war against algae.

If you talk about Michelle Obama today, please make it about this video

The 17yr-old is talking about his favourite band. "And sometimes they release singles that aren't quite as good, and they call them B-sides, I didn't know why. Have you heard of that? 'B-sides'. Weird." I'm just crumbling away to ancient dust over here.

Can somebody explain to me why the rule is "if you can't make rent, cut out the streaming apps, lattes, and avocado toasts" but it's never "if you can't afford your workers a living wage, cut out the mega-yachts, rockets, and spaceships."

Hard to know anything when we still do not have the text.

Trump began a war, lost it, then surrendered, all because he needed to distract us from the fact that he’s a pedophile… So, let’s talk about that! 😎✨

Cartoon by @jesseduquette.bsky.social

WELP

Who says “barbecue restaurant?” That’s a spot or a joint or a shack or a truck or a stand.

“If it were ever an excuse to plead ignorance of the risks of using generative AI to draft a brief without verifying its output, it is certainly no longer so,” Judge Sharion Aycock said in her June 8 order.

#StayReadyCrew The grocery has a huge spice section. And they’re all expensive. $9.99 for 2 ounces on the left. In the Mexican food aisle, there are the smaller packets. And waaaay cheaper. $1.29 for 1 ounce on the right.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

this only makes sense, there are more fans of "forced sex" at this event than anybody else, including the entire administration, and it's a big part of the UFC world

I think I just barely escaped a shockingly savvy scammer trying to get my bank credentials. First, whoever it was had my actual phone number, my actual bank, and the last 4 digits of my account. They sent a "was this transaction you" message that looked almost identical to the ones my bank sends.

What if we just believed young people when they say it’s because of climate change and being broke?

Trump’s name finally came down from the Kennedy Center, and I think this man speaks for a lot of us: “Let me go down here and see for myself when they pull this down, so I can see the beginning of his end.”

The HELL with the World Cup. THIS is my TV viewing all this afternoon!

Today in "the metaphors just write themselves, don't they":

Many people have commented on this, but the point of rituals with your kids, especially bedtime rituals, is that you put aside the rest of the world and spend it wholly focused on your children and your family. Replacing it with tech isn't just bad developmentally or whatever, it's dystopian.

can we talk about how this admin spends so much time saying 'whoa whoa whoa a policy is NOT illegal just bc it has a disparate impact on Black people' and at the same time is like 'whoa whoa whoa a school has Black students? must be an illegal admissions policy!' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

THEY'RE SO SHINY YOU CAN SEE A REFLECTION OF YOURSELF NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD GROCERIES!

One board member said the FBI approached some without warrants. “They had agents all across the state going to civil rights leaders and community leaders’ doors intimidating them, coming and demanding that they talk about literally anything they would ask.” “Just straight-up intimidation tactics.”

This is whom Bari Weiss just hired as a global correspondent for CBS. From 2020; h/t @oliverdarcy.bsky.social Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations www.bbc.com/news/uk-5179...

For all would-be SpaceX investors, reading "A City on Mars" is a strong recommend. Very funny on the many ways space is terrible, uneconomic, and the decades/centuries of (boring, non-phallic rocket related) research needed to make settlement even a vaguely realistic proposition.

When the $14 million renovations of the Reflecting Pool were completed last week, President Trump praised its “beautiful, clean water.” Now, days after the pool was refilled, clumps of green algae have has been spotted throughout the water.

Fuuuuuuuucccckk. This just made me cry.

“It wasn't (Gilbert's) journey to be a service dog, and we respect that. In my head now, I kind of feel like that Gilbert was where he was supposed to be with Melissa and Mark (Hortman). He helped them through the stress of their lives.“ said Alyssa Golob, executive director of Helping Paws.

Universal Basic Income

I want 10k words on my desk by Monday.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

I am a strong, masculine heterosexual conservative. Here’s why I can’t criticize Democrats without making it sound like I’m talking about a penis.

If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.

Perhaps the greatest newspaper editorial of all time theonion.com/i-work-very-...

who else remembers sitting in the car and rooting for your favorite raindrop to win the race down the windshield

Petitioning to have Broadway stars forever sing the national anthem at any event.

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NEW: Tornado Watch issued for Denver and most of NE Colorado until 9p tonight. Tornadoes are obviously a possibility, but big hail (baseball size or bigger) is the main threat today. #COwx

"the bill would reduce monthly fruit and vegetable benefits from $52 to $13 for breastfeeding mothers and from $26 to $10 for young children."

A small team at the nightly newscast “Next with Kyle Clark” is showing just how important KUSA is as a public good during another major statewide Colorado election: coloradomedia.substack.com/p/colorado-m...

When the world serves a better visual metaphor than you could have ever come up with.

calling women who take allegations of domestic violence seriously “HR ladies” is a way to diminish the power we have worked so hard to gain and make women feel annoying for caring. i hope women in this category know it is never annoying to care.

i'm sorry men being forced to answer for themselves is so painful. you know what's more painful? the level of intimate partner violence in this country. the baseline disrespect and humiliation that women are forced to take in order to survive.

i really do think they believe that because they're "good" on policy that they don't owe people anything on a human level, and if you're a woman who believes in the same policies but also understands the capacity even "good" men have to be cruel then you're weak