Convinced that this is why my sisters & any girl I knew growing up with these in their hair were always ready to fight somebody...and I can't say I blame y'all.

THE FINGER-TAKER’S SON Whenever the king became displeased with one of his subjects, he would send out his soldiers, and before long the offender would find themselves in the basement of the king’s finger-taker. The finger-taker claimed to be a persuadable man. www.the-reframe.com/the-finger-t...

Suck it, chronic pain.

Abolish whatever the fuck this is while we’re at it

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

they dismissed her case with prejudice and she responded with a motion to "AMEND YOUR ATTITUDE ABOUT YOUR FUTURE AND THE FUTURE OF THIS CASE AND WDWA" AMEND YOUR ATTITUDE ABOUT YOUR FUTURE I AM GOING TO USE THAT SO OFTEN AND NOBODY WILL KNOW WHAT I'M REFERENCING

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I now automatically type -noai when searching for anything. Works for DDG as well as google (and I would expect maybe others). If I wanted random guesses as the first result I'd ask my kids.

The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.

YO

HIPAA cannot protect the info in your medical record if you do this

Make it viral.

Every time I think I can’t get angrier, I find out that I can.

Sometimes I think about how I seriously considered getting a tattoo representing checks and balances, and I’m as grateful that I never got it as I am devastated at how poorly it would have aged.

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

One of life’s dumbest yet purest joys is when the odometer lands on a patterned or meaningful number.

I really didn’t have any joy about the new year, but eating ice cream and watching videos of international celebrations with your little kid has a way of injecting hope. May we make the world into what she believes it to be: just, kind, and good.

Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains, Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, Patch’d with foul moles and eye-offending marks

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

So we don’t even get to have a single weekend to celebrate a beloved actor’s centennial without multiple mass shootings and the possible murder of an equally beloved director and his wife. What a year.

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

I've been through the desert On a

Was someone reading out "Glad to be Gay" by Tom Robinson and it just got mangled in the transcript? 'Lie to your workmates, lie to your folks Put down the queens, tell anti-queer jokes Gay Lib's ridiculous, join their laughter "The buggers are legal now, what more are they after?""

I don't understand what is written on the screen in this photo, but it gives me life. Is it Dostoevsky?

Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind. They've got to go.

WHAT IF THERE WAS *ONLY* PIE A DAY OF PIE BREAKFAST PIE SAVORY PIE SWEET PIE SOME SORT OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKABLE PIE PIESGIVING WE WOULD CALL IT AND THE WORLD WOULD THANK US IN PRAYER AND SONG AND IDEALLY PIE

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

This headline should be “Moron FA and FO.” All the dog did was jump on the bed.

Good morning! Happy Saturday! I hope your weekend is full of friends that have your back. Get out and enjoy it!

trigger warning: *gestures to everything*

“Well everyone else was doing it too” is never a worthy excuse. Just because practically no one masks or keeps up with the alarming science on COVID doesn’t exempt everyone from responsibility. #MaskUp and protect yourself and others. In the future, you’ll be glad you did.

I’ve always hated the phrase “underaged girls” Girls already means they’re not adults. There’s no such thing as over aged girls or average age girls or woman aged girls. They’re just girls which means children. Just say children.

turned out the story was emails all along

If you’re not actively working to release the list and expose the pedophiles, I see no reason for that choice except that you’re on the list/a pedophile. No one standing in the way deserves the benefit of the doubt.

They'd rather lose at the white gentlemen's game of "politics", then enjoy a fine dinner, cigar, and brandy at the club, than consider having responsibilities outside their gated community.

There’s no replacing the gutting of our safety net that the Trump Admin has engaged in from the start, but to help on the short-term emergency many families are facing, @give-directly.bsky.social is raising cash assistance to make sure kids dont go hungry. Chip in here: www.givedirectly.org/snapgap/

In “In the Garden of Beasts,” Erik Larson described Diels as “seeping in [to a room] like malevolent fog.” Can’t imagine what made me think of that.

Thank you, Chicago.

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

“The big story here is that never, ever, ever before have we seen a court, months after an election, change election rules to retroactively disqualify a class of voters and flip the results. If you can do that, no election is safe — period,” @anne-tindall.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/u...

What a perfect date. Not too hot, not too cold. All you need is a light jacket.

Technicolor punk!

the phrase “it’s a free country” is only ever used to justify terrible decisions. no one’s out here building public libraries and saying “it’s a free country”

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.