Last share is from a nurse. Listen to healthcare providers. DO NOT TELL CHATGPT YOUR HEALTH SHIT

Nooooooooooooooooooooope DO. NOT. DO. THIS.

"Get This Party Started" is older than ICE.

I desperately need Internet Culture to stop preying on genuinely good-hearted, caring people by making increasingly onerous demands about how exactly to prove that you’re good and caring — and that you HAVE to prove it to anyone other than yourself and your inner circle.

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

I wish I had access to all my old coverage because there was this one novel I covered that was absolute self-indulgent rich white lady fuckery and I KNOW I gave it my best ice-cold, formal, withering denial but I don’t remember what I said.

Wait, they made AN OPERA out of Kavalier & Clay? A book that was made for the era of massively budgeted miniseries based on blockbuster IP?

From 2021. (Gift link, generated with free access through my local library.)

Check the sponsors list and if yours is on the list your call is a thank you call (PLEASE still call, they get even fewer of those than the angry calls, it helps) legiscan.com/CA/sponsors/...

For CALIFORNIA: You can call your state senator and tell them to support Weiner's SB-747 as amended: legiscan.com/CA/text/SB74... (There is some weird political game playing nonsense where old versions of this bill had some behavioral health stuff lumped in, careful what version you read.)

There are so few people who actually give enough of a shit about state-level races to make the effort to meet a candidate and speak to them in person about an issue, there is a very real chance you can actually talk them into stuff. The smaller your state, the better your chances here.

One thing I hate about social media is how everyone, myself included, is compelled to Issue A Statement whenever anything Happens so other people know how we feel about it. Because we can’t just trust that people who know us know we’re woke lefty etc., we have to make sure strangers do too.

Hey, remember that part on #Andor where the empire sends untrained recruits out into a mob of angry protestors, knowing one of them is going to fuck up and spark a full-scale riot that lets the empire crack down?

$6.58 *billion* Remember this in a few months when the studios try to tell us "There's no money." deadline.com/2025/12/disn...

I will keep doing everything I can to get this bill passed in the next few days and restore the ACA subsidies that have been helping so many of my constituents access medical care. (2/2)

Democrats just successfully forced a vote to bring ACA tax credit expansion to the House floor. Enough Republicans agreed with Democrats that it’s unconscionable to rip away the credits that help so many Americans afford medical insurance. (1/2)

Mr. Should Be Vice President, SIR. 🫡

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It is apparently Lay On Mama time

I’m counting this week as Holiday Hangover instead of starting the year like I intended.

Breaking news: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of the oldest American newspapers, says it will close down, citing losses and labor rules. The newspaper will print its final edition May 3.

I post for all the people whose nervous systems were already at DefCon 1 and need to regulate by thinking about Other Things.

LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I chose a neurotypical extrovert boy cat because there’s room for only one MDD, GAD, OCD, CPTSD combo platter in my house

This reminds me of Anne of Green Gables and the Rollings Reliable Baking Powder story

I don't know a single writer who has been asked to do product placement in their work, or at least, if they have, they have not admitted so to me. Nor have I ever been approached with an offer for product placement of any sort. I would be unlikely to entertain such an offer. I don't need the money.

Today in Specialized Jobs You Didn’t Know Existed: garbage chute steam cleaners.

Either the elevator has arrived on this floor or the hellmouth has been opened.

Over at the #MindPalate site: a "recipe card" version of the Parmesan Cocktail Biscuit recipe from Mrs. De Salis's 1903 SAVOURIES A LA MODE cookbook. (The cookie-press version of this will follow shortly.) mind-palate.com/parmesan-coc...

People are out here charging $1,250 for a bachelor apartment in a sketchy AF neighborhood. This is the stupidest goddamn timeline.

They’re charging HOW MUCH?!?!

Affix your safety mask first. You aren't required to see the violence firsthand to grok its existence. Take care of yourself, and to those sharing images, a reminder CPTSD is real. Trigger warnings so people can mute terms is a kindness. Minneapolis, we love you. I'm so very sorry.

They're gonna make this motherfucker mayor for life.

NYT as “Imperial fanfic authors”, A+ zero notes, zero lies detected

It's fine if you do want to watch a video. It's fine when people who are not afraid of these things watch & can tell those who have concerns that it isn't graphic. But you never HAVE to watch a video of violence to understand something horrific happened. And you shouldn't tell people they have to.

Response to an NYT request for use of video of the ICE murder. Iconic.

Widget is still skeptical about this “fabric on you makes warms” theory

Apparently video of today's ICE murder are circulating, so here's an important reminder if you don't want to see it:

I really don't know any other way to say "don't do anything rash" in a public-servant-speaking-to-his-constituents format. There might be something but I can't think of it right now.

In context of Governor Walz’s statement, “stay calm” means “do not engage in chaotic or risky behavior”. It’s not emotion-policing.

I had an intake visit with a new pet sitting client the other day and because he’s going to be at work he wanted me to text him an hour before I go feed his cat so he can have his phone nearby to buzz me in (just copy your perimeter key and give me one, dumbass) but I don’t give my phone number to+

People are yelling at him for "remain calm" but I don't know of any other politic way to say "Don't do anything fucking out of pocket, scream and freak out in your own home where you can't get arrested for it or make anything worse."

We really, really, do not need more more traumatized, volatile, freaked out people on here or in the world. It will not help. It is not a good thing to be and not a good thing to do to yourself. Take care of yourself, take care of your work today, take care of your household and your neighbors.

Unless you're capable of being boots on the ground in that particular city, there's nothing you can do that hasn't been on the To-Do list for months. What you can do from that list right now, you're the best judge. Take a breath. Assess, triage yourself, your capabilities, your emotions.

Also while I'm talking about the shit going down in Minneapolis right now, it's a great time to assess where you're at and decide whether or not you're going to stay on the socials, whether or not you're going to watch or listen to the news. My advice, where most people I see are right now? Don't.

I speed ran the flu (I never get the flu - it’s been at least ten years. That’s how bad this strain is) in a week because I got the shot. Get. The. Shot.

Someone elseweb said their vet has a spice scale for cat temperaments and the number of boy cats labeled “bell pepper” and girl cats labeled “ghost pepper” in the comments are remarkably consistent with my experience.

This is unconscionable and it should anger all American patriots. @captmarkkelly.bsky.social remembers the oath he took to defend the Constitution. Clearly Secretary Hegseth has forgotten. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...