When ppl start talking about how campus protests stopped, as a gotcha moment, it makes me feel like my head gon explode. It’s fucking disingenuous.

top chef beating their own records at anti-Blackness this season

the @themerl.bsky.social podcast is called Absolute Units @absoluteunits.bsky.social and is FABULOUS. it is calming and fascinating both. i first listened simply due to title. now i say, put it on your podcast feed. wherever you live, urban or rural, anyplace. do it.

not enough people understand that if everything else were equal -- if everyone were well fed and had plenty of food and plenty of food variety, and everyone knew this bounty would continue forever -- different bodies would still need and thrive on wildly different types, ratios, & amounts of food.

They gotta invent more beverages that you can drink in a haggard and world-weary manner. Drip coffee, obviously (no sugar). Quite a number of alcohols. But what about when caffeine and alcohol aren't time-appropriate? The vibe is simply not the same from my 2 pm seltzer. I can't express it correctly

this doesn't mean i always feel okay about it. and i stubbornly sort of refuse to call that internalized fatphobia, because it's constantly arriving at gale wind force *from the exterior.* but feeling okay and feeling normal are different. i know i'm normal.

high high recommendation for the beautiful podcast "Vibe Check."

anyone who can: - go to maine / be in maine - go outside at least once a day - talk to people (and not everyone can do these things, but MYRIAD PEOPLE CAN) could be "out there talking to the people of Maine every single day." i don't understand why this is supposed to be a moral defense

i love this. online i've learned about social justice i didn't even know WAS social justice. one specific example this brought to mind (because my life) is that people who oppose this viewpoint from the listening side are saying nothing of value comes from bedridden and homebound sick people.

I think in general that if your analysis involves downplaying, diminishing or denigrating avenues of communication you are setting yourself up for a foot up your ass. Even fascists learned that lesson. They know that’s why a lot of slave owners got killed thinking negro spirituals were just bops.

I think you should make your voice heard where you can if you have something to say. Even if no one is listening & I think you should listen to others from unconventional avenues that hopefully aren’t pre-curated because at minimum it gives you practice engaging in thought & refining your beliefs.

i was a professional book reviewer for two decades. when i needed to go back through a book to find something i hadn't noted, the physical location (left page vs right page, high on page vs middle vs low, etc) was CRUCIAL to finding it. one reason i retired was books coming to us only digitally.

my masters thesis was basically "ah yes, the two genders."

i have a joke about drawing, but it's sketchy.

my thunder are playing the nets tonight. at halftime it's 60-24 😳 shai could rest the entire second half if he wanted

the browser on my phone is (newly) very slow, like something-might-be-wrong level of slow. everything else on phone seems fine and plenty fast. browser is safari; phone is iphone; ios is up to date. do you have any ideas?

there's no less fatphobia on the truly progressive, hardcore-committed-to-justice podcasts i listen to than there is on the mainstream liberal podcasts i listen to. 😞

one of the strange things about being so fat is that although i hear and feel all day long how culturally non-normative it is, it feels normal to me. my fatness feels normal to me.

It just makes me think about how the reason that everything prematurely opened up during the initial COVID wave not because doctors said it was okay, but because the CEO of Delta said the plane industry was losing money.

It's such a deeply evil attack line and totally antisemitic. Rampant antisemitism is always indicative of national sepsis; history proves this. I don't know what else people need in order to be convinced that all of these lies are very, very bad for Jews, Muslims, and everyone else.

My theory is Black Joy and laughter was a huge driving force as to what caused so many people to vote for Trump.

If USA is constantly branding itself as a Christian nation & the most powerful nation in the world then its wars are Christian wars, its genocides are Christian genocides, its mistakes are Christian mistakes. That’s the terms USA set. There’s no escaping that.

The anger over Black joy and laughter is real.

Reading this hurts. This is me! Friendly, bubbly, joyous from birth. Let me tell you, it's been HARD. My default is to look on the bright side, enjoy life, enjoy people. You get ground down on all sides. Suspicion. "She's fake." Taking your kindness for weakness. Daily weathering. Devastating.

I'm saying this not because I want to "I told you so" but because I WANT THE KILLING TO STOP ALL OF IT And I am scared of what happens to us, to humanity, if it doesn't

Like this is getting very dangerous for all of us Jews, you guys. It's already dangerous as fuck for Arab folks, especially Palestinians. It's not making us safer. It's going to get some of us killed. This is very fucking dangerous, y'all.

Antizionist Jew here to say explicitly: they're gonna kill Jews over this. American Jews who have no ties to Israel. And some of that blood will be on the hands of Jewish zionists who allowed themselves to be used as shields by Christian Nationalist Zionists.

Fuck this country's hatred of every single vulnerable and marginalized group. Fuck everyone who regards adoption as a "good idea" for "building families" directly atop the wreckage of poverty. Fuck this country's sick priorities.

The IRS has made $5,000 of the 2025 $17K per-child Adoption Tax Credit refundable. We are *paying* adopters thousands of dollars to take children from families who lose their children to foster care and adoption OVERWHELMINGLY for reasons of poverty. Fuck this country's addiction to #adoption.

brighams ice cream factory. later, thompson island in boston harbor. sleepover!

there's a current NBA player named Kristaps Porziņģis. i don't particularly like him, but this isn't about that. nobody may ever be public about it, but it seems to me that porziņģis has some combination of, or something like, POTS, M.E., or a form of long covid. here's why i think so.

i'm one of those people, by the way. sometimes in the middle of an all-lowercase word that i'm writing by hand, a capital letter sneaks in before i know it. so when i see the meme used to connote ignorance or immorality, it's a gut punch.

please don't use the random-caps meme. i know it's meant to reveal ignorance or evil in the paraphrase. but the only people in real life who have random capitalization in their writing are people with various disabilities and people with weak literary skills.

i am clearly utterly lacking in bravo viewers lol

not well, bitch

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Pi day being Caturday is nice because of this time my cats made the pi symbol while watching the birds.

i crossed off clean fridge and freezer, take out trash, load dishwasher, write and send difficult formal email how do i cross off be extremely sad

I’m gonna think more on this. Because ppl treat social media apps like they are fake and what EYE wanna know is why this particular third space isn’t “legit”. Especially when ppl be fake as hell in “real” physical third spaces all the time and that seems to be fine lmfao.

People have used this app to find spouses, careers, friendships that develop offline, mutual aid, comedy, information, you name it. It is a legit third space, whether we wanna call it that or not.

not for nothing, and this wasn't how we *met,* but the biggest early thing my late husband and i did together was an anti-apartheid sit-in.

I miss her so much.

On this year’s long covid awareness day, I want more people to read and think about what the late Shafiqah Hudson said before it killed her. Because she was right, as usual, and also early, as usual. Perhaps too early for a lot of people to listen.

dear autocorrect while it's true my grandfather came from poland most of the time i'm trying to text about NAIL polish

Platitude - Having the attitude of a rude platypus. Example: “Billy’s got a real platitude today huh?” “Yeah. Like he’s an egg laying mammal or something.”

i have a french toast topping to recommend! 1) sprinkle dark brown sugar on your french toast 3) squeeze a lemon over the brown sugar 4) with the back of a spoon, gently integrate the lemon and brown sugar. they will already have mostly done that for you. it makes a tangy sweet syrup!

"there were no books" is going to stick in my head for a while.

truly one of my favorite things

one of the funniest wikipedia sentences i've ever seen: "Nigel Slater was born on 9 April 1956, in Wolverhampton, then in Staffordshire."

found a portal to another dimension at the bottom of my coffee cup quick hop in