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Just call me the thousand injuries of Fortunato the way I'm bricked up

writers artists 🤝 AHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHH

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Me in the national security team group chat

No Oscar nods for Monkey Man, I Saw The TV Glow, Furiosa, or Love Lies Bleeding did a nice job of preparing me for what a fucking trainwreck this would be.

i'm on bluesky for the scientific community

This one is making the rounds again, and very much worth a read.

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

Thinking about this a lot lately…🙃

If we are not disabled, we are temporarily able-bodied. Disability protections protect all of us.

The thing is, when we had high marginal tax rates on the rich, the rich still had yachts and second and third houses and fancy vacations and really good schools for their kids, so, yes, I think most people who are really very rich would do just fine, and the rest of the US would do better than now.

Not an optimist or a pessimist but a secret third thing where you look up at the sky and scream a lot

"We've added A.I. to--" me:

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

Gritty isn't playing around.

JFC indeed.

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right argues @garethwatkins.bsky.social newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

This year, get her what she really wants for Valentine’s Day. Revenge.

Great piece by @elienyc.bsky.social. Our institutions won’t save us. Only we can do that. Twas always thus, and always thus will be. Make sure to read the entite thing here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

There is still beauty in this world

While we may face repercussions for this, the truth lies in the metadata. Memos to federal employees are being authored by individuals with ties to Project 2025. You can verify this yourself.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

At a Lower Decks panel. Q: “If they offered you a Star Trek police procedural, would you do it?” Tawny Newsome: “yes but the first episode would be them all quitting being cops.” Give this woman the keys to Star Trek now please.

telling the reich to eat shit is an effective tactic at scale. if a critical mass of people do that, the reich pretty much has to eat the shit

Watching Face Off and I have decided to start a rumor that Glenn Hetrick's name is short for Glenntrick Hetrick. This is very important to me.

I don’t want the 50s back, thanks. The 60s were cool though.

Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

The only lasting truth is Change. —Octavia E. Butler

if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again

Honestly this is just lazy writing. Another Death Star? Really? This quickly?

huh...

My MLK day piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Can't believe I spent the past year+ being called a kapo if I dare even suggest that Palestinians are actual human beings, but now the ADL is defending Elon's actual Nazi salute at the inauguration. What a time to be alive. 🫡

Always has been

When you spot a dude with a wild beard, black fedora + matching wool coat at a goth show and get to play the game of "amateur occultist or extremely lost Chabadnik"

Please remember to wipe down the void when you’re done screaming into it there are other people at this gym too

"I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense." David Lynch

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

Alright, writers. Take a cue from Lynch: go be your weird damn selves and leave some fucking art in this world before you're gone.

thissssssss - sometimes it's so good you have to put it down to start writing lol

I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.

Making of a kitty ☺️🎀 really struggling to post this here so I hope it works this time, and isn't cropped square again #art #sanrio #hellokitty #WIP #nostalgia #panpastel #cuteart #speedpaint #sanriocore #cute

“I never liked Gaiman’s work anyway”

Octavia's Bookshelf owner Nikki High doesn’t know the state of her own house in Altadena — most houses burned — but she's turned her Pasadena bookstore into a help center for fire victims. Follow the IG/Threads accounts for updates. They still need first aid kits. We also brought bottled water.

Still wild to me that so many "savvy" folks on left and right have bought into the idea that online misinformation is overblown and doesn't really matter. From lies about migrants to transgender people to crime to election denial to climate denial, it's literally driving our country's politics.