Also, just like… Why the fuck do we need this? We have a series of movies. We have video games. We have a theme park. We have radio plays. We have audiobooks. We have a fucking West End play. It’s diminishing returns at this point. And it was never fucking Tolstoy.

YES. The food in New Orleans in unparalleled. Every restaurant I walked into was a 9-out-of-10 banger, minimum, from gaudy tourist traps to one-room holes-in-the-wall. Every meal, just STUPID delicious.

just insane looking back on it how much of the media got away with framing 2024 as "the right is for free speech, the left is for censorship"

White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand online recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi groups invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.

Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir doing an interview with The Critical Drinker is deeply disappointing to see. I had thought better of Weir, and if I'm being kind, maybe he doesn't know the kind of bigot CD is, but even that speaks to how white dudes simply don't think about this shit & it shows.

“A Palestinian toddler was returned from a 10-hour detention by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip with apparent cigarette burns on his thighs, according to medical reports.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-to...

NEW YORK JFK (Terminal 4): ICE agents “touching bags and organizing people.”

A key reason why this pushback (from @anthonymkreis.bsky.social and @evanbernick.bsky.social w/r/t birthright citizenship, the topic of the skeet embedded below the skeet embedded here) is essential is that Roberts in Skrmetti held that “ongoing debate” itself is a rational basis for upholding laws.

A jury found both Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services. https://to.pbs.org/4sFzduc

The Trump administration’s present plans to add another 90 or so miles of new and replacement wall would finish sealing off the region from the Brownsville Ship Channel all the way up to Falcon Dam, completing the job that George W. Bush and Barack Obama started.

This is the first report I've received of ICE agents performing actual TSA duties. Not good.

Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

ending car dealerships would cut the heart out of Republican suburbia a million little fiefdoms for the biggest asshole in town, spreading poison all across the country

Ah shit. I forgot about a bill and now only have $40 for the day today. I get paid tonight so if you want to help me cover shit for this afternoon, v3nmo @ dexanderson

Comparing Harry Potter to Guernica is the most Michael Ian Bkack post ever

Fuck watching that Harry Potter trailer crap. Read a trans woman's book instead. About punk rock and goddesses and some smooching on the side. ⤵️⤵️

You wanna go to Magic School? We got Summer Camp Island and Owl House! You want mysteries and puzzles? Check out Infinity Train (or Gravity Falls)! Want tales of derring-do, bad and good luck-tales? Holy SHIT have I got a show for you

Fuck Harry Potter just read discworld. It's a fantastical world of magical creatures and adventure but the author has class consciousness and knows how to write comedy that isn't just making fun of how fat a character is

El Faro obtained documents confirming Guatemala’s current AG signed papers in at least eight irregular adoptions in the early 1980s. This year, a record of the position in which she signed off on them is absent from her reelection portfolio. beta.elfaro.net/en/central-a...

WATCH — @warnock.senate.gov: “ICE has more funding than the Marines. And Republicans are saying ‘if you don’t give this overgrown paramilitary force of masked agents more money, we’re going to leave TSA workers unpaid.’” 🤔

New to the Otaku Archive: Project JACO Winter 1997 Vol. 7 No. 4 - the official magazine for the Japanese Animation Club of Orlando, includes reports on Anime Weekend Atlanta III, as well as a profile on Amy Howard Wilson (Star Blazers' Nova) Link: archive.org/details/proj... Uploaded by: Severance

Fun Fact: "Revamp" is a 19th century term for putting lipstick on a corpse!

An iconic UK bookstore is offering visitors the opportunity to vandalize Harry Potter books for 25 pence. @thebookishtype.bsky.social, the trans-owned bookstore in Leeds running the promotion, will donate all proceeds to gender-affirming healthcare costs. Go support them!

Remember ol girl in the doc saying she held Puff's secrets and didn't snitch because of culture? That even her own pain didn't matter? Remember when Usher said Puff used to take him to sex parties as a minor? Said it himself. But now is saying Puff is being "misrepresented." Okay 😒

Final decision is Cox Communications v. Sony, where Sony sued Cox for its customers' copyright infringement. Sony loses. Thomas has the opinion reversing the Fourth Circuit. There are no dissents, though Sotomayor, joined by Jackson, concurs only in judgment. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I really need the rest of this to pop before the end of the month. I am desperate for rent money. Job hunting has been bleak. Please, I really need this help. I am trying to do other things but being pushed out of my job has really fucked my world up. #queer #mutualaid #trans spot.fund/lrbp2l3sc

Exclusive: US SEC's ex-enforcement chief clashed with bosses over Sun, Musk cases before leaving, sources say www.reuters.com/business/fin...

it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place

Here are 5 menswear outfits to make recruitment officers think you're 43 🧵

I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans

This woman once challenged me to a vagina-off. Yes, you read that correctly.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

Gonna drop the gimmick for a second and explain, as a therapist. What you're describing is a phenomenon called Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. It's a subconscious habit that develops in which a person seeks dopamine-releasing behavior at night to exact "revenge" on the day which deprived them

it’s gotta be the moon landing for me, the entire thing is solid gold “HOUSTON: Holy shit. TRANQUILITY: Holy mother of fuck. The fucking moon. Over.”

lift yr skinny whiskers like antennas to heaven

Just a reminder that this account just makes things up and presents them as news. It's lib fan fiction. Nothing from the Halfway Post is real. They pretend it's satire, but what is this even satirizing? What's the commentary? What's the joke?

Kissing Trump's feculent ring aside, this really is a banger

SHOCKING, UNPRECEDENTED: A sporto whose brain never left high school!

Those ULINE-branded cardboard boxes you're getting? The billionaire running ULINE spent $800,000 bankrolling an anti-trans referendum in Maine, USA. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

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Nonsense, I "coalition" with right-wingers' moms all the time!

The problem with everything? You guessed it again, rude people online.

Approx 1,150 trans kids go to Girl Guides in the UK. Out of approx 300,000 Girl Guides in total. There's around 23,000 Girl Guide Units (groups) in the UK. That means the vast majority of units have zero trans kids. With the ones that do having around 1. medium.com/@mimmymum/th...

Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials discovered Ku Klux Klan items while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters

Once again -- ONCE AGAIN -- asking the Republicans to build their own sex dungeon and leave the rest of us alone Tthis is a thread now, I'm pulling every Republican Sex Dungeon post I've ever posted into a single thread

Because who doesn't want to spend 12 days listening to some drunken seasick hack blither on about why the only way to save the Democratic party is for trans people to be herded into a trash compactor?