Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, can't afford to feed their families, and struggle with cuts to the safety net made to finance tax cuts for the super-rich. American capitalism is off the rails.

It is hard for me to put any real effort into anything at all when my dad is actively dying and also lives an 8-hour drive away.

I still love you, Mariners. ❤️🔱❤️

Where’s Lou when you need him to kick dirt on an ump’s shoes

man the mood swings in these games are brutal Mariners fans from the top of the world to despair in one swing of the bat and vice versa

Clearly I am too old for a Mariners ALCS game 7. My heart cannot handle this.

MOTHERFUCKER.

I finally figured out how to watch G7 without a cable TV subscription and was telling my husband all about the 1995 playoff series and that I hope Lou Piniella is in the stands tonight. Turns out one of his D&D players had a warg familiar named Lupin Ella and he completely missed the reference.

It is absolutely wild to me that a Mariners/Cubs World Series is an actually conceivable outcome of this playoff series.

Went out on a date on Monday, dragged him to @thebookloft.bsky.social after (it wasn’t that difficult), and came home with four new friends! All authors I have previously read and enjoyed - @tkingfisher.com, @charliejane.bsky.social, @rfkuang.bsky.social, and @gradyhendrix.bsky.social

This isn't "one bad apple" shit. It never was. This isn't even a collection of rotten apples that has spoiled the other apples. They were never apples. The fruit was always poison. All of it.

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

This guy is basically Ben Dreyfuss paying an addict to let him hunt him for sport,but he then monetises it and calls it entertainment to millions of people. Total psychopath.

Educated a whole bunch of people I had just met about @chucktingle.bsky.social and honestly I feel really good about it.

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

Apropos of nothing

Totally just followed @tyang209.bsky.social bc of a Dirty Laundry episode w reference to why he didn’t work on the Biden campaign. #respect

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

The philosophical justification for what’s happening in DC is basically this Reddit post

One cool way to solve homelessness that isn’t an authoritarian take over of a city is to give everyone homes

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

You likely would be, and it’s why we need stuff like UBI and universal healthcare. Turns out people are a lot more productive if they’re not worried about dying if they lose their job

Good news: We replaced both lightbulbs in our over-stove microwave (which is also supposedly a convection oven? But I have no instruction manual or shelves that supposedly go with it?)

We have reached the point in summer where I’m yelling “fuck you, dude!” At mosquitoes.

the idea that winning an election means you have a mandate to do anything you want needs to die in a ditch

Your attention: CPB winds down January 2025 Your local NPR & PBS stations survive with your contributions. If "Tiny Desk" and "Finding Your Roots" and "PBS Newshour" are important to you, They Need Your Money Now. Don't be wringing your hands about what's lost when you have the chance to save it.

Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood

It's been a hot minute since I reminded folks to please list their 2025 SFF media faves in the Hugo Spreadsheet of Doom. Categories that need help, if you're into them and know the field: graphic story, editor(s), pro artist, all fan categories (sob), and the Astounding! #HugoAwards

Literally six and a half minutes left in the audiobook of Death of the Author by @nnedi.bsky.social and my mind has been blown. I did NOT see that coming!

“Guy’s multiplying faster than a Catholic rabbit” might be my favorite quote from any of the MCU… so far.

YOUR FOES WOULD SEE YOU SLEEPLESS: RESIST AND REST.

Ideally, a country should be led by a person that understands that other people are real.

what the absolute fuck is wrong with everyone in power.

I feel like it’s hard to have discussions on AI because very reasonable positions are being treated like they’re saying “all AI bad, good AI impossible.” But we cannot have a reasonable discussion of AI without talking about who is making it and how.

The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible

Sometimes I find out that someone I have known for years has never heard about the time I found a dead guy in our backyard because I mention it casually and they’re like “Excuse me, WHAT??”

I just hate that every few years massive peaceful protests break out and without fail the protesters start getting beaten gassed and shot while every media outlet and politician from both sides of the isle say shit like "oh peaceful protests are fine but THIS ONE just went too far".

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

I think it's worth mentioning how totally the mood switched the INSTANT the cops weren't around When people weren't scared of getting gassed to shit When the whole city started cheering Cops make protests more violent. Every time

I'm just having a really negative reaction to people's reactions to Musk's claim that Trump is in the Epstein files. My reaction is: In 2016, one of his victims openly sued Trump and Epstein jointly claiming she was raped at the age of 13.

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[white house] Donald Trump: so there're these people, see, they tell me that you need air to breathe Trump: i call these people LIE-entists JD Vance: masterful gambit sir

this is the Kendrick vs Drake feud for people who own sweater vests

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this is the best fucking day since kissinger died

can someone give me a proper fandom_wank-style timestamped summary of each Event in the Sequence of Events that is the current sociopolitical breakup between the fascist billionaire and the grifter president that is what I am missing