ten years ago today no one clapped

Mural of Alex Pretti in Seattle, Washington. Artwork by Topsy.

Still chuckling how the big advertising drive for GenAI was basically, "this will destroy your job and ruin your life, you're gonna love it"

If you need a short break from the horror: the hens are riding out the storm inside. Taking this opportunity to teach AOC about Yugoslavia.

it shouldn’t matter at all what the background of someone murdered by fascists is “he was no angel” is horrible, bigoted bullshit but it does affect people’s perception and they fucked up really really bad here because they appear to have shot an actual saint

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

OANN reporting that Alderaan had a gun and two magazines

total Max Weber victory

Need to share that I will have back-to-back viewings of the K-Pop band ATEEZ VR concert movie and The Testament of Ann Lee on Saturday. I am calling this venture AnnTeez. (Personally, I think dancing queen Ann Lee would approve of K-Pop 😌)

The Schuylkill!

Few things have meant as much to me. Happy 5th, High Republic!

Yesterday I had one of my classic 24 hour + migraines that nothing would cure for love or money. You know what finally did it? @notkarlsson.bsky.social’s birthday borscht from the Ukrainian restaurant. And that’s on my ancestors 💪🏻

Welcome back, 19th century wars of American expansion 🫠

Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. Laws that criminalise sex work don’t prevent sex work, they just make it more difficult for sex workers to work safely. #DecrimNow

“But where will it end?” was the handwringing question about Me Too. A question asked by people who didn’t want it to begin.

Incredible

Can’t believe the average Netflix viewer is about to discover Roscoe Conkling

you mean DELI-berate. it's right there!

BREAKING: NBC News projects: Abigail Spanberger (D) wins Virginia Governor. Democrat Gain.

“I shall take no tea!” -Felicity Merriman #nokings

I think we should talk more about how she’s a dog murderer, personally

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

New comrade just dropped.

If there's an issue up for debate, And one side physically holds the other hostage, That's not a debate. That's legislation by force. The implications of this matter. A lot.

🎶I go outside to give treats to my hens They don’t know what stagflation is The only know that I keep them in treats They don’t know about the economy🎶 I sing to myself as I trudge through the stifling humidity to give my chickens their second treat of the day amid this hellscape

Cross-cultural exchanges are alive and well at H Mart!

Roommate is back from her Nordic travels with the most fun magnet for our collection - the Norwegian National Library!

As it has been for quite some time.

We do not "liberate" our own democratically governed streets like they are an occupied foreign nation.

Omg thank you for your service Mr. Thompson - sorry you had to suffer for your art 🫡 (and it was, indeed, art.)

The 20+ person Democracy Docket team did amazing work this week. Here is my request: 1. If you haven't signed up, please do so--free or paid. 2. If you are already a subscriber, tell 10 friends to do the same and share this post. Link: hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Well - we brought the Labubu to the emergency room. Recession indicator?

They’re like the dumb version of the suburban bestie murder duo in that one episode of Criminal Minds

If nothing else, there’s always women’s soccer/football. Go Lionesses!

It is a heartbreaking day for many, many people who worked in the broader foreign assistance, foreign policy, and journalism worlds. USAID, RFE/RL, Radio Free Asia—all illegally closed. Hundreds of State Dept employees being laid off right now. Hundreds more grants being terminated.

Opinion | Yes, I voted for Trump’s megabill despite knowing it will harm my constituents. But if I hadn’t, I’d be primaried by someone who’d vote just like me but not give anti-Trump comments on background to The Times.

I’m as tired of saying it as you are of hearing it, but this is unambiguously Nazi shit

This Supreme Court is not a judicial court, but a royal court. They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.

Art.

I can't emphasize enough how ugly and pervasive and persistent the "Mamdani hates Jews" campaign was. I'm happy that so many Jews stood strong against that vileness. Maybe people will start to understand that we've had it with being treated as a paranoid, easily manipulated single-issue bloc.

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

One of my favorite High Republic fandom memories was telling @cavan.bsky.social how @katiethecrabb.bsky.social threw her copy of The Rising Storm at the wall when she finished it and him asking if the wall was okay (it was … and is … for now.)

We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

Wish me luck in getting my Obi Wan plush back from the three-year-old today. May the Force be With Me.

Tragic! Local woman doesn’t have $9 for fancy farmer’s market ajvar

The most consequential Speaker in state history.

Fireworks have been going off for the last 20 minutes (I can hear them from home.) You’d think that, for a parade that is ostensibly to celebrate the Army, someone might have thought to not have such a demonstration for a group with high PTSD rates around this very type of noise …

Do they … do they know what that song is abo …. oh, nevermind