I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

"I asked chatgpt--" Shut the fuck up. I asked the Lady of the Lake, and she said you are unworthy of the sword Excalibur. You will never be king.

I need y'alls help with another toy drive. This one is for the children of incarcerated parents. Can we bring some joy to these families?

NEW: an activist has been charged for allegedly wiping a Google Pixel phone before CBP could search it. Search was by a secretive CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which ACLU says "interrogate innocent travelers." We uploaded the indictment here: www.404media.co/man-charged-...

college should, in the US, be free. college is not - nor has it ever been, despite the protestations of our trade school colleagues (business, engineering, etc.) and administrators - simply job training. the US educational system became the light of the world because of its liberal arts foundation

I really hope the people who are giving money to the leopards eating face party so that the leopards won’t eat their face pay attention to the fact that the closer you are to the leopards, the closer your face is to the leopards.

customs official: anything to declare? Jenny Holzer: [taking a deep breath]

The thing about the customer model of education is that the customers don’t always know what goes into making the product or why. So you end up with people thinking that the poetry module was useless and not understanding that it’s actually load-bearing so that engineers have souls.

if my yearbook photo were ai slop next to the word “cringe,” id burn down the school

“Times New Ro­man is not a font choice so much as the ab­sence of a font choice, like the black­ness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Ro­man is to gaze into the void.” — Matthew Butterick

Look at how proudly he's wearing his future boyfriend's cravat

it's always hilarious to me that people will see a penchant for historical dress and go like "you know they were super [whatever] back then" like yeah man. we're still working on that. just bc I think 60s hair bumps and regency empire waistlines are nice doesn't mean I don't like human rights lol

I'm patting past me on the back for redeeming one of those class action prepaid gift cards into Amazon so I can forget about it and be pleasantly surprised I don't have to pay for a bunch of new cleaning tools

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My mood lately. (I might make into a sticker if y'all want?)

Some thoughts on some things I've been dealing with lately. 1/6

This is infuriating. For those who just want the donation link, it's here secure.everyaction.com/gLkKHzevhku4...

Anybody who is impressed by Glenn Beck talking to an AI-generated George Washington should be placed back in their crib to stare at the mobile

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If you are running, hit me up for a logo. I’ve done like 60 candidate logos and I love giving a good deal to good candidates. Even/especially if you won’t have the resources for a proper logo until after you launch.

“As prices for streaming subscriptions continue to soar and finding movies to watch, new and old, is becoming harder as the number of streaming services continues to grow, people are turning to the unexpected last stronghold of physical media: the public library.”

this is some absolutely brain-poisoned nonsense. (Calibri is a sans-serif font, which is supposedly more readable by people with learning disabilities)

Rep. Thanedar has filed two articles of impeachment against Hegseth, one for "murder and conspiracy to murder" and the other for "reckless and unlawful mishandling of classified information." 🧵 (Full disclosure: I was happy to consult a bit on drafting this.)

I am eating these Larabars I bought and I know their thing is "just five ingredients" but surely one of them could be something that doesn't make them taste like dry sad cocoa crumble

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Further evidence for this point: the rage and disdain people feel for jargon and complex writing in the humanities but not in STEM is reflective of the assumption that feminine pursuits should be accessible -- secret/out-of-reach feminine things are scary not impressive

imo this is very much because our culture has decided that Humanities is For Girls and Thus Pathetically Easy Bullshit whereas STEM is For Cool Boys With Huge Dicks

#TaikaTuesday just because

One of my new arguments against AI is that even if it was a good tool, human beings are not in a place to be able to use it without harm. We don't live in ideal world where this benefits mankind. We live in this world where it benefits the rich and fucks the rest of us.

Today’s Taika

Gonna be even more earnest than usual on main, but I wanted to share. Because I have a bunch of pain stuff I was in my thoughts about it, and I said to myself, “I have to show love to my body. My body is doing the best it can.” so if anybody needs this, it made me feel good to say that

I just saw that Ireland made its basic income for artists permanent and I have never been so jealous. What must it be like to live in a country that actually values the arts? I'm happy for all Irish artists and hope maybe this kind of thing will expand elsewhere.

Advocacy depends on powerful rhetoric, economical language, and rhetorical skill. Poetry is the only way you’re going to learn skills like metonymy, the effect of stressed syllables, scansion, rhetorical methods only the most skilled orators use to this day. Please stop devaluing the humanities

refusing to admit that gender is a spectrum because in kindergarten you were taught there were two genders is like refusing to admit that negative numbers are a concept because in kindergarten you were taught “you can’t take three from two”

I know we're all always saying that many societal ills would be ameliorated if not entirely solved if more people cracked a book now and then. but in this case the book that needs to be cracked is literally just any 2.99 romance novel with a torso on the cover.

LRP: I live across the street from a Safeway and every time I go in there it feels like hell on earth. They never have enough cashiers and the line for the self-checkouts stretches to the back of the store. It's like they're determined to make places you have to go as miserable as possible

Safeway has locked up the ice cream, hired security to chase people out the door, banned backpacks, and turned grocery shopping into a low budget police state. Vivian McCall went in for Häagen Dazs and came out with a full existential crisis about what our grocery stores have become.

Hi all! I'm casting my paid mockumentary about YouTube drama culture ($500 CAD, about 3-4 minutes of dialogue, self-tape from home). Looking for a trans woman to play JENNA, an indie TTRPG creator whose Kickstarter blows up and then falls apart. Details + sides: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Rainbow Collection; @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s essays make great gifts!

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A thing Big They never tells you is as you grow up you get to see the people you went to school with who were abused by their family just repeat the cycle and there's not much you can do about it

Finally, @emilyhughes.bsky.social is putting her work online under her own masthead. Coming out of the gate with a phenomenal piece on COME AND SEE, the greatest anti-war movie ever made, lets you know what you're in for. Nobody writes like Emily. www.patreon.com/posts/beauty...

If you're disabled and want to work, there are TONS of regulations to follow. But ABLE accounts that let disabled folks earn money are about to be available to a lot more of us! Learn more here: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/y...

Every so often I am reminded that lactose intolerance is a thing and I have it and it sucks

“Kids today and their AuDHD—“ Victor Hugo had to lock himself in a room without clothes to make himself actually finish a draft and also he wrote six bonus chapters about the history of the Paris sewer system for his book about how poverty is one of the great evils of mankind