Truly lovely day. Workout and a walk followed by a stroll through the orchid exhibit at the Botanical Garden and then a superb lunch (best lamb burger) with a friend! Really needed this after all the cold and gray.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

And on disgusting men, non-SA version (1/2): The guy who bagged my groceries and then followed me home. I was 19 The allergist MD who offered me a "free pelvic exam" when I was 22 The boss who said I should know to work 3 times as hard for 3 times less pay because I was a woman (I was 25)

Great🧵 below: Older female conrunner once told me about 'virgin parties' in the 70s, where young women in white were locked in a hotel suite w/ a group of men. It was implied there was consent but she was "saved" by a man known to her who let her out "YOU shouldn't be here!" Awful & muted history 😡

Okay. My first thought was: Muppets doing an RPG actual play. Then… What about an actual Muppets RPG? Character creation alone would be a hoot.

"It's not on your resume, but weren't you on the Washington Post editorial board in 2024 and 2025?" "You can't prove that!"

Yeah, the new Muppet Show is cute, and Sabrina Carpenter was basically the perfect first guest for it. If they make more they should do Chappel Roan next. The Muppet version of "Pink Pony Club" would be wild.

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked. dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein cops: … prosecutors: … anti-trafficking task forces: … cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting

Perfection

In case you also clean house to disco music, when "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" comes on, that phone ringing is not yours! Signed: Lady who frantically went searching for the ringing phone while washing pans. 🤦‍♀️

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.

The library? Yes, the library is hosting a series for Chicagoans to learn about Puerto Rican history ahead of Bad Bunny’s historical Super Bowl halftime show performance this weekend.

I have this great Spanish history book about female prisoners of the Franco regime who managed to communicate with each other and anti fascist cells by encoding messages in knitting patterns they shared. The male guards never checked them because it was "just" women's knitting patterns

Hi there, fellow white people (especially my fellow white dudes)! It's Black History Month, and all of us who have lived in the privilege bubble our entire lives should get educated! Every day this month, 28daysofblackhistory.com drops a new story in your inbox. Every single one of them is amazing.

The problem with applying this logic to Epstein associates is that vanishingly few have come forward before their names show up in these document dumps. Epstein has been an issue of public concern for a decade! Where is the public reckoning among elites for their entanglement with this asshole

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Will SOMEONE in this godforsaken Congress actually take their oath to protect and defend the United States constitution with the same degree of seriousness as every person in Minneapolis?

i’ve learned to always compliment a high fashion girl on something she’s wearing because she’ll always immediately tell you where she got it and recommend it to you. easily the best way to find good fashion you’d normally not just stumbled upon

1983: Hiding in the library, reading, avoiding school bullies. 1988: Scared, homeless, clutching a worn copy of The White Dragon. 1998: Girls to the Front and Marilyn French while grieving dad. 2002: Paranormal romance helps as mom dies of cancer. 2010: Baby books! Books=comfort. Thank you authors

I’m struggling with how to promote this one, so I’ll just say I hope you read it and that it makes you feel less alone.

I had seen the pictures and some of the video of this woman getting dragged from her car. I heard that she was autistic, but I didn’t want to post anything until I knew for sure. This is a really powerful video for neurotypicals and especially for autistics folks youtu.be/xlCpUFggUxY?...

This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.

Couldn't ask for a better illustration of my point. Also the links to donate to everyone are in the thread.

This reminds of a quote I saw online, that the reason ADHD appeared to disappear in adulthood is that men outsourced their executive function issues to their secretaries and wives, and ouch (and ADHD women were either undiagnosed or burnt out by trying to compensate without support)

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

I’m so proud of Minnesota. I understand why some people belittle protests as not enough, but I really think this shit matters. I saw a clip on Fox News and they had to admit thousands of people showed up. It’s not going to stop Trump, but it’s a signal to your neighbors that they’re not alone.

There is so little humidity in my house that I'm contemplating filing the soaking tub with lotion and just living in it until spring. I just can't figure out how. 😭

They like cops so much that all we’re getting is cops. No roads, no bridges, no school funding, no culture money, just a bouquet of different types of cops

Wind chills -25 to -40 degrees Fri morning "TUESDAY: and not quite as intensely cold as recent days. AM wind chills: 0 to -13 below zero. High: 20." Oh, look, not quite as cold! Why bless my southern born ❤️ Please send livermush, White Swan BBQ and my late mom's pound cake. I can ride this out!

Proton Mail seems to be the thing. In the interim, here's a guide to turning a lot of this stuff off in Gmail -- ironically, provided by Proton! proton.me/blog/turn-of...

Estée Lauder’s got their makeup and beauty brand portfolio up on their site so that’ll be super helpful to figure out what brands to avoid: www.elcompanies.com/en/our-brands

who the fuck WANTS their posts to go viral, have you ever had that actually happen? it's like getting a winning pull on a slot machine if wasps started pouring out the bottom instead of quarters

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Just shoveled the front & sidewalk, currently 2C with a -10C wind chill. Still sick but can stay inside for the rest of today. Been doing a puzzle at night to ward off evening doom scrolling and might break out my malabrigo stash and knit now that thumb is healed. Both work great for calm.

Democrats hitting me up for $... Fuck your buckets. 😡 Naw, your money is going to support independent journalists and people helping our neighbors and communities. Might toss some cash at some new folks but my money is better served supporting my federally gutted & terrorized community.

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

There is something truly topsy turvy in a world where men like Zuckerberg and Altman get to lose billions and fail repeatedly upwards into positions of incredible power over the entire fucking planet

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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

The fact that they are weird losers that nobody likes doesn't mean they weren't high school bullies. The people who got bullied in high school were RARELY weird losers that nobody liked. They were super-cool people who either weren't afraid to be different or weren't able to hide their differences.

Donald is being a Dennis about Greenland. They prefer Denmark but he doesn't care about consent. He wants what he wants. That's why he was best buds with Epstein. And it's also why we don't already have UBI. Employers enjoy forcing us to say yes using the implication harm will befall us if we say no

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Abolish "A.i." from your life and your business.