Stop giving Jesse Singal bylines in 2025 difficulty level impossible apparently.

'Terminal 1996 brain is a mindset that anyone of any age can adopt.'

Can we maybe stop doing this? Why are communities still buying the line that handouts to billionaires will provide them with some kind of material benefit.

Today is a great day to celebrate autistic joy and that's all that I have to say about that.

Fantastic, and sobering, read on what it's like to experience solitary confinement, which I again note is considered torture!

A lovely Eaton Fire recovery story that really emphasizes that when wildfires tear through whole communities, they disrupt the social fabric of those places, and it's imperative to center that in rebuilding.

Worth noting that immigrants are a huge part of the academic landscape in the US; making it impossible to attend colleges here undermines diversity of opinion and experiences on campus, and also imperils budgets. (Again, both of these things are considered features, not bugs.)

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Love this energy from @404media.co: they're suing ICE to turn over information about their $2m spyware contract after ignoring a FOIA for a year. (Learn more and contribute at the link.)

Very cool read on using mushrooms to amend and restore soil damaged in the Altadena fire.

Finally found pants I like that fit, on sale, bought two pairs, do I buy two more or is that wild behavior.

Great @leilaniclark.bsky.social read in @coyotemedia.org this morning about a kind of neighborhood watch I can get behind: Looking out for the safety of day laborers.

Shoutout to the person who announced that they were ignoring The Flytrap's pitching guidelines, seemed to expect special treatment because they said they were a subscriber, were not listed as a member, donated to us, had an undeliverable reply to, and then cancelled the donation lmao.

Not loving the number of news outlets that seem to be running advertorials for those horrendous Meta glasses without admitting that they are advertorials! Why are you giving Meta free advertising for their shitty privacy-violating product with a horrendously long list of potential abuse vectors?!

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

I see people talking about Fit for TV and The Biggest Loser and I have to hype this incredible feature from my @theflytrapmedia.com comrade @freeblackgirl.bsky.social. Truly outstanding read on this horrendous show and the profound impact it had on fat people.

Rare double feature but I gotta sneak this in before the clock strikes midnight @erinbiba.bsky.social

‘We are losing our archives. I mean this in the most literal of ways, as rising far right authoritarianism usurps and remakes the institutions that hold cultural memory and history; already filled with holes, they now feel like they could be obliterated into nothingness.’

Honestly being autistic is cool as hell I can see why the normies want to figure out how to get it.

Please enjoy this incredibly rich text @erinbiba.bsky.social

Tucked away in a cluster of warehouses on the outskirts of Rutherfordton, Miso Master has stayed true to the centuries-old technique of naturally aging handcrafted miso with the seasons since 1980.

Love trains, do not love this!

Look man I would turn off my adblocker except that your ads make your site literally unusable, as in, they break core site functionality and sometimes my entire browser.

Utilities such as PGE and SCE are FOR SURE looking to these laws in Utah that limit utility liability and allow them to force ratepayers to assume financial responsibility for wildfire damage as model legislation.

many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.

Was trying to think of what all these photos on the skyline today were reminding me of and then I remembered

The FYP is definitely serving up a lot of US people moving overseas which gives me a skewed sense of 'everyone is doing it' that I objectively know is not true and yet I keep looking at immigration requirements in case they have magically changed. (They have not.)

The ability to access vaccines should not be state-dependent. I'm glad that California joined a consortium of Western states and that some Northeastern states are doing the same AND YET how many people have the resources to cross state lines for a vaccine?

Literally asking for a friend: If you've received an ACS survey this year, did you fill it out? Refuse to and chance it under the assumption that the Census is so understaffed no one will go after you? Filled it out but spoiled the data?

Not proud enough to show his face it would seem

i also want to note that "i don't want children to have to undergo genital inspections" is an extremely easy argument to make and the fact that elected liberals cannot manage it is because they are either incompetent or complicit and i do not give a shit which

A lot of talk about H-1B visas this week but the H-2A visa program is also notable: It's how many farmworkers enter the US, and it's also a path to exploitation.

You know I have a deep affection foe Venus flytraps and this was a lovely longread about conserving these rare and very cool carnivorous plants.

LMAO of course cops think it's a danger to themselves and their families to be forced to show their faces and names/badge numbers because they might show up online. Now you know how we feel, motherfuckers.

So has anyone released the app that only has one push notification yet. You know the one. 🦀

Worth noting that the highest profile and most successful Democratic elected official currently in those states is Laura Kelly, the Governor of Kansas, who seems to not believe in Ezra Klein’s theory of politics!

tfw the syringes you have been using for 15 years are no longer available thanks donald

For your consideration @erinbiba.bsky.social

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Farmworkers already face harsh conditions. Now they may have to deal with a pay cut. grist.org/labor/farmwo...

$1,900 for a studio that is attached to your house is BOLD my dude

Catch up on all the cool stuff @theflytrapmedia.com and its worker-owners did this week!

It's not just Missouri! Cops in every state routinely get away with returning to law enforcement after doing extremely heinous things.

seems bad

well this postponement will certainly make the report seem more trustworthy!

Friday news dump is really something this week!

The origin of the “zombie” mythos was the horror of the idea that even death would not free you from having your body and your labor exploited: