Who else has shared shopping list that say things like -vanilla icecream not the fucking French vanilla this time

Boxes come and go but this is Kiki's favourite one ever. She can lie down and hide or peek out the top.

I caught the tail end of a great conversation on RNZ Nine to Noon with politics professor Richard Shaw, about his books on NZ colonisation, his own family's role in it, and the rewriting of the school history curriculum. I had to listen to the rest of it as soon as I got home.

What It Costs Women To Survive Men www.huffpost.com/entry/women-...

"The thing is, as a Green Card holder there was no form for Everlee to fill out at immigration. It’s sort of impossible to complete the form accurately when the form does not exist. Webworm spoke to a US immigration attorney about this, who also indicated Peters was full of shit".

It was the day after the last election. I had some feelings to process so I made this.

A great piece. "The real problem...was neither mentioned nor addressed...that many families face barriers that mean they do not have the choice of inclusion for their disabled child in their local school, and local schools struggle to access the resources and support they need."

someone at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis is holding a painting of the hat 5 year old liam ramos was wearing when he was abducted by ICE in columbia heights. all too much

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Andor's Nemik eulogizes Renee Nicole Good. I lifted work from excellent photojournalists to make this video, but it felt really urgent to get the message out and it will take me quite some time to do a credited version. Apologies. (This a repost with a more cogent description and alt-text.)

"There is no reckoning with whether a ceasefire that permits one side to continue killing can be called a ceasefire at all." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Hi, I'm Hot Water Beach. Hell of an undertow, don't swim there unless it's between the flags with lifeguards on duty. The water took a pair of jandals and a diamond from my ring that day, a cheap price to pay to keep my life.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

To all the parents who had to make a Halloween costume in 3 days mostly with stuff lying around the house. We did it.

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

"National have taken the kind of tactics you usually find in real estate advertising and applied them to government statistics".

Feel like our priorities on what's urgent may be a bit skewed

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Psychologists and psychiatrists call this "concrete thinking." It reflects an inability to engage in abstract thinking, and a strong propensity to think of all nouns as depicting physical objects. It's the first way children begin to understand how to describe the world with words.

A great piece from Alex Casey about the noxious soup: "It’s like men’s potential suffering is tragic, and women’s actual suffering is just our lot in life." thespinoff.co.nz/society/17-0...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.