is "be Maestro" the new "be best"

oh noooo lolol

I will eventually find someone who will play this game with me I’m Lord Hong seeking Vetinari 😂

I think katie tightpussy thinks she has helped more than 15,000 individual trans women (including both the volumes of women who told her so and the silent majority who just follow her advice like gospel) Aaaanny takers on that under?

Rincewind had always been on the bottom of the social heap. It didn’t matter what size heap it was. The top got higher or lower, but the bottom was always in the same place. But at least it was an Ankh-Morpork Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

I need to work on being a spectacle without making one too

Chappell Roan paid homage to Cindy Lauper wearing a custom newspaper skirt by Efrain Nava and headpiece by Manny Robertson, paired with a bustier top found on eBay. #fashionsky

Don't want to come off as lazy, asking for stuff like this (non primary sources) here is a last resort. I definitely do my own research (in this case in a team!) before nagging you guys!

Are there Signal chat, caravans, and Facebook groups physically tracking DHS in Portland? I don’t even know how to follow them here, and I’m not really meeting anyone who has witnessed an abduction. At a total loss on how to find them in action.

So many conversations in my apartment start with me saying “so katie tightpussy says…” and they usually end with “well then you’d better do what katie tightpussy says”

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We are a society which necessitates that red cartoon bears hock quilted loo roll whilst a model wipes what appears to be blue liquid off her arm

this part

Novel idea: the federal appellate court system can overrule the Supreme Court if a majority of the circuit courts believe it prudent to do so Any circuit can petition to impanel 12 justices from the regional circuits (rotating) empowered to uphold or reverse any decision they rule is in error

Where we are now. #airtrafficcontrollers

Y’know it’d be funny if it wasn’t sad, but our electoral system isn’t broken at all, only no one has bothered to make it work like it actually does I’ve never talked to someone about policy or issues who doesn’t want to listen

That fishbone album last night has me running triplets up and down the thing like a funk-fueled freakazoid

it’s almost like entirely prioritizing the survival of a professional society and conference over the survival of the profession you purport to represent is bad, actually

PSA: you can hum and whistle at the same time but if you hum at the top of your vocal range and whistle the highest note you can hit the additive nature of sound waves and how overtones work means you will blow out your hearing for several hours at least

they’re calling it “horseglue” sunday

Just reached out to the last person in my phone who matters to me who doesn’t know. She was my roommate for a couple years in university and I cannot imagine this will come as a surprise to her

Speaking of, Jersey donorbox.org/events/824111

Follower poll! Should I: A) steal Nicole Kidman’s voice B) steal Dame Judy Dench’s voice C) steal an American woman’s voice D) develop my own unique voice (boring) E) all of the above

True fact, I was in a marks and sparks near moswell hill in north London (I cut the figure of an consummate English gentleman, cut-glass accent and all) and I got chatting to an american expat Halfway thru the conversation I launched into an impromptu rendition of “Lookin’ Out My Back Door”

Dour grey midmorning, the flat light reminds me of england

16/ "[The memorial] allegedly evaded Trump's executive order to halt policies promoting diversity and inclusion." /end Sources: 🔹 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... 🔹 blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201... 🔹 web.archive.org/web/20250720...

15/ He says: "In March, a complaint against the [American Battle Monuments Commission] appeared on the website of The Heritage Foundation, a conservative American think tank."

13/ "Not only did they play a crucial role in the construction of the cemetery in Margraten, 172 of them also received their final resting place there." 8,000 Americans lie at Margraten, which also commemorates 1,700 still missing.

12/ He calls the lack of attention paid to Black liberators "truly insufficient," and notes: "Approximately 12.5 percent of the American liberators were of African-American descent." His organisation had campaigned for their recognition, which had been lacking for decades.

11/ Theo Bovens, the chairman of the Black Liberators in the Netherlands foundation and also leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Appeal party, says that he intends to raise the removal with the new US Ambassador to the Netherlands, Joe Popolo.

10/ A second panel was dedicated to telephone engineer George H. Pruitt, who died on June 10, 1945, while trying to save a comrade who had fallen into a river. Dutch researchers and historians say that they are shocked and outraged by the move.

9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."

8/ Wiggins says that the gravedigging was so traumatising that no one talked during the day, except for the few who would pray over the graves and some who quietly cried.

7/ The diggers had to cope with the smell of decomposing bodies, rain, snow, wind, mud and flooding. The ground was so sodden that machinery couldn't be used.

6/ First Sergeant Jefferson Wiggins oversaw the work. He later recalled that when the men arrived, they were confronted with the sight of thousands of dead bodies lying on a tarp. There were no coffins, so the bodies had to be tied up in mattress covers where the men dug graves.

5/ The site of the cemetery was established by Captain Joseph Shomon, the head of the 611th Graves Registration Company, while the task of digging it and burying the bodies was given to the 960th QMSC during September-November 1944.

4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).

3/ One of the two panels described how a million African-Americans volunteered for service during World War II, but had to fight against both the enemy and racism on their own side, including segregation within the army itself that confined many to supporting roles.

2/ The Dutch newspaper reports that two memorial panels installed at the NAC were removed some time earlier this year. They commemorated African-American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from German occupation during World War II.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Kinda starting to feel real

10 months and a day testosterone sobriety

I’ve had the riff from pomegranate tree stuck in my head for like 3 days

we covered 'Loud Bark Deep Bite' by Mannequin Pussy at Comet Ping Pong and u can kinda see my right arm in this video from James daSilva thanks @rediscoverfire.bsky.social for booking this show 🖤🖤

the pet food bank near me has been having to close early from running out of food, so if this is your lane this is another way to help

“Well, yes,” said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, “I heard it was because people who aren’t tranquil and quiet get serious bits cut off, don’t they? I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!” “What form of government is that?” said Ponder Stibbons. “A tautology” Pratchett #17

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I always say these people live at the corner of Ignorance and Arrogance

The best insult I have ever heard was on the UK antiques road show, by a furniture appraiser towards a guest he clearly deemed to have no taste: “Well no matter, as long as it goes with the curtains, right?” Fucking killed me