I think often of the violence incited by quotations of “I Love, I Love , I Love My Wife (But Oh! You Kid!)”. These are people having IMMENSE FEELINGS about their relationships via song.

True story: Me, 16 or 17, looking through photo albums w/my grandma. They're at party in the '60s. My grandfather is in a black turtleneck w/a ♥️ on his chest. Ask about it. Grandma laughs knowingly. "Oh, that's just a costume party." "What did he go as?" "He has a heart on." 😶

Due to the extreme heat this week's Sandwich Friday Sandwich will be played by the popsicles that are making up the majority of my meals while i wait this out

Highly recommend Bang My Box, the new doc on HBOMax about Robin Byrd, the sex-positive queen of Manhattan Cable's Channel J. Hard to explain what a free-for-all wonderland Manhattan cable access was once upon a time...

Is the idea to keep everything secret so that when they rush the footage out in whatever for-profit form they plan to, it's a surprise?

Is "the Supreme Court should not uphold the black letter text of the 14th Amendment" the personal freedoms or the free markets?

Gf is currently in a fight with a delivery company because they said they'd cancelled an order and then sent it anyway and charged her and today they said the chatbot couldn't actually cancel orders in the first place so that's not their fault 😄 It's your chatbot!

It's crazy how Bound and Homeward Bound have such similar names. But they are very different movies

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Know that libraries count things. How many people have cards, how many times a book or DVD or CD is checked out, etc. And then we take those numbers to our internal staff and say "look, people want this" to justify purchases, and then to local govts to say "look, we need to stay open".

Live from the Taylor Swift wedding at Madison Square Garden

Live from the Swift wedding. The wedding praise dancers are warming up the crowd.

Live from the Swift wedding. The wedding praise dancers are warming up the crowd.

Ok if Taylor Swift wants to give a million dollars to @weareravenous.com I, as a born and raised New Yorker, will personally absolve her for fucking up the city this weekend

Myra Breckinridge will get most of the attention here (understandably so) but the BIlly Jack films are unforgettable, movies made by a cult leader who was thankfully satisfied with a virtual one

it’s that time again: If you’ve got nothing to do for five hours this July 4 weekend, you can destroy your brain with this double feature of fucked-up Americana www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/82aa6...

not gonna read this but the way more embarrassing thing are the people who are like holy forking shirtballs did the catholic church do a schism??? not whatever this means

I briefly worked at quiznos and people would come in just to tell us they didn't like these commercials and then leave without buying anything

California is returning a stretch of coast to Indigenous tribes. "This is beyond huge," says J. Carlos Rivera, chairman of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians. "Protecting the land, it has a deeper meaning for us." @alex-wigglesworth.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

i will never forgive the monsters that let AIDS become what it was

The Swift wedding is answering the question, "Can you stage a version of Caligula that feels like a megachurch youth group is putting it on at a talent show?"

Purity Ball Messalina

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Well Well Well, Guess Who Wishes They Used More Alt Text Now, Huh?

...What are you talking about? Most boomers hate Spielberg! His fanbase is concentrated among Xers and early Millenials who grew up with his films without blaming him (correctly or not) with destroying New Hollywood!

“When the BBC reported one of the ads to Instagram, the social media platform responded 24 hours later saying the post did not violate its ‘community guidelines’”

I will happily take shit about America from anywhere except the vast majority of Northern Europe

I love how America's new status as the chief global villain has made the always mad online crew forget about centuries of European colonialism

A true Bicentennial vibe here

one host of fear factor will usher in a new golden age. the other host of fear factor serves only satan. choose wisely

'It is almost as hard to raise taxes on billionaires by 5% as it is to raise taxes on them by 90%, because it is the direction that generates the opposition, more than the magnitude.'

wild that this man is almost 60 years old

He's (deservedly) gotten so much less shit than Schumer

it’s so funny to imagine a silicon valley striver getting invited to a top-secret “ideas conference” ready to learn the Secrets of the Elites only to get trapped on an understuffed hotel chair for eight hours while a very sweaty billionaire rants about how the Actual Devil lives inside chinese RAM

All of us have to suffer because nobody came to his dumbass military parade last year and also we’re a plurality Black city that votes like 95% Not Republican so it’s just gonna be more National Guard and parades and he’ll never get what he wants so he’ll never stop punishing us. Statehood please.

Can't be stated enough how much more progressive candidates are running better campaigns. Yes, that comes back to having & refusing to abandon values & convictions plus willingness to fight. But also - they're spending more time with voters because they spend less with consultants & donors.

So I guess that's the end of me and 'fresh produce' for a little bit. Anything else I should look out for?

In my hometown, they built a skatepark for teens to use...but put in a place that was hard/dangerous to walk to & charged money to enter Then when kids kept skating in parking lots, the cops would be called Who could have ever predicted they'd just start binge drinking in the woods woww

I'll say this until I'm dead. The whole conservative project has been about the conversion of public spaces to private ones, ones where groups can be excluded all in the name of individual choice. And if you hear the phrase "tragedy of the commons," you know who you're talking to.

A lot of Fox News graphic design can be understood if you recognize the whole network is a game show You can Play! At! Home! “If 4 out of these 7 things worry you; then YOU WIN and you get to be SCARED!” They use so many items because they hope just enough of them will scare the home audience.

I gotta watch this. TPT's historical docs are so good.

Sometimes you pick up a pencil to erase the notes & marks someone else put in a secondhand book, & then you put the pencil down & wonder what happened that the book’s out there falling randomly into your hands. Anyway good night, Brian & Hurricane, wherever you are.

"latin mass" is the "states rights" of Vatican 2, it's the convenient thing to say that doesn't immediately make you look like an asshole, but if you think about it for another minute you still look like an asshole

This is my favorite thing about people who leap to defend Swift. It’s rarely a whole-hearted defense of whatever’s offending people, it’s an attempt to provide mitigating factors that make being mad about it seem petty. That she’s earned a *relative right* to do something obnoxious.

That's the amazing thing - it makes Too Much Sense, which is why even a chunk of her fans seem uneasy about it. It's a lifting of the veil in more ways than one

You know if Trump dies because of some colossal Freedom 250 related mishap I think that might be a whole new level of being hoisted by your own petard