My takeaway from all this pie nonsense is that some of you have not had a good plum pie.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Watching the Mr Plow episode of The Simpsons and I forgot that he gets the key of the city “for allowing people to get where they’re going without public transportation or carpooling”

Fame! I wanna live [four fewer years] / I wanna learn how to fly [low]

I was on a phone call with my sisters when this box bug decided it needed to land on my glasses, for reasons unknown. To my credit I was never *scared* but it was a startling moment.

Am I eternal Or an eternalist?

Rush Hour being quietly the most cursed franchise

I don’t know what “pie discourse” means but stone fruit pie (plum/peach/cherry) is among the greatest foods ever conceived and anyone who tells you otherwise is an emissary of Satan

Find someone who loves you like BlueSky folks love Isaac Chotiner

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Unexpected Silkroad Ensemble appearance

TIL! (And I grew up in NYC and lived there for the first half of my adult life)

6yo wanted to listen to The Black Cauldron storybook in the car and I had forgotten a) how into those books I was as a kid (though this was the storybook of the much inferior Disney adaptation) And b) how they are Temu Lord of the Rings

racism and xenophobia are costly AF

The word “cooperate” is so unfair to 6 year olds still learning to read

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Many Bothans died to get us this information

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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

It makes a loot of sense. The right wing grifter "voice" is easy to replicate and requires no credentials or skills beyond time, shamelessness, and cruelty. Twitter payouts for a modestly successful account aren't enough to live off in California, but will feed a family of four in Rajasthan.

Realized that Is It Cake occupies the same space in my family now (where I’m the dad) as America’s Funniest Home Videos did when I was a kid and I can’t think of a better summation of how our culture has improved

Hard to miss the prescience of this show right now.

White people get obsessed with being the legendary John Brown because they see it as how they can center themselves as white people to save Black people, they don't see being down with or in community with or following the lead of Black people as part of it, because they don't do those things.

I was initially against the Mamdani visit for "don't normalize fascists" reasons but after seeing how their amiable interaction has completely neutered 1000 racist and otherwise ludicrous GOP talking points about "communists" and "jihadists", showing them for what they are, I'm not as sure anymore.

just bleak, man

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

The president of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged. I call for the president to be impeached.

As a person whose mother died in a vehicle fatality that was not in any way her fault, I approve this message

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

NOW Ensemble sounded great tonight. All is well in the world (for a moment)

Grok has basically turned into

The new Wolf Alice single is super fun

Happy International Men's Day. I will be eating this tonight in celebration

Can we convince the Rothschild family to change their name? Every time they appear in the news it feels like a referendum on the Jewish People, even though neither I nor any of my ancestors has ever met a Rothschild

Good to dunk on him for this, but it’s what all tech billionaires do - get tax breaks to fund their mega foundations that benefit them in other ways. Hate the player AND the game, is all I’m saying. Carnegie sucked but we still use his libraries. The system should encourage that kind of giving.

It's remarkable to see the Biden administration's failure to prosecute Trump being used here as *evidence* of Trump's innocence. Because of course, why else wouldn't they go after him? Yet another consequence of the disastrous Biden/Garland approach.

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

Thinking again about the pretty perfect first season of Severance, and how early seasons of shows benefit from being allowed to let things be unknown, and how we can normalize the not-knowing to keep that first season energy alive, not just for Severance, but for all shows. Lynch and music get this.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

When he was appointed president of Harvard, we student activists brought this up as an objection to him and were told we just didn’t understand economics

Watching Yes Day with your kids is a low key very stressful experience

I want a remake of the UPS Store ad where the woman meaningfully opens a box and then it cuts to the end of Se7en

Leon Russell played with Ronnie Hawkins in *high school*? And then played on Herb Alpert Records? I knew he had a wild career but it's even more than I figured.

too real lol

Larry Summers is really one of the most damaging figures of my lifetime. The morally bereft and powerless condition of the Democratic party these days is largely because of people like him. I don't think younger people realize what a key figure he was in the party adopting neoliberalism, whole cloth

This bio takes a fascinating turn at the end, and not just because I'm always interested in Judds With An Extremely Modest Public Profile (the lane to which I aspire, though I'm no Judd Hamilton) www.imdb.com/name/nm03579...

Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only