Fascinating how so much of this goes far before the dawn of smartphones but roughly to the dawn of high speed internet. Loneliness epidemic, birth rate trends, it's all here in the grand loss of Hanging Out.

Working out is nice in that just going through the motions consistently reminds me I am an animal and puts me back in an awareness of my body even on days when it sucks.

Non-monogamous bisexual sluts are peak, actually. We need less “oh nooo, how dare they” and more “oooh yeah, invite them to my party they’ll set the flirty social vibe right.”

Being bisexual is weird bc if you are with a same sex partner people think you’re gay but nope you’re bi and if you’re with an opposite sex partner people think you’re straight but nope still bi actually, thanks. It doesn’t seem complicated, and yet…!

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

i'm going insane

It kinda feels like leaving the US is like quitting Facebook. Your friends, maybe family, maybe work keeps you logging on, but man, that tether weakens the shittier the experience gets. Obviously immigration is prohibitively difficult or even impossible for many, so it’s an imperfect metaphor.

Take THAT, fish!

Around July 27th I am (ostensibly) done with Invisalign and will be biting a bunch of people to celebrate. 🎉

So we’re in the unstaffed lobby of a hotel waiting for our check in time, and the fellow who has been running fire alarm tests went on break and came back and brought us both tea for while we wait. 😭💕 So tremendously sweet.

“Hey kid, do you want a donut from my bag? They’re the bad kind.”

Same

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

Care for a bowl of unlubricated Cheerios?

Bluesky fucks 🖤

Brutal new polling finds Trump's net approval is -16 — down 22 points from inauguration day. Every authoritarian action he's taking must be understood against the backdrop of his declining popularity. He feigns strength, but he's operating from a place of weakness.

Read this sentence slowly: “Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Me, a vegetarian, to the noisy pigeons that decided to nest just above my bedroom window: I’m going to eat you.

Even the RNC knows. Plus, it’s not what she said.

Business plan for tech startups: copy the core features of existing successful companies, but honor user privacy.

this is the same democrat who said ICE should be "held to the same standards as local police departments" while pretending local cops aren't getting military equipment from 1033 and training from dave "killology" grossman abolish ICE. you cannot reform this shit. they didn't sign up for "training".

I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors. Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.

Everyone please submit support tickets to Discord begging them not to implement facial scanning, stat. …Meanwhile, who is building a good clone for us to jump to if they go through with this dogshit?

K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.

Reminder that we can submit support tickets. support.discord.com

"We might not be able to be on the front lines with people or putting our bodies out there, but it can save someone," Teresa Magaña told me about the whistle printing and distro efforts. She's the one behind the Form A Crowd, Stay Loud zine that's inspired whistle groups in at least 25 states:

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

c o w a r d s . DECADES of supposedly pre-gaming what's happening right now, but it was never real. I'd call it cosplay, if that weren't so insulting to actual cosplayers; actual cosplayers don't claim to REALLY be Sailor Moon.

So sad my favorite local cafe closed. Clearly the rational solution is to go be in Japan near my other favorite coffee spots. 頭がいい😌

Willow in Winter, Francis Dodd.

The 10 companies to boycott during February: - Microsoft - Apple - Amazon - Google - Meta - OpenAI - Netflix - Paramount+ - Uber - X

my parents have begun referring to hannibal as ‘eated rivalry’

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college - Death and Dying - Muppet Magic - History of American Popular Music - Plant Sex - Cyberpunk *(Ultimately, I was a religious studies major.)

many such cases

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