“…Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” —Kurt Vonnegut

last night's soba noodle salad with spicy peanut-lime dressing - edamame, bean sprouts, red cabbage, cucumber, mango, mint, cilantro, green onion, & peanuts

yes, this because the main problem with the american church is "too many of them are getting scammed by a *MAN* who is obviously lying.. their pastor"

Aoh no I saw the twolves' NBA cup court and my eyes are toast gnight

the Muppets = Weezer = The Cars

the only mr beast I stan

uhoh hey guys this new guy won't even provide me with my emotional support narcissistic supply! who do I call? everyone knows that my position in capitalism allows me to not have to experience a 'no' like seriously what do I do if my money doesn't talk?

MAHA holds press conference to announce new food pyramid

Keep Bigotry Awardable! sponsored by ICE ICE: Be Paid A Government Salary For Your Bigotry

the In Memoriam slideshow at the AI Awards for those lost to chatbot assisted suicide is gonna get played off the stage for going too long

I have listened to *300* new 2025 releases a total of 583 times, listed below alphabetically, dashes signify I have re-listened (and hint at what my faves might be) what have I missed from 2025?

People with complex trauma tend to be drawn to high control religion because it gives them a sense of security, a solid structure to organize their life around

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

"We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." —W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

A good thread to help those who did not grow up in right wing or far right culture understand the ways that the right (and articles such as Douthat’s) references so much RW or Evangelical cultural knowledge that builds up and supports the things that from outside seem like obvious folly.

BLTs

A grand jury indicted 45-year-old Aaron “Scott” Merritt on multiple counts, charging him with sexually abusing four girls between the ages of 5 and 14 who were congregants of Kenai’s Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.. Merritt served as a “Ministerial Servant” in the church.

I know one way America could lose 125 million pounds and that is if all the MAGAs just walk into the ocean

watched The Grapes of Wrath (1940) last night the journey ex-preacher Casy shares w/ the viewers is IMO a classic religious deconstruction story, fascinating to watch him share how his sense of conscience & morality evolved past religious framings & into a less-binary/more-nuanced view of reality

5 NBA surprise teams during the 1st 2 weeks of games 👍 Sixers 👎 Magic 👍 Spurs 👎 Mavericks 👍 Blazers

It's absolutely WILD how routinely self-avowed superfans of hard science and modern technology IMMEDIATELY default to magical thinking, and don't consider that a red flag at all. "Excited to see what CHatGPT thinks about-" IT DOESN'T THINK!!! It's not a mind!

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

this is the future lib'ral tears want

If you see this post egg

TRIBECA ALREADY EMPTY. THOUSANDS OF PATAGONIA VESTS ABANDONED. SOHO HOUSE TAKEN OVER BY EXOTIC ZOO ANIMALS. BATTERY PARK SHAKE SHACK NOW A BISEXUALS-ONLY CERAMICS STUDIO

so many problems in America and the "genius" rich guys are like "ma I need more money for my emotional support tech objectvibes ie capitalism"

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected 43 days ago. Republicans still refuse to swear her in because she is the final vote needed to release the Epstein Files.

"say no to the bigots" will always be very appealing to many people, everybody gets that (except people whose victimhood is manufactured in an ill advised attempt to maintain hierarchy)

bucket list concert achieved!!! Sigur Ros LIVE was everything I'd always hoped it'd be They played Takk... and a few from ( ) those songs have been with me for half my life 😭❤️‍🩹🎶

hey @dlmayfield.bsky.social I'm reading about the history of MLMs in America and.. 👏guess 👏who shows up in *another* super-grifty, hierarchy-reinforcing, historically exploitative & abusive movement's timeline? 👇

A community that requires us to hide who we are just to be tolerated isn’t holy. It’s a performance. We can’t build authentic relationships by hiding. It tells us that belonging is conditional on our ability to perform normativity.

they're so scared of Mamdani winning because he symbolizes the antidote to the capitalist poison they're forcing us to ingest just to live his success shows their gaslighting -lies on camera, gutting accountability structures, buying media companies- isn't working as well as they need it to to win

34 stories of folks who left all kinds of churches behind:

NYC: oh no not all the people who said they would leave if Mamdani won actually leaving, what a horrible outcome we will miss them so much

GIANNIS WINS IT AT THE BUZZER!!!

a journalist whose journalism is " hey yeah you guys but.. have you REALLY considered *shares the exact same framing they were given in an intimate exclusive interview given to them by their subject, who was totally gaslighting them* " is not a very necessary journalist imo

NEW DAY. NEW CHANCE TO PROVE LOVE. LETS TROT

gonna smoke a big bowl of The President Does Not Feature At All tonight

let us make cash by killing the planet or we will take away your brother's visa 💅

for uncreative capitalist authoritarians, success has always been unattainable without tilting the scales wildly in their favor with threats and then calling it "negotiating"

ego death sounds too intense for me I think I'd like an ego siesta

I believe in child indoctrination

feed the hungry but only if they cosplay as white Christians and follow our narrow-minded sexual ethic

Police departments paid out $2.3 billion in settlements in one year. We're not overspending feeding people. We're overspending beating people.

Philip K. Dick gets it right again. Let's hear it for the vague blurs!

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

YHWH Nailgun under the moon

October 2025 8x8 🥰🎶

October 2025 reads, hit me up on Storygraphs if you're on there

if Kendrick performs Not Like Us at the parade Drake would be over