The Vision, from The Quest and Achievement of the Holy Grail, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1901, 📸 by Noah Graham

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

That’ll show all those New Yorkers who dared to think things could get better!

been working on a list of possible countries to move to when I can afford it, which involves looking at a lot of lists of countries ranked by various criteria, and the US has not appeared in the top 10 for literally ANY criterion I value. I knew things were bad but I genuinely wasn't expecting that

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

T just pronounced Bothell as "bot-hell" and I will never unsee it

Why is SPD intimidating taco vendors

the prewritten obituary thing is making me want to prewrite a bunch of stuff for various postmortem situations, but not guaranteed ones. like a stack of envelopes labeled "open if the Kraken win the Cup" and "open if the USA and Canada go to war" and "open if someone names their baby after me"

Everything sucks so here is my dog eating ramen. 🍜

I can but dream of one day possessing the spectacular forethought of science journalist Sharon Begley, who pre-dragged James Watson to hell in this scathing obituary she wrote and made advance arrangements to publish upon his death before her own death 5 years ago

Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.

I'm sorry this is terrible

I passed these two U-Haul box containers in someone's yard and wondered what the heck was going on, and then I realized that someone had set up a pantry. #neighborhoodpantry #feedthehungry #SNAP

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.

today is a soft sweaters, pine-scented candles, classical guitar music, bummin around the kitchen for hours kinda day

Um, @variety.com? That’s…not what that means. 😳 variety.com/2025/music/n...

We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!

This is one of the funniest apologies I've ever seen

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Pulling together a list of AI-critical folks for my school, and am particularly those who can talk critically about AI in K-12 and to a lesser extent higher ed. I have a bunch of names already, but would love to get the crowdsourcing on this for anyone I might have missed.

Reading the Wikipedia page of any guy famous pre-2005 is just a dice roll on finding a passage like "at the age of 37, he started dating a 16 year old he met at a concert"

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

There are no words for how evil this is

yuuup, this got auto-set to "hide" sometime since I last went through my settings. so, so exhausting

Never gonna play the new Pokémon game. But have this.

Forged by nature. Unstoppable by will. We are the Seattle Torrent. 📺 youtu.be/4I3c5qNN2z0

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

early numbers don't look great for Wilson but historically there's a very significant progressive swing from day-of dropboxes so fingers all the way crossed!

my 21yo sibling just got catcalled for the first time and the ensuing photo/caption made me choke laughing

On repeat in the Burns household today: youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...

Today I finally got myself organized and did some food pantry donations. I started with the state-by-state stats on who benefits from SNAP the most and picked the 6 states with the highest percentage of recipients. 1/ www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Looks like the Birchers weren’t entirely wrong about domino theory

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

Lindsey Boylan was the first whistleblower to come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Andrew Cuomo. Her accusations & those of 12 others were corroborated by the NY AG (and later by DOJ.) Cuomo resigned. Now he has lost again, and this picture is as unabashed a joy as you'll see.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎