Don’t forget, kids. Nobody owes you sexual attraction, and nobody owes you sex.

Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US. Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.

Why is it so hard to find a 100% wool coat? Why does every fabric have to have plastic woven in?

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

"[Epstein] had several ideas about who could appear on it and provide favorable testimonies [...] 'Spoke to Chomsky, he’s all in,' Epstein wrote in a text message to an undisclosed associate."

Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled." The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

The bill only forces the release of unclassified information. Pass it on.

I dunno why Victor Frankenstein is always so old in adaptations. He's meant to be like a 23-year-old, fresh out of college, accidentally becomes a dead-beat young dad, kinda guy. I really struggle to think of an adaptation that really captures that.

I Sadly know a lot of autistics like this. Good to know this pattern/behavior has a name ! Echoism

You know those fake $20 that bible-thumpers like to "tip" with? I want to do a version of that to put in S.A. buckets. It'll look like a folded $20 (or, better yet, a $50) bill, and then when they open it, it says something like "If you weren't such bigots, you could have had this money for real."

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

I'm preplanning 2026 goals and whatnot. I want to cut back my reliance on my phone and screen time in general. The last 18 months I've neglected my reading and writing and it's time to make time for my analog hobbies.

White person: *several racist sentences* Black person: "That was racist as fuck" Other White Person: "Surely, they were being ironic." Don't wake up and use any of your days on earth being an OWP. Please.

Apparently I can't eat bell peppers anymore without some sort of gastrointestinal discomfort 😭

If they’re smart enough for a deep cut they’ll put them both in a “Wicked Witches Of Eastwick” crossover sketch

This line from "Psych" is evergreen…

call an ambulance but for me

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

We're not free until we are all free. And you do not need to understand someone's identity or life to fight for them and to recognize that they are valid and share your same struggle. But for a lot of them (ESPECIALLY the cis white gays, but not only), it ends at "gay rights". Never Queer Liberation

This is some horrifying predatory shit.

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

Weird how many racists like to self-identify themselves as racists.

I want a ginger drink that tastes like gingerbread.

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.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Great video from Hank youtu.be/9zi0ogvPfCA?...

FYI: Del Toro's Victor Frankenstein spends a significant amount of time in Edinburgh, the maniacal monster-maker would have fit perfectly into the city’s twisted medical scene of the day.

I need someone with a degree in macroeconomics to explain to me how this *isn't* a recession.

It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.

It was a victim of its own success in a lot of ways. I was doing economic justice work pre-Occupy and the before/after was light and day. The previously-fringe discussion or wealth inequality became SO mainstream SO fast that folks kind of forgot it was new information to most in 2011.

It's fascinating in some ways because geriatric millennials (b. 1987 or before) and older will remember that Occupy is pretty much single-handedly responsible for mainstreaming these issues. But younger millennials and Gen Z assume Bernie (and podcasters) did it.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

Marjorie Taylor Greene picking up on which way the wind is blowing is like watching a cat use the toilet. I always knew it was theoretically possible but it’s still unsettling to watch

Can the next please dear God can the next interviewer ask MTG about oh I don’t know January 6th etc before we keep pretending she found politics Jesus

Talking about my favorite mechanical pencil!

Malcolm Ingram is trying to re-release Small Town Gay Bar, a really valuable documentary from the 00s about...well, small town gay bars in Mississippi. They have to rebuy all music rights etc. 10 days left, they're at 20k of 53k. Please give em a shout. www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

Yes. Trump and Greene are both odious but it is objectively good for them to fight, particularly over an issue that is extremely bad for Trump and which has zero downside for Democrats. It is how the Framers envisioned checks and balances would work, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition."

It occurs to me now that the discipline of history was not born out of reverence for the past, but rather out of somebody watching the people in charge make the most insane decisions and just being like “if I don’t write this down nobody’s ever gonna believe any of it happened”

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Men will struggle to find the Madonna’s face

I have a new Kraken crush. #31 goalie Philipp Grubhauer

A cannabis enthusiast Advent calendar with consumables that get stronger each day, so that when you smoke/eat/whatever on the 24th day, you sleep until Dec. 26th

“If you're arguing against us while using our language, we're winning." –GW Bush advisor Matt Dowd as the proto-fascist “war on terror” raged

There’s a special place in Heaven for photographers who take pro bono professional pics of shelter animals to help them get adopted

Saturday night selfie, well rested edition. I napped all day 😆