America's ruling class.

Watching The Return of the King and realizing that Aragorn basically gives a worse version the same pep talk Bill Pullman gives in Independence Day.

Noted? I guess? Just in case I for some reason need to get a gift for someone I don't like very much and who is also weird about cats?

hi i bet you need to hear Hüsker Dü performing the Mary Tyler Moore song live in 1985 today

Extremely good news: A print subscription for The Onion is very on sale today. You'll get your first copy by Christmas. It's $75 for a year's worth of newspapers shipped to your real-life mailbox each month. Get one for yourself, your friends, your family, or your enemies. membership.theonion.com

Against Settler Colonialism: A Reading List

All Americans haven't even united yet to condemn and reject the violence of siccing the National Guard on peaceful communities in the first place, but good luck with all that.

me: they could never make me hate you, the personal essay as a form the personal essay as a form at this moment in history: bet

I like this pope.

Revisiting this today, I think this really makes the case for investing in cookbooks. I think I am going to do some research into small press publishers of books about food and cooking. Surely there are a couple, right?

I think this guy is actually more annoying to me than the Nazi dipshit we have representing OH-02. At least Dave Taylor seems honest about being both stupid and evil. **just little district-next-door thoughts**

Kinda bummed to be off work today because it's beautiful out and I love the energy in a well-managed grocery store in the days before Thanksgiving, but also my hands hurt from ringing so much the last couple of days.

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you're not fucking Jean Valjean just because you gave the book you stole five stars on Goodreads.

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Trump admin freakout over the "don't follow illegal orders video" is very alarming and frightening, but it's also some sad little baby shit. Like, these people have such a childish "might makes right" philosophy that they really think that everyone has to do what they want now. lol

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

My partner lost a job in 2018 and I live across the street from a grocery store so that's where I went to get a job when I wasn't sure I was going to be able to afford a commute. Fell in love with grocery stores and now I am IN IT.

Our Holiday Sale is here early this year! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% Off through Friday, January 2nd!

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Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction. “The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” — altermag.com/articles/the...

it's happening

My favorite piece of content today.

President Trump has decided to renege on his 40% tariffs on Brazilian goods, ending a problem he created. The agricultural products tariffed—beef, fruit, coffee, and cocoa—were becoming increasingly expensive for Americans everywhere. trib.al/fHAAG4l

A thing that sucks about my job sometimes is when I have to work a closing shift so I spend all morning reading about all the wild and alarming shit going on in the world and then I have to go do customer service all evening like things are normal.

Think how embarrassing this would be to read if I hadn't just read Grok's statement on Elon's physical fitness like half an hour ago. Yikes!

This is by far the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen with my own eyes.

“Are the fae open source” is the kind of deranged sentence that keeps me addicted to microblogging. Beautiful poison Rappaccini flower.

"According to the report, [...]during the 2024-25 television season, queer characters increased across platforms by 4%, bringing the total to 489. However, the Thursday report found that 41% of those characters will not return." www.thewrap.com/glaad-where-...

So, either the funds will be held in a way that makes them hard-ish to access as well as being insufficient for most people's needs OR they'll be turned over to people as cash, in which case much of the money won't be used for health care. These both seem like terrible plans that solve no problems.

So feeding every taxpayer's personal financial information straight into the hallucinating robot. What could possibly go wrong.

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Yikes. I had missed this. What a brazen scheme to weaponize administrative burden against those who can least afford it. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Love this so much. 💜

Silver Birch, Blood Moon is on sale today for $1.99 ebookdaily.com/bargain-kind...

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

It really is an insult to life and to memory. It's the opposite of immortality.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

"American Canto" is a laughably bad book title.

Literally every day I am more committed to shopping small and local and brick and mortar for all things whenever possible. I cannot recommend it enough. Support your community, get out and meet people, see the sun, do not make it possible for these people to keep doing this garbage.

Intergalactic Mixtape is live. :)

Timeline full of JD Vance's smug face this morning. This guy just says the most astonishingly evil shit all the time. Really incredible stuff.

Even if the housing problems really were caused by just Too Many People, the solution is not to just pick a subset of folks to violently expel from their homes to make room for a preferred group. Because that is evil. I feel like this is not morally complicated.

I'm a couple episodes into Death by Lightning and it feels sort of like if Hamilton was a prestige drama. It's entertaining, though.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth

I know it's a lesser Mira Nair movie, but I have so much affection for Vanity Fair (2004). It's often criticized (and rightly, probably) for overly softening the ending of the book it was adapted from, but it's one of my favorite novels and I'm soft enough myself that I rather like the gentler end.

This would be massively disruptive for the diets of millions of people. Pasta is an inexpensive staple for basically all Americans. There's vegan and gluten free versions of it. There are alternatives, but those will ALSO then be impacted by this disruption.