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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

I really like the new mayor of NYC.

So psyched that horror musical Sinners got 16 Oscar nominations that it made me want to tell you all about me watching Sinners on a plane where they kept all the blood, Michael B Jordan’s sex scene, lynching references, but removed all the cunnilingus moments. Really sums up the culture

My local bookshop understands their audience.

God, this aged about as well as The Cosby Show episode "The Last Barbecue" or indeed a good chunk of John Kricfalusi's works.

Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)

His name is literally "HE-MAN". The most pronoun name ever. I constantly play this game of "are grifters really this dense, or do they just expect their audience to be?" The answer is both obviously but it still hurts my brain seeing the endless feedback loop of asshole to asshole reinforcement.

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

In fact you don't turn the Titanic around at all, because the whole point of the Titanic was that is suffered a catastrophic failure which doomed its existence and the inability/refusal to fully understand the situation led to more people dying.

Oh fuck off, Meghan. I remember when the right was bitching about Mr. Rogers because he had the audacity to tell children they were special and worthy of love just as they were.

His name is HE-man for fucks sake. 😂 His sister is named SHE-ra. These goddamn grifters, man. 🤦‍♂️

This. When folks from all walks of life are bravely resisting oppression, they are *living* the aspirational vision of America. Honor that. This isn't inconsistent with recognizing America's deeply rooted history of violence. Many on the front lines are chewing this gum and walking at the same time!

In honor of all the well-deserved Oscar nominations, we are dropping the paywall on @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's piece on Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and how the real star of the film is the threading of Black intimacies:

Important to know that Armstrong is a reverend and that she and the protesters felt compelled by faith as well their commitment to civil rights. This is the state choosing which Christians they will support and which part of the 1A they will defend. Christian nationalism in action.

Michael B Jordan for Best Actor. Most convincing double cast I've seen since at least The Prestige.

the list of topics to be discussed at the Council of Nicaea in 325CE

Do you suppose Trump does his foundation himself and doesn't know how to blend, or no decent makeup artist would be caught dead working on him?

Thread!

Wait, this is a thing? I need to read all of these yesterday.

Keep bullying the bullies. It works. One good smack and they crumple like Kleenex.

Acting Field Director David Easterwood.

it seems too obvious to even keep pointing it out but if you have ever had experience with an elder relative sliding into dementia you are familiar with the ways they repeat the same nonsensical anecdotes

These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.

So Disney deleted their post on Threads asking users to post Disney quotes that show how their feeling - I suspect this is because it didn't quite go as they expected but the internet is forever so, for your delectation and delight...

yeah well he's not mine either bc i live in tucson arizona. you're not special buddy

BREAKING: Mrs. Hortense Daigle awards Rhoda Penmark with the Fern School Penmanship Medal

Labyrinth: In Concert is kicking off a 60-city tour this fall! Are they coming to YOUR town?? www.toughpigs.com/labyrinth-co...

Feb. 22, 1952: Veterinarians attempt the first skunk de-scenting operation.

Sweden becomes the first country to ban all AI music from their official charts! Huge win!

Anyway SIX casting calls have been open to GNC people from the first and enby co-creator Toby Marlowe has been known to pull an emergency cover in the show, so anyone pitching a shit about Dylan Mulvaney is pretty much only invested for the sake of trans bullying.

It's true, there's a lot of movie going on in this movie, and it's all good movie

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Been optioned twice, by Amazon Studios and Nickelodeon, and all I have to show for it is the friends I made along the way)

I'm a red-blooded American MAN! I like my beer COLD, my wings HOT, and my Broadway musical which reimagines the six wives of Henry VIII as a modern girl group CAST BY CISGENDER WOMEN ONLY!

Don't put pics on social media either!

Also, please note: they tried very hard to be scary, kept saying “this is where you live, go home” over the loudspeaker. But when you continue to follow them, they don’t arrest you, they run. Their tactics are based in fear and bullying, not any true legal authority.

Your doomposts do not impress me. They do not make me laugh. They do not make me feel like you are on my side. If you wanna curl up into a ball and die, go do it on your own time, and keep it to yourself. I want to interact with people willing to put in the work to fight.

He was a Communist, Elmo.

I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white

Probably Lisztomania. I mean it has Ringo Starr as the freaking POPE.

I’m going to say The Legend of the Titanic, that 1999 Italian animated film where everyone on the Titanic survives because they’re saved by an octopus named “Tentacles” (pronounced like Hercules) with a child’s voice and a dog’s nose.

This dude rules

And for the bajillionth time, they do not have the guys for any of this Even with hypothetically calling up the entire Guard and using half of the AD Army (both of which are beyond impossible as a practical matter) they would still not have enough guys

There’s no real debate. I have witnessed a very small number of ICE activists advocating for carrying firearms or even trying to agitate by physically striking ICE vehicles, etc. Let’s be clear: the incredibly vast majority of people resisting ICE correctly believe these people are fools.

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.