If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

Getting raptored tomorrow 🦅

Heartbreaking: worst person you know learned some therapy words

Good name alert

Hearing many anecdotal reports that this year’s covid vax is hitting especially hard—mine was a total nonevent, which is how I usually handle vaccines, but last year’s laid me OUT

you mean st. petersburg?

You think you’ve seen grim and then you see “rainbow valley everest” interpreted as AI art

I am in the “somewhat surprisingly not autistic” club (just have a very direct personality lmao) but having had many autistic loved ones, students, teachers, friends, etc. I think people who never engage other neurotypes with respect and curiosity are deeply parochial and worse off for it

The only Tylenol misinformation I tolerate is the parrots joke

Besides the point that "irreversible medical intervention" is a weaselly, dogshit framing, the takeaway from these things is always going to be that the people these articles are targeted to can only see themselves in the person who turned out not to be trans, and therefore only they matter

Respect my autistic homies 🗣️

Listen, I too liked it when the horrible woman whose hair and makeup are at forever war with her own face got into an ethically iffy relationship with a horrible striving twerp on Andor,

Reading the Noem/Lewandowski article 🫩

Just registered for a free in-person Stop the Bleed training ⛑️ www.stopthebleed.org/get-trained/

This is a zero-strikes We Are Not Friends, You Are Not My Ally indicator for me and I won’t budge on it

“The man was being held under a partnership between Nassau County and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), under which the county provides 50 jail cells for immigration detainees and receives federal reimbursement in return.” Local cops are complicit in immigrant violence.

Not sure if others had this experience, but I think I mostly heard gambling discussed, positively or negatively, as a personal vice thing (which I just don’t care about) and now it seems much more pressing that the industry at scale is breathtakingly evil

Impossible for me to get up before 6 and not spend 10 to 11:30 thinking of nothing but when it will be socially acceptable to eat lunch

Part of radicalization is that it takes the path of least resistance

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

This sent me down a rabbit hole and I love the interview at the beginning of this where the old head is like “to actually get on a horse bareback and run as fast as you can around the track” and you think he’s going to explain how challenging it is and he says “is easy” youtu.be/8FNYWcPpN6c?...

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

There's whole separate discourses to have about the Coast Guard role in interdiction as itself a story about imperial power and overreach and yet what stands out here is that Trump has blown fully past that to make the military a tool of pretextless murder because he & Vance like videos of the hits.

LIZARD.BMF

Imagine cooking on this level

Getting up at butt in the morning to get blood taken out of me, let’s meet the week head-on

I just want to reiterate this ⬇️, particularly for myself, as I scroll my Bluesky feed.

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

Now why did I get a TPUSA text just now

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

OK so first of all I did NOT end up buying these honey peanut dog treats even though I don’t have a dog. Don’t come away from this thinking I did, because ultimately I did not. But I think the package could be clearer that they are for dogs

Most of the time I don’t care about the Threads posts Instagram shows me, but I’ll make an exception

I did NOT have it at meeting for worship today—mind all over the place, did not get around to any kind of peace or focus—and then afterwards several people said how meaningful it was to share the space and a common purpose with the folks in the room

stumbled upon an amazing website

This is my favorite genre of r/Perfumes post

You don’t see me post much about mass anti-trans stuff because 1) I assume people reading my posts know 2) I save it for work, where it’s pertinent to what my office does but may not be a fully connected set of dots for everyone on staff. This does not mean I am not extremely stressed about it

honestly in talking to the kids in my life (albeit mostly through peer support) I find that perfectionism looms large as the thing they are struggling with most. and I think that's fueling chatgpt etc. they're SO AFRAID. and we have given them reason to be, honestly

Anyway, if you need to frame me for something, slip me the cash in one of these and I will accept it without question

If Cava is not a regular feature of your life, I do recommend a quick image search for "cava bag"—it is a big ol' bag and visually distinctive

It's an unironic 🫡 from me

Accidentally saved the "Générations Funk" station in Lyon as my main bookmark for Radio Garden and sometimes I just let that roll for a couple of hours radio.garden/listen/gener...

Lately I’ll have some petty personal insecurity eating at me and then think “man look around, that just does not matter” and it’s hard to argue with

Tom Homan is an anagram for Tom Oh Man

OTM this week ran a clip of Matt Walsh saying, basically, the difference between cancel culture on the left and the ‘canceling’ we the right are doing is they cancel you for cool, good stuff and we cancel you for bad, evil stuff, which—NOT HANDING IT TO HIM—did feel honest about the values in play

AI integration haters who care about privacy but don’t need anything ultra-turbo secure for daily use, what desktop browsers are we using? (I’m on a MacBook most of the time, but Windows options are also relevant to my life)

rfk jr. and gang just added this new agency “priority” for CDC on their website. doesn’t sound like public health. sounds like fascism cdc.gov/about/cdc/in...

In 2020 I went through a phase of signing off from conversations with “Courage (said the French way)” and maybe I should bring it back

I am looking for a comforter for the guest bedroom and I'm sorry what monster did this

Deleted scene: a millipede fell onto my neck while dictating that post

just saw some wild posts that, upon reflection, led me to develop a related but distinct mantra: that take has already been thoroughly dunked, you can scroll by and not get involved, that take has already been thoroughly dunked, you can scroll by and not get involved