Every time the video for "Breathe" by The Prodigy comes on on the Vevo 90s channel I am reminded that there is much to live for. Probably not what they were going for but it keeps me going

Animation is cool, and you can obviously enjoy animation aimed at children or teens as an adult. I just wish there was more animation aimed at adult audiences with adult sensibilities.

Before sports betting was legalized everywhere, I was neutral about it, thinking that it was a personal choice. Now that it exists everywhere I have been radicalized against it like a 19th century suffragette

THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Given the lack of details provided by Taylor Farms thus far, Consumer Reports' food safety experts are advising folks in the 27 states implicated by the recall to discard ALL iceberg lettuce until we know more about where the parasite-linked products ended up www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

Watching the Moana remake and god has any movie been less necessary in recent memory

"I'd kill for my child" okay but would you put aside your preconceived notions of gender or sexuality for your child? would you apologize to your child when you're wrong? would you tell your child they can be whoever they want to be, and mean it? your child doesn't need more killing in their name

As a writer, I AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The packaging for both looks like the photos below. They're sold everywhere, including in our little mountain town. And for infants and elders, or those who are immunocompromised/immunosuppressed or with certain other conditions, cyclosporiasis can indeed kill.

If this is a stereotype of nonbinary people I am HAPPY TO BE A STEREOTYPE

I've got a decent amount of younger followers so I'll clarify ; this is not a "callout post" or "cancelled!!" type statement, nobody wants Silver Sprocket to die, as it is home for many comics from queer, marginalized folk, that otherwise would not have gotten work out there. Simply, we want Better!

all of these games also have Hamster Support

I'm concerned they won't renew this show for another season because they suck but I'm probably still gonna give this a whirl when I've got the time

Martin writes women as people and shows deep interest in and appreciation for their inner lives. the characterization of his work, or any graphic and shocking work, as "for" men somehow is so profoundly insulting.

Leave my boy Taco Bell out of it, it was bitch ass Taylor Farms, the world's largest salad processor. Fight the real enemy Big Salad

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

So the brand name you need to be wary of until the recall is complete is Taylor Farms.

It's almost like the police in general mostly serves as a jobs program for violent abusive perverts where the job is to brutalize people for looking at them funny and don't provide much positive value to society except as a candidate source when the president wants to explicitly build a paramilitary

If you are still playing Fortnite and you claim you are supporting arts.. those two are not the same Because this will be happening on July 30th Support voice work no matter how terrible it is, support credible and human craft indie developers

The air is full of smoke, the food is full of parasites, and the water is full of data center bacteria but at least we stopped all that DEI children's cancer research!

I like how every time you launch Discord on a computer it has to sit there and download like sixteen updates but it never gets any better

I would like one plank of the 2028 Democratic platform to read: WE ARE GOING TO SEND EVERY ONE OF YOU CORRUPT MOTHERFUCKERS TO PRISON.

Raffi you’re so right

Ernest Vinyl, now starting on the Phillies

Me at the beginning of every year: there's no good music out yet this year 😭 Me at the midpoint of every year: there might actually be too much good music out this year???

ko-fi.com/orangesodatw... Seriously

I have no beef with romance or romantasy (save for the latter's very irritating portmanteau that I still haven't gotten used to) but why does it feel like the most wildly popular examples of each are so fucking beige with terrible writing

Thinking about someone I know who is WILDLY anti-art that doesn't fit their narrow definition of what good art is whose anti-AI piece was circulating a few days ago and slamming the repost button on this skeet

Pete Hegseth doesn’t want soldiers to be healthy, he wants them roided up. It’s not gender affirming care, it’s actually forced masculinization, where masculinity is defined explicitly as capacity for violence. This is “gender affirming” in the sense that Hitler gave his men free crystal meth.

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

basically all of those novels you read in high school and claim to hate (like CATCHER IN THE RYE) were written for adults despite having a voice the average person would now classify as “YA” and dismiss out of hand

the really annoying thing is that sooooo much Literature used to be about children, bc childhood is such a fascinating and vivid time in our lives. everybody used to respect and understand this. cleaving these stories off from Respectable literature was a marketing decision and a v effective one

Big fan (sincerely) of how the Kirkus review of Public Access Afterworld mentions We're All Going to the World's Fair because I feel like that one gets overlooked by everyone but the Janeheads. That movie means everything to me and I like it better than TV Glow by just a hair.

Boosting this a second time because Christina puts a lot of thought and love into these lists twice a year (and, of course, because I'm still shouting from the rooftops about Public Access Afterworld and I want everyone to read it).

And what about some witches, wizards, magical stories, and magic schools from some cool authors? - The Marvellers, by Dhonielle Clayton; - Witchlings, by Claribel Ortega; - The Witch Boy, by Lee Knox Ostertag; - Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire, by Don Martin;

For no reason at all, what about sharing some trans friendly MG/YA books for #TransRightsReadathon, hmm? Or for any time of the year, really! - Splinter & Ash, by Marieke Nijkamp; - The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang; - Scarlet Morning, by N.D. Stevenson; - This Is Our Rainbow (anthology);

watched Serial Experiments Lain for the first time :o

Yes YES

The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives

Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

SEEING A CISHET PERSON MAKE A JOKE ABOUT LINDSAY GRAHAM’S SEX LIFE: (closing my eyes and shaking my head slowly) hmm. interesting SEEING A GAY PERSON SAY THE EXACT SAME SENTENCE: (snapping my fingers and waggling my ass theatrically) you said it sister

As a gender non-conforming trans guy it does not harm me if you see a character I see as a gender non-conforming guy as a trans woman. This doesn't have to be that hard.

I really want an ARC of When Life Gives You Corpses for review purposes and I would do terrible terrible horrible things for one

Authors of adult fiction, I don't know how else to convince you that you need teens to read in order to have adults who read. Giving teens books that are specifically written for their developmental stages doesn't detract from adult fiction, but it does help bridge the gap so you get have readers.

My good sir I read god of YA as a teen and still read everything else under the sun as a teen because I *liked to read* can we not attack a category of literature that's losing marketing dollars because it's viewed as "a fad"

Politicians are going out of their way this week to announce that they long for a return to the past when evil people were more subtle and gaslighty about using everyone around them for the power to enact cruelty, not for a better future where those people have no more power.

The third act of A Christmas Carol, one of the most famous examples of "don't die a dickhead, " was the ghost showing Scrooge how happy everyone was that he died and it was a big motivator for him to stop being a piece of shit and still we got a bunch of dickhead Dems talking up Lindsey Graham