semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

If our parents ever told us how much effort it actually takes just to maintain the most modest standard of living while we all fall apart like chronically online nature valley bars we would not have believed them

Always remember that listening to music can be the entire activity. Put on headphones. Blast it through speakers. Close your eyes and just listen. Listening to music is not a background activity. It can be the entire journey, and it's worth the time.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Let me be clear, in a wild goose chase scenario you would not be chasing the goose

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but... The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us. "Fear is the mind killer" "Fear is a path to the Dark Side" etc. Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money

I'm gonna be a terrible ghost because as hard as it is to get ahold of me now, just wait and see how fast I decline a ouija board call

Only 15 days? Woof.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I’m built different (annoying to work on, impossible to find parts for)

I just saw that today's date (9/16/25 in America, 16.9.25 in the civilized world) is a series of squares: 3x3/4x4/5x5 Everything is terrible, but that's something cool about today that we can all enjoy for a moment. Math is a language of the Universe. I love when I hear it like this. #numbernerd

All of this thread.

This is the only way I find out about anything these days

Yeah, it’s been interesting to me how completely unsurprised I’ve been by virtually everything that’s happened since January but also I can tell that a part of me has simply shut down and gone numb to protect itself

Honestly, someone should just “accidentally” start their stream

I got murdered so hard the last time I was there. I’m okay now tho

We’re gonna wind up in some sort of @chuckwendig.bsky.social Invasive situation now, aren’t we. Cool cool. That’s totally fine.

We must unite against AI the way Shelley and Lovelace united against Byron.

Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

absolutely curséd snack assortment flavor combos

Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world, take a hard pass and immediately go right back to reading. Balance is important.

The interesting thing about Sydney Sweeney is that the White House is actively choosing not to release the Epstein files.

At this point they could announce that Ghislaine Maxwell is being put in charge of labor statistics and I wouldn’t even be surprised

I’ve said this before and I’ll probably say it again, but every hardcore IRL activist I know makes a very deliberate effort to interject joy into their lives and appreciate little things. I’ve only ever seen this dedication to misery in extremely online meme “activists”.

First thing they did is take over the Kennedy Center. They canceled Colbert. Superman is a weirdly powerful icon right now, bothering all the right people. Don’t let anyone tell you the arts aren’t crucial.

John Oliver doesn’t get enough credit for having a show with a strong viewpoint who will oftentimes devote 20-25 minutes to a topic, sometimes one that you can’t hear about on American television anywhere else, and manage to be pretty consistently funny while doing it. It’s a hell of a balancing act

Gah - IF ONLY it was boring.

More people need to know about the Pazyryk Swan, 2400 years old, from the Siberian horse-riding pastoral people. It is felted, c30cm. Because of the permafrost burials so much amazing felt, appliqué, embroidery and textile art has survived. But I just love that a stuffie has survived ❤️

I’ll claim Patty Murray over @mikecrapo.bsky.social and Senator Jim Risch. I live closer to WA anyway!

ROXANNE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT ON THE RED LIGHT. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Might make stickers of these

We always, probably blasphemously (but what does my heathen family know), referred to Francis as “The Hopey Popey.” A loss for sure.

Why the F do I or any normal person have freaking imposter syndrome in *this* world? Seriously.

I'm CRYING he was speaking FRENCH

The other day I thought to myself, “I wonder how the rest of the country is feeling now that they’re learning how it feels to be a ‘blue dot in a red state’.” How does “just move” feel now?

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Your Daily Affirmation: Today is art appreciation day. I'm noticing the brushstrokes in a hairdo, the light on the water, the color on a green bean, the texture of a drapery. The art is in the noticing, and today, I'm paying attention. Oh my, that orange fellow is an idiot.

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I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak

I’m not doomscrolling I’m just diligently researching a very long very stupid dystopian apocalyptic satire called America

I've been beaten into a state of not caring how corny I sound. Kindness is love and love is the only thing that matters. Be kind to people. Also listen to CDs

You know what, here’s what I need you to do. Rather than cancel all those plans to come to Idaho because you consider it unsafe for you, and running your mouth about how you’ll never visit, I want you to do the opposite. Come to Idaho.

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.