What is bringing you joy today? What made you laugh or smile today? Have you brought joy to someone else today?

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.

We did not punish the confederacy hard enough.

somebody go find the guy who said dems need to back off redistricting for morality reasons, let’s circle back

"oh god why is David Attenborough trending" "oh. oh it's okay. whew."

When I saw David Attenborough trending, my heart sank. Then I saw why, and it leapt. A legendary documentary filmmaker, who loves nature and inspires others to be curious about the natural world.

Jerky is one of the oldest ways of storing protein long term. It predates written language, IIRC. It absolutely is real protein. It’s also easy to store and make.

After Missouri voters passed ballot measures to enshrine abortion rights and establish paid sick leave, GOP state legislators overturned them. Now voters may have to pass another referendum just to protect the progress they've made. The GOP's contempt for democracy is absurd.

The pettiness of this pope is 🍿

And take special note of where Mississippi did theirs: Not in the actual state house. In the same old building where Mississippi was the first to secede from the Union over slavery AND Jim Crow laws were drafted.

But lest we forget, Elon’s Elden Ring build was absolute ass. Equipped two shields, heavy armor, late game health was abysmal, and main damage stat was almost 20 levels over the agreed upon “hard cap” by Elden Ring players.

“That is a very interesting face” is a big YIKES, especially when talking about an indigenous woman who was a CHILD at the time; and using that face to model a an alien woman and is treated by the plot as “the exotic indigenous love interest” in the same vein as Dances With Wolves.

It’s relatively common for artists to use real people as references, but this is different — it’s using a real Indigenous actress to create an imaginary Indigenous character, coloring her blue, turning her into IP, and building a franchise around her without ever hiring or paying that actress.

What is bringing you joy today? What made you laugh or smile today? Have you brought joy to someone else today?

If you don't want to be seen as a partisan political actor, stop being one John. It's that simple.

While all 6 current SCOTUS conservatives are proof of why SCOTUS cannot self police their ethics, Thomas is definitive proof of it. The honor code only works with those who have and value theirs.

They should have listened to Anita Hill. Hell, should have listened to any of the women who have testified in all these nomination proceedings

You don’t get hospitalized for a Brown Recluse unless it’s serious and there’s gonna be long term scarring. I don’t wish that kind of pain on anyone. Even him. It’s not karma or justice for him to experience this.

Ted Turner dying was how I found out he lived to 2026 instead of thinking he died a decade or more ago.

If you have a Mac, just use Safari. Chrome literally exists to facilitate various Google advertising efforts.

Putting things on credit and raising gas prices is bad actually.

bro that is not a good thing. people are buying on credit because they can’t afford stuff. they’re not buying more; they just can’t afford their normal

Going outside and eating the dogshit off the sidewalk is also free, and you don’t see people scrambling to do that

Fuckin RABIES. Essentially 100% fatal when symptoms begin to show. And they stopped helping states test for it. That should be on a level of criminal endangerment of the American public.

Jon Oringer, founder and executive chairman of Shutterstock @shutterstock.com, is trying to recruit comic and graphic novel creators over on LinkedIn to a new AI platform that he’s building. Feel free to let him (and them) know what you think of this, and never use Shutterstock again ✌🏻

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

I'd rather get the flu than get this game.

So you’re saying Giuliani is the opening act?

Tech billionaires want to force data centers on us with little to no regard for energy price spikes, environmental harms, or basic democratic decision-making. We must rein in AI before it's too late.

1) get elden ring 2) make a pure intelligence build there, now you don't need to play this. the game even has a magic school and everything.

bit pricey

I promise you this is a bad game and you don’t want it even if they paid you

There is no amount of money to get me to play this. Antisemitism is baked into the narrative. And even just playing it benefits JKR in some way.

We could be on Muraganda or back on Amonket right now, riding dinosaurs or learning about the Chitinous Court. Instead we have War of the Spark 2, except Bolas is a much more entertaining villain /Opinion /Opinion /Opinion

With alt text. The Loony Toons opera episode, while great in many ways, impacted the public perception of opera as a medium in ways that as an opera fan, I’m not fond of. Phantom of the Opera, while great as well, also slots in this category.

“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it never added the rider 'and that someone is me'.” - Terry Pratchett wrote that in Hogfather back in 1996!

I'm thinking of the cruelest things Jace could do to his former friends in his Echoverse, and the thing that would utterly shatter Liliana might be bringing back Gideon. Or at least a version of Gideon. One who never knew the cost of his hubris, or knew guilt like her. That would be devastating.

genuinely, from the bottom of my heart: what the fuck is wrong with these freaks and where is the nearest, deepest pit we can push them all into?

"Do not kill the part of you that is Cringe. Kill the part of you that cringes."

Not only is what RFK Jr trying to do concerning, but NYT is framing the article with too much neutrality. There is no neutrality when the head of DHHS advocates for people to stop taking life saving meds.

My unpopular opinion(s): Music isn’t a universal language, it’s highly contextual for how it’s meant to be engaged with and its place in time and space. Therefore judging all music by the standards of any single genre is fruitless.

Hard to see so many basic rights being dismantled and not view the Biden interregnum as a total failure. His presidency was premised on restoring institutions and stability, and so many of the wins achieved have already been undone by Trump (as well as 50+ years of progress).

Dear #WoTSkies, In this Age, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, we will #SaveWoT and #TheWheelOfTime will come back to screens. Happy Tuesday mornaftevenight! ❤️ #ThankYouRafe

In my choral music era again. Writing, singing, and listening.

What is bringing you joy today? What made you laugh or smile today? Have you brought joy to someone else today?

So honestly, this is why it’s so important to study history (which includes near current events history from the past few years). The people rigging the system REALLY don’t like it when you point out how they keep rigging the system in their own favor, because……….

Déjà vu of him bragging about taking dementia screenings. Time is a Wheel or something, I swear.