Yup. The way communities and cities in the US have been built are designed for the car. It’s not that we prefer it. It’s that we were never given a choice.

And worth noting also that there's a subset of Americans (namely folks with small kids and/or mobility issues) who end up really alienated by the glibness of bike/public transit folks, who might be more open to car alternatives if their needs were treated with more seriousness by those advocates.

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

Told the Mormon missionaries my dog went wild for that I'm a religious pluralist. They quickly moved on.

Effectively admits to using the Control + F in grant documents and has zero experience or reasoning to do what he did. Accountability for EVERY SINGLE ONE.

I'm genuinely curious how you make what Children of Time is about and its themes on time, culture through an alien lens, and transhumanism into a TTRPG.

I'd argue it's not that. Centuries of exceptionalism, manifest destiny, a nation built on patriarchy, colonialism, and white supremacy. And countless narratives in the film and television age of "someone making it because they worked hard enough".

No. This is an excuse. American exceptionalism, media culture, and cooperation idolatry are 100% the cause of this bs.

@beebrookshire.bsky.social Got my church choir Easter music this week, and a pop choral arrangement resting the tenors along the break… One particular arranger makes my voice tired just reading the name…

Happy Lockdown-aversary this week to all those who celebrate! the world has gotten demonstrably and exponentially worse.

Spent all vacation worrying that the people I’d meet wouldn’t like me. They liked me 😭. Could’ve enjoyed my croissant in peace Rejection sensitivity part 1/4

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Becoming an adult is rewatching Mary Poppins and realizing it's not about her helping the kids. It's about her helping Mr. Banks. And realizing "Feed the Birds" isn't about literally feeding birds, but being kind to the old woman selling bird feed, because she needs the tuppence.

www.youtube.com/shorts/swSjZ... His name was Alex LaMorie. He was autistic. He was trying to follow his care plan police shot him. Defunding police means suicide response crisis teams don't carry firearms. Everything sucks, but we can never forget all the vulnerable.

Literally a Parks and Recreation story arc.

"But it's been published in Minnesota's paper* of record! It must be true!" *owned by a billionaire

Idgaf. I will NEVER shop at a place who had pictures of amputees wearing their clothes, and my cashier was also an amputee, and then they destroy their DEIA protections because they care more for a pedophile president. Nope. My boycott stands, along with my boycott of the bigot chicken place.

Rejection sensitivity part 4/4

Rejection sensitivity part 3/4

My year-long boycott of Target has taught me I don't need Target.

With Alt Text. Books, plays, and poetry have this thing called subtext. Whatever this “tool” would do would lose all that.

I feel so seen by this. Rejection sensitivity is one of the hardest parts of my ADHD.

Overturn Citizens United and ban lobby groups.

WSJ is a propaganda outlet for the Epstein Class.

THEN WHAT ARE THEY FOR? Nebraska hasn't impeached a governor since before WWI. But this governor has committed more than enough offenses. Subverting the will of the voters repeatedly, covering up a death on his farm, no bid 2.5 million contract to a mistress, using a slur at an official town hall.

nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/pille... Nebraska Governor: the people speaking isn't actually them speaking. For the record, it is. FUCK YOU JIM PILLEN. SUBVERTING BALLOT INITIATIVES IS BAD ACTUALLY.

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He literally did the “have you tried not being poor”…

Anybody who ever says shit like this is too much of a wimp to be poor. A week of the added poverty fees would knock his ass out.

See also: Academic circles looking down on a lot of “lesser genres”…

This is one of many reasons I have so much respect for Ebert (the other being his ability to bring other voices in the room). Art can be entertaining without needing to be a deep lasting masterwork. Harold Bloom would never have said something like that about Wheel of Time

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Millionaires stopped paying into Social Security for the rest of 2026 today. Billionaires stopped paying in on January 1st. You're going to pay in for 298 more days. This makes zero sense. The wealthy should pay in all year like the rest of us. Scrap the cap.

He literally doesn't know what "asylum" means in a migration context. Embarrassing-ass timeline.

This is an escalation by DHS. Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines. Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

Talking like he’s playing a Creative Assembly game. In real life that’s a war crime.

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

That statement is enough from Hasbro for me to move more and more permanently to Warhammer. Games Workshop has their own flaws, but they didn't sign a deal with a TERF.

Normally, the Onion doesn’t miss, but the way this one is worded reads to me in two ways: - underplaying how dismissive of meaningful art forms Chalamet was. - is itself dismissive of another meaningful art form rooted in its culture that isn’t mainstream by western standards.

I’ll point out that people were convicted at Nuremberg for similar statements.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

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One thing I keep seeing as Trump wages a war of aggression against Iran, is the stories of the truth of what our military did in Iraq are being shared: widely, publicly. I feel like there could be a reckoning coming for the US War Machine run by - and for the profit of - the Epstein Class.

"Bluey has no business being as good as it is". STOP. IT ABSOLUTELY DOES. Just because it's for kids doesn't mean it can't be written with emotional honesty, empathy, and written in a way to grow with its audience. Children deserve stories that don't talk down to them.

The Ellisons’ new Paramount/Warner Bros mega-media monopoly would never pass muster if America still had antitrust enforcers. So who can stop this? State attorneys general. Here's how. ⬇️ https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-paramount-mega-media-monopoly/?source=group-ShortText

katherineneedlemanoboist.substack.com/p/to-my-daug... ON POINT ABOUT CHALAMET HATING ON OPERA. "Finally, someone who can mock an opera singer when he has clearly never spent a moment studying music is so arrogant and dumb that you don’t want to be in a room with him."

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Shia LaBeouf stumbled so Timothée Chalamet could fall

scientifically speaking, pretty much any opera singer could snap Timothée Chalamet like a twig