i look more like my dad with every passing year.

"Waka Waka" is becoming the Boyd family song

Macbeth: SHIT

no one has ever loved a vocabulary builder like seven-year-old me

clean up nicely!

this is my first hangover. i feel christened.

"Unwritten" was literally written for forcing yourself to the library at 9:00 a.m. with a pounding headache on a Saturday morning

i understand that buddhism is prostelytizing but john kabat-zinn sucks

the lair of an evil-genius-23-year-old woman

ChatGPT ys to intelligence as monopoly moneye ys to diamonds

Ok, I'll buy the Washington Post. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

hot take: newspapers should not be run by people who dislike reading and thinking

there isn’t a better Books desk in the country than the one at the Washington Post. I’m not really sure there’s anything else to say

“Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments is being laid off” One-third. Wow. apnews.com/article/wash...

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

i have an intrusive desire to drag people who talk while i’m writing out of the library

"helter skelter" is the most criminally underrated beatles song :(

[Enter Puck]

this video single-handedly made me download tiktok.

if your boyfriend didn’t cause a gas leak at 5:00 am on your 23rd birthday, are you really 23?

You see ICU Nurse Alex Pretti assisting veterans learning to walk again. Donald Trump sees a domestic terrorist and suckers and losers.

New low for Trump approval today, at 39% of U.S. adults on average across dozens of pollsters. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

Chateaubriand was right about everything.

this weekend, i turn 23. what happens now?

Blue lobster from Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst’s ‘Versuch Einer Naturgeschichte Der Krabben und Krebse Nebst Eiener Systematischen Beschreibung Ihrer Verschiedenen Arten.’ Zürich: Berlin: J.C. Fuessley; G.A. Lange, 1782. University of Chicago Special Collections. #sciart #naturalhistory

Virginia Woolf on Wuthering Heights: “The impulse which urged her [Emily Bronte] to create was not her own suffering or her own injuries. She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book.”

From agriculture to meatpacking to service work, immigration enforcement functions as labor discipline. Minnesota’s mass strike against ICE points toward a reckoning with the agency that the labor movement can’t avoid.

Apologies for my delay, #LastMan200. I have been trying to think a way in to Chapter 2 of Mary Shelley’s THE LAST MAN amidst the horrors. But perhaps we can begin with Shelley’s meditations on the power of friendship, and on her yoking of gentleness to justice.

Everyone in Chicago saw how close this violence was if you interacted with these federal agents. There’s several photos of them directly pointing their weapons at members of the press. They will not stop their violence because that is their actual purpose. They exist to terrorize us into submission.

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse

The fundamental tenet of Robert Peel, who founded the first municipal police force in London, is that the police are the people and the people are the police. Once this connection is destroyed, you are simply an occupying force. This is why ICE should be withdrawn from Minneapolis, today.

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

All politicians do performative acts of service. Some choose to do pull-ups with soldiers while calling them "war fighters" and ignoring all of their worth and value other than hate and killing. Some choose to participate in homeless sweeps, and revel in throwing away what little people have left.

the only ice i support is the ice the gay hockey boys skate on

i've read the masque of anarchy more times than i care to admit in the last day

when things get really bad in a way that i cannot control, i read logic textbooks to calm myself down.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

kyle rittenhouse showed up to a protest with an ak-47 and trump lauded him as a hero.

“‘Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.’”

The fool slides o’er the ice that you should break.

like this a lot, just adding alt for accessibility, text search and such

Fascists aren't patriots.

He didn't "seem to" do it. He did it, repeatedly.

not having any monday, wednesday, friday, nor morning classes this semester is turning me into a complete sloth

whenever i reflect on the byron-southey beef, i remember that i am indeed not enough of a hater

Very important monster truck rally update: there was a proposal, and she said yes!