Omg same

God i hate dealing with Pokemon for Christmas presents. There are like 5 figures at the store, and if your kid happens to want a different one, congratulations, that one is from 2 years ago and costs 200% more on eBay. Or shall I buy more TCG cards? Surely our apartment isn't filled with them yet!

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Brunch and concerts and Netflix and shopping and sports will not sustain us, and that is what a lot of kids watch the adults around them spend their free time on. We have built this shitty societal infrastructure by pushing to the sidelines what matters, which is lifelong learning, art, and love

i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones

Every prompt to chatbot software is “generate me some text.” If it generated you some text, it performed its function correctly. It never lies, it never wants anything, it’s text generating software that generates text.

And THAT'S why Trump does weird things like bragging about not paying taxes for 19 years, or bragging about sexually assaulting women, or hanging his mug shot in the Oval Office...the point is not that he got arrested or evaded taxes or assaulted women. The point is: he got away with all of it.

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

The movement that will deliver progress for all Americans will be born out of the fight for Black liberation. It will not come from anywhere else. The systems that hold all working class Americans back are rooted in anti-Blackness.

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Every November my cousin texts to ask what my kids want for Christmas, I reply with a short list of ideas for my kids, and she writes back with 5-10links to specific items for each of her 2 her kids, each item its own text, delivered over the course of 20 minutes. 😬

how german public media is reporting about climate change

We're like five generations into modern feminism and women still have to assume that when you ask a colleague for feedback on a project, there's a good chance that he and a sex criminal will snigger about how it's evidence that you want his dick Also they have made up a racist nickname for you

I really thought we'd emerge from covid with an appreciation of the frailty of life. But Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan... the causal dehumanization of refugees... it's hard not to feel like we're all just bodies for the elite meat grinder.

when RWers say "grooming" they mean "threatening my patriarchal sexual authority, corrupting my property, damaging my goods." they don't actually mean anything to do with sexual abuse, which they see as perfectly permissible under the right circumstances.

along with the heinous literal crimes i think a lot about how there's a kind of moral, national crime in subjecting all of us to this, to this consuming our politics, committed against us by a number of powerful and connected people up to and including the president

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

THIS IS SO GOOD

Elementarpädagogin von ICE im laufenden Kindergartenbetrieb abgeführt. orf.at/stories/3410...

I want you to think about the worst person you know and how miserable they are and use that as motivation to keep going we are going to win

As the cold reality of Cuomo’s defeat sets in, this is a moment for centrists to ask themselves: Have we lost touch with the common voter? Get out and spend time in the tattoo parlors and dispensaries. The drag shows, community gardens and outsider art galleries where Real New Yorkers congregate

I just think that if you’re okay with people — adults, children, the elderly — starving, your soul is destined for dark places bc you are an evil person.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

These clips remind me of how The Great Divorce describes Napoleon in Hell: alone in a huge house, and all he can remember how to do is walk around and mutter about petty grievances.

they should play that clip saying the presidents priority is the ballroom in every food bank on a loop

"i thought it was a dojo." Ufff

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Listening to the new Lily Allen album while sewing Halloween costumes and also on my 4th day of having COVID. Altogether a very weird vibe.

Is this statement going too far? Idk man, the entire GOP apparatus right now is blatantly pointed at supporting child rapists in their child-raping endeavors, so I think anyone who’s still cool with that cannot be trusted for any reason.

Personally I think a really good reason for you to stop going to Thanksgiving with any MAGA relatives you may have is because you really cannot trust them not to sexually abuse your children

Wild how were so inundated w horrible things in the news that the Louvre Heist just feels like a delightful tale of daring do.

Are the BBQ dads also protesting? If they are, why aren't you writing infantilizing posts about them? If they aren't, why are you making fun of the middle aged women doing the work rather than taking these men to task?

Yes, omg!!

Trump posting a video of himself dropping a huge shit on America is probably the most accurate public statement he has ever made.

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

Do as much cool shit (traveling, learning fun things, spending time with people outside your culture and age cohort) as you can within your budget.

queen shit, rest in peace

This is literally how my twins talk to each other

I hope the Riyadh festival kills the self-serving pretence that comedians are typically fearless truth-tellers, taboo-busters and champions of free speech. A few are. Most are just entertainers who like attention and money

I know I'm beating a dead horse but I can't get over how fucking dumb Trump and Melania look when the escalator stops and they don't know what to do.

Fascism is easiest when people fit neatly in social boxes. Because that way, it's easier to compel people to stay in their boxes and to enforce hierarchical systems that give some boxes more power than others. Trans people and people with ASD often challenge the whole premise of the social box.

I'm thought my German evangelical relatives would be critical of the Charlie Kirk rally (bc of the Nazi stuff) but evidently the take is, "well the wife bore Christian witness so that's good." Is everyone insane?

Patiently waiting for maga people and my most irritating cousins to suddenly disappear

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

Ok but if all the people who think they're getting raptured really would simply disappear on Wednesday, the world would be an objectively more pleasant place, right?

My 7yo daughter's favorite line to quote from movies is "Kevin, I wouldn't let you sleep in my bed if you were growing on my ass" -- and TBH it kills every time.

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!