“Why u so tired today quist?” “I stayed up way past bad time fruitlessly scrolling for a single skeet explaining why ppl thought Trump was dead. Hours. The knowledge has been lost from our world”

Nice thing about California is it’s warm enough you can just leave a window cracked and if it happens the cheering spreading across the rooftops will wake you up

This is how you *know* manifesting ain’t real. 😭

This is part of the reason why invoking the “non-violent” tactics of the civil rights era is not helpful right now.

I'm still thinking of the fact that Zohran Mamdani went on The View, said "abolish ICE" and then got a round of applause

All of these democrats have AMAZING health care, by the way. But they think *you* can go to hell

Pressing play on that new Game of Thrones series because I hate myself and want to suffer.

“I try all things; I achieve what I can.” Relatable 📖🐋

key detail most US media isn't reporting: "No one — certainly not the ICE agents themselves — is even really bothering with the pretext that they’re here to make the city safer. This is Donald Trump’s revenge campaign, and they’re the foot soldiers."

If we're gonna start a Starbuck thread, I just have to include a shoutout to Ethan Hawke for a pretty good Starbuck in an otherwise lackluster Moby Dick (William Hurt as Ahab didn't quite do it for me) 🐋

Great summation of why I was probably never going to have a career in journalism even if circumstances had been better. lol.

Oh. OOOOOH. Now that's a hot Ishmael. Maybe too hot? Like, he's gonna have to try real hard to seem goofy. I believe in him though. Counterpoint: a more recent Tom Hardy could also be an excessively hot/doomed Starbuck. 🐋

Me reading about almost any period in history: Damn! People were dehydrated as FUCK all the time. 🐋 And all their food was preserved in SALT! wheeee!

BTW - I mentioned I downloaded that CLR James book on Melville that @chanda.blacksky.app posted about and I'm not far into it, but, fam, it goes hard. 🐋 (It's called Mariners, Renegades and Castaways)

That is, ah, how capitalism works, my bro.

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Yes! 🐋 (Also, I am also really bad a at this. I have crossed that line into being Too Old To Know Actors Now and have the opposite of IMDB-brain).

First nom - off the cuff - Paul Mescal. I can see him as both a frustrated young school master, and enveloped in the strong arms of a savage harpoonneer. It's in the eyes. 🐋

Ok MobyDickHeads: I think it's time. We had a warm-up with the Muppets convo, but it's time to really consider: Who would you cast in your dream prestige TV Moby Dick adaptation that does justice to all the novel's madness and is appropriately super gay?🐋 First up: who's your Ishmael?

For those who might be interested (you know who you are, sickos) there's a cute whale documentary series on Disney+ called Secrets of the Whales and it's narrated by Sigourney Weaver. 🐋

2035: Opening shot of Operation Maple Freedom (dir. James Cameron probs): "This film is dedicated to the brave mujahedeen fighters of Saskatchewan."

*stares into the midfield blankly, while memories of my first presidential election in 2000 crowd out images of people being kidnapped by masked federal agents * Dignity? Oh, I've heard of that.

waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

Nobody: Absolutely no one: Herman Melville: the sweetest way to die would be to drown in the spermaceti oil within a sperm whale's head 🐋

Where do I get this tattooed? Left butt cheek? 🐋

A masterwork. Turning the page to reveal this illustration gave me goosebumps. 🐋

🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

[person in Minneapolis beaten half to death and dragged off to a concentration camp] You’re right Senator, sorry I got distracted sir! Egg prices are really - [kicked unconscious by ICE thugs]

So that is why Gavin Newsom has been laying the groundwork for his presidential campaign by heavily signifying to fascists that the hears them and is willing to listen & even concede to their bullshit. It is why there is no reason to believe that he, himself, is not a fascist or fascist sympathizer.

*ICE smashing my windshield and pulling me out of my car on my way to drop my kids off at preschool* this is just a distraction from the fact that avocados are $3

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

That Twilight Zone episode with the omnipotent child who murders people with every tantrum comes back to me more than any other over the years as I consider US politics.

It’s also funny because this is not only the moral position but it’s also becoming the popular position.

Haha- yessss khive!! Come out and let everyone know her politics on immigration we’re, in fact, garbage!! Let him have it!!

Democrats: Make Fascism Affordable™

This shit has started to make more sense upon learning they have quotas and are rewarded based on arrests, whether or not that person is later released. Paid state terrorists.

I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.

this is what the nail girlies are up to

I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point someone shoots back at ICE. And when they do- and maybe save a life- and stand up to murderers- you should be prepared to stand with them. Or fuck right off.

One again, community self defense is not “taking the bait” or “playing into their hands.” We are so far beyond that.

Oh no, this might give them the excuse to do what they are already doing

“A pastor here is also director of the field office for ICE… so someone teaching people about God is out there overseeing ICE agents. How dare you.” Twin cities protestors disrupt a church service at an ICE field office director’s church. (H/T @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social )

One of the ways it’s reminded of the the Quijote to be honest 🐋

One of those “If it’s true you don’t actually have to say it” things. He’s right that there’s a lot of projection going on though.

They’re murdering people in the streets sure, but have you considered they didn’t make housing more affordable?

Ishmael looking at attractive men: a series. 🐋

People will do literally anything to avoid saying the American left was right

No surprise to librarians, but perhaps surprising to users, demands/prices for ebooks /audiobooks are killing public library budgets. David Szalay's book, Flesh,” costs DCPL: $28.99 hardcopy $59.99 ebook $69.99 audiobook DCPL owns hardcopy; rents & must repurchase ebook & audio book every 2 yrs.