Can't stop thinking about the McSweeney's Sad Dad Bands, (first published January 14, 2022.) Back on Twitter, I started a thread of my own riffs on Sad Dad Bands on January 17, 2022. Here is that thread, recreated. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

Sufjan Stevens Been years since you got mad that he only made 2 of 50 state albums. For a while you coped by naming each release to a state, but since Carrie & Lowell you've decided this must be what church felt like to your grandma. It's rapturous, even as laundry soundtrack.

I really wish Raul Julia was still with us. youtu.be/dpoPe_hFEbY?...

I’m bound for mu-mu land if anyone is wondering.

After this semester’s grades are in I will officially have an MSW! #socialwork

JD Vance says he’s “made it” because he was in South Park but he has actually been represented in popular media since 1983 #starwars

Velvet-purple Coronet, sticking its tongue out at me. At @montezumalodge.bsky.social #Colombia #birds #hummingbirds

I love how conservatives think that people under 18 are “too young to make decisions” until it’s time to force teenagers to give birth, recruit for the military, or chastise people for being in poverty because they dropped out of high school.

Seriously friends, 99% of my cases are things nobody ever hears about. 99% of my activism isn't shit I post about. Assuming people only do what you see on social media isn't just inaccurate, it's actively harmful.

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest

Oh no, consequences #westvirginia www.wvnews.com/business/wes...

Found this among some old papers. Don’t remember where I got it but it made me happy

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years." - France Minister for the EU

MAYHEM IS AMAZING

Cutting over $1B from school meals and food banks to “purge spending” is peak cruelty. This takes food off kids’ trays, guts local farms, and starves food banks—just to hand more money to billionaires. Trump and Musk’s dystopian priorities in action. We must block this insanity.

Also you don't have to be Jewish to apply:

My longtime suspicion that the vast majority of conservative fear and anger are performative just keeps getting proven correct.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

"Higher rural unemployment rates mean a readily available workforce. Quality employees stay put rather than 'shopping around' for the next best job." This is from the Athens County, Ohio Economic Development Council and it sent chills down my spine.

#WestVirginia, can we write to @sanders.senate.gov and ask him to come here?

I’d love to see @sanders.senate.gov come to West Virginia. People love him here and I think it would inspire a lot of folks to realize that there’s another way forward for poor and working-class folks.

once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

We don't have a Costco in WV, but I'm going to start buying as much stuff from them online as I can.

Is having to remind male coworkers that they aren’t your boss a common experience for women?

If we have any hope as a society, we absolutely have to teach our children about causality and interconnectedness.

I wish schools taught more about the interconnectedness of everything. By the time we get to high school I feel like we should start to have an understanding of how everything affects everything else. (White, Western) people don’t generally think like that, and we’re really suffering for it now

BREAKING: A bill resurrecting the death penalty is moving. SB 264 would impose capital punishment for the intentional killing of a police officer or first responder. The death penalty is not justice. West Virginia wisely abolished it 60 years ago. Call Senate Judiciary Committee members now.

I made this for my D&D group and now you all have to look at it too.

Welp.

I’m probably tagged as an engagement farmer because I get really enthusiastic about following people 😕 oops

If Barbara Ehrenreich wasn’t already dead this would have killed her

I don’t ever want to hear another WV Republican complaining about the declining population in this state.

“I hope, Senator, after you've lost, and the Empire reigns over the galaxy unopposed, you will find some comfort in the knowledge that you fought according to the rules.” — Saw Gerrera

I'll have you know my characters plot armor works in reverse and actively ruins their lives

So the Department of Education now has a portal to report on schools and districts that allegedly practice DEI. Cool. This is not at all like Stalinism.

God would still love you if you were a worm

Up until about thirty seconds ago I thought “Malört” was just a shitposty way of spelling “Merlot”.

I'd love to see something like this in North Central WV.

People assume Andrew Cuomo is tough and A Fighter because he always looks angry and acts weird. Mistaking a total lack of emotional self-regulation and wild, self-destructive spite for Masculine Strength is one of the defining political errors to me. No one even tries to keep it together anymore.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

Nobody should listen to James Carville and nobody would if cable TV didn't keep booking him because he's "colorful."

I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from Ursula K. LeGuin. Arguments are often made about the moral utility of fantasy and genre. And yet, there many for whom it may be their only window to a better world… where it can speak to our understanding in an almost primal way.

ok so what gets called "gender ideology" is jsut like "be who and how you want" and what gets called "not ideology" is like "follow these specific unwritten rules and perform these forbidden rituals according to the circumstances of your birth"

My husband got me a Monty Mole for Valentine’s Day.