"I heard this voice saying, 'Good evening, Mr. Dowd.' I turned around, and here was this big six-foot rabbit leaning up against a lamppost. Well, I thought nothing of that because when you've lived in a town as long as I have, you get used to the fact that everybody knows your name." - "Harvey"

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

a term popularized by who and what now

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/31/o... [gift link]

Disturbing. This study suggests that just one encounter with a syncophantic chatbot tends to "erode prosocial motivations," even for sophisticated users.

is there some reason they dress him as Dracula now

"Stop overreacting, they're never going to do that."

"'Cause I don't know enough about killing to kill him."

Here is the image, via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, that stirred the White House's ire

“The number of immigrants in ICE custody has nearly doubled in the last 14 months,“ and the country’s largest immigration facilities are described as “places where disease and illness are rampant and detainees are often denied sufficient food, clean drinking water, medications & medical care.”—GIFT

“Fascism is constantly and deliberately shrinking the definition of who is considered a person. Art, especially art made by and for marginalized populations, does the opposite. It expands and complicates our understanding of the human condition.” open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

When someone says something positive or even just neutral about their life, you really don't need to jump in with the Must Be Nice energy. People on here have Must Be Niced me on here for having friends, having a therapist, and considering buying better sheets. We're all having a bad time, people.

just remembered i have to go to work tomorrow. this is so fucked up. this should be illegal.

My take on the Lindy West situation is that I will never write a memoir and could never be in a relationship with someone who might. People are not ready for the messy reality of each other's lives pretty much ever.

Really not loving how basically every politician on the planet is jumping on board with these types of age verification laws, tbh!

Can’t believe the Bluesky mods haven’t found a way to ban us all from saying “did it happen?”

"[T]he roughly 100 male veterans who are newly diagnosed [with breast cancer] each year ... will have to show their cancer was connected to their military service, a burden that has often been hard to meet."

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

I wrote about the right-wing media campaign to weaponize what she said: www.readtpa.com/p/they-know-...

They Know What "Wrong Place, Wrong Time" Means Right-wing media has a formula: take a common phrase, pretend it means something monstrous, and pound away until a scandal exists. They just did it to a Chicago alderwoman. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

"[T]he pope ... criticiz[ed] anyone who would invoke Jesus Christ to justify a war."

We should be considering worst case scenarios for this:

A friend sent me and @prisonculture.bsky.social a photo this morning of the Italian translation of Let This Radicalize You. Our friend has been traveling in Italy, and has talked to people there who have found the book meaningful. I am so honored that people so far away are finding our words useful.

How much is too much to spend on sheets?

Rahm Emanuel is the problem, not the answer

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

jesus christ man you're supposed to at least pretend the subject of your profile didn't write the lede himself

Man, The older I get the more this shit annoys me. Why would you want to waste the magical imagination of world-building just to make guys shoot other guys. Are you 4 and just figured out how to make gun sounds with your mouth or what

The title here is misleading, because it makes it sound like she's psychic. She's a volunteer for a safe-use line, and she's saved multiple lives. Worth a read.

i see this and i raise you: they made the right decision because a gen xer who brags about their work "not being political" is absolutely the worst person i can think of to write star trek, especially today. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/p...

And don't forget about the ladder engagement. Ask for a low lift thing, then a medium lift and then the harder lift. Don't start with the hard lift first.

If you're engaged in organizing that needs more people to join, share those opportunities in every way you can. Invite people to join in. Keep making the invitations because most people don't join the first time you ask. For every 10 people you invite, you might get one person who will take it up.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

I’m just not here for any demobilizing or disorganizing talk right now. If you have alternate paths and plans, issue those invitations. We need them. But demobilizing and disorganizing won’t make us stronger or better. And like it or not, in this incredibly fascist moment, this imagery does matter

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

Paused MAD MEN while Ted Chaough’s partner was in the hospital and the HBO Max interstitial ad made it look like his dying wish was for a Whopper.

Showing up to the protests, demanding my paid agitator check

I truly don't care that I had 57K or so followers on Twitter. The place became an unbearable toxic bot cesspool after the Musty took over, and it was hardly tolerable before that. Oh no, I'm not being subjected to violent racist and misogynist abuse 24/7? Boy I'm sure missing out.

To treat the need for rapid climate mitigation as just another political opinion is in itself a form of journalistic activism, pretending to be centrist.

Ah, you think No Kings is going to accomplish anything? It's nothing compared to my approach of never being around other people for any reason

BOSTON NO KINGS!! #NoKings #WeSayNoKings

Holy shit you guys. Look at this!

BELOW: How Chicago feels about kings.

Thousands in Harrisburg, PA; so many groups are tabling, a student led group is selling brownies to fundraise for the unhoused. People from the stage are shouting out groups and telling people how to get more involved with them. This is the point.

The difference between these two is racism

No Kings is pretty cool in my experience. I see Palestinian flags all the time, younger and older people wearing keffiyehs, the local SJP tables next to the local Indivisible, etc.

Bad back day. No march for me. Sending love to everyone in the streets.