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In the professional aid world this is phrased as "everyone deserves human dignity" and "unmaintainable dependencies create unintentional harm". It's not controversial, but let's break down what that means 🧵👇

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

For the foreseeable future, the Reflecting Pool shall be known as the Strait of Warm Ooze. I don’t make the rules.

We must imagine Sisyphus concussed...

Can we all stop pushing the button please?

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Welcome to the United States yes we declared war on drugs yes the drugs won

Yves Klein, 1959, “Untitled blue monochrome (IKB 82)”

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Tom Lehrer once remarked, "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize." If not then, certainly now.

Man, Iran really took Trump to the cleaners. Eh?

TO BE CLEAR, I AM PERSONALLY NOT INTERESTED IN SEEING.

I was remound of Viking Kittens, which is now 23 years old. www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/viking...

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

Now, the internet no longer works. A Cliff confidently tells you that the speed limit in Utah is 10mph, and where before you could pull out your phone to prove him wrong, *now* you google it and get a digital Cliff that also bullshits at you just as confidently.

The ancient contracts call us forth once more.

"Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived." 😅

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

Man, what keeps you up late on a Friday night really changes as you get older

how sick would it be if they took down “and the john f. kennedy” right before a big burlap sack rolled off the roof

The crowd at the Kennedy Center is chanting “Start with the T.”

Drop a letter, ruin a movie: An-Man: The doings of Scott Lan, an unremarkable human male who affects received pronunciation, badly. Ad: 80's BMX sales reps talk about marketing to teenagers for 90 minutes. Tar Wars, Episode IV: The rise of Lucky Strike and Marl'baro.

Some heroes don't wear capes

Want to get super invested in the life and times of a disabled bumblebee?

A 40% pay increase, the right to walk off the job if federal agents (i.e. CBP/ICE) pose a threat to them *and* the contract expires in April 2028 so they can demand more ahead of the Olympics. Shoutout Local 11, shoutout unions.

Sadly, this putz will never understand just how close he came to a life-altering, if not -ending, moment of, "That was a stupid thing I did."

these are getting weird

Preemptive post:

if you are so insecure in your own masculinity that you need a SS-tattoo wearing rape-enthusiast serial liar and cheat to represent it for you, talk it out with your therapist, don't boast about it

Roses are red So's a kickball The hand is labor Elmo is capital.

Merge two(ish) movies Empire Records Strikes Back The Grand Budapest Hotel New Hampshire The Princess Bride Diaries

I should note here that if you do not recognize Warhammer for what it is, absurdist, this-one-goes-to-eleven, Rule-of-Cool-governed super-satire, -we probably can't hang and -you suck at media analysis, you think a setting with a character named Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau is SERIZ BIDNIZ, fukn yikes

Primary day in California. Stuck in my head for some reason...

I will omit a space first.

The filmmakers of 1958 Disney documentary "White Wilderness" imported lemmings to a location in Canada & forced them over a cliff, creating an enduring myth of lemmings driven to suicide. But the Norway lemming (Lemmus lemmus) has a new take on that myth: They go Viking BESERKER.

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Alan Moore’s latest novel has an acknowledgements section in which he thanks the universe, a moon goddess, and a python god. it also includes this line: “Existence is a stupefying stroke of luck and we should all feel grateful to be part of it, even when much of it's on fire and overrun by Nazis.”

I wouldn't have planted roses, but I'm glad the previous folks did.

BREAKING: Janice, last surviving member of rock group Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, disavows any connections to 250th anniversary concert promoted by WH 👇

Plein air oil painting of Zuckerberg's megayacht in flames on Lake Union in Seattle. 9"×12" oil on panel

I think about this a lot.

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

#Bloomscrolling Pale roses and dewy nasturtiums.

"Generally speaking, I think it takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up." organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

The perception that other people's labor is of no value and that ownership/possession is the only meaningful wealth is a hallmark of encroaching fascism. In this eighteen part essay, I will