UBI and a healthy social safety nets system would also cut back on domestic abuse and child abuse just saying

Immigration enforcement has quieted but continues around Chicago. An analysis by the Sun-Times and WBEZ found that 580 people have been detained in the area from Jan. 1 through mid-March.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, and Grogu

shoutouts to the teenagers at my last choir concert who did the six seven gesture between two of our pieces for reasons unknown

listening to the mkw remix of the original smk battle music on repeat. soyo oka really is the goat

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

I'm sorry to say, but if you have no boobs you need to wear longer pants. I don't make the rules. I was just assigned larger bust example at birth.

anyway shoutout newpipe. youtube with no ads and i can listen to audio in the background and download videos to share them directly. gotta be one of my favorite apps.

martina's terfery feels like the worst betrayal to me of the various public figures. i thought she was so cool as a kid

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

been hearing about ppl using duolingo for chess and i just can't imagine it's better for that than chess dot com or like.... anything else

my autistic experience of having to learn every basic-ass truism from first principles

Brb sobbing at Maddie Blaustein, the voice actress who played Meowth, writing about kids writing to her about being trans (and also how doing the voice acting for the episode Go West, Young Meowth made such an impact on her she came out mid recording I'M SOBBING) Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

thailand is one of the safest places in the world right now to be trans, but there is no way to change assigned sex on any legal documents & people were pushing back against trans women trying to advocate for this up until just 2025 when a bill for this began circulating in parliament

without disco there’d be no house music, and without that no Detroit techno and no raves. raving and techno are both Black creations, and it all traces back to disco.

real OCD day today 😭

everybody’s gone mad for vatican gossip but i for one can’t stop thinking about cardinal burke insisting on traditional gender roles but feminine grammar rules

A lot of cis women hate being women, and thing trans women are mocking them because they can’t IMAGINE fighting not just to be a woman but a successful determined one And I have no BLESSED IDEA what we need to say to make them stop making it everyone else’s problem

i do try not to make "smartness" a framework for all sorts of reasons.... but it is nice to hang out with my friend who tells me i'm smart a lot lol. something is being seen there

singing bass 1 (instead of bass 2) for the first time in my life

KINDLY OLD MAN: well howdy there young lady, whats got yew lookin so down ? ME: i have katy perry singing in simlish stuck in my head KOM: oh. ME: yup KOM: i do got a pistol with a single shot in it ME: youre so kind

i'm so smug that i don't put hearts/stars on my storygraph or letterboxd reviews. words, feelings, themes! that is how to be with art

the dynamics of normie vs. weeb art is so funny sometimes. my friend's entire psyche will get one-shot by franziska von karma, nothing has been more obvious in my life, but i gotta get her to play two video games first

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

anxiety day

The means-testing thing is so pernicious man. Designed in a lab to sow resentment, degrade the public good, shrink services and transfer costs away from government coffers and to individuals’ post-tax income

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

Public libraries, not just schools. There is no possibility of peaceful coexistence.

Edward Hopper New York Movie *1939

articles that write about how "important" immigrant workers are to "the economy" without ever acknowledging that the reason they are important is that they can be treated worse for less pay

One time, years ago I tweeted about how banana nut bread it is that some French cartoonists work so fast, how do they do it?? They must go straight to ink! And Joann Sfar responded to me and said "sometimes I use a pencil!" SOMETIMES I USE A PENCIL

i have more power to achieve yet as a choral singer but i do enjoy being among other professional singers who have actually responsibly looked through their music beforehand and i'm still faster and more accurate and more artistic on a sightread

Straight people DO NOT want to admit that’s what their anti social media bills are really about: keeping queers isolated.

i also think it's a really funny metaphor since a litmus test reveals what a substance actually is (acidic or basic) which is actually useful information

if you write a book the wrong way the book police show up at your house and kill you

I have been laughing about this for the last 10 minutes solid, just trying to comprehend the series of coding disasters that let them turn my loyalty points into a high-precision float

A startling recreation of the North Bersted Iron Age warrior wearing his (not at all) ostentatious crested helmet The warrior's damaged vertebrae suggest that he wore this hat quite a lot in life © Artas Media 2019 📷 March 2026 at the #Novium Happy #FindsFriday

I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”

well we know he’s not a fan of lefties.

what an impoverished way to think. do we not believe in beauty? the connection our hands have to hands bygone, their letters, reaching out with different pens and parchments across the same lonelinesses? oh but maybe someday you can dream of signing a check with the vestiges of a dead art

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 25,1958

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

another OCD + anxiety day

are there any more things like this