If I could strike one word from the vernacular, it would be “performative”. It’s overused. It’s lost meaning. It serves no one in any material way. It’s almost always used as a bludgeon to mock anyone who supports something the person who used it doesn’t like. Trash word, it needs to go away.

My millennial rise

I subscribed to The Verge when it was first available. The formula for me was one part being a reader since jump, one part ethics policy, and one part articles like this. If I didn’t have a nagging voice telling me that it would be unreasonable to have more than one sub, I would.

I am really intrigued by these moments in history people point to, as to say, “haha they were dumb in the past”; as if they are completely unaware that they are also capable of the same level of error.

An entire community crying out REVISIONISM and the revisionism is actually the revisionism they are doing. Just yesterday I was irritated by “did you even read this” ass people but fr did you?

Super vindicating to have spent an entire decade feeling like a space alien while watching the entire country fall for an obvious maneuver meant to enhance a police state and strip your rights, but finding out 20 years later that everyone on Bluesky knew the whole time actually.

No love for the backbone of the conservative movement (auto dealerships) but Carvana loan rates are borderline criminal

ACAB includes ACME Crime Detectives

Whatever the pope is doing for the sox has to stop

My entire life the very people that warned us of where we heading were mocked ferociously by almost all sides of media, politics, and day to day life as paranoid and unrealistic yet here we are.

I’ve seen a lot of great songs mentioned but it’s probably “crank that (Soulja Boy)” by Soulja Boy. Track was even dropped on MySpace and made it to billboard and I just do not know how you get more millennial than that. In the 2000’s you could just do that.

Speaking of! Kate Beaton is one of the best to ever do it imho. Hark was in my regular rotation. I bought Ducks as soon as it came out, and folks, she’s still got it.

Sometimes I see a character in a sketch or webcomic and think about how everything after the aughts has a shade of Kate Beaton in it.

Important news: The MC in Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata wa Yuri no Hana sleeps with a blahaj

Going to start self id’ing as gen x

It seems like we might be on our way to “it’s illegal to say mean things about me”

It’s a matter of perspective as to whether or not this is cursed or blessed, but it’s within arms reach. I have a definitely cursed series of “child development” books from the 40’s but that not within reach.

I spend a lot of time not letting it get to me for a girl who it is def getting to

It is the right of every person to have a bad opinion occasionally, but a ratio must be maintained. A low shit take to woaw ratio.

re-upping this since I have read the Farrow/Marantz article and it turns out many are saying this.

Crazy how ai is just a trillion dollar cp generator. Billionaires will never beat the pedo allegations like this.

Ik I’m lttp on this but the summer hikaru died is horny as hell

Is it crazy that I think the Supreme Court waited until today to strike down conversion therapy bans

i think about this moment from a live performance of "Missionary Man" by The Eurythmics a lot. perhaps our horniest harmonica-based content

Check local number estimates yourself. St. Paul was definitely more than 100K (State Patrol). Why?

We escaped the monoculture just to give ourselves over to a new one. Not better, nor worse, but just as bad. I hold hope that what is happening is the last gasps of whatever it is, but it continues on. Maybe I should have a cigarette. Excess ain’t rebellion but it sure is relieving.

I really think HyperCard deserves more love than this www.theverge.com/cs/tech/9004...

My understanding of what happened here is they found that these companies designed their services to be addictive and punished them for doing that, and that this specifically has nothing to do with content. I do not know the ends of these means but I believe they are correct.

like wizards they pier into reflecting pools, scry tea leaves, and shout to the heavens trying to divine the answer to one eternal question: who do we need to kill to make everyone love us?

I’m going to throw my phone into the ocean www.theverge.com/news/897145/...

My IM prescription was also not able to be fully filled although they talk about patches here I’m nearly certain it’s related. Funny enough, there was a similar shortage during Covid when some geniuses believed estrogen would protect them from severe cases.

Fullmetal Alchemist plot twist what if this is so they can fin fight Jesus?

When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's no moon, it's a space station

My youngest child, on being at the doorstep of his teens - “I get what the emos are about now”

Pella spotted

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Only an occupying entity uses language like “leaving behind a small security force”

sometimes I find myself wanting to get into sports but then I realize it’s just nostalgia and I need to cut that shit out

Being earnest is very important

Important to recognize that ICE has not left Minnesota, they are just moving to where they think there is less organizing structure to combat them. They want you to forget. Great coverage as usual by @theverge.com www.theverge.com/policy/87871...

It seems like common knowledge but when you try to explain the causal links from a forum banning hentai leading to the rise of fascism to a normal person they look at you like the patient mother of a neurodivergent child (I’m autistic)

imo, the most insane thing to come out of the epstein files is not that rich men are sex pests. it's that he appears to have been behind or involved with in some way, every movement to unravel liberal democracy and equality in the western world www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

phrasing

Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle

Thankfully this electrifying moment doesn’t just have to live in my heart—which it will, forever—because thanks to @solace.bsky.social it will also be available for a jolt of fiery solidarity when we need it again. youtu.be/LLMKAxFtjB8

Shout out to the burbs. People are out there on street corners being heard. Out there doing mutual aide. Out there looking after their neighbors. You’re the best!

minnesota fucking him up so bad he released the Epstein files