When we blew through 2024 with neither the Irish Reunification or the Bell Riots, I got a really bad feeling about which universe we‘re living in.

It's only a Minotaur if it's from Crete, otherwise it's just a sparkling bullman.

aw her blankie maybe all the kids in her concentration camps can put together a collection and she can fall in a fucking manhole and die

We can still support local journalism—I just set up a recurring donation for @atlpresscollective.com and you can too! every little bit helps.

Went to summer camp with the love interest from My Girl 2.

Going to disagree with Rick here. Google is not, in fact, a utility - even if people treat it like one - because it is not regulated like one. The very existence of Google Books is the scandal - the offloading of core functions to Google's services while we defund libraries is the scandal.

Sleigh Bells in a Super Bowl ad. 2010 Williamsburg is back baby! Sabrina Carpenter is gonna start dating a carpenter in a deep V! We back up!

I persist to spite the horrors.

that tweet about how vance has 4chan politics with tumblr cadence - "pretty problematic of you to want to tax the rich when there's literally a (checks notes) white genocide going on right now"

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

There's a bit in an Octavia Butler book where an alien touches plastic and is like WTF *IS* THAT, THAT IS SOME TOXIC SHIT and it lives rentfree, etc.

Guilty laughing at the poor manatee being like — what? WHAT? Bro, why are you— STOP, what’s your deal?!

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

The sky’s been going all bright pinks and blues; from my window I see bare tree branches, then the city skyline with all the lights just twinkling on, then the vibrant sky as the backdrop.

Just had to google if this was true or a dream I had: Ariana Grande made a music video with lookalikes of Sleater-Kinney and Kim Deal and everyone was judging her for stolen (coolness) valor, since she could‘ve just asked the real musicians. (A: Dream. Ariana‘s doing just fine w/o their blessing.)

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

7yo, home from opening night of her first big school play, collapses into a chair and sighs dreamily. “I got so much attention.” Oh god. Chat. I think I have a theater kid.

NEW YORK TIMES OPINION PAGE Are Women Human?

DIRECTLY caused by the guy who's been publicly ranting about how there are too many non-white babies being born. Not to get histrionic on the internet, but there's a word for intentionally causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people based on race.

The first time I heard this quote — in a speech she was giving — those first 3 sentences stopped me dead in my tracks. A real “well, shit” moment for me, in the best kind of way.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Clouds in the west laid great shivering mirages on the plain, the shadows of dreams of lakes gone dry ten million years ago.

You know what this landscape needs? More trunkless legs of stone

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

There are almost always already people doing good stuff in your community. The best lesson I learned that it is not my job to reinvent the wheel. Just to find the wheel factories and ask them what they need.

Making a recurring donation to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. Now is a great time to either set one up or increase your existing support. Find a food bank near you: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

when a dude says "women just don't like science fiction" what you should hear is "women just don't like me." that is what they are saying

SEXY TNG WORF CRUSHER PICARD CHAIN OF COMMAND

A movie where there's something deeply wrong with the society that surrounds the main character, but nobody can see or will outright lie about it, so everyone is pretending things are normal while the main character slowly loses their mind to the horror That's what it's like living in America

god I love librarians. absolutely the best people. want the rock-solid principles of a leftist community organizer with the compassion and thoughtfulness of a great teacher, but also the systems-organizational mind of the best project manager? Try librarians! They're also really nice and like books

In retrospect, I admit “sometimes it’s like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a 6-inch valley through the middle of my skull” IS a better rhyme, but “through the middle of my soul” is way more emo — and also how I’ve always sung it — so I will be making no changes at this time.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

Data.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

A true description of life past 40.

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

giving to this was deeply satisfying, and I recommend you give it a try. DO IT, GOOD PEOPLE

What WOULDN’T Paul Farmer do?, asked no one.

It’s so important to not let yourself become bitter or disheartened or cynical. To not let the news of the world break your spirit. Because I’m already doing that. It’s my thing. Find your own, stop copying me.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Demonizing a group that’s already four times as likely to be violently assaulted. Pointing a group of angry gun owners looking for someone to blame toward people already at significantly higher risk of being murdered. We live in such an amoral hellscape.

Doxxing people randomly for their attacks is how fascists intimidate the majority.

One thing Charlie Kirk's assassination has revealed is the extent to which the elite liberal media class has abandoned reality for a post-truth politics previously embraced by the right.

I'm really fond of this one lately

And an all too relatable one. 😫

Maybe not my forever fav but it always makes me laugh. AND has good advice.