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.

Even just remembering the phrase “none pizza with left beef” will make me start cackling out loud to myself.

NOT always, though. Ask LA and DC, for example. He backs down in response to public pressure, at least partly, it seems. If he always backed down, his plans wouldn’t matter. We have to take them seriously and raise hell to try to get exactly this outcome.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Nightstand Mr. Caspian The Jaunt of the Dawn Treader The Pony and his Toddler The Silver Stool The Sleight-of-Hand Performer’s Nephew The Last Squabble (…I make my own fun.)

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

Drop an old person you're going to turn into in the future

The way it seems to stop and go out of its way to shove the shopping cart, like a drunk guy spoiling for a fight.

Robot doing the Lucy Ricardo assembly line bit with the number of b’s in blueberry

My body is a temple: an attention-grabbing surprise on the DC beltway

It is remarkably frustrating to me to watch a system break down against a kind of threat its systems were *designed* - reasonably well designed! - to defeat because everyone whose job it is to actually *do* that is busy hiding under their desks hoping against hope someone else will bell the cat.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

20yo barista wearing a brand new-looking Postal Service/Death Cab tour shirt. It’s because it’s retro, isn’t it? My bones crumble into dust.

In the forlorn wastes of the far future . . . the economy has expanded to fill the galaxy and the government has burgeoned to grow fat of the ever increasing graft and corruption. In this, last of all choices, alone and apart from happier destinies, Marco Rubio holds every job in the universe.

I feel like the phrase "Overton Window" is just in some sense topologically inadequate to describe the geometry of whatever the hell is happening

I'm not sure where everyone is getting their information from, but men need to have sex once every seven years or alternatively fight to the death in ritualistic combat with their best friend. Today, the biggest problem is that they don't have a friend to battle.

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!

It would be nothing, like NOTHING, for a handful of lefty donors to fund a pipeline for truly leftist media that could rival the fascist apparatus and give hundreds of fact-oriented journalists jobs and set up dozens, maybe hundreds, of local news outfits, fully staffed, for 5+ years or more