Good old days

Democrats, coming off a historic national protest against fascism and a country-wide electoral sweep:

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Polls closed a full 2 minutes ago where are my NJ governor election results?

they already shut down all the positive services the government provides, hell they even fired all the civil servants who normally get brought up as vulnerable to furlough. dems shouldn't let them turn the government back on until they agree to immense concessions.

Call those senators (and house reps) folks

Replace any word in a Star Trek title with “knob.” The Measure of a Knob.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Slightly diminish a book 1997: A Space Odyssey

If only there were a way to build housing more densely than single family homes maybe these states could make headway on this massive housing shortage in specific areas. I guess the technology just isn’t there yet sadly.

...yeah? I don't have firsthand memories of much of his first term, but I read my old tweets and it was obvious to me what Trump wanted to do, and that if he got back into power after losing it, he would only listen to the people who enabled, encouraged, and agreed with him. The granola stuff...

✨🏳️‍⚧️ Belated Pride Comic (1/4) 🏳️‍⚧️✨

I wonder if there was a viable plot buried somewhere in SNW's 4.5 Vulcans. The transformed folks got some of Spock's mind (the logic/mental discipline is a learned skill). There's a plot there about Spock being forced to deal with his own internalized bigotry and shame over his identity.

@govmurphy.bsky.social @mikiesherrill.bsky.social I hate to say New Jersey should be copying anyone, but this would be an extremely welcome bit of policy.

Read this. To the end. Then take the anger and grief and throw it at everyone who is supposed to be representing you and isn’t.

New covid shots are out in the US! If you're 16-64 years old you need to be in a "high risk" group, but that includes anyone with a BMI over 25 (this is not high). Also, lying about being high risk to decrease the spread of a dangerous disease is ethical when the high risk req is pure bullshit.

“I’m sick of these purity tests. NO CANDIDATE is perfect. Newsom may not care about homeless people or trans people but he’s the ONLY ONE hiring social media posters to ask ChatGPT to talk like Trump”

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring. (Not entirely sure he counts as a character of if that was just who he really was)

this is really worth a read. it's the antithesis of "heartwarming: this child mowed lawns to pay for his mom's cancer treatment" what's a small change you can make that people in your area might support?

I feel like this is a massive fuckup even by NYT standards

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

What in the absolute fuck. Not doing this (or doing it half assed) is going to kill a lot of people.

I just called my senators for the first time to tell them to be better at opposing everything going on. It was surprisingly easy! If you're American you should also call your senators right now. Takes like 2 minutes a pop. Tell them to vote no on everyone and obstruct everything in the senate.

Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights

heartwarming story for the holidays ❤️‍🔥 “…the neo-Nazis told police they had never experienced a response like the one they received in Columbus. They said people pulled guns on them and threw cans and vegetables as they marched... One of the officers noted the men were ‘covered in’ pepper spray.”

Jon Steward has had some... not great takes here and there over the last few years, but it was nice to see him push pretty aggressively back against the whole "Democrats lost because they're so very woke" narrative and point out they ran as Republican-lite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKBJ...

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

Was kid-me oblivious to houses handing out alcohol to adults during trick or treating or is this new? I did like two (long) blocks with my preschooler and three of the houses were giving out beer.

Post a scene from your favorite episode of Star Trek

I don't know if anyone else gets anxious about phone calls but a little tip I've learned is: if there is a phone call that I don't want to make, before I start dialing the number, I carefully hold the phone in my hand & toss it gently into a lake. I hope this advice helps others.

Ok so Turducken is acceptable but my Pigcowlamb is "an affront to humanity" and "how did you get the cow in the pig"

Great how one eleventh of House Republicans won't actively support giving a powerful US govt position to a man who supports overthrowing US Constitutional democracy. Sure, their actions show they still think nothing could be worse than working with Democrats to help America. But it could be worse.