Illinois Supreme Court Declares That Pre- and Post-Work Activities Are Compensable

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #InternationalWomensDay🧵 From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1

Abisag Tüllmann, Fronleichnamsprozession auf dem Eisernen Steg, Frankfurt am Main, 1964

I have taken a stand on something that matters. I will not like or share or upvote anything that includes bro or bruh

it turns out this was a bad idea

On top of the abhorrent treatment of artists, the platform has become practically unusable. I tried to gather a list of the podcasts I follow and its not possible. It just shows an algorithmic stream you must sift through and it's mostly video recommendations.

#phantomsfriday Haunted by Regrets by Richard Tennant Cooper (1855-1957) In the mode of Felician Rops, Cooper had a phantasmagorical fascination with macabre themes, including death, disease & sin.

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There's a good episode of American Auto that satirizes this. A nationally-known serial killer is on the loose & driving one of the company's vehicles. They concoct a plan for tracking all cars. A banner will display on the back if the cops are ever looking for it. It's funny but kinda our reality.

I talk to my dog in a Batman voice sometimes (in the privacy of my own home) and I just accidentally did it out of habit in front of strangers 😭

Bandcamp has banned AI music. The company has released a statement which includes the following: "Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp." stereogum.com/2485199/band...

😂 the smell of Gak alone amused my neurodivergent ass

You are a Gak person. I am a Floam person. We are not the same.

In the heyday of Gak when I was a wee 90s kid we had a pet pig and no we did not live on a farm, we lived in a regular house in a city neighborhood but anyway the pig ate my Gak and we had to take it the vet. This is what I think of when I see Gak. Also the smell which I liked (the Gak, not the pig)

A sketch in mixed media collage. Found papers, wax, foil, acrylic, and elements from the second edition of the ADDITIONS deck, a project from @morphicrooms.bsky.social Decompression. #art #artist #artwork #collageart #mixedmedia #artsky

One of the cringiest things I ever did was when I was highly intoxicated at Jazz Fest and I ran into Jude Law (who I did not know in any way), like literally ran into him before a Raconteurs show and I slapped him on the back and said GREAT ACTOR. Every time I see his face I think about this.

He has no idea who Donald Trump is.

Don't It Make My Blue Eyes Red? #Caturday featuring an illustration by pulp & mystery artist, Lou Marchetti (1920-1992)

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Today I learned I can right-click the back button in the chrome browser and it shows me my recent history 🤯

My patience for astrology talk has worn thin. Not sure if this is a normal progression or just a sign of my ongoing descent into a crotchety old person with heavy judgments or what but I just can't. I can't. I will write a person off if they insert it into conversations more than a few times.

is that the new year?

The smoker's robot. I want one. What a brilliant idea, you can smoke in your bed or bath without setting the house on fire! Newspaper ads from the 40s up to the 60s. From the lovely newspapers.com website: www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

I have a strong desire to buy luxurious monochromatic loungewear sets for errands and morning dog walking. I dont know who I am anymore

“About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you.” - Zelenskyy The man is certainly fast on his feet.

Everyone talks about privilege. White privilege, pretty privilege. But what about allergy-free privilege? These people need to recognize their life advantage and grovel to us sufferers who spend our lives squirting shit up our noses and battling swollen membranes

I don't think it's possible to create any sort of classifieds without these guys. They are a staple. They are ingrained. They are the foundation. Also, if you want to pay to smell someone you should be clear about what the smell provider can expect you to be doing/wearing during the smelling...

Logged back on FB after maybe 4 months away and my tolerance for the clickbait reels is so low I can't even watch them at all. Esp the ones that are like SEVEN AUDIO STIMS THAT PROVE YOU HAVE HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM or REASONS YOUR GLUTE IMBALANCE IS DESTROYING YOU. The fearmongering is ridiculous

The amount of New Yorkers who are completely infatuated with their perceived uniqueness, both good and bad, should be studied

Found my next read. Skipping diet culture in 2026 and going straight to blaming the devil. Amen. #cringe #vintagewtf #wtf #weird #satanicpanic

Works by English merchant, politician, and artist John Bingley Garland, 1850s-60s, whose handmade "Blood Book" collected his cut paper collages marked with distinctive drips of red India ink, a motif representing the blood of Christ.

When I see someone shouting from the rooftops about moral correctness I do wonder what happened to them

When I was younger I tried wearing foundation for a while. The more often I wore it, the uglier I felt any time I took it off and didn't wear any. I relied on it more and more. My baseline changed. It skewed my self-perception (and also made my body dysmorphia worse), so I stopped wearing it at all.

I've been worrying about gremlins coming out the toilet for 35 years

And it can allll be rooted back to Intagram and Meta. The idea that you have to capture and dissect everything you create into short video snippets. The thing you're creating becomes a marketing exercise in and of itself. Podcasts became a marketing tool to generate content to appease the algorithms

I'm the tan one with crazy eyes at the foot of the table that looks like it's going to stab someone

The high on Christmas day where I currently am in lower Alabama is 74 degrees and a steamy 81% humidity.....get me outta here

I don't post for days, even when I do it's pretty much crickets, and I still get random notifications that someone has blocked me, lol

Remember - everyone is on a journey and everyone is going through something and everyone is screwed up pretty bad. So live, love, laugh! Rupert N. Perky

Gmail's spam filters keep sending their Google Gemini marketing emails to my spam folder. Hoisted by their own petard.

Tania Barrenetxea

For Lit Hub, I rounded up the best book *reviews* of the year. This time, I focused on great openers. Criticism is literature! lithub.com/the-10-best-...

I need a good hate read. American Canto has a 12-week wait at my library. No way in hell I'm buying it. Any recs?

I've nearly completely avoided the political side of x since getting on there. Only had one disaster where a bunch of people called me the R word, but the one thing I cannot escape is the people posting @grok questions. It's terrible. They do it as replies too. "Lord Grok, summarize THIS" awful

@socialmovetech.bsky.social has over 100 courses on their site here: community.socialmovementtechnologies.org/courses/ Quite a few are free / open access. Everything is geared toward community organizing, but I think a lot of what they teach can be applied in many areas.

The world's most vicious women and gays hang out in the Bravo subs on reddit. I'm scared of them.

My obsessive reading is starting to pay off because I just casually used the word portend

I'm the one dissociating on the left. Martin Parr Salford, England, 1986