thinking about that time lucy liu banged a ghost

Netflix please I can’t do this today

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

This is horrific. As the covid pandemic rages on and damages people’s immune systems en masse, we desperately need more vaccines and therapeutics for disease not less. Gutting.

I am probably most outraged by the debates over how measured the response to the American Gestapo should be. ICE is lawless—and history shows that when police forces go rogue like this on behalf of an authoritarian regime, time to act is limited. If you’re arguing for reform, you’ve already lost.

why are girls making this request

Of the many examples of liberals absorbing the right-wing framing on cultural stuff, masking as eye roll–worthy virtue signaling rather than eminently sensible illness prevention and community care is one of the more absurd. “They’re requiring masks for NO REASON.” Could the reason be: science? 🤔

It is frustrating how long we've known this and how long it has taken for people to accept* the information. *Have it forced down their throats by experience because they ignored the evidence the first go round.

For my money, the way thousands of regular people are self-organizing to resist data centers is one of the most cautiously hopeful stories going right now. www.themountaineer.com/news/no-cryp...

fucking the ethical considerations machine for ethical considerations

for. fucking. real.

i gotta say as a working visual artist that uses @beehiiv.com for my monthly newsletter, seeing them ad "AI image" generation to their media library settings feels really, really, really bad!!!

“my ‘we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

every aerialist who buys hardware from amazon

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

I wish Eowyn didn't have to get a boyfriend, I wish Ripley didn't have to get boyfriends in ALIENS and ALIEN 3, I wish Starbuck didn't have boyfriends, I wish Brienne of Tarth didn't end the series crying over a dude, not because I oppose love, but because they're all being so obviously De-Lesbianed

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

You definitely want to learn to stop saying, "I am SO OLD!" long before the people to whom you're saying it just look at you in response with expressions that say, "I mean...yes."

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

Who remember when this happennto the walter 😢

If you're not familiar with software development, seeing "lines of code produced" as a metric of quality is like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

I hope everyone who is sharing this, aghast, will wear respirators (and properly). Measles is airborne and respirators block transmission of airborne pathogens between ppl—including those going into/out of detention centres. Don’t wait for the fascist government to tell you to b/c they won’t!

If they redeem themselves, they wouldn’t care if they got their status back and they might not even want it; that’s how redemption works; that’s what redemption is. What they want is exoneration for free, with a side order of vindication.

Just gobsmacked at people insisting me being overweight is a moral failing, forgetting that every single billionaire is a thinspo.

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

oh sorry I thought you were the GOVERNOR OF THE DAMN STATE.

my dad was brilliant and I remember him explaining parallax to me in the car on the way home from middle school. he wouldn’t have laughed at this but only bc he probably didn’t know the song.

New research finds that COVID viruses continue to be dangerous after they’re destroyed by your immune system. Some spike proteins survive, turning into shrapnel, continuing to target our immune cells.

the theater is screening DOS Boot

This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.

A gaiter is not a mask. ICE agents don’t wear respirators and neither do most white libs and leftists.

You should have healthcare, you should have housing, you should have a universal basic income that sustains your ability to live in the world, and everyone who keeps telling you these things are unreasonable is either listed in a big stack of documents together or is actively protecting them.

Me every morning in this fucking country

THISSSSS is why I don’t use it. I refuse to permanently outsource my cognitive process to a glorified sentence finisher.

i've been watching the coyote on Alcatraz's progress with great interest. a week-ish ago, a coyote SWAM to Alcatraz for the first time and looked fuckin rough after the dangerous swim. but the coyote is doing fine now, gorging itself on unprepared birds & rats who are dealing with a sort of Godzilla

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

This tactic is really worth spending some time thinking about. It demonstrates a contempt for both the people they’re abducting and the communities they’re abducting them from which isn’t reformable or salvageable. It’s a contempt for the idea of law itself. They all have to go to jail.

So it's decided: Every documentary will begin with the subject getting miked in a sit-down interview, idle chit-chat with the offscreen director, and then cutting to the title card after they ask, "Have we started?"

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

yo Netf!ix I do not want to watch podcasts on you.

northern sparrow is a beloved supernatural fanfic author in the destiel fandom, and I’m so tickled every time I see her around the internet in a bird research context.

(guy about to invent the breadbox) i need an inconvenient way of comparing the sizes of things

[I Got My Mind Set On You voice] I hurt my back shoveling