If the lived experience of being a woman were fictional, it would certainly be a horror story. Unsurprisingly, the genre has a long history of pulling from the lives of women. New post is up about banal horrorsᵀ of being a woman and what it means that I wake up and choose this for myself every day.

I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...

Yknow I've been having as much fun as the next person joking about how much the Jul. 4 show is going to suck, but now I'm genuinely furious on behalf of my DC neighbors who have to put up with this bullshit.

/Jon Moxley looking into middle distance "Will...when you go out there tonight, it's not enough to just live. Living is the bare minimum. It's the floor. You've gotta make the decision to laugh and to love." /Will Osprey staring on rapturously as a tear slides down his cheek "That's so real bruv."

BAH! Enough talk! My <Beam Blast> shall make short work of you!

Ride bikes, see cool stuff

it's kind of wild that anyone thought that even if the federal government deploys them per governor's wishes, that DC residents were going to somehow discern between the troops that are here to police our neighborhoods and the ones who are here just to greet tourists or whatever

If the American State Fair was a legit supersized state fair with deep fried Oreos, a quilt competition, baking contests, barn animals, and tons of carnival rides, it would have been the greatest thing ever.

Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.

Me at an REI members sale

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

/Me who misheard the title as "The Trader Baru Cormorant" "Sure is a lot of treachery going on in this book..."

Kat was tremendously helpful with a novel project I sent her earlier this year. Strong recommend!

Be the valued goose you want to see in the world

Graphic design is my passion.

Damon out here pioneering bold new ways sit on dog beds

Everyone this man has hired has a name that you would make up in a panic at an improv show.

Since book progress is moving in a completing the dang thing direction, I should probs start thinking about a pen name

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

DC resident, can confirm: for people pushing that narrative this map is more or less the funniest conceivable result

Bachrooms.

I burned through all six EARTHSEA books while traveling last week (I never read them as a kid), and I did find it charming that Ursula K. Le Guin wrote one very good boys-adventure fantasy with a male protagonist, then immediately spent five more books going “Sorry. Im sorry. Im trying to remove it”

So, in case you missed it, as of today Capital Weather is independent again after 18 years with The Washington Post. We officially launched our new website at capitalweather.com, and our new mobile app on iOS and Android! 2/3

Can't believe that we're this close to the primary and not one of the MoCo Dems has staked out a position on replacing the Wheaton station escalator with a giant carnival slide

SECRET JAY-Z LINE: bong so tall you hit it from the balcony *small pause* falconry

As a 20-year vet who reached colonel/O-6: Normalization of armed soldiers on our streets is a huge problem all on its own. But the incidents described in this thread should be setting off blaring alarm bells for *anyone* who values democracy and peaceful transfer of power bsky.app/profile/free...

This soft-brained dullard, all tuckered out after decades of doing the easiest job imaginable as badly as anyone could have done it. God bless.

Excalibur: "Fix your hearts or die, this is All Elite Wrestling!"

it's being positioned as "posthumanism" here but it is in fact a humanism ingrown and solipsist: humans are the most important thing, we need to treat them all with respect, and also we don't really know what the human is so we need to approach everything as potentially "just as human as me (real)"

CYCLE OF HATE and then the pic is this

A DaThings classic, updated for this particular day:

"Honey, come quick, the Nazis have said something on the Nazi site! YES I took screenshots! Of COURSE I've posted them!"

a cheese of ham and burger

At a housing training this spring, a presenter walked us through the math behind building a small affordable project–it reframed how I think about the whole debate. I wrote up a little reflection on what I learned, including the question I can't stop asking: who is going to close the gap? #a2council

Work is da poop! NO MORE !!

My very beautiful butch wife recommended The Language of Liars to me (which is how I find almost any contemporary sci-fi). There's so much packed into this 150 page novella including a queer reading of the most interesting variety. Not to spoil but this shit absotruely rips.

90% of discontinued foods are lasagna with bubblegum in it but every single discontinued Ben & Jerry’s flavor sounds like the most delicious thing anyone has ever thought of

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

The Woz said I will not be booed lol I also love the lull of the crowd as they’re trying to figure out where he’s going hahaha (Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DYfgIwo...)

(builds a mechanism) hey i think this might be god???

Folks, I hate to tell you this, but if you spent more time reading actual books, or otherwise engaging with media created by human beings, and less time making up imaginary "tells", you would be much more able to spot AI slop without resorting to a list of "tells".

Me immediately thinking of a context that would invalidate the generalization you just posted

We have to separate work from the author: books go in the paper bin and author in the organic waste bin.

Mandatory sing this post out loud checkpoint