New party game idea: Musical Cuck Chairs

When are we going to get a jukebox musical featuring the music of UK girl group The Saturdays? We need it.

Americans are not just losing this food assistance out of nowhere. The Trump administration and Congressional Republicans passed a bill that will take away SNAP from families so they could fund a tax break for their wealthy friends.

The Apple Music AutoMix feature is more misses than hits. Sometimes it’s genius and other times it’s giving “newbie DJ at a white people wedding”.

What are the chances of the AI bubble burst being the catalyst for this century’s Great Depression? Investors acting scared, buying and dumping stocks like crazy out of fear of both potential gains and losses? Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Whenever I read the headlines, and feel frustrated or hopeless, I remind that this is what the fall of empire is like. Planned chaos and the shock doctrine are all they really know how to do.

Jeff: “You’re playing for fried chicken…” #Survivor49 fans:

As a creative, having to update your portfolio site SUCKS

You can tell that the big corporations are scared of the upcoming holiday season and boycotts because they are really going HAM on marketing and Black Friday deals this early in November.

Some people are dumb and then there’s “I don’t break down my cardboard boxes and just throw them into the dumpster (not the recycling bin)” dumb. And somehow my neighbors are the latter.

The jury duty assembly room is a liminal space.

States should move forward with sending snap benefits anyways and force the trump admin to punish or sue them for distributing aid to needy families

Quote with a 10/10 album

Some notes on fascism and the rise of artificiality in media and as the aesthetic of this administration.

remember: Nuremberg trials (with death penalty scope) is the *moderate* option now

Yes, I have jury duty on Monday. Yes, I will be using the money I get paid for my espresso machine fund.

Eating the rich isn’t enough. Dump them in the nearest volcano and call it a day.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Since woke is back, I should get a nose ring.

We did it! We improv’d. We were silly. We were geese. We made people laugh and sealed the Honmoon through comedy.

Ready to talk about how open enrollment is just more unpaid labor for workers to do every year because we live in a country with for-profit health system.

Are any Etsy witches casting a hex tonight at midnight? Asking for a friend.

Can someone fast-forward to our Nuremberg and the burst of the AI bubble?

The rich have class solidarity and that’s why they are screwing us over.

Remember taxation without representation?

What if the Argentina bailout is nothing more than a bribe to the country that these fascists are planning on escaping?

Update: It did. 💪

Will me being pissed off today help me during my workout? We’ll find out.

It is so embarrassing to live in this timeline.

Canceled my Spotify Premium subscription and deleted my account after 12 years and while it is inconvenient to do so, I feel much better knowing my money isn't funding military drones or using a platform used for 🧊 recruitment.

Hex them. Every single one of them.

Easy block list, do yourself a favor, and just block and don't engage at all. bsky.app/profile/did:...

My heart is full! Cary NC has turned out spectacularly for No Kings!!

Having a best friend is having someone you can giggle with. @markpochow.com

Us giggling: 🤭🤭

In-person shopping in 2025 is like experiencing the death of retail in the USA in real time.

POV: we’re on a coffee date ☕️ 📸: @markpochow.com

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

Upper body at the gym after a cycle class

A show on HGTV called "YUCK!" where I walk through people's mind palaces and point out coping mechanisms I don't like and then leave.

Somehow, she represents both swifties and anti swifties alike. Schrodingers swiftie

For the love of humanity, go read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or watch Her (2013).

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

But after not getting enough orders, the company closed. Managing partner Kenneth Ragland said: “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods, which do not make it easy for US firms to survive.”

The Garland Shirt Factory plugged along for a few years, making again for Brooks Brothers, Raleigh Denim, and customers in Korea and Japan. They even made hall-of-fame coats for Ultimate Fighting Championships and opened a new facility to produce uniforms for US Navy.

But a year later, hope emerged. The Garland Apparel Group acquired the company in 2021 and brought back 100 of its former 150 workers. Garland's mayor said: "After the pandemic and the many gloomy challenges that the town has faced, we finally feel a ray of sunshine and see a beautiful rainbow."

When Brooks Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020, it shuttered its US factories. Among them was the Garland Shirt Factory in Garland, North Carolina. Brooks Brothers acquired them in 1982, making it the center for their USA shirt production. For a while, it seemed all was lost.