First cassette I owned.

2026 Books Thread 1.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past and the great mango taste of PRIME Energy Peso Pluma

small-government conservatism is when a guy in a mask who won't show you his badge shoots you through the window of your car while you're driving away from him

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

Everyone joking about how I'm next, I'd have to be seen as human for that to happen.

Get their ass, Emma. www.wmagazine.com/culture/emma...

[shoving yeats into a locker] how’s the gyre fuckass

I implore you to hit up CVS and get your flu shot. Please don’t game it with whatever else you heard. It’s real serious and we don’t gave any public health allies in the government now.

You’ll survive, but you’ll be funnier in a way that worries people

probably bc it looked sick as hell

magical

you’re walking up to the results of Obama letting Bush and his cronies off the hook and encouraging the security state to flourish. You’re looking at Bill Clinton’s illegal bombings going unpunished. You’re looking at Hillary Clinton cheering on the murder of Gaddafi. This is on the democrats, too.

Watch Lucy Dacus perform the women's suffrage and workers' rights anthem "Bread And Roses" at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's NYC mayoral inauguration

The fact that the very first VU review ever in print is from a column called “Teen Talk” and the headline is “Blobs and Blurbs” is providing me with the delighted, peaceful feeling I require to walk into 2026 with.

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

One of the best to ever do it

Forever Lynch

AEW PPV day!!!

Omw to kick your ass

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Ravenous

just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans

Now seated for

My hair looks so bad but everything else looks so good.

UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.

[guy who has hollowed eyes devoid of love and is a broken shell of a man propelled through life by an unplaceable sense of vague obligation despite never once experiencing even a glimpse of happiness] men can never become women.

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

Drift down into the new dark light Without any reservations You found my breaking point Congratulations Spent too much of my life now trying to play fair Throw my better self overboard, shoot at him when he comes up for air

He’s with you when you’re sleeping He hides when you’re awake He shows up on the motion scan And leads to a mistake.

I woke up before 4 and couldn’t sleep. I decided to make the meatloaf I planned on having for dinner tonight and realized I was living this meme.

Warm Hearts. 💗

My spicy socialization take is that we mostly use the phrase "female socialization" to refer to raising someone to be a people-pleaser so they don't get hit, and as people constantly at risk of getting hit, trans femmes receive it as much as anyone else

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

More people watched @jessefarrar.com binge eat chicken nuggets on twitch than bought this book. Don’t tell me americas broken

Four years on HRT. I love you all, thanks for listening thanks for understanding.

There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

This is such a powerful image

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: AFI Bob Dylan Flight of the Conchords Coheed and Cambria The Mountain Goats

But for ignorance and hate, Matthew Shepard would have been 49 today. Remember Matthew Shepard.

You've just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you. NO CHEATING!

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷