hypernormalisation

finished severance s1 and taking a break before I start the new season another night. I would like to offer my sincere condolences to every severance fan who waited for three years after that cliffhanger omfg

why am i lowkey both

catching up on severance s1 and losing my mind at the cliffhanger on e8 and pausing for the night omg. and now i'm watching new white lotus. fantastic night of tv for me

i'm so sad as someone who was just at a national park two weeks ago and is planning another trip ): worried about how the short-staffing will affect them

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

Trans kids are not a bargaining chip. Being trans isn’t a culture war. Not giving an inch in my support for trans and nonbinary people of all ages to live freely and openly, and neither should you. Gender is what we make of it, and that’s what they’re afraid of.

happy lunar new year!!

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

"i wish i had done more of my own thinking" from the founder of OpenAI... you can only laugh

Major news breaking from NOTUS on Trump’s trans passport ban: It will not be retroactive. Very glad I and others encouraged people to get their passports in the lead up to Trump’s inauguration. Now hopefully this EO is defeated in court. www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...

The initial investment is twice the annual budget of the NIH. They’re talking about eventually increasing that fivefold. Gift link.

a thorough breakdown of the EO here and how it may be carried out. just absolutely abhorrent stuff

I am not a man. Evan Urquhart is not a woman. No matter what Trump's government said. So much of what Trump wants to do targeting trans people will depend on cisgender people to enforce his policies and police our bodies and spaces we exist in. So much can be stopped by people refusing to do so.

i don’t care much about tiktok in itself (i forgot to log on once last time this week to see what was up rip) but this is truly all so stupid

i see you and i respect you millennials!

I'm glad they banned TikTok so I can share my data exclusively with American tech perverts

💔

"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

me: html holidays for $200 ken jennings: This spring holiday uses a play on words to celebrate a film franchise based in a galaxy far, far away. me: trick or treat ken jennings. No. me: what is trick or treat me: or i mean what is halloween ken jennings. No. me: i wish there were other contestants

i’m pretty good about assuming the worst as a pedestrian but today i was literally already in the crosswalk when this woman started turning directly at me and i had to quickly shuffle forward to avoid her. she did not slow down at all and her face was stone cold. i hate it here ):

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Hard to overstate just how much of the tech industry’s horrifically dystopian present grew right out of its transparently misogynistic past

♥️

wild thought what if we had empathy for people without inflicting mass trauma on them. fucking tech execs

It’s a federal crime to fly a drone over an unauthorized disaster area and it’s even more of one if a manned aircraft hits it. The U.S. has comprehensive regulations on small drones: all consumer drones are legally required to broadcast remote ID signals that can be used to find idiots like this.

I spent the day in Altadena, surveying the wreckage of the Eaton fire. It is unimaginable. Whole blocks have been leveled. Current estimates of more than 5,000 structures gone. I saw a man collapse from grief upon seeing what was left of his home for the first time.

The CEO of Watch Duty used his skills as a software engineer to build the app to amplify fire safety information as a public service: “Techies are obsessed with going to Mars and inventing an AGI robot to do art. But I’m obsessed with time and life.” sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...

Planet Fitness locations in Los Angeles are “offering anyone impacted by the fires—first responders and residents—free access to shower, recharge, and relax” No membership is required to take advantage of locker rooms, WiFi, charging stations at any LA County location not impacted by the fires.

it genuinely sucks that basically nothing on the internet works well anymore. search? barely works. social media? filled with garbage engagement-bait designed to game the algorithm. news websites? pages that refresh at random or so covered in video ads that it’s impossible to read stories

LA/SOCAL: mutual aid LA network (MALAN) has created a non exhaustive list of resources available for those evacuating or looking for animal boardint tiny.cc/malan-fire

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

infecting oomf with my geocaching hyperfixation!!

it's that time

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! PHOTOS OF MY TV TAKEN LIKE I’M AT A CONCERT

guess who has picked up yet another nerd hobby (geocaching)

went to an antique mall yesterday on a road trip where I found a shit ton of vintage barbies around every corner and I literally dreamed about it again last night. like I could’ve spent hours in there but I only had 30 minutes 😭

one of my xmas gifts was an elphaba doll!! my favorite part is where you can see the poor retail employee had to sharpie the infamous nsfw wicked . com URL off

Watching Muppet Christmas Carol, as one does, and struck with a warm feeling about humanity. Not because of Christmas, but because a person wrote this story, and a hundred years later other people painstakingly created a version of it with puppets and miniatures and film

merry christmas ya filthy animal

xmas eve manatees 😄

on a lucky pokémon tcgp streak lately, wonder picked the first card yesterday and just opened these two in packs!!

somewhere out there a tech bro is imagining eyeglasses that stop working if you cancel your subscription

wait omg rainbow high i see you with kim NGUYỄN… her bangs are a mess and idk why she has blue eyes but she’s discounted at ross so … thinking …

the original hadestown cast are reprising their roles on the west end … paging londoomf @noman.bsky.social you must go

[playing poker] FRIEND: I’m all in ME: [yearning for this type of commitment since we first met] me too, man, I’m all in too FRIEND: um, a pair of kings ME: you bet we are

putting way too much thought into my white elephant gift for tomorrow (talked our manager into letting everyone expense their $50 gifts) like. i must achieve the perfect blend of fun and practical

i booked it btw 👏

tw: sexual assault, non-paywalled link in the replies this had me so fucked up especially having watched caleb gallo and learning what really happened behind the scenes and how he wrote it into the show. just terrible