There's nothing else to do at the reflecting pool but loiter. It's literally the whole reason it exists, it's a public space where people are invited to linger and loiter.

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

I have 150 books to read for my quals, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to take notes because I know damn well my ADHD ass isn't going to be able to process this much information the way I normally would.

Finished my last paper for the semester last night. "Obeah as a Science" 12k words, 43 pages. Now spending the rest of my summer getting prepared for my qualifying exams and maybe learning how obsidian works.

You know damn well this man has never actually walked anywhere in DC. He's afraid of this city because it has black people in it, which is terrifying to these weak-ass white supremacist southern fried saprophytes.

I actually like superhero movies, but it must suck to be obligated to see movies you don't enjoy and spend time around people who like something you don't, and who get mad that you don't share their enthusiasm. And yeah, nerds can be fucking insufferable. I am one, and I get annoyed by them.

No fair, China! We stole it first, fair and square!

Climate change action has to be about systemic change, not individual penance, suffering and guilt. Not least, this is because where there's guilt and shame, there's an opportunity to sell people false absolution by way of things like "carbon neutral" corporate marketing gimmicks and the like.

The US government is harassing people for social media posts, arresting people for touching water, and given 30 years in prison for printing zines. The regime is doing this because it's collapsing, and this an attempt at damage control by people only know how to create damage, not prevent it.

Trump said moments ago that it’s “perfect” while also simultaneously claiming they are dealing with the vandal thing so idk his brain is a pat of baked brie

Damn he's gonna go back to living under the Misty Mountains, huh?

I keep seeing people afraid of Vance because they think he would be worse than Trump, more focused somehow, and no. Y'all. No. That goober has no ability to lead, and he's not even a good follower. MAGA will collapse the moment It Happens, because there are no successors in a cult of personality.

Big Tent Democrats really getting mad the tent isn't smaller right now.

Incredible things happening in NYC and also my hometown, Buffalo! Better things are, in fact, possible.

The symbolism is breathtaking

Whatever you do, don’t plant lots and lots and lots of bamboo 🎋🎍 very very very close to as many data centers as you can find. It will damage foundations, wrap around underground cooling pipes, and cause severe facility damage.

CHAT I AM SCREAMING

Worth keeping in mind that they aren't trying to make money here, they're trying to destroy credible media. All the profit comes from the stuff they can prevent from being properly reported on.

Brilliant writing, here. Unfortunately, I have to write this quote post from jail because I drove past the reflecting pool and considered looking at it, which currently carries a fifty year sentence and mandatory purchase of official regime cryptocurrency.

Thing is, if they make peacefully protesting fascism have the same sentence (or higher) as actually shooting someone, that's just going to increase the number of people willing to engage in the latter.

Very little. The Holy See is (adjusted for inflation) the single biggest funder of astronomical research in history. As for Galileo, he was found guilty of suspicion of heresy, spent one day in gaol, and the rest of his life living in a palace, and continued to publish heliocentrism around Europe.

People keep getting mad on here about the attention the reflecting pool is getting as compared to other, more pressing issues. My view is that the reflecting pool has become a focus because it represents and exposes the first and last lie of the Trump regime - his supposed power to bend reality.

My guess is he won't refill it at all, saying his predecessor and/or antifa permanently ruined it It's going to be a job of work undoing the actual, physical damage he's done to this city in service of his deathbed egomania.

Maybe it will happen today

It's frankly embarrassing how quickly universities pushed this technology into the lives of students and faculty alike when they barely understand what it is, and have had no time to learn.

These men are not protecting anything and they haven't changed the crime rate; they're only here to intimidate the city because everyone here hates Trump. We've been under martial law for a year because that fucks just wants to feel powerful and rape isn't an option for him since his supplier died.

If you want to share fact-free bullshit that makes you feel good, you could just be a Republican. Please be more skeptical about un-cited "Trump mad" viral posts. We have plenty of real things to talk about.

"Nothing matters, steal everything"

This is a golden age for people who can't tell the difference between vaguely similar things.

I miss when I could use a music app to play music by musicians and not have to worry about fake ai slop intruding every few minutes.

Only a sense of impunity explains the willingness of someone to run another human being over in a public space with plenty of cameras. They assume the Trump administration will protect them from prosecution. www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

hitting your 40s

If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"

They fenced off Dupont Circle to try intimidating the lgbtq community, but joke's on them, we're still gay and don't care if they have feelings about it.

Periodic reminder that guillotines are the moderate solution

In hindsight, maybe it was a bad idea to measure the success of artificial intelligence using a test that defines intelligence through the capacity to lie effectively.

Watching "Terror: Devil in Silver," and despite it being a perfectly cromulant merger of David Lynch and Ken Kesey by way of Silent Hill, I kind of hate the dialogue and writing. I think I've lost the capacity to enjoy futility porn.

Is that one of the Shropshire Ripley-Deceaseds

This is great news!!

A lot would improve in the US if our culture didn't fetishize youth, but that won't happen because children (even the adult ones) are easier to market things to.

Dear NYT: when teenagers start using racist language without knowing it's racist, we don't accept that it isn't racist anymore. We tell them it's racist and not to do it. We don't let teenagers decide what's acceptable behavior because *their brains aren't finished.*

Correct

Just putting this out there: Elon Musk is not "worth" a trillion dollars. He legally owns a bunch of money that would largely cease to exist if he ever tried to use it. It's a scam. He's a scammer.

So, making oil more expensive through illegal wars while at the same time actively fighting against any other fuel source.

When you make 1 trillion dollars, you have won the game. They should give you a parade and a gold statue. And then take away all your money and you start New Game+ with tougher enemies.

"It is not the worst thing about it by a long shot, but the second Trump administration has been an unqualified victory in his lifelong war against metaphor." This article is a fun read.

I wonder what it would take to organize an inaugural DC Sandwich Toss in August to commemorate a local hero's anniversary.

What a shock that there's no actual agreement and everyone has been acting like this is somehow different from the previous 40 times.

There are less complicated approaches to this sort of thing, but then everyone wrings their hands about "political violence." As if there is a nonviolent way to become a trillionaire in the first place.