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O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

submitted 12 days ago • 44 comments

Pretty much yeah.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Simple media message: they voted to throw millions of people into poverty so they could line their pockets. More complex media message: and they are currently threatening to end the data collection policy analysts could use to show that.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

My own votes went half to Latvia (they were beautiful!), five to Sweden, and one each to Estonia, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, and Iceland. Ah well. #Eurovision

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe the juries won’t vote for Iceland, but we did make them a cake! #Eurovision

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Eurovision semifinals! The ultimate comfort watch!!

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

You know ai is a bad idea because all of the worst people on the world keep trying to force us to use it

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

On Eurovision: Sweden is perfect, Italy is stunning, I can’t stop listening to Germany and Iceland, and Australia needs to go directly to prison.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

"Woke Marxist pope" scans to "pink pony club" really nicely

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

We know exactly how you feel, Carney.

submitted 42 days ago • 1256 comments

One of the things that never gets easier about a Trump administration is realizing again and again that there are millions of people who are motivated solely by cruelty. People make excuses for it, but at the end of the day that’s what it is.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

I still think about this more than I should.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

I got to see Mazie Hirono (and Pramila Jayapal, Ilhan Omar, and Maxwell Frost) yesterday!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

submitted 49 days ago • 122 comments

Each of Susan Cooper’s “Dark Is Rising” books is $1.99 on Kobo today. 👀

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I announced very loudly to someone that I never read science fiction written by men. And then of course two hours later, I remembered about Scalzi. And another two hours later, Tchaikovsky. Okay, I don't read sci-fi written by men very OFTEN.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

submitted 57 days ago • 218 comments

Ten bucks says Trump tries to appoint a new Pope through executive order.

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Old North Church in Boston last night on the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride.

submitted 60 days ago • 75 comments

one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now

submitted 60 days ago • 159 comments

“The value of one Smartie is negligible, so it’s fine if I steal all the chocolate in the world.”

submitted 61 days ago • 11 comments

One weird thing about all of these awesome federal programs getting gutted out of existence is that I now know they used to exist. That’s sort of nice, I guess. It’s like learning about an animal that went extinct last Tuesday.

submitted 66 days ago • 30 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 71 days ago • 520 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 71 days ago • 1111 comments

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 71 days ago • 1306 comments

THIRD GRADERS. 8 or 9 years old.

submitted 71 days ago • 15 comments

JK Rowling spending this morning attacking asexual people, for absolutely no reason, with no fake pretense of “protecting” people, amazing job becoming a bigger piece of shit, thought she found her ceiling, but she just smashed that

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Got there in the end. What a gorgeous spring day. No photos from the protest itself (didn’t bring my phone), but this was the first day of hope I’ve really had since 47 took office, and that is worth its weight in gold.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

Mmkay, just bought a giant foam board (and a heap of Cadbury mini eggs to drown my sorrows in). But WHAT do I PUT on it? Anyone else protesting tomorrow? Anyone else figured out to condense their rage to sign-size? This is on the verge of actually stressing me out, which is ridiculous!

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

I have no idea what to write on my protest sign? Everything is just so much? Like how do I pack the reasons for my presence at this protest into something punchy and short? I cannot!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

This is Ellie. She saw her humans out kayaking and decided to rescue them. Only slightly overreacted. Still 14/10

submitted 76 days ago • 263 comments

Late but bored, so. Favorite genres: 1) I’m a shapeshifter and I’d really rather not be. Can I not be? Please?* *(I will read absolutely anything in this regrettably tiny genre.) 2) Oh no! I thought I was being clever, but I was actually just destroying my reputation! Now I have to FACE MYSELF.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

Less than a year after a full-throated embrace of AI, NaNoWriMo is shutting down :

submitted 78 days ago • 157 comments

We are all Rumeysa Ozturk. Free her. Now.

submitted 83 days ago • 12 comments

This one‘s personal. I’m so angry.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

The last five minutes of that “Severance” episode were not it. I’m not sure why a show that’s rewarded patience and attention up until now needed to show the same dubious plot decision on a loop with a bit of old-timey soundtrack for effect, but it didn’t work. Ugh, this is how “Lost” people sound.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments