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Midwestern nocturnist. 🦇🦇🦇 Aspiring snake-priestess! 🐍🐍🐍
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We need a new term for what is happening under Trump and with the Republican Party. They are mindlessly blowing up government and government services not to save money but to destroy. It’s nihilism mixed with autocracy. Call it nihilocracy.

A hidden measure in the Republican budget bill would crown Trump king https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/27/a-hidden-measure-in-the-republican-budget-bill-would-crown-trump-king

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This ⬇️⬇️⬇️ -I don’t think most people are aware of tenuous our relationship with “reality” is. -Working in medicine, I have had a chance to see how easy it can be for disease /drugs/stressors to alter a person’s character/behavior in pretty fundamental ways.

The lesson people infuriatingly never seem to master is that there is no creating a police state just for other people. If you create a police state with no due process for immigrants or accused criminals, then that's the system you've created for yourself.

Feral cattos being magnificent on my porch.

I talked to the writer-director of Mountainhead, and also a lil TV show called Succession, about the dark side of tech-bro utopianism and why satirists who feel outpaced by reality just need to up their game.

Wut?

When my child was in preschool he had his first homework assignment. He wasn’t really feeling it, and he told me so. I asked him why he didn’t want to do it, and he said: “My brain won’t let me do it.” This is how I found out that my 4 year old didn’t believe in free will.

New are signs up in my home state to encourage tourism...🤭😅🤣

While we’re on founding fathers, I think people actually *underrate* the Gothic horror of Jefferson and Sally Hemings. She was his slave, she was also his dead wife’s much younger half sister as a result of Jefferson’s father in law raping *his* slave.

"In the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, a vacant Bed Bath & Beyond parking lot has quietly transformed into a holding zone for dozens of unsold Tesla vehicles, mostly Cybertrucks." www.autoblog.com/news/surplus...

Come on down and enjoy some of Jim Hensons earliest works of tortured coffee muppets Don't be a Won'tkins

Watching “British Baking Show” w my mom and they were talking about a “blast chiller” but I heard “blastula” and I was very confused bc I thought they were trying to do a demonstration of embryologic development in cake form.

CERVEZA CRISTAL

Admittedly, I’m looking from the outside in but California’s current governor is starting to make Schwarzenegger look like Pericles.

San Diego. Unconscionable.

Senator Joni Ernst

In the 1983 Billy Idol song “Rebel Yell,” it is stated that Idol’s paramour has “A license for love.” I have questions about this license. -Is there a licensing body? -A licensing exam? -How often must you renew your license? -Do you have to obtain separate licenses to practice love in each state?