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Southern California. Slowly leaving the bad place to set up here.
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“Ladies and gentleman and every other gender that absolutely exists…”. Pink intro at FireAidLA. Love her! #fireaid #pink

Why should any Black person pay for any news ever again? They completely sold us out with the endless CRT, DEI, cancel culture propaganda for YEARS. They’re just as responsible.

we're ten days into this thing and all the old DEI hires are looking pretty good compared to the new regime of white mediocrities

H/t George Conway — it’s perfect 🤣 from Olivia Julianna:

Everyone excusing Elon Musk’s behavior due to his alleged autism should be chased into the sea with pitchforks it’s both profoundly insulting to autistic people and also obviously not true

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

"Anyone could become a refugee. It's a thing that happens to you, it's not who you are." - Trevor Noah.

In an abundance of caution and to keep roads clear in the surrounding areas, the Getty Center will be closed tomorrow, Wednesday, January 8. Getty Villa will remain closed through Monday, January 13. We are closely monitoring the situation and will provide updates as they become available.

If you live in LA make sure your devices are charged and do whatever else you need to do to be prepared in an emergency. The power is starting to go on and off.

The incoming Trump administration is not sending their best. They’re sending people with big problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re rapists. They’re alcoholics. They’re criminals. And some, I assume, are good people 🤷🏽‍♀️

Damn…

"Here the numbers as they actually exist in the real world: Transgender: 1 percent Muslim: 1 percent Jewish: 2 percent Black: 12 percent Live in New York City: 2 percent Gay or lesbian: 3 percent" If they're this divorced from reality I guarantee these folks cannot conceive magnitude of $1bn

TIL — now I know why I keep seeing red pushpin emojis in post replies

"“Democrats do not fight for us” — not pronouns or support for open borders or Black Lives Matter marches — was the thing conflicted voters volunteered as top beefs time and again, across hundreds of focus groups." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... [hands down best post-election piece I've read]

you don't need 200K followers on an app with no algorithm. Build your community organically by actually talking to people not through follow back nonsense. It's not 2010 and this kind of blatant engagement farming is gross.

Love y'all and please just be yourself and do what feels right, but just in case: Y'don't have to say "unalive" on here. Or any other shadowban-evading euphemisms. You can say "dead/died." It's OK.

me watching Bluesky's user count grow by another million in a day hello and welcome to all 19M of you! 🥳