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Thirty or forty years old, living in Pittsburgh. I distract myself from the horrors with books and sports
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Very Serious People:: The military is entirely on Trump's side, they can't wait to crush the country beneath his heel, it's going to be marital law-- The actual military:

YES

Portrait of a doge, c. 1460, by Gentile Bellini. From back when doges were elected, and wore more interesting headgear. Today is Bellini's day.

Happy birthday to this king of fabulosity

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

The long way of saying “The purpose of democracy is to protect the rest of us from deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.” But it’s good to see people getting on the train.

Untitled, by Joan Mitchell, 1992, 📸 via @dimfilipovic.bsky.social

the beautiful game

me: stop talking abt how hot he is and speak to the class war american zeitgeist and failure of the american justice system when nothing has been proven and no decision has been made in a court of law me when i see his lil ankles crossed as he lounges in a bulletproof vest:

Good news everyone: Thanks to Molly Crabapple, there is now a courtroom drawing of Luigi where he looks accurately hot www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

Hello friends. I know times are dark but it is incredibly important not to lose hope. And, this week there are signs of hope and it paramount we recognize that hope, not let up and build. A thread on this if I may. You may appreciate this on a Friday. Come along with me. 🧵 (1/10)

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

Luigi Mangione court appearance in New York today. I read a while ago, that fellow inmates are very supportive of him, even going so far as to cut his hair and give him the best treatment they can, while he shares his commissary with them, as donations for his commissary have been crazy high.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

ngl the last time I felt this relieved and ecstatic about the outcome of a hockey game was May 26th 2017

Hockey leads all sports in people watching one game and saying “wow this sport is good I should watch it more often”

Sidney Crosby forever

if you Google searched "locked in" this is what should come up

gosh that’s pretty

NATHAN MACKINNON 🚨 CANADA STRIKES FIRST!

Seeing Mike Eruzione in a Johnny Gaudreau jersey drives home the point that it would have been really cool if this tournament had been about Johnny Gaudreau instead of Donald Trump.

Oh this is a loss

“a number of VA employees have received letters trying to force them to resign, and if they refused, they’d be required to submit a statement about how they plan to support MAGA moving forward.” Holy fuck. Absolutely fucking not.

I don't get personal on main very often, but I spent a few hours writing this, and I want you to read it. It's about my dad and my stepmom, and me, and Stranger Things, and what's happening to the VA right now. www.cheriepriest.com/blog/the-dep...

Hand, 1885

Feeling very “February” by Dar Williams in this Chilis tonight lads

A comic about the good stuff

Highly recommend breaking up your doom scrolling by following @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social.

someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

we need a total and complete ban on southerners naming horses until we can figure out what’s going on

RAINN and other groups are quietly removing trans people in a bid to keep their federal funding

after almost 5 years of monthly donations, i have decided to take my money elsewhere. you cannot champion victims of sexual violence if you priority the realities of some over the realities of everyone, especially the most vulnerable.

Since the next step for people like Trump is to blame the consequences of his actions on others, the most effective response to people like this is "It sounds like they lied to you." You can't turn these people into overnight liberals; you *can* shake their trust in the people who deceived them.

Sorry I’m late boss there was a circle of mushrooms on state st and when I stepped inside I became trapped in a land of twilight for time immemorial, kingdoms rose and fell, friends were made, battles fought, friends died, and when I escaped it was 8:10. My bad

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

I don't like being the guy who ruins everyone's fun over this, but Wilkie Collins had excruciating chronic pain and relied on laudanum to function. He hated his dependence on it but had no other options, although his condition would now be considered treatable. He wasn't having fun getting fucked up

New profile pic: Momcat, sitting on my bed looking both cozy and unimpressed. I liked my little cartoon guy but haven’t been feeling especially cartoonish lately

NB: laudanum was opium dissolved in alcohol, and in Victorian times they used alcohol about as strong as whisky. Wilkie Collins drank a *pint* of this, *a day*. So if you have ever wondered about his plotting, wonder no more.