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TONY <angrily>: Y’know, sometimes I feel like the whole human race is jazzin’ for Blue Jean! MELFI: Would that be so terrible?

I miss college man. Just fuckin taking a class, getting your brain rewired. Going to the bookstore with the syllabus and buying 12 books you’ve never heard of. It’s so hard to replicate later in life. It’s why I get mad at the “college is bullshit” crowd

this is largely just a difference in framing but imo the thing that destroys fascists constantly is that almost none of them can accurately judge risk. Franco was a huge exception. he actually was very intelligent and savvy. not common traits among his kind.

This is how you do it.

Dear Mr. Manager: This week I've been ... 1. a puppet 2. a pauper 3. a pirate 4. a poet 5. a pawn and a king

Dear Mr. Musk, What we found out is that each one of us is 1. a brain 2. and an athlete 3. and a basket case 4. a princess 5. and a criminal. Does that answer your question?

every day trans people wake up and suffer the humiliation of having to fight for our human rights under the banner of a flag that looks like we got it at babies-r-us

The progress flag is fine but we can cram more garbage in there. Get some more arrows coming in from different directions. Maybe a lens flare. Include the full script of a Steven Universe episode where he learns about feelings

Sam Nordquist’ family started a gofundme where the original goal was to pay for expenses to be able to search for him when he was missing. Now it’s for expenses to deal with everything pertaining to his death after he was found to be murdered. 91% funded, link below.

I’m not someone who centers her transness in her life per se. But I never felt like a whole person before I transitioned, and now I do. Whatever pain others try to inflict on me for that reflects the rot in their soul, not the light in mine.

Google shoving AI into everything is obviously bad, but I can not stop it, and it just put this in my face, and it's maybe the funniest thing I've ever read

we're doing economy talk again, which is always fun, so once again: "graphs" is just a fun little word for real world data, and "the reality on the ground" or whatever is just another way of saying "my vibes on shit based on some posts I've read".

the one upside of Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico is that it opens up room for a future president to replace the new name with the entire script for Bee Movie

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

uhm actually bane i think maybe im kind of better at the darkness because i had to think really deeply about the darkness and my relationship to it while you grew up with living in the darkness privilege you could take for granted

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

I need every cis person that follows me to read this and genuinely think about it for a while, and I need them to understand that this is the explicit goal of this administration. If you’re trans, you know the stories like it already; spare yourself.

This is the 23 year old who currently has access to the entire Treasury payment system, by the way.

Not to be a bitch but the thing that people are missing in discussions in how children’s media doesn’t have help kids have curiosity abt art anymore is that like at least 80% of the young animators I have met don’t read and only watch entertainment for children

this is the most absurd possible outcome so i think we also have to treat it as the likeliest

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

I didn’t think anything could hamper my love for Thomas Pynchon but his subreddit is getting there

If I gave you 1,000,000 guesses, there is a 0% chance you would guess what this is in response to. Please click on this and scroll up to the first post. I'm begging you.

"What are they supposed to do?" cry the Democrat Defenders on here, as if we haven't just lived out a 15-year object lesson in how to successfully overthrow a regime you despise

you know we like to make jokes on here at mark zuckerberg's expense, about how he looks, speaks, and acts. but sometimes you have to step back and remember that all of those mean-spirited things are true. he looks like if you boiled a toad and stretched it out into a guy

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As a culture we really need to push the lid down on Idea Guys

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

So for a few years now I've been listening to @iwriteok.bsky.social amazing podcast Behind the Bastards as a way to understand why stupid awful people keep getting in charge of important shit. Ruthlessness exploiting ignorance seems to be a through line across history. Check it out

i know it LOOKS like there's a great eye, lidless and wreathed in flame, atop the tower of Barad Dur, which APPEARS to have been rebuilt, but here's why it's important not to jump to conclusions!

Audio; podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/i...

The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.

"your validity is not dictated by an executive order" is probably a reassuring sentiment for people whose needs begin and end at validity, but are unlikely to soothe people who need things like "legal protections" or "access to health care"

I saw someone reference the "look for the helpers" thing and it reminded me of one of my big Takes: the "look for the helpers" advice is for children. If you are an adult, you are not supposed to be looking for the helpers, you are supposed to BE a helper

One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹

Helm's Deep

Look there's a LOT wrong with sci-fi and fantasy books from the 80s and early 90s but those authors would find the thirstiest, most shameless sicko imaginable and pay him $5000 to draw the horniest, most extravagant cover art you've ever seen in your life and we need to go back to those days

I think the more horrifying implication of all of these companies getting rid of their DEI programs - even more so than the loss of these programs themselves - is, like. Those programs exist to insulate them from civil rights lawsuits. Which means they're not worried about those lawsuits anymore