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I have just learned that the house that inspired Toad Hall in the Wind in the Willows was an SOE station in WW2 so am now of course pondering Mr. Toad's career as an anti-fascist paramilitary operative.

submitted 42 minutes ago • 1 comment

andy ngo is so pants shittingly scared of the very idea that people would stand up for what’s right that fully three years after the 2020 uprising he was still giving powerpoint presentations about how scary we were

submitted 7 hours ago • 74 comments

Had an extended dream where a friendly but kangaroo-sized porcupine was continually trying (and succeeding) to get into my house.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

The donors don't want their workforce deported. But you'll be subject to deportation if you quit your job or join a union or try to bargain for better wages or complain about sexual harassment.

submitted 7 hours ago • 15 comments

Oh, you're doomscrolling current events? That's baby shit. I'm doomscrolling the events of 536. A volcano just erupted in Iceland. Snow just fell during the summer in China. Crops are failing. All of the crops are failing.

submitted 10 hours ago • 95 comments

Junk food wouldn’t present half the problems it does if we had infrastructure that allowed people to walk a city block without getting hit by a big ass truck.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

me, day before I get my work bonus: it costs the same to buy a carton of cream to make the butter yourself, plus the butter is higher quality and you get the free buttermilk! me, day of getting my work bonus: I should get a jewel encrusted scepter. Do people still carry scepters?

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

"-le" is a forgotten suffix in English - it's integrated so far into words that we no longer register it. It indicates continuousness: to sparkLE is to repeatedly spark, to scribbLE is to continuously scribe, etc. Which implies that to chortLE is to repeatedly do something called a chort.

submitted 12 hours ago • 26 comments

This is gonna make a great campaign ad for somebody.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

What. You do something else on the first night of your summer camp?

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss

submitted 11 hours ago • 114 comments

Passed a Dollar General semi on the road today, and it had the slogan, “today’s general store“ on the side, and man, you’ve got some nerve driving that slogan through rural New England.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

every time I have said this on here I have had people [usually the same ones who cite Chenoweth's 3.5% statistic (which she points out isn't to be interpreted in the way many people interpret it)] screaming that this isn't true. It isn't true 2 them because it doesn't FEEL like people are protesting

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

It is our worst tradition, I'll grant you, narrowly edging out white musicians stealing constantly from Black musicians and men pretending that women aren't good at music because the estrogen gets all over their guitar strings and corrodes them prematurely.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Watching the crowd work episode of Game Changer, and one of the people in the crowd says she's married to one of her college professors, and before she even said what class, I was like, this is 100% gonna be a music prof and probably a conductor.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Woke up thinking "what am I going to do at work today, I got everything done by midweek," and then I remembered that I have rehearsals from 10-3 and the 2-1/2 month summer camp which I run starts this afternoon.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It’s not just Gaza. Attacking Iran is also meant to distract from annexing the West Bank.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I am not a very prolific composer unless you count all the songs I have spontaneously written every time I look at a cat

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Man do I have some news about traditional country music.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

When we talk about national violence versus diplomacy, it always gets couched as "well what would YOU have done to stop Hitler?" Rather than asking the real question of what potential past steps your bloodthirsty country leapfrogged right over because hey, you can always just kill people.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Also cannot be emphasized enough: Barack Obama successfully negotiated the shutdown of Iran's nuclear program. It exists today because Trump deliberately tore up that agreement. The deaths happening right now can be laid at his door.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

JB is making moves. This is a man with a 5-year plan, if you get me.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The only reasonable position

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SCOOP — ICE employees received an email yesterday telling them the agency's warrantless arrest policy had been rescinded. It's likely part of the Trump administration's efforts to further loosen enforcement restrictions to meet the new quota of 3,000 immigration arrests per day. My report:

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

I know it’s been a miserable day out there, so if you need a respite, here’s some video of my workplace and one of the best parts of my job: hearing the sound of students making music around every corner.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If the Democrats don't shut down the Senate. I don't want to hear anything. If any of you whine in my mentions saying 'they can't do that' you will be blocked. Schumer has been in the Senate for 90 million years he knows what to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

This is not journalism. This is stenography for power.

submitted 1 day ago • 251 comments

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

(not getting likes because my Posts are bad on this website that is working just fine) A lot of the internet must be down right now

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Bought some new speakers for my 50YO stereo this week, and now I don't want to leave the house.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Minnesota had this and it's a disaster that reinforces racist inequities. No way should we be going this way.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

You know, this is a very stressful app to open at 6am

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments