make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

For anyone that is reading this and thinking it’s ridiculous…

It’s the same justification most people are using to not wear masks/respies.

Just sayin’.

living with the reality of the challenges we face at present is exhausting on the mind; indeed i understand why maskless denial is so alluring. but many hands make light work, and many masks get us just that much closer to not only our present, but the future we must build together.

if you find yourself appalled that RFK Jr is able to make this claim but you don’t wear a mask in, at the very least, public indoor spaces, you are acting in precisely the way that allows him to say that covid is gone.

a young John Waters sitting at a typewriter

Happy birthday to the legend John Waters, BotD 1946 🎉📽️

imagine trying to relax with the ceiling light on LIKE A SETIAL KILLER this Post brought to you by Lamp Gang

#LampGang

The idea that people think that one guy destroying a jesus statue is way worse than committing a genocide tells you everything you need to know about "western values"

Screenshot of a post by aldebaran (@mdashaldebaran). Text reads: “Tired of getting sick all the time, but you won’t wear a mask. Worried about the rise in cancers and other conditions, but you won’t wear a mask. Grieving friends and family members who died suddenly, but you won’t wear a mask.” Timestamp: 11:32 AM, April 22, 2026, with about 480 views.

By aldebaran:

Tired of getting sick all the time, but you won't wear a mask.

Worried about the rise in cancers and other conditions, but you won't wear a mask.

Grieving friends and family members who died suddenly, but you won't wear a mask.

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Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

A screenshot from a Flickr newsletter. It shows the corner of a polaroid captioned "Spring 2026" "'Roid Week, let the instant festivities begin, 'Roidweek kicks off today, April 19th and runs through.."

Flickr, please stop trying to make 'roid happen.

RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.

“AI mogged”😭

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

Anti-Mask Sentiment Is Making It Hard to Protect People From Wildfire Smoke The COVID-era political divide is still having ripple effects.

For @heatmap.news today, I wrote about this problem and how — given the low snowpack and the bad fire season we're almost certainly in for — breaking through that stigma will be life-or-death. heatmap.news/masks-wildfi...

As a Catholic, this of course upsets me.

But far and away more upsetting is all the kids the IDF has killed.

If one were particularly cynical, they'd conclude that attacks on Middle Eastern Christians are actually fine as long as they kill some of them too. It's when you damage property alone that you get in real trouble

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

Using it to do your cover is telling your audience: "I dont care if my book looks like slop"
Using it do your research is telling your audience: "I don't care about the authenticity of the work"
Using it do edits is telling your audience: "I don't care about the quality of the work"

Dead Can Dance using gen AI images for their covers is such a disappointment 😞

Unplanned goat encounters 🐐

This is totally my partner. Coin tricks, hat tricks, went away to luthier school and was like "I have a surprise when I get back"..it was a unicycle from Craigslist. I love all of this, by the way. That eccentric goofball energy is super cute and brings me joy.

Wait, the Video Privacy Protection Act exists because a Supreme Court nominee's rental history got leaked during confirmation hearings? The intersection of analog privacy and political scandals is such a rabbit hole — we went from protecting Blockbuster customers to... well, here we are.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

a drawing of clara, a serious-looking girl in bloodborne-esque hunter garb, runs and wields a sword covered in blue blood. chompers the nutcracker runs at her size, dual wielding axes (also covered in blue blood)

My friend @radrappy.bsky.social's CLARA & THE BELOW kickstarter ends in less than 24 hours! It crushed it's goal, but there are still stretch goals to hit before the end - go go go! Support indie animation! www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

throwback thursday: dissociation

excited for giant brain convert JD Vance to defend cutting off 11 mil from Catholic Charities, an organization whose name every practicing Catholic hears once a week

A black and white photo of my partner standing in front of a pile of tree branches. My partner is wearing black round framed sunglasses, a black shirt with the sleeves cut off featuring a print of David Lynch, black skinny jeans, a mix and match of two of the same model of boots from different pairs (one is white, and one is black).

My partner standing next to a pile of broken branches.

It's kind of perfect that amid a battle with (of all people) the Pope over theology (of all things) this idiotic TV host administration is quoting Tarantino movies as if they were real scripture.

Screenshot of a post by user “tern” (@1goodtern). Text reads: “And with every day that passes, I'm more certain it's right to keep your total number of Covid infections to as small number as possible.” Below is a quoted post from “Carnivora” (@CarnivoraCC), dated Apr 14: “With every year that goes by in this pandemic, I'm being perceived as more & more ‘weird’ by the rest of society because of my mask. It’s rough y’all.” Timestamp: 9:12 PM · Apr 14, 2026. Views: 3,639.

Your goal should always be to keep the risk of infection low because every infection carries risks you don’t want.

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